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Episode Date: February 4, 2025

When was the last time a president got so much done so fast? Filling in for Glenn, Pat and Stu discuss President Trump's urgency to get stuff done while he has the power. Those on the Left lost their minds when Trump said he was enforcing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but the countries quickly agreed on conditions with Trump to avoid them for 30 days. Pat and Stu discuss the ways that USAID has been wasting taxpayer dollars, like transgender comic books in Peru, as Democrats panic at the possibility of it being shut down. Pat and Stu praise Trump administration officials' efforts in the first two weeks. The guys also discuss the Left's strange habit of isolating people who dare step out of line, no matter how much good they've done for its other causes. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) recently claimed he was housing an illegal immigrant, but he appears now to be changing his tune. RFK Jr. may have locked in his confirmation as HHS secretary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You know, Pat, I think what we should do today is wear four different masks to honor Anthony Fauci and his health advice. Right. Because you know, it's very important to protect yourself. Is that two a piece or four each? I think we get large

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Get yourself out of pain. Again, Pat and Stu for Glenn today. I'm sure you guys have talked about how President Trump has done so much, so fast that it's almost impossible for. for us to keep up with, let alone the liberal media to try to complain, whine, and cry about everything he's doing. I mean, as soon as they start complaining and crying about one thing, he's already on to the next. And it's been a breakneck pace. It's been unbelievable. It really has. It's sort of the opposite of overwhelming the system that the left was always

trying to do. They were always trying to load so much stuff on so you wouldn't notice half the stuff that's going on. I don't think Trump is in that position. I think he likes that everyone notices when he signs a new executive order. But there has been so much in just the first couple of weeks. I mean, certainly the most I've ever seen. Oh, by far. In my lifetime. Yeah. The only thing I think I can think of that compares to this is the job that Harding and Coolidge did. Yeah. But I'm not sure it was on this kind of scale. I mean, the, the cuts in the budget were beyond what's going on right now. Yeah, not even close. Not even close. He cuts. the budget 50% in the first year, and then 50% again the next year. But those were the days

when the U.S. budget was like $12, I think, $11 or $12 billion annually. So the first year, he cut it to like $6 billion. And then the next it was down to $2 billion. I mean, it was staggering what happened then. But I don't know if he did, if they did as many things as are happening right now, on as many fronts. tackling as many issues. You really strongly believe that this would not have happened had he won consecutive terms. Oh, I think you're right. You know, I think it's, you know, again, you don't wish the Biden years into existence by any means.

But because they happened, it allowed this. It allows this. I think when you have, because you know, this is true with, I think, any job, right? Like, you can go through and when you're working in it day to day, the day to day can kill you. It can overwhelm you. You can, you know, there's always a new development. And certainly his entire last year of that last term was lost to COVID. Yeah.

So it was one of those situations where you're always having a new catastrophe. He was being investigated for Russia. Russia was invading Ukraine. I mean, you know, no, that was actually after his first term, right? Yes, it was after his first term. That was 2022. Now I think about it. But there was still stuff going on over there.

You had so much to deal with on a day-to-day basis. A lot of it from the media. from congressional investigations, from impeachment efforts, you know, I think that day-to-day got to him a little bit. And taking four years off where all you have to do is stew about how the last years went, but also plan for how I would do it again if I had the opportunity. That is what I think he did. And he put people around him who came up with a plan. And it has been, you know, a little shock and awe-ish. Yes.

Right? It really has. It really has been. Even for someone who likes the things, generally speaking, that he's doing, it has been like, wow, this is a lot. Yeah. And I think that's, I think it's smart because if you think of the timeline of a presidency, Pat, they've got what a one seat majority right now, basically, when these people that he's appointed get into office and they're trying to slow play the Stefanic seat in New York right now to try to keep the majority as small as possible. You go through that period. The Chances of you winning after two years when you have such a small majority are low. I mean, most presidents lose seats in that first election. Yeah. So if you kind of look at it that way, let's just say they lose that and we hope they don't. But if the Republicans lose that election in 2022, you've got a two-year presidency where you're really going to be able to get a lot done, especially with Congress. And then you start shrinking that down.

Well, that last year before the election, all these purple district, you know, moderates, are not going to want to get on board with anything hard in that year before the election. So you probably lost that year. And then you have this first year kind of the only thing. And it starts off with all these appointments. So you're kind of jumbled usually up in that process for the first month or two. And you start just shrinking down. And you just don't have that much time to do anything the way our system is set up right now.

He's decided he knew that. He decided I'm going to do something about it. I'm not going to slow play this. They're going to be appointing people. I'm going to be doing stuff on my own. They're going to get as much done as they can. And then they do have this one big reconciliation bill to pass this year, too, which is going to be a struggle with small majorities.

But hopefully they get that done as well. But he's just going for it. And I think that's the right approach. Yeah. I mean, he's going for things that I didn't expect him to. Like, they are saying that he's already written drafts for the executive order to close down the department. the Department of Education.

I mean, eventually that'll take Congress to do it too. But the executive order to begin the process or start dismantling it is about to happen, apparently. Yeah, I think, and it's going to include a plan as to how to unwind it. Yeah. Which, you know, again, I, you don't, you, I am completely on board with ending the Department of Education. Me too. Ever since I've been politically aware. It has to be done.

It has to be done congressionally. And I will say that's the same thing with USAID. Like, I mean, he's been talking about, they're talking about Doge coming in and dismantling it. You can't really do that without Congress. It was started by an executive order, but was later codified by Congress. So you do have to go through Congress, much later. Yeah. It started under Kennedy. Yeah. So, yeah, then it happened under Clinton. It was 98, I think. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Bill Clinton had a lot of stuff going on in 1990. Yes, he did. Yeah, he did. Lots of stuff going on.

But while he, you know, while Monaco was under the desk, he was signing, he was getting, putting together an effort to put that congressionally through and it did succeed. So you would have to go through. That doesn't mean, though, you can't change these things. And we're seeing that a lot with a lot of stuff Doge is doing. You come in here and you say, hey, you know, if you want to resign, give us an email to resign. That is within his authority. It's ridiculous to say that it is not, even though the Democrats are trying, and the unions are

trying to say that. Of course it's okay to say we'd like you to leave. It depends on how much you can pay and there's some legal lines there. But at the end of the day, they say now 20,000 employees have so far taken them up on that. Now that's not a, it's not a number that you're going to notice in the budget, honestly, 20,000 employees. But still, it's something and it's the beginning of an effort and maybe more jump on board as we go. I think they're all being encouraged to not take it. because they have all these protections built in, right? And the left has done a good job in putting this sort of government apparatus in concrete. So it can't be moved.

It can't be reshaped. They're doing everything they can to stop this. But 20,000 supposedly have already taken the offer to just get out, get paid until September and not have to work. I mean, it's a pretty sweet deal. Yeah, no kidding. You know, you got seven months to find a new job. you're getting paid a decent amount of money until then. Why not?

If you're going to go anyway, and a lot of them probably are. A lot of them probably were going to be fired. Like if you were working, Pat, in a Trump administration the first term, you're working in some civil service job under Trump, and you're doing something you believe in, and then Joe Biden gets elected, and all of a sudden you're promoting LGBTQ abortions every day, you'd probably leave too.

Yeah, for sure. I can understand why a lot of those people would want to get out, and they get a nice long runway to do set. Yeah. You know, if you're really smart, this is not going to make much sense, entrepreneurial, uh,

in the entrepreneurial spirit to a lot of government employees. But like, maybe you take it and then go get another job. And then you've got two salaries for nine months. Would that put you ahead? I bet it would. Yeah. That's a nice way to go.

So it's actually a quite a generous offer. If it, if it holds up in court and honestly, like, if I'm in that situation, there's a good chance I think I take it. Me too. I don't want to sit here and try to promote the initiatives of some left-wing, you know, nut job. Right. You completely disagree with.

You don't want to be doing that. So get out. Yeah. Get out. You know, the people who want to stay, stay and help. Right. If you don't want to stay and help, then get out. That's a pretty basic request.

And it should be the approach of every company. You know, this is the same thing they did at Twitter. They basically said, look, we're going to be cutting anyway, so you might get fired anyway. So I want to tell you right up front that that pressure is on. You might wind up losing your job with much less severance. And isn't it a better thing to know about it going in than to wonder if you're going to keep your job? I mean, when you're told, yeah, there's a really good chance you could lose your job. So you could, here's an umbrella.

Here's a parachute to use on the way out. I mean, it's generous. Go ahead and take it. Yeah. Take the parachute. We had a situation like this. My wife, who, you know, has her, had her own national radio show. She did his music radio.

But she was doing a radio show on a daily basis. She signed a new three-year contract. And then there was this thing that happened. There was a pangolin in Wuhan that apparently started making out with some guy. I hate when that happens. I know. Well, you know, look, to each his own, Pat. If you're going to make out with a pangolin, you make a thing.

you make out with a pangling. Right. Who am I to be all judging all of a sudden? The LGBTQIA2P community. So you're loving on a pangling a little bit and a little virus broke out. Yeah. And the radio company decided, holy crap, we need to fire everyone. So they laid off my wife.

I don't know that. It was like April or May 2020, you know, right in the middle of everything. I think she signed her contract in April 2020 and then they laid her off in May 2020. She sent a three-year deal. So she got this payout where she was just getting paid for nothing for a really long time. It was absurd. That's pretty sweet.

