Unraveling Tulsi Gabbard's New Role, Super Bowl Surprises, and Cultural Shifts

The discussion centers around Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation and Trump's historic Super Bowl attendance, highlighting the complex interplay of sports and politics. Key themes include public sentiment, the cultural significance of halftime performances, and the implications of educational reform.

• Analyzing Gabbard's impact on political dynamics 
• Trump's unprecedented Super Bowl appearance and its reactions 
• Mixed reviews on Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance 
• T-Mobile's innovative partnership for satellite coverage 
• The absurdity of minting pennies amid budgeting discussions 
• The push for reforming the Department of Education

Chapters

• 0:00 Elsa Kirk Show With Clay Novak
• 10:13 Super Bowl Drama and Commercials
• 18:28 Government Appointments and Confirmations
• 24:53 Food Coloring and Government Appointments
• 30:33 Renaming Fort Bragg and Military Enlistments
• 39:12 The End of the Penny
• 45:50 Department of Education and Education Priorities
• 58:40 Future Topics and Thank You

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

It's the Elsa Kirk Show, with Clay Novak serving up trending news and conservative views Brought to you by the Elsa Kirk Collection and Refuge Medical. And now it's time for the show.

Speaker 2: 0:25

Well, hey party people, hey Clay, how's it going?

Speaker 3: 0:28

I'm good. How are you?

Speaker 2: 0:31

I'm good too, I'm especially good, so I'm going to start right off reminding everybody that, for us, right now, this minute, it is Wednesday and we are recording, and you're going to be watching it tomorrow, which you'll be saying it's today, watching it tomorrow, which you'll be saying it's today. But the exciting news is we just got a word in a little while ago that Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed and she's already in. And Clay you just told me right before we start, she's already working.

Speaker 3: 0:55

Yeah, they swore in at the White House. So we have a DNI. Not only did she get confirmed, but she walked right into the White House and raised her right hand, swore in and I'm sure at one of the many offices of ODNI she's probably moved in and getting herself to work.

Speaker 2: 1:12

No doubt. So we've got that and a ton of stuff to talk about, right.

Speaker 3: 1:16

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Speaker 2: 2:29

Oh, I don't know, Clay. Should we start off by raising a toast to some new friends that we've made along the way? Here you got a raise.

Speaker 3: 2:37

Yeah. So Elsa and I me specifically started a relationship with some great folks, great American company. You can see behind Elsa the Henry Rifles hat. I'm wearing a Henry Rifles sweatshirt. Henry Rifles coffee mug. Henry Rifles is a great American company. It's a great success story. Anthony Imperato and his father bought the patents for the legendary Henry lever action rifles and rebuilt the company from scratch and they're an amazing company that I've built a relationship with and love the show. Anthony's a huge fan, so he, you know, bestowed upon us some Henry swag and we certainly appreciate it. But for those folks out there, just so you know, henry Rifles is really a great philanthropic organization on top of making top notch guns. But they do a ton for veterans, veteran organizations, hospitals. You would not believe if you go to their website and look at the guns that they donate for auction and for raffle on behalf of charity organizations. It's unbelievable. Great organization, great people. We just want to tell them thanks.

Speaker 2: 3:43

Super grateful. We are incredibly grateful. It was so sweet of them to send us all this good stuff. These mugs are amazing. I've been using this one every day. I won't let anybody touch it. They sent several, but, like you know, I don't know. Am I weird? I have a favorite mug. Like I have a favorite, this is the favorite right now.

Speaker 3: 3:59

So I have that same mug and it was a weird, they sent me that one as well and I thought before I, or when I opened it up, I thought it was a like a tin ceramic coated.

Speaker 2: 4:09

Oh, it's yeah Right.

Speaker 3: 4:10

Not, it's a heavy ceramic super mug. Awesome, that was definitely worthy of being the favorite.

Speaker 2: 4:17

Heck, yeah, heck yeah, all right. What do we got for tapas here? Let's see. Okay, well, let's start off right off, right off the bat. Let right, what do we got for tapas here? Let's see. Okay, well, let's start off right, right off the bat. Let's let's just go over this now. A confession did not watch a single second, not even commercials. I had to get all of my info when I was doing my show prep and outlining for the show. I'm like all right, what happened with this thing? I knew, I knew the most important thing, which was that president trump was the first sitting president to ever attend a Super Bowl game and he came out to wild cheers. I understand.

Speaker 3: 4:51

Yes, and that really surprised me that he's the first ever sitting president. And yes, the reaction in the stadium was massive. You know there, of course, were the typical celebrity reviews were mixed. You know there were some. You know there, of course, were the typical celebrity reviews were mixed. You know there were some. You know Cardi B not that anybody really cares was very outspoken about Somehow her shoes got messed up and somehow it was the Secret Service and President Trump's fault.

Speaker 2: 5:17

I don't know, stupid.