It was awesome. Yeah. I was like, this is the best job you've ever had. You can sit here and not have to do any shows. You don't have to show up to work at all. You can do whatever you want and you still get paid. Like, this is incredible. I don't remember how much.

It was like half the time when we were a contract or something, she just got paid for nothing. I'm like, that's a good gig. Yeah. I don't know that it made any economic sense for the company, but whatever. it was awesome for her. She was excited about it. So at the end, certainly. So it's one of those things where if you get a, that thing comes around once in a lifetime. Take it. Take it.

Hey, you in Washington, you don't like what you're doing, get out. Yeah. The chances of you getting fired are there anyway. Take the risk. Get out. Go find something you want to do in a field you want to work in in the private sector. Now they're going to ask you to show up to work probably. they're not going to let you stay. You're not going to be able to work three hours a week like the government. Oh, those bastards.

I know. They're going to say you need to leave your bathtub. Wow. You know, that's, there are some negatives. You mean they might ask you to actually come into an office of some sort? They may. They may ask that. Although I will say if one of the reasons why you don't want to,

you don't like your job so much is because you're currently remote working and have to change that, there are actually a lot of companies that will allow you to remote work. Yeah. So go find. one of them and go work there. Maybe you'll like it more. The bottom line is there's way too much waste in our government. We all understand it.

We all know it. And if we have an opportunity to shrink that, I mean, really, I don't think any Republican president has ever taken it seriously. By the way, including Trump won. I don't think anybody really took shrinking government seriously until this effort that we're seeing with Elon Musk and Doge. And Trump obviously on board with that. So this is a good change.

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Station ID. So President Trump talked about why some of these things are happening right now and why they're happening with the rapidity with which we're viewing right now. And a lot of it's because we're just getting ripped off. And he talked about that in his first term. But man, this time he's really putting the hammer down. Check this out. Every single one of those countries is dying to make a deal.

You know why? Because they're ripping us off really badly. And the United States is tired of being ripped off. And that's why we have $36 trillion in debt. We have it for a reason, because we make bad deals with everybody. And we don't allow that anymore. So the Wall Street Journal is wrong. Very simply, every single country that you're writing about right now is dying to make a deal.

Because the deals they have right now are so good and so good for them and so profitable for them. You didn't know that Canada didn't allow our banks. You didn't know all of these different things. And I think in the end you're going to see that either very, very substantial tariffs are going to be paid by them or they're going to make some kind of a deal. So why would they want to do a deal if they're ripping us off? And wouldn't they prefer to keep the one in place that they have? I think what he's referring to is the deal's there to be made because there's a lot of room. right? Like they've got the good side of this deal and and now he's going to end that.

He's going to end that. So they're going to want to do a deal once he gives, he puts them an alert, which by the way, we saw yesterday. Yeah. We saw immediately yesterday with both Canada and Mexico. Yes. Because the tariffs were supposed to take place today, 25% on Canadian goods, 25% on Mexican goods, 10% extra on Chinese goods. And so it caused them. to come to the table and have a little conversation with the president. And so now it's been delayed with both Canada and Mexico because he's right. They're willing to deal now. It's not just that, too. It was Columbia. Yeah.

They were rejecting planes. Then they turned that around really fast. I will also say I was doing the Megan Kelly show yesterday. And I was going to come on right at the beginning of the show. And then they moved me back like 15 minutes. And the reason why they were talking to Rick Grinnell, who went to Venezuela. and negotiated the release of six of our hostages, of their hostages, you know, our people being held hostage there and was able to bring six of them home.

And he went through the entire story, which was incredible. Wow. You know, again, could we have done that during the Biden administration? No. I mean, I don't think he would have ever been capable of it. But, like, why not? Yeah. Why weren't we there saying, hey, look, we don't agree with, you know, the Maduro regime?

But, like, you got some of our people there. What can we do to make this happen? and that happened in the first week. Yeah. I mean, it seemed like listening to Grinnell, he's going to be going all over the world and doing stuff like this, and that's a great thing. Yeah.

So, yeah. It's just, it's, look, it's just been impressive. It's been impressive. It's been an impressive first couple of weeks. You run the risk.

I mean, some of the stuff we really like and, you know, maybe isn't as popular across the country. Some of that stuff will start catching up to you over the long term, but this is the right approach for that stuff. Yeah. If a cut is unpopular,

get it done, rip off the band-aid, and everybody move on so we can kind of look for more, you know, things that American people can unite on and also reap the benefits of cuts, because the earlier you make them, the better they are. He had much more to say about tariffs and about U.S. AID fraud. We'll get into that coming up. It's Pat and Stufer Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. This is Glenn Beck. When you're trying to do something that's complicated and difficult and maybe even a little,

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the long-term multi-year program to poison him slowly. But I think maybe we added a little too much this morning. Well, we've been working for years building up an immunity to Iocaine powder. Yes. He doesn't have that. He does not have that. No. And a little does a lot, apparently.

It does. Yeah, it goes a long way. So he's experiencing that today. So we're talking about the deal with Canada. President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian product. and Mexican products. And then, shockingly, he had a discussion with Justin Turdo yesterday between Turdo and Donald Trump. I think you're mispronouncing that.

Really? Turdo? No, you got it. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. All right. So they came around to some sort of arrangement where we're going to wait for 30 days.

It's weird. Yeah. It's almost like this was a negotiating tax. It is almost like that. It's also why I never freak out about this stuff. Like, right. Trump does what he does. He says things.

Sometimes, like, he just said he's friends with Kim Jong-un. So what? Who cares? Right. Like, is he really friends with Kim? I doubt he's hanging out with him on the weekends. But, you know, he says these things for a reason. He's trying to lead to something.

You might not like that thing. You might not like his approach to get to that thing. Right. But the bottom line is you can't just sit here and like, you can't freak out over it. Right. You have to look at it and understand. And yet the left does every single time.

I know. Does anyone remember? This guy was actually, and I don't know if you even know this, Pat, but he was Donald Trump president of the United States already once. Whoa. Yeah. So we all got to see him be president.

Yeah. And all kind of got to see his tactics and how he would handle the job. And while this, as we just pointed out, I think I would argue this one's a lot seemingly more smooth and I think well planned out maybe than the first one where it was kind of a surprise, he even won. I think this is going better so far. Yeah. But I will also say,

you get the hint, right? Like, it's like, oh my gosh, is Vin Diesel really going to go on that highway at 100 miles an hour and jump over the bridge and somehow land and then get in a fight with the rock? Yes, it's a fast and furious sequel. Yes, that's going to happen. And the same thing here.

Like, yeah, these are sometimes explosive things that he says, but like as a person who does not appreciate tariffs as economic policy. I don't like them. I don't think they're good economic policy. They do work in situations like this. They work to get other things. Tariffs are not good in and of themselves. They are good if you if you want something else because it is a punishment to that country and to your country. You're putting pain as Trump has talked about. You're putting some pain on yourselves, but your bet is we can withstand it a lot better than they can withstand it and they will fold. That's what that's why he how he uses tariffs.

And it looks like it's going to work. It worked twice yesterday. Yeah. Here he is talking about the new tariffs. Does there have any chance that Canada or China could also get out of the tariffs after you start to deal with Mexico? Well, nobody's out with Mexico. We had a great talk with Mexico. And we had President Scheinbaum.

Is a woman I like her very much. We've had good relationships. But we have to stop fentanyl from coming in, whether I like her. somebody or not and we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming. And I think we've lost 200,000 people on average a year for many years, much higher than the 100,000. It could be even closer to 300,000. And they've agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently, like forever, 10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country. They have a big incentive to do. Other than that, we've agreed to talk.

and consider various other things. We haven't agreed on tariffs yet, and maybe we will, maybe we won't. But we have a very good relationship. I also spoke with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, and we had a good talk in the morning, but I did ask him a couple of questions, like, you know, banks aren't allowed to do business in Canada.

Canada is very tough. Canada is very, you know, we're not treated well by Canada, and we have to be treated well. Canada is really protectionist. I mean, they protect their stuff. Yeah, they have tons of tariffs on us. Oh my gosh. Tariffs rules. The broadcast companies have to go by a mention on my show yesterday.

The Canadian broadcasting rule where 35% of their weekly content has to come from Canadians. So if you're a music station, 35% of the music you play every week has to come from Canadians. It either has to be. It's a lot of Brian Adams. Completely written. It's a lot of Brian Adams. It's a lot of Anne Murray. It's a lot of what format you're in.

Yeah. You're pulling from that. It doesn't matter because if you're a country station in Canada, I don't know who you're going to play, but it's got to be 35% Canadian. So there's going to be some bad country music. You're probably not a country music station in Canada. Probably not. But it's true.

This happens, by the way, all over the world. You know, and that's one of the things I like about America and that we don't do those things right to people but like you know uh i was doing some business uh out of the country and you know there was on a project that was um had stalled multiple times you know it was a it was a 20 year project it was installed and we started and stopped and started and stopped and then like the former like prime minister or the prime minister's son or something got involved in the project and all of a sudden everything started going totally fine huh it's so weird how that occurs it's Like that is how business is done all over the world.

Yeah. And I don't want to be the country that does that. I don't think that helps your economy long term. It is protectionist. And protectionist policies don't work. They wind up screwing everybody, both the people who want to invest in your country from outside of it, but also the people inside your country. It hurts them too.

You can sometimes protect one group in your country at the expense of another group in your country with protectionism. that does happen. But generally speaking, it's just a negative economic consequence, which is why it's a good threat. It's why it works. They're not folding because they're like, oh, I'm scared of Donald Trump, or I worry about what Donald Trump's voters think of me as Trudeau and Canada. They're voting because they're changing these policies because, holy crap, like, we don't want to face that pain. I don't want to have to deal with my own voters when they say, hey, Trudeau allowed

this to happen. He's on his way out anyway, Trudeau. But that is a, that's the instinct. You don't want to deal with the pain yourself. And we as America, the strongest nation on earth. I mean, think of how strong we are, Pat. Like, is there another country on earth that it's like, we want 10,000

troops from your country on our border? Like, we just, we're so confident. We're like, yeah, Canada and Mexico, go ahead, put 10,000. We want you to. We're requiring you to put troops on our border. Again, they'll be on the Canadian or Mexican side, but still like, what have, how did the Ukraine feel when 10,000 Russian troops

started showing up on their border? They didn't think, look at it as a positive. Slightly nervous, I think. They're a little worried about that. Rightfully so. We're like, you're not going to do anything. That's how strong we are. And because we're so strong, we, you know, Trump is making that calculation that if necessary, and it is happening with China, we can accept a little of this pain. And we think we can withstand it longer than you can. Yeah. And as a result of this, everybody's come to the table again, including China. We're all renegotiating with these deals again. So it's been fascinating to watch.

And again, that's why you don't panic when President Trump says these things. We're going to impose a 25% tariff on North American trade partners. Okay, well, let's see if that really happens. Because, again, it's a negotiating tactic, I think. And I really doubt that the 25% tariff will ever happen. But President Trump also talked about the U.S. AID situation and the fraud coming out of that organization yesterday. Here's what he had to say about that. The first term, though, USAID was something that you liked in some respects.

I love the concept of it. Yeah. Sure. I love the concept, but they turn out to be radical left lunatics. And the concept of it is good, but it's all about the people. Yeah. The concept is good. But in practice, it's turned out not so good when you're talking about things like a one and a half million to advance diversity and equity and inclusion in Serbia.

Oh, you're not big on DEI in Serbia? Not that big, no. Really? Yeah. How much money do you think we should spend on it? A billion or a trillion? No. What are you thinking?

Like, how many zeros you want after that number? Just the one zero. And that's the only number I would use. Just the zero. Just the straight zero? Yeah. But then they wouldn't get any money for diversity. equity and inclusion, Pat.

Right. Okay. Yeah. You know that. I do know that. I do know that. That seems like the right amount. What do you think is the right amount for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland?

I mean, how good is the musical? Can I hear some of the songs? I don't actually have any examples of the songs. Really? No. What if it's a great musical though, Pat? How much money should we give it then? Let's say, let's just, let's put this out there.

What if it's the best musical of all time? Okay. Okay. Okay. Now, I've never seen a musical I enjoyed. I kind of like the little shop of horrors movie when I was a kid. Okay. Which was very twisted. But I mean, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis.

All right, I was in on that a little bit. But pretty much nothing else. Okay. But let's say it's the best musical ever created. In Ireland? In Ireland. No, not just in Ireland. Just anywhere.

But it happens to be in Ireland, but it's all over the world. The best musical ever created from the dawn of time. Okay. Go back to Bach. Go back to Beethoven. This is the greatest of all time. Mozart. Better than all their crap.

Their stuff is trash compared to this musical. What if it's that good? How much money should we give it? Zero. No dollars. That's always the right number, regardless of the idea. If it's DEI or if it's like,

what if it's a, Pat, what if it is a musical that is praising the BYU football program in Ireland? It's a whole thing about, hey, we really love the BYU football program. We think they're going to win every national championship from here on out. That's one of the songs.

That's the title of one of the songs, Pat. Even if I get free airfare offered to be to go to Dublin and enjoy that musical. At any time. I'm still going to say the total investment into that program should be zero. Yeah, no money. Here's another thing, Pat. No matter what the situation, we should never fund a musical. Right.

What about if it's in America? We have all these big arts. No. Zero. Every single time you bring up a musical for our government to fund, the answer is zero. Certainly you don't feel that way about electric vehicles in Vietnam, though. Right? You're okay with two and a half million dollars being invested into electric vehicles in Vietnam.

I am not okay with that. You're not okay with that? I am okay with some expenditures to that, obviously. The amount would be zero. Okay, but what about $47,000 for a transatlantic? Gender Opera in Columbia. Now that's a high priority on the Stubbergear list. You found the one thing worse than a musical.

An opera, a transgender opera. And you can get a whole opera for only $47,000. That's not bad. I got that. However, what if instead of that opera, which I'm sure is wonderful. Do you have any of the songs, Sarah? Sarah's going to sing some of the transgender opera songs here for us in a second. I can't wait for that.

Yeah, it's going to be great. It's coming up in just a few minutes. But if it was instead of a transgender opera, an opera to an opera that was specifically designed, all of the songs were about kexy cookies. Every single song was about a new variety. Now you're kind of hitting me where I live. A delicious kexy cookies, k-E-K-S-I-D-com. Go buy them. They're fantastic. We all know they're fantastic. Yeah. And it's a whole opera is devoted to that.

devoted to kexie cookies in Vietnam, Serbia, where was it? In Colombia. In Colombia. A Colombian pro kexie cookie opera. Really increasing our international market here. I don't know how many cookies you sell to Colombia. Probably a low amount. Not that many in Colombia.

I don't think you are at this point. But if they came up with that opera, how much should our government... In this case, I'm going to make an exception. and say a total of zero dollars. Zero, none. None! You never fund an opera.

No. Ever. If people want to do operas, they do them on their own. They find people who want to buy tickets to an opera. What if there are none? Then you shouldn't be funding it. Maybe you find some private money.

Some private donors, perhaps. Yeah, like this one, you could get taxi to maybe sponsor. They probably are excited about that expenditure. Right. 40,000, we get a whole opera? That sounds great. That's pretty good. But like, it's unbelievable. This is so hard for people to understand and I don't know why. Like they're like, what about the, the art funding for the arts? Zero. None. All of it's zero. Arts are things that generally speaking, people like to do. Right? People like to sing. People like to produce musicals for some reason.

Like Sarah's going to show us in a minute. Yeah, just a minute with her transgender opera. It's a medley, right? Sarah. Yeah, she said it's a medley. But like people like to do that. They like to paint. They like to sculpt. They like to do those things. Right. Those are things they want to do. Go ahead.

In fact, you know what happens, Pat? When you don't fund it, when you don't pay people to do it, they pay others to go do it at like establishments that are built. They have painting places. You go. You paint. You have a glass of wine. What a concept. That is weird.

That's just a weird idea. All right. More coming up. All right. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where we would. weren't funding transgender operas, yes. Mm-hmm. But also, wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where your credit card balance wasn't hit

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We should read more of these USAID expenditures that we heard you heard on a newscast that Trump finds objectionable. Yeah, because

you're listing these off and I had not heard the details on them and they're obviously all ridiculous. When I heard the reporting on this it was just Trump finally objectionable and it was a list. They wouldn't list them themselves in the report.

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demanding that it be reopened, and, you know, they want to continue to spend money on really important things, like the transgender comic book in Peru, for instance, which is only $32,000. It's not that big an investment, okay? And is it not worth it to have a little, A little bit of fun for trans genders in Peru? You know, it's a good question.

I don't know. What is the transgender population looking like in Peru these days? 40%, 50% of the population? I think it's more like 80 or 85%. Seems to be growing dramatically in every culture right now, which is interesting from such a natural and normal thing, you know, that it would be just growing. Yeah. Why would that happen?

I'm not sure, but it's gone from about 0.7% to about 89% I think worldwide. Just the 89%. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to say that we shouldn't fund it. Really? Not only that comic book, but any comic book. Huh.

No comic books at all? Our friend Eric July. Yeah. Who, of course, Blaze TV contributor. He came up with an idea for his own, you know, world, right? Like it's a... How much did you get from USAID? Zero dollars.

What? And you know how many he would accept if offered? Zero. Oh, wow. Because he doesn't want to be voted by the government. He wants it to be funded by the people who actually enjoy the comic series. That's interesting.

I know it's a crazy idea. Yeah. But it is possible. And again, people enjoy coming up with comic books. They'll do it on their own. You don't need to fund it. Really? And if you need to fund it.

Where are you getting that? This is just a crazy idea I have. If you need to fund it, probably not worth it. You know, if a person is like, I won't make that comic book for you about transgendered superheroes unless you give me from the U.S. government, remember, think about this position. You're in Peru. You're like, I won't make this comic book unless the U.S. government gives me $32,000. Right.

Maybe it's not a worthwhile project at that point. I don't know. You're a little too radical for me this morning. Okay. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be radical. But I, you know, I'm an American conservative. It's really the only thing I have going on for me.

Certainly you're okay with $6 million to fund. tourism efforts in Egypt. No. No? No. What? You know, my thought is they got the pyramids. People like going there. Yeah. And then there's a sphinx or two. You can check out while you're there. A couple. I think, yeah. People really like Egypt, Cairo.

I remember watching one of the Indiana Jones, was it Raiders of the Lost Ark? Yeah. Aren't they in Cairo for that? I believe so. When they met the guy who we've had on the show a bunch of times. I can't think of his name off of John. Jonathan. I can't think of his name off the top of my head. But great dude. And, you know, he was. was one of the most beloved character. He was in Cairo. You take you in Cairo because people like it. People like Egypt. They want to go visit. They want to see these incredible wonders of the world. You don't need to advertise Egypt. People just know about it. So the American government doesn't have to give money to Egypt to advertise for their tourists.

No. In fact, and here's another incredible thing, Pat, even if no one wanted to visit Egypt at all, we still shouldn't advertise Egypt. What if they had like, what's another kind of? Not a lot of people go to visit, I don't know, Mongolia. Not a lot of people go into Outer Mongolia on vacations. I do have one planned right after the Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm going to tack it onto the Super Bowl trip. Oh. But most people don't have the timeshare that I have there.

So that's the issue. I understand timeshares are beautiful in Outer Mongolia. Outer Mongolia is trash. It's overpriced, Pat. Don't go there. But Outer Mongolia is fantastic, especially this time of year. And if they were. really needed the tourism though you know like let's say they were thinking like wow we only had

zero visitors this year maybe we should up the tourism like to get like five five next year right and you know how much we should spend on that zero dollars there's never an incident we're the richest country on earth yeah and if we want to spend some of those riches on trips and timeshares in outer mongolia we can do that yeah but see it's not our responsibility to fund their government's budget. That's not a thing. Six million dollars. And again, it's Egypt, a place that people dream about visiting. You don't need a, we're running an ad? Hey, we got pyramids. We know. We all know you got a bunch of big stoned triangles there. They're fantastic. I'd like to see them in person someday, but I doubt the

U.S. government will pay for my trip when I do decide to go. No, they're just going to entice you with advertising so you spend your own money on the trip? What the hell is this? Crazy. It's just, it's nuts. But that, that's kind of the mindset that the left has fallen into, right? Is it, it is our responsibility to do all these things on, on the planet. We're the planet's police officers. We're the planet's babysitters. We're the planet's bank, their bank account for every expenditure they need. I mean, it's unbelievable. Despite the fact, When I look at our balance sheet, I'm not impressed. What, the 36 trillion in debt?

I feel like it should be lower than that. Am I wrong on that? I don't know. It feels to me that 36 trillion is a little high. Yeah, wow. Yeah, I feel like it. And by the way, increasing every single month. By one trillion every hundred days.

Is it 100 days? Yeah, every hundred days, it goes up another trillion. A trillion dollars. Something that took us 200 years to get to in the first place from George, Washington to Ronald Reagan to accrue one trillion. Now we do that every hundred days. And we're getting to the point now. You don't even want to get me started on what the budget looks like the next 30 years.

I mean, it's abhorrent to the point where our interest on the debt is going to be bigger than our defense department. Jeez. Which is close to a trillion dollars a year, right? I think it's 300, 300 billion or so right now every year. that we spend on defense? Interest. No, he's not an interest. And it catches up over the next like 10 or 15 years.

Yeah. That's the defense budget is what, 800 billion, I think? Give or take, Pat. Yeah. And look, you can find plenty of waste in that number, I'm sure. We know that for a fact. However, at least that's a core application of government. It's something we should be spending money on.

We should be spending a lot of money on it. I just don't know if we should spend it the way that we do or maybe not quite that much. You can make an argument. But I, you know, and I'm not. I'm not uncomfortable with that number if it was spent on things that we really needed, like new weapons systems and new ways to defend our nation. Like those things I'm comfortable with. But I can understand why people might think it's, you know, there's waste.

And there's certainly tons of waste in that number. That being said, Pat, that is at least a core responsibility of the federal government. As far as I understand, transgender comic books are not. I don't know. You've got a kind of a weird understanding this morning I've noticed. So I'm not sure if I can go with you on that. Now, Madison did write about transgender comic books and the need for us to be funding them. Yeah, wasn't it Federalist 42?

42.3? I believe, yeah. Yeah. He was like, you know, there's a lot of things that the government shouldn't do, but they should fund transgender comic books in Peru. It was either Madison or Hamilton. Yeah, it was one of the two. I can't remember. Federalist 42.

But anyway, look it over, review it, see what you think about it. here's what Marco Rubio said about USAID. You're now the head of USAID. The head of Doge Elon Musk called USAID a criminal organization and added that it is time for it to die. Do you agree with that? They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a U.S. government agency, that they are out, they are a global charity, that they take the taxpayer money and they spend it as a global charity, irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest. One of the most common complaints you will get if you go to embassies around the world from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like is, USAID is not only not cooperative.

They undermine the work that we're doing in that country. They are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we're trying to work with on a broader scale and so forth. So they're completely unresponsive. They just don't consider that they work for the U.S. They just think they're a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States. And that's not what the statute says and that's not sustainable. Can it be reformed or does it need to die? Well, that was always the goal was to reform it.

But now we have rank insubordination. Now we have basically an active effort. Their basic attitude is we don't work for anyone. We work for ourselves. No agency of government can tell us what to do. So the president made me the acting administrator. I've delegated that power to someone who's there full time. And we're going to go through the same process at USAID as we're going through now at the State Department.

I think there are some. This is not about getting rid of foreign aid. There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do. That makes sense. And we'll have to decide, is that better through the State Department or is that better through something, you know, a reformed USAID? That's the process we're working through. There are things that are happening at USAID that we should not be involved in funding

or that we have a lot of questions about, but they're completely uncooperative. So we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control. Incredible. Amen. That's a great. That's a great from a great outlaw. of all of the issues there from Marco Rubio. And I would add one more, Pat.

USAID is an organization that provides aid to, in theory, provides aid to places all over the world. And yet they call it USAID and not USAID. It is, that is how inefficient this organization is. The actual initials make the word aid, which they're supposed to be providing, and they still all call it USAID. that's how dumb this organization is. And there is a, you know, look, of course, if you have a giant budget,

you can definitely find money to throw around at global causes and do some good. There's no doubt about that. You can. You know, transgender comic books don't fit into that. And it is true that they see themselves, because they're called an independent government agency, that they think, we'll just do whatever we want. What if we just do whatever we want? And that's what they've been doing.

And that's what they've been doing. It's got to stop. Obviously. I mean, think about it. If you are Marco Ruby, you're Secretary of State, and you're working with a government in, you know, the Middle East that, you know, has, you know, thoughts on gay rights that are not equal to ours, let's say, for example. And then you're providing transgender comic book funding. What is that, what happens when you go to meet, if you're Marco Rubio, to meet with that leader? You're complicating whatever you're trying to get done.

Yeah. And you might say what I really want them to change. their mind on those rights. And I would too. But that might not be the goal of that particular meeting. Yeah. And now you got to deal with that complication. Well, do you remember how ridiculous it looked when the old clip of Kamala Harris was played where she was talking about the fact that she changed the law in California to allow for prisoners who wanted a sex change. Oh, yeah. To be paid for by the taxpayers in California. And she saw to it that that was able to happen.

Well, most Americans realized that's insanity. Well, USAID is doing $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala. Okay, these were Americans and American prisoners. Now we're going to fund sex changes for Guatemalans. I mean, if we're going to carve up some genitals, it should at least happen on American soil. Yes. Yes, it's true. Yes, it's true.

If we're going to pay. Right? For someone to go in with a sharp instrument and carve up somebody's genitals, it should at least happen in Ohio. Yeah. Not in Guatemala. That's not right. It's absurd. So incredible.

Even if it was the best activity in the world, it would be absurd. When you say that it's related to a sex change, it becomes even more crazy. Insanity. And that's not, look, you can argue with it. but your argument died in November. People looked at this argument and voted. And this is what they voted for. They voted for someone to go in with a maniacal focus to get rid of this nonsense.

And that's what he's doing. And Rubio has been great on this. Obviously, Elon Musk has been really focused. And look, the changes are, have to give you a sense of optimism. This is a lot of this stuff is stuff that other presidents, even if you like their policies more, You like their attitudes more. You like their tweets more. It just wouldn't get involved in because it was too much of a problem.

They didn't want to deal with a pushback. They didn't want to deal with every news station, trashing them every night. Trump doesn't care. Not at all. He doesn't care. He likes it. I really think he does.

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right now. Christy Noem is at the border right now? When did the previous administration officials ever show up at the border as these operations are happening? First of all, there were no operations to stop illegal immigration under the last administration. So of course

they were never there. But it's pretty amazing to see in the first two weeks these officials at the border actually getting things done. Quite clearly a real priority, right? Border Crossing is down 93%.

I think Christyneum said 95. 95, okay. 93. 95. It's down a lot. I know it was like 10 or 11,000 a day. The latest stat I saw was something like 5 to 600 per day now. I mean, that's amazing.

It's really, really good. Some of that drop happened before Trump got into office. But was it after the election? A lot of it was after the election. Some of it was. they did make, if you remember before the election, though, Biden made some changes where they implemented some of the Trump plan that they had. Because they realized the American people don't want this to continue. Right. And they were like, crap, we're going to win this election. So they did do

some of those changes. So they had some of the drops there, although it's even more extreme now. And you know, you don't necessarily, you don't necessarily like look at this and say, you expect zero. It's going to be hard to get to zero. I mean, I want zero. I don't think it'll ever be It would probably never be zero. But I was talking about this with my daughter who was, you know, we were talking to her about cleaning her room, getting up on time. And I said, you know, it's not that I expect perfection. I just want you to care. Just care.

Care about it. Care. Try to do it. Show me that you're doing something in this arena. Okay. And that is what I kind of, like, that's the basic idea I want from the U.S. government. Trump is going well beyond that actually doing something. It's not even just a surface effort where it looks like he cares.

We're talking about 95% reductions already. It's two weeks. And it's, again, considerably better than his first term. His first term numbers were okay. They're better than Bidens. But like they weren't anything like this. And who knows if this is going to last forever? It may not.

At some point there could be a surge. There could be things going on. but Trump is focused on this and Tom Holman is focused on this. He is such a no nonsense guy. I love it. You talk about the fact that Trump doesn't care what they're saying. Yeah. Tom Homan really doesn't care what you think of him.

He couldn't care less. I don't know if Tom Homan has ever given a two-word response. I know. It's just like, no. Yes. So? Yeah, that's it. That's all he needs.

Great. I love it. It is incredible. So it's the improvement has been dramatic. And look, look. you can complain about stuff. I'm sure people do. But at the end of the day,

this is what he ran on, this is what he promised, and this is what he's doing. Can't ask for more than that. It's actually fun to watch the Democrats weep and wail and gnash their teeth over it too. It's actually been kind of satisfying.

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Hopefully be back tomorrow. AAA-7-2-E-C-K. It's been really fun to watch the Democratic. Democrats try to go nuts on every single thing that Donald Trump is doing, except he's moving so fast and doing so much that they really can't settle on any one thing. So they're just, they're trying to shoot at everything right now. They're just throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. And here is Bernie Sanders talking about what he just doesn't like what's happening. I know.

Margaret, we are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. we're looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We're looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well. These are all new words. He just learned to work with my supporters all over this country to stand up and fight back to make sure we have an economy that works to everybody, not just Elon Musk, and that we maintain American democracy. Oh, wow.

That's weird. How does it work so well for you? Elon Musk. Anyone track that one down? What's he done to make all that money? I think it must have been government handouts. Is that what's happening there? Now, he opposes those handouts these days, but, you know, a lot of that money, they subsidized a lot of those cars that were purchased. Well, that is true. And I will also point out the other part of it is he's doing the space stuff better than the government can do it. So a lot of the money he's making is coming from the government who all may have made decisions that the products he's making are so valuable. They can't do without them, even though they hate his guts.

And he's doing the space stuff so well. So much better than the government, read NASA, can do it, that it's gotten to the point where Donald Trump has asked him to finally bring home the two astronauts who've been stranded in space for eight months. Hey, Elon, could you maybe bring them home as soon as possible? And he's taken on that task. But eight months and they were supposed to be there for a week. one week mission has turned into eight months because of the ineptitude of NASA right now.

They've got no way to bring them home. So SpaceX has to. It's incredible. Incredible. And, you know, this is something when you think about it, you know, they've had this transition since, what we say? 2019, 20, I guess COVID was probably the start of this with Musk, where the left started turning on him because he wanted to open up his factories and make the electric cars for the existential threat. The greatest existential threat are world faces global warming. And he wanted to open up his factories and they got mad at him about that.

And that's really, I think, the start of most of the problems between the left and Elon Musk. But like you think about this, they have hated him for five years. Five years of just pure hatred. And they cannot unplug the stuff that he, they can't unplug themselves from the stuff that he does in business. Right. Including SpaceX, which is a miracle. You know, it's, it is an incredible company that's doing incredible things at a level that the government can't achieve. And he didn't really start it.

It doesn't seem like it started all that long ago. Yeah. Has it been 20 years maybe? No. It's been, it's less than that, right? Yeah. I think. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, and certainly with any, any notoriety, it's been less than that. I mean, he was, you know, go back and look at the history. He was, he was blowing up these spaceships all over the globe for like the first. five years of the company. Yeah. They got down to the last one. He said, if this next one blows up, the company's over, we have to shut it down.

And the last one worked. Wow. He was that's how close that company was from just not even existing. Now he's sending rockets into space and bringing them back and landing in the launch pad. Incredible. It's amazing. Yeah. Stuff we've never seen before.

And then, of course, Tesla, like, it's funny because I have a friend who is a big conservative, like, you know, big loves, you know, like, really. really wanted Trump to win and it was very, very out there talking about it a lot. And he, he had a big old truck, you know, big old truck in Texas and just bought a Tesla plaid. He's like, I did it because Elon Musk. He's like, I just love Musk. I love what he's doing. I want to support him. How fascinating is that? Wow. He has taken conservatives to electric cars. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that is like, that's a magic trick. you couldn't have told me that it was possible to pull off.

And he did it to the point that like now it's a lot of, it's kind of the opposite. People like AOC who bought a Tesla for the environment are now trying to get rid of them because they're embarrassed to be associated with Musk. I mean, that's awesome. It is. It is awesome. And they're great cars.

You know, I would not mind having a Tesla. It's just the range is not quite there for me to go with an EV yet. but if I were to buy an EV, it would be a Tesla because they're just great cars. And the pickup, I mean, we knew that from what, five or six years, seven years ago. They brought one to the studio here one day. And this is way before COVID. I mean, it was 2017, 18 in that range. And they brought it to, they're like, hey, like, take a test drive.

See if you like the acceleration. And they were like, just punch it. It's jaw dropping. It is never felt anything like it. And this is an older model. Yeah. But it is, my friend has one that's not the plaid. It's a, it's the version, I think the Model S performance or whatever.

It is really, really fast, but not as fast as the plaid. It is like an incomprehensible amount of acceleration. It feels as if. Because it's immediate. It's immediate and it's so fast and it throws you back in your seat. And it honestly, like, it can make you kind of uncomfortable. Like you almost feel like when you feel like going on like a crazy roller coaster and you get off of it, you're like, oh, my stomach doesn't quite feel right.

Like, you can only punch it so many times because it's jaw dropping. And the technology is really impressive. A friend of, another friend of mine who has a Tesla lives in Colorado and comes here for work. You know, he does some work with us. And he takes it from Colorado to here self-driving, from Colorado to Texas. And he's like, I barely ever touched the wheel. Oh, my gosh. Really?

Yep. And he just. Now, I like driving. That's amazing. It's something I like doing. Though on a ride like that, I would love to have a self-driving option. It's amazing. And he's okay with that?

He's okay with just letting it trust. He's a nerd. He's a Tesla nerd. And he is so into it. Like he's... Would you trust it that much? Because I would not. I probably wouldn't at first.

One of the other friends I was just talking about who has this has the same thing. And he's much less trusting about it. He's like, I'm just getting to the point now where I can like remove my hands for just a second. But they're like right above the wheel. And I'm like panicked. the entire time. He's like, my other friend who's just a, you know, he's a technology geek. And he's just like, he reads all about it.

He knows every update that comes down. He's on the list of like the beta updates that come really early. And he would show me every time he'd come to town, show me the improvement of how they take certain. Like at the beginning, it was like, oh, it would tell you to take control a lot. And it would, it would come up to a, you know, a traffic circle and not exactly know what to do and you'd have to kind of grab it. Now it's like, it just does it.

It just handled it. He, the other day, last time he was here, he was out and my daughter was there and my wife was there and they were at a, you know, they were at my wife's business and he was doing some work over there. And as they were leaving, he's like, oh, watch this. He takes out his phone and presses some buttons. The car just pulls up. He's not in it.

The car just comes from the parking lot and it pulls up to pick him up. Wow. That's amazing. That is Jetson level crap. Like, that's insanity. It is. And the fact that this guy has made it cool for conservatives to own these vehicles should be something he should be put in the liberal Hall of Fame for, right? He has crossed, he's been able to make it cool to have a car that's an electric freaking car.

You guys keep telling us this is the solution to all of our global problems and this point nine degree temperature rise over a century. really what we need to be worried about. Well, here's a big step in that direction, and they despise him because he challenges their power. And what is the greatest existential threat in our nation, Pat? Is it global warming or is it Democrats losing control of your lives? That's what they certainly seem like that's the one they care about. That's for sure.

That's for sure. And not only has he made the EVs so cool, but like you said, with SpaceX, I mean, Everybody loves SpaceX, right? Well, that was created so that we could move to Mars. Yeah, why? Because this planet is dying, supposedly. It was the two pronged.

The two existential threats he sees. One was AI, but the other one was global warming. And he wanted to be able to have a place for human beings to escape to because he took liberal concerns that seriously. And still does, by the way. I mean, he still, he's still, you know, what I would hate him though so much now. that they completely disregard that. Yep. But again, if it was really the threat, you say it is,

wouldn't you still embrace him? You would think so. I don't know. If there was someone, I'm trying to think of the right example, but like if someone was, you know, I don't know, an actor or some leftist actor or actress was fighting really hard, but then took up the cause of like, you know,

repealing the 16th Amendment for income taxes. Like, would we be supportive of that person? Yeah. Yeah. I would be thrilled to have someone on the left who was like, you know what? Yeah, we should get rid of the income tax because this is crazy. It's taking everybody's money and it doesn't make any sense. I'm with you.

Like, I go, I will support you. Now, I will oppose you on the policies I oppose, of course. But like, I'm not going to, just because they're on the left, if they're going to, if they're sane on one issue, we're overly welcoming, I would say, to liberals who are sane on one issue. Look how we've tweeted. RFC Jr. Thank you. Yes. Yes.

It was April of 2024. I mean, there's a lot of conservatives that are embracing these guys now because they're saying things we like. You know, yesterday Donald Trump called USAID a bunch of left-wing lunatics. He used that exact phrase, left-wing lunatics, to describe RFK Jr. in April of last year. And we're like, hey, you know, he doesn't even agree with RFK Jr. on vaccines. Remember, Trump is the one who was in office when this was developed with the COVID vaccine. they agree kind of a little bit on the food stuff, but I mean,

I see Donald Trump eat a lot of McDonald's and Diet Coke to think that they don't really agree on that issue. Yet we're like, hey, we kind of like you on a couple of things. Come be our HHS secretary. Like, we are at times too willing to do that. The left is the opposite.

Like, you go back to the history, you got Roe versus Wade, and we all know the Dobbs decision. In between that, the most, the biggest ruling in the abortion world was the Casey decision. because Casey was a pro-life Democrat. And now there are no pro-life Democrats.

They're all excised from the party. All of them are gone. You have to support abortion all the way up to birth. Yep. To even be considered. They won't have anything to do with you. At least until the second trimester. Maybe you can get a couple of Democrats.

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That'll be the last hour of the program. Yeah. I'm a little concerned. I mean, she told me in the break it's 14 songs, which is a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. Again, we're a talk radio program. And it's like to fit in 14 songs in a medley is really a big ask.

But we decided to say yes, Sarah. Because we're sure it's really good. I'm sure it's good. Really, really good. Did you get funding from USAID? I did. Oh, good, good, good. That's good.

Because I don't, I would hate to see her have to do that on her own. No, I mean, that's ridiculous. You know, you can't do it on your own. She would have to sit at home and write like music on her computer and then like, you know, get somebody to perform it and all that. Normally what people do in the free market when they want to create an entertainment product. But thankfully, our government steps in in foreign countries to provide that funding for people to come up with transgender. somebody in a foreign country to do that.

That's insane. That's insane. And you know why? Because most likely in some of these countries, the people who wanted to produce the opera would get killed. They would probably get executed by the state. But in addition to that, no one would want to go to it. Now, obviously, Sarah's medley is going to be so profound and beautiful that I think people might like that. Yeah, I think so.

You know, it's hard to even get to that position. I mean, I haven't heard any of the songs that she's going to sing, but I'm sure they're fantastic. They are. That's the kind of confidence we all have in Sarah. Yeah, that'll be good. I heard a little bit of song nine, and I will say at least if you're not going to stick around for all 14, at least stick around until song nine. That's all I'm saying.

How did it go? Can you remind me? Well, I wouldn't want to ruin it. Obviously, your beautiful singing voice is going to perform this for us in just moments. Yeah. You don't want to hear stew singing. No. That wouldn't be the same.

You can't just have men and women performing the same role. That doesn't make any sense. No, it does not. Oh, wait. It really doesn't. Strangely, that's actually a true statement. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense for men and women to just change genders on a whim and with a series of magical words.

Unless you're like 12. Then it makes perfect sense. Yeah. Right? 12? 12 is pretty old waiting too late. Yeah. I'm going to say like a 12 year old knows that's insane.

Maybe four or five? Maybe that logic makes sense to a five-year-old. Perhaps. Mm-hmm. Perhaps. Again, I think you'd be able to talk them into, honey, you can't just change genders with a series of magical words. I think they would probably understand that. Yeah, I think they would.

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Wicked, because I just saw that with my family. Oh, yeah. My daughter loved it. Uh-huh. Did you, what do you think? It was good. I liked it. Yeah, I liked it. From what I understand it was actually pretty well done. It was. It was really well done. There's just too many songs. As I've stated on the show, I don't like musicals. Yes, there are too many songs.

So I do have a hard time with them. Well, yours is an opera, not a musical. That's the same. Okay, well, okay. So Sarah's opera, transgender opera coming up here in just a couple minutes, but we're going to get to that before we get to that. But there's four songs. So we got to find the right place for it. So that's coming up here in a minute. We're working on that.

Maybe, maybe Sarish will become a CAA client after this. I think that's highly likely. Highly likely. Frankly. So we'll see. So who else is a new CAA client? Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a new CAA client.

Joseph Robinette Biden? The very same. Yes. And so you could book him soon. for events, Bar Mitzvah's birthdays. He'll show up and drool on your kids as he smells their hair. Kind of exciting.

Weird attraction for a birthday party. Druling on your kids as he smells their hair. He's a former president. I mean, wouldn't that be kind of cool? Yeah, Joe Biden showed up and drooled on my kid's hair while he was sniffing him. At that price point.

They can drool on your hair. That's true. I mean, he, I guess after he was vice president, he signed up with CAA. And then he became president. And so he dropped it or they dropped him. I'm not sure how that worked. But I mean, even after his vice presidency, people were actually paying him to show up and give speeches.

He went to some place called Drew University in New Jersey. You ever heard of Drew University? They paid him $190,000 to speak. speak after he was vice president. Drew. Drew University in Jersey. University. I would say first of all, you really missed an opportunity to call it Drew University.

You just got to go with Drew University at that point. Yes, I think you do. That's a major. I already have a major problem with this college now. But Drew University is a hub of innovation, education, and community, Pat. That was just, that was on the tip of my tongue. I was about to tell you that. Oh, you were?

Yeah. I didn't mean to cut you off. No, that's right. Go ahead. They say they would like you to discover their diverse programs. I mean, Sarah, I'm just saying, like, if you've got a university, you want to back your transgender opera. I mean, maybe Drew University is the Drew University is the place to go. I'll check it out.

Okay. He also received 182,000 from Lake Michigan College. Now, Lake Michigan College, it might be a great college. I don't know much about it. Might be? You just wouldn't think they had $182,000 to pay. Laying around. Yeah.

180,000 from Vanderbilt. Okay, they probably do have that laying around. Now, um, 125,000 at Southern Connecticut State University. Really? Oh yeah, I remember them. They were right right in our backyard for a while when we lived in Connecticut. Yes, I wouldn't say that they should be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to speakers.

No, I wouldn't either. I wouldn't have guessed that. They don't have a Harvard style. No. Endowment. No, and so he spoke at Brown. Brown only paid him $93,000. Is that because it's more prestigious and they don't have to pay you as much?

Maybe. That's really interesting. By the way, I just, I'm on the Drew University page still. Yeah. You know, average annual cost to attend the Drew University? $68,495. Thus they had $190.190.000 to give to Joe Biden. I guess they did.

Wow. Just three kids had to go. 68,000 for a college we didn't even know existed? That's amazing. That's amazing. Holy crap. I just started by somebody named Drew. Somebody named Drew was like, I just started at a university.

And now there's the Drew University. And they're making 68K a person? Holy crap, man. Let's see enrollment at Drew University. They have it listed there on the web page? Yes, 1,520. Wow. Notable alumni.

Wow. Notable alumni. Mm-hmm. James Vanderbeek. There you go, the actor. There you go. And Soon-Y Privin. Who?

Soon-Yee. Soon-ye. Oh, okay. That's... She's the one, you know, Woody Allen's kid he was dating. Stepp daughter who he dated or whatever. And married, I believe. Yeah, I think they're still together. Soonie, went to the Dr. University.

Okay. James Vanderbeek, Drew University. James Vanderbue. He was in... Dawson's Creek Dawson's Creek? I think that's right Yeah, that's right

So there you go Okay So I apologize For disparaging The $68,000 a year you're paying Incredibly prestigious Obviously

Obviously That's insanity How much That's crazy Good God I told my kids Screw college You think you're going to college

You better start working Wait but I'm only 13 daddy Yeah Get to get to a factory somewhere I will say that's the way it used to be. You know, you worked during your high school days and saved your money and then you paid for your own college. Or your parents could help you where they could.

But you didn't just necessarily take out massive loans that you then declined to pay back later on. And that's a perfectly acceptable thing now. I could be wrong, though. I don't think colleges cost $68,000 at the time. No, that's true. That is, that's very true. But we didn't make the kind of money we do now either. So it's sort of a trade-off.

I mean, look, I'm all for capitalism. And if you can get $68,000 from a bunch of dumb kids to come to your college that you're naming the Drew University, that's great. And I give you credit for that. I will say, it almost feels criminal. Value for what you're getting for your money, it feels criminal. That's why I'm starting pat. State University. Pat State. Yeah. Is it a state college or you're just calling it Pat State? I'm just calling it Pat State because that adds a certain jula se qua, if you will.

So what's Pat State University like? It's an education that you can't get anywhere else. I'll tell you that. I'll tell you that right now. I bet that's true. Yeah, it is true. Now, are you going to be teaching classes at Pat State? No, but I'm going to select only the finest instructors and professors. Wow. To educate the young minds. What's tuition running these days at Pat State? It's going to come in under Drew University. Really?

It's going to be 65,000 per person. Yeah. That way I think we'll do better in volume. We'll have a, we'll have. How many students you're looking for at Pat State? I'm looking for 56,000. 56,000. 56,000 to 60.

Well, you just kind of like add on annex buildings to your building and just to fill it up. Eventually. As people join. You're not billing in advance. People need to buy on spec. This is an on spec education at Pat State. Yeah. Are you going to have a sports team?

There's got to be a football team, right? So what's the mascot for Pat State? I haven't worked that out yet, but I'm working on it. Really? How about a cookie? With a Pat State cookies. I like that. And you could probably get, I would say, Kexi cookies would sponsor it, but it doesn't

seem like it needs to be sponsored at 65K. That could be the nickname of the school, the Pat State cookies. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds terrifying, doesn't it? I don't know how prestigious it feels. No, I'm a cookie. Yeah, I'm a dedicated cookie alum.

That sounds as great as you might think. No. But I'm interested. It's almost as bad as the beavers or the ducks in Oregon. But a little goofy. Yeah. A little bit goofy. But I'm interested.

You know, my kids, I told them no to most. schools, but Pat say yes to Pat State. Yeah. Sounds pretty good. I mean, it's just as prestigious as Drew University, right? I mean, amazing. I mean, this is, I don't, I don't know who's booking Joe Biden at this point in his, in his life. You know, bless his heart. He, he can't get through a sentence. And are people going to pay him 500? Because that's about the going rate for former presidents, right? When you're a vice. president, you can command close to 200,000 per speech. When you've been president, you can do half a million per speech. Is anybody going to pay him that to come speak at their university,

knowing what you know about Joe Biden and how deficient he is in speaking now? He can't even speak, let alone give a speech. No. I also would say that he should be paying you to speak at your university. Yeah. Right? I mean, this is a guy who's a disaster. He's got to a horrible approval rating. I mean, I don't know what you're getting out of that, you know, but I guess this is the way of the world with this stuff. If you've got, you get that job, you're, you're set for life. Oh, yeah. You can always get another gig. You can always get some high level speeches. You can always just milk this thing forever. Netflix will pay to do some sort of producing situation like they did with the Obamas and gave them a hundred million

dollars to do it. To barely produce anything. Yep. What they really, what have they done? Nothing, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. They were involved as a, they were involved in a, as a consultant on one movie that I saw, which was, was it a documentary? No. We talked about it at the time. Do you remember the name of the things there? It was, it was a, it was a movie about like a, I want to say it was like a nuclear disaster or, you know, the whole world. It sounds somewhat familiar. Yeah. And he was, they were criticized because there's one scene where they're, I want, maybe I was a critical of gun. or talking about gender or something.

I can't remember exactly what it was. Though I did not seem, the movie to me did not seem like overly woke. It was just a, leave the world behind? Yeah, I think it was. I think it was. And it was like one of those like,

you know, just awful like sort of, you know, the whole world has a tragedy and you don't know what's going on the entire time. Surprisingly, I did not watch, leave the world behind. I will say, it never really paid off. It was not a, it was not an event.

And it just like many people who attend Pat State University, it's not something you'd want to repeat. Wait, are you disparaging my university before it's even opened its doors? I'm saying it's so, so good. You don't need to do it twice. You know, why would you need to go back? I drew university, I don't know. You might be 65K over and over and over again.

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Dot 10 seconds, station ID. 1867, Pat. Drew University. No. Founded in 1867. Wow. I think we've just missed it. It was called Drew Theological Seminary for a while,

and then changed over to the Drew University after that. Is it still like a religious university? It is affiliated with a Methodist faith. Oh, okay. So, I mean, might be great. I don't know. Yeah, might be. So there you go.

Seems like 68,000 serious tuition, though. Serious tuition. And I will say, you could get it at Pat State for 65. So why would you just not shop it around? Why not? You know, it's like when you're trading Luca Dantches, you should travel. You should shop it around a little bit? Maybe get a better package.

You believe that actually happened? No. That one is unbelievable. I mean, old things out, especially here in Dallas. Wow. He was like such a pillar of the community here. Yeah. Everybody loves him.

He's in every ad campaign. He's on every bill. board. It's really the only reason to go to a Mavs game, isn't he? I mean... They went to the finals last year. Was it last year? Last year!

Oh, wow. And they're like, hey, let's trade away the second or third best player in the NBA. Yeah, in the world. Incredible. And the Lakers certainly need yet another of the greatest players on the planet. Always luck out with these trades, too. Unreal. They just pull out, they get these amazing guys out of nowhere.

It doesn't seem possible, and it happens to the Lakers. Like, good things happens to the Lakers. Lakers. I don't know why. I don't look forward to them. Not a fan. Yeah. Yeah. So now you got Donsich coupled with your favorite guy, LeBron James. Not really worth mentioning, frankly, on that team. No. You know, who cares if LeBron is there. But they're, I don't think they're going to be necessarily that great this year, but, you know, they've reset their franchise for years and years and years to come by having Luca, who is basically a franchise in and of himself. I mean, that he team that made the finals last year was not that great a team for the for the maths.

I mean, Kyrie is good. Yeah. But he was having all sorts of problems everywhere else. Lucas seems to have helped him along. And you look at the rest of the team, they've got some good players, but they're not, I wouldn't say utterly amazing. Yeah. And yet it made a run to the finals last year. Like, maybe you could understand it if they had underperformed for five or six years in a row.

And you're like, this just isn't working. We have to change this up. They went to the finals last year. Weird. And completely unexpected, right? I mean, I don't follow the NBA very closely, or at all. But that seems like nobody saw that comment. No, I mean, I don't think that anyone did.

And that's the best part about that. They had the press conference with the GM here of the Mavs. And he's like, you know, I just got to thank Rob Polenka, the GM of the Lakers, because we worked on this for weeks and weeks. And he just kept it quiet. And then like, it's really hard to keep things like this quiet. I just thank him so much. Of course he kept it quiet.

He didn't want anyone else is to know. The second anyone else was going to know. The second anyone else found out, they'd offered twice as much. Yeah. Like, of course he wanted to keep it quiet. Jeez. Absolutely incredible. Now there's all these conspiracy theories.

Have you heard the conspiracy theories on this bat? I don't think so. Some of them are sort of over the top and ridiculous. Like they, you know, Mark Cuban owned the Mavs for a long time. Yeah. He sold to the Adelson family. You know, well-known Republican financiers and well, you know, involved in the casino industry. And that's how they make their money.

Lives in Vegas. He lives in Vegas. So the theory is they want to try to either pressure Texas to legalize gambling so they can build a casino here or tank the franchise to then draw them to Vegas instead, which it's hard to imagine they'd pull a team out of Dallas. What is the fourth biggest market? Yeah. It is hard to imagine. To be possible. Yeah.

You know, but there are a lot of people who are wound up on conspiracy theories on this because it doesn't make any sense to anybody. No. And, you know, Anthony Davis, good player. Mm-hmm. But not Luca Donson. Not Luca. Level. But.

And it's just a shocking, shocking, especially when Luca is 25 and Davis is 31. Yeah. If it was reversed, like, if you had a player who was coming up and he was 20, like, if Luca was 31 and Davis was 25, maybe you could get your, you could at least get yourself there. Yeah. This makes no sense at all. None. It makes, it sounds like something.

It's like, Joe Biden negotiated the trade. He's like, I just can't believe. You know, I just can't believe. I was so happy to hear that Zelensky kept this quiet. We were going to give him $750 billion and he didn't tell anybody.

Oh, great. Thanks, Joe. I'm sure he didn't tell anybody. Yeah. I wouldn't tell anybody either. I'd love President Trump's comments on Ukraine yesterday talking about how he wants a guarantee

that we're going to have access to their rare earth minerals now because of all the money we've given them to them over the last almost three years now it would be nice to get something in return wouldn't it? And I think, you know, of course Democrats are all pissed off about it because how dare you how dare you ask them for rare earth minerals with our $200 billion investment

into the Ukrainian cause? Yeah, we shouldn't be asking anything of them. Just continue to give and give and allow them to take. And that'll be fine. All right, AAA 727BECK. More coming up.

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Glenn 47 It's Ben Stufer Glenn Triple 877 B-E-C Hmm New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy

has changed His tune just a little bit Huh? Yeah Because his tune was quite clear yesterday

Pat Well he had He's proud of it Illegal Alien who was living in an apartment above his garage. Well, I believe he said someone whose immigration status was not where they wanted it to be. Right.

What does that mean? I mean, it means an illegal immigrant. Yeah. And he was proud of it. And didn't he say something at the end there, Pat? He said coming, and good luck to the feds coming in trying to get her. So essentially he's challenging the feds to come get her. Yeah.

And I think the fed should take. take him up on that. Well, that's what Tom Holman thought. Tom Holman said, well, if he does have an illegal alien living above his garage and he's breaking the law, I'll prosecute him for that. He can go to jail for that. We'll arrest him. Now, my argument is that Murphy has broken the law many times, considering especially, and it's been underplayed, how terrible he was during COVID. He was on, it's hard for me to say this, but he was almost on the quote. level of incompetence and danger to his own citizens. He did many of the same policies when it comes to elderly people and to nursing homes with COVID that Cuomo did.

He just didn't get the attention because Cuomo was such an unmitigated jerk that he took all the attention for that particular, I would call crime. Now, I know Cuomo also had the, I don't think Murphy's been groping people, so that's good. Although I don't know. Maybe the illegal alien living above his garage. You know, who knows what's going on there? I don't think so. Well, it's interesting because now his people are saying no one has ever lived in the home under those circumstances that the governor described. Wait, what?

So he doesn't have an illegal alien living above his garage? Wait, he's saying that no one's ever lived in the home. He had a statement issued by one of his people That no one has ever lived in the home Under those circumstances that the governor described Well, he was pretty clear on it yesterday. Yeah, he was. And that's so that's interesting.

Sometimes people forget, Pat. Yeah, they do. You know. Yeah, they do. Oh, I thought I had an illegal alien A living in my garage, but yeah, I guess not. So that's why you can't gut it. come get her because she's not there.

But good luck finding her because I just made the whole thing up. Now, the representative didn't explain why Murphy, who lives with his family in a mansion in Middletown, New Jersey, would dare the Trump administration to go after the woman at his home who wasn't actually there. Nobody really explained any of that. Of course, he's just lying through his teeth. I mean, now, why are you doing that? Right. Like he, the truth was there is an illegal immigrant living under his garage, right? That's the truth. Maybe. I mean, I'm asking for a, if you go, maybe you could talk to some of your researchers at Pat State University.

If you're thinking of a projection here, if you had to take a guess, gun to your head, Pat Gray. I would say, yeah, he probably did. That's the side I think he's lying about. He did. And now probably doesn't because she had to clear out. She had to clear out because of what he said publicly to get, you know, I guess. points from the audience, right? Sold out the girl he was supposed to protect that was living above his garage.

Yeah. And what happened to her, by the way? If she was there. And now, so now where is she? Because she had to make a pretty quick exit, I would imagine.

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

What happened? Yeah. Why are you living at Phil Murphy's house? Right. You know, usually governors and politicians hide the fact that they're hiding random women at their, at their establishments. He was proud of it. He was proud of it. He was like, yeah.

We got some illegal immigrant women just living right about my garage. You'll step over whenever I need to. That's nice of him. That is nice. But now, but it was not true, Pat. Definitely did not occur. No, no, no. That was 24 hours ago.

That would be illegal. Was he in some sort of like sugar haze? Why would he blurt out that he had an illegal immigrant living above his garage if it didn't actually happen? It is so bizarre because I don't even know, you know, we don't have a press that will really push him on this, of course. And nobody's going to hold his feet to the fire on this and demand answers to why did you say you have an illegal immigrant living above your garage if you don't have one and you never have had one? What are you trying to prove here? you're just trying to embarrass the Trump administration. You're trying to challenge them in some way.

I mean, it is not, I will say this, not entirely impossible that he was lying to the crowd for their favor. Now, Phil Murphy will lie in any room he's in about anything in my view. So it's possible he was just saying this to make himself look good to the pro-illegal immigration crowd he was in front of. You can't rule that out entirely. But again, this is why you have journalists in the state of New Jersey that I'm sure were camping out by the house seeing if anyone packed up belongings at the garage that day. Oh, no, they weren't. If it was Trump, though, how many journalists would have been camped outside his garage

to watch the illegal leave the premises before he got arrested? I mean, you'd have dozens of reporters there waiting for that to occur. Mm-hmm. And of course not in this situation. Pat, real quick, some breaking news. Bill Cassidy, Senator. He's the doctor who had some tough questioning for RFK Jr. During the hearing.

Is this Bill Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? It is Bill Cassidy and Sundance Kid. Both he and the Sundance Kid are going to vote for RFK Jr., which I would say that ends it. It's over. He's going to get it. Yeah, because he's the one that everybody thought might be the wild card. Yeah, because you could probably find a, I think there's a chance, a good chance.

McConnell votes against him. I think there's a good chance that, you know, you could talk about, you know, of course, Collins and Murkowski are always up for a vote against a Republican nominee. Although Colin said, Colin said she would go with him. Yeah. Right. So, and she said the same about Tulsi, didn't she? I think she did, yeah.

So I think all these people are getting in it. I think the only one really Trump is going to lose over this entire process is Gates. Yeah. And that happened months ago. time ago. Yeah. So that's it. Interesting. I think that's going to, I mean, I'm looking now, let's see if the markets are looking like right now. Give me one second. Tulsi Gabbard, 98% chance to get in. RFK, 97%. Cash Patel, 97%. I mean, low key possibility of Lori Chavez-Durmer, the labor secretary. There is, I think, legitimate Republican conservative opposition to her

as she voted for a bunch of left-wing labor bills. I don't understand what. why she's the pick, honestly. I don't understand it at all. That being said, I just don't think anyone wants to do anything with Trump right now. I don't think anyone would oppose anything he says on the Republican side. That's basically the truth. I mean, you'll,

it's just his party. And, you know, that is, it is just whether you like it or not true. Yeah. You know, so.

I just, I read that they were filibustering Pam Bondi, which just ended yesterday. So that was kind of interesting. I think they're trying to delay that. I don't think you can technically filibuster a nominee like that. Yeah, they're delaying it. They're slow playing it.

But to let you know, she on the markets is 99.8%. Wow. So she's in, and I'm looking down the entire list, I don't see anybody below 98% or 97%, which would be RFK Jr., Cash Patel and Lori Chavez, Dermer. That's it. So, it's not interesting that all these Republicans are on board with RFK Jr. That's fascinating. I find that interesting. I mean, because I think you could say, like, if you look at maybe the most controversial nominees where you'd say someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who was a Democrat, we ran a campaign for Bernie Sanders in Hawaii.

But we've all seen a long, slow transition, I think, from Tulsi. And she's someone who, I don't know, that arc is pretty understandable. And I know a lot of people love RFK Jr. So, but forgive me here for pointing out that this is bleak. blatantly transactional. I mean, remember, RFK Jr.

went to, to, what's her face? Kamala first to see if he could get this kind of arrangement. And Kamala didn't return his phone calls.

And then he went to Trump. And Trump did. And it was a brilliant move by Trump. It was a smart move by Trump. It, I think,

did expand the, the party tent, his voter base. I don't know that it won him the election. But it's not impossible to make that case.

you know, as I pointed out, you know, he needed to win a blue wall state in this election to win it. Everything else was, you know, there wasn't any huge shocks outside of the blue wall. That was really where most of the controversy was. There was a few other swing states that were up for debate. But, you know, the blue wall was where the action was. She needed to win all three of those. He needed to win one of those. The biggest blowout of those three states was two points.

Yeah. That was the blowout. So two point difference here in that election. in that state. And it's like, I think it was Michigan. I think it was Pennsylvania. I think it was Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin. But I think it was Pennsylvania. It was two points.

The bottom line is, it's not impossible to make the case RFK Jr. was the difference. And I do think that Donald Trump does sort of owe him something. I think they did make an arrangement. It was very out there, right? Like he wanted, RFK Jr. I think if he had won the presidency, would have basically focused on HHS all the time anyway.

So he wanted that role. Donald Trump, I don't think it's a super high priority role for him. I think Trump looks at that and says, look, I think we can make some improvements. I'd like to see, I'd like to be run a lot better. You're the guy that knows it. Go for it. And it was a transactional thing. Like, RFK Jr. would not have endorsed him if not for the promise of a role like this.

And to the extent that we, as we mentioned, less than one year ago, Donald Trump was calling him a left-wing lunatic and RFK Jr. was saying Which he has been. I mean, he is. His whole life. He's just not going to supposedly do those types of things in this role. He is still left wing on almost every single issue. Trump

correctly is saying we're going to keep him away from those issues. Now, I think he's going to be somebody going to need to watch. Yeah. You're going to need to watch him like a hawk in that role because while he may do things that you like, he will also do many things that you hate if you let him get involved in other things

like climate change. Oh my gosh. Abortion. Abortion. Those are the two maybe headline issues, but there's a lot to it. There's a lot to that role. It's a trillion dollar budget he's going to be overseeing. That's not just talking about your fruit loops, guys.

Like this is a big, big job. So my recommendation, if he cared, which he doesn't, to Trump, if you're going to give HHS to RFK Jr., come up with a panel of people and their only job. will be like Doge to watch RFK Jr. and what he's doing. Just make sure he sticks to his side of the deal. If he does, he'll be fine. If he doesn't, throw him out.

Because you can do that. As soon as he goes off the reservation, you can toss him out of the job. So you just got to watch really closely. He's the type of person that will do a lot of, he's going to be hiring people that he knows to these jobs. Those people didn't make promises to Donald Trump. And, you know,

you're just going to have to watch him like a hawk in this role. But he will probably do some good things as well. It's not to say that there's no positives here. I just would have preferred it in like maybe a Doge type role, an outside committee type role. Hey, here are our recommendations to someone that was a little more trustworthy to the conservative movement. AAA 727BECK. More coming up.

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for Columbia? Just going to give you a little taste, okay? I've only had a couple years to work on. We can't do all 14 songs apparently, right? Yeah, a little medley. All right. Masculine? Yes.

Is this for you, Sarah? Sarah, is that? You're telling us that you, though? Yeah, I had to work on my voice. Oh, it's the transgender. Yeah. I will say, that actually sounds more like you than opera. That doesn't sound.

like opera at all. I don't even know how to take that. It's good for Columbia, though, because it's obviously... Well, the best operas are not operas. No, right? If you want to get people to show up to an opera, make it not opera. Because nobody likes opera. That's just one song, but you've got to have more than that, right? Okay, I'll give you another. All right.

What's said of the drama of this? The pageantry. And you don't speak Spanish, so you don't know what it's about. No, I have no idea. I don't. I do. Is it really about transgender? issues. You have to come see it. I'm not telling you. In Columbia, we got to go to Columbia to see this thing? Yeah. How much did they give you from USAID for this project? $47,000. $47,000. Wow. But I had to study at Pat State. Pat State University? Yeah. Okay. Had to be a cookie. Yeah. Well, you want to, yeah, that's true. That's interesting. I think you need to learn what

opera is. Like, that's one thing I would say before getting the $47,000, you should know what it sounds like. I would blame my education. Oh, you know. I will say the arts department of Pat State. We need to work on that. It's not its priority. It didn't seem real opera-ish. No, it sounded like, I don't know, like Enrique Agalasius or something.

Palomundo. Yeah. Maria. Maria. Yeah, that's what it sounded like. All right. Hopefully, Glenn will be feeling better tomorrow, and we'll see you then. You're like off to the Super Bowl, right?

After the Super Bowl. Go birds. Come on! Come on. Take one home. Three straight for the, three straight for the Kansas City Chiefs. No, it will not. It's on.

Don't lie. I hate Pat State University. You're Glenn Beck.