Speaker 3: 5:19

But yeah, he was a huge hit and he was. The Secret Service had to have been losing their mind because he was down on the field. He was interacting with fans. He was interacting with people which you know, for them is a security nightmare, absolutely. But that's him. That's who he is and he's never going to change.

Speaker 2: 5:35

He's never going to. He's. He's never going to Listen. He is a human being and I'm sure he thinks about it, obviously and of course, but he's never going to be the guy that lets fear stop him from doing what he he wants to do, and I love that about him. It makes me so anxious, but you know, I mean really, really anxious, along with every, every other Trump supporter and Trump administration supporter. It's like, oh, please, don't do anything to derail this in any possible way. But, but yes, everything was wonderful. Did he only stay through half time? Did he leave? Did I read something that he didn't say?

Speaker 3: 6:09

I don't know for sure. I would imagine that it was not for the duration of the game, because the game got really boring. He's got their ass handed to him. Taylor Swift got booed, which you know. Listen, I listen, it is what it is. I know she's not a Trump supporter, Right, I know. So there was a little bit of reaction. It was a very, you know, kind of Yang versus Yang reaction.

Speaker 2: 6:33

Yeah, it made me feel a little icky hearing about that it's totally unnecessary, but it is what it is. It is what it is it's a rowdy crowd.

Speaker 3: 6:41

But the game got boring. Eagles went up pretty handily and then if President Trump left for probably smart security reasons, it would make total sense. And also the game was boring. I know the Chiefs ended up scoring some points near the end, but for the most part it was a snooze fest.

Speaker 2: 7:01

Yeah, I said to my husband you know he was coming in and out and giving me like little updates on what was going on, cause we used to love watching football. That was our, that was our Sundays. It was it was a production. Every Sunday I would make food for like basically enough to feed the whole neighborhood. You know, we'd have our jerseys on. You know the whole works and it was so much fun. And then they went and ruined it and you know, so that was that for me and I hold, I hold a grudge, I guess, and yeah, and, and I hold a grudge?

Speaker 3: 7:24

I guess yeah, and you know the NFL continues to take missteps. I know they're trying to clean things up a little bit. In the advertising there was a definite in the trends in the commercials. There was a definite trend for pharmaceutical and big health companies to reimage themselves A lot of fight cancer and some other things.

Speaker 2: 7:51

So, like the big pharma image is trying to be reworked right now, which is a good thing. Do it while they can right, Because if RFK Jr gets his way, all done.

Speaker 3: 8:00

But you know, the halftime show, I think just general consensus I think was not a success for a number of reasons. You know, I know that the predominance of the NFL audience is male and I know the predominance of that audience is younger males. So Kendrick Lamar, you know a very long, crazy long halftime show of rap. I don't think that personally it was. I know a lot of people had a hard time understanding him and I think that was me personally. I think it was more about the sound than it was about like the quality of the audio was the issue? Not necessarily about that's me personally.

Speaker 2: 8:40

Yeah, you think I'm perfect by now.

Speaker 3: 8:45

Yeah, well, you know, every time you're in a stadium and you know crowd noise and all that stuff, it's, it's different. But uh, you know, they had some serena williams popped in there. That was a little bit controversial and the fact that I guess and I don't really follow the rapper hip-hop scene, but uh, I know shocking.

Speaker 1: 8:58

It's not your jam that's not your jam, I don't like it.

Speaker 3: 9:01

I I just, you know, i's some some of it I do like, but he's not one of them. So but I guess he was, you know, singing some song about Drake and it was some sort of this chat, whatever, and I guess there was. I'm sure you do.

Speaker 3: 9:14

There was some sort of relationship between him and Serena Williams. So she decided to, you know, get on stage, and I know that there's been a lot of commentary about that, including stage, and I know that there's been a lot of commentary about that, including Stephen A Smith, who is a little kind of all over the map right now, but his take on her appearance was listen, if I'm your husband and you're stepping away from me to go stand on a stage to talk trash about a guy that you used to date years ago, then you are focusing way too much on somebody who's not your husband. That was the short version of what he said, and so there was a lot of back and forth about that. I didn't personally enjoy the halftime show, but I couldn't understand anything he was saying while he was rapping, so it was very I caught the clip.

Speaker 2: 9:58

I caught the clips, you know, after, like everybody else, and I like his little dance, that he did. I like that Totally. No, it did that little dance and you know I had that little moment and of course, so those of you who even give like half a care, they you know. So the rap world has become or simply is what it's. I liken it to like wrestling, you know how it's like a soap opera. It's a soap opera. They have this whole big soap opera drama going on. They have this there's beef between Kendrick Lamar. I'm pointing over here because I have my notes there. Nobody knows why I pointed over there.

Speaker 3: 10:37

He's right here.

Speaker 2: 10:37

He's right here. Hey, kendrick, yeah, and Drake, as you said, they've got this big beef and I and I believe I understand they've got this big beef and I and I believe I understand that they keep doing these. You know songs, or rap songs, dissing each other. It's so funny for me to say the word dis, isn't? It sounds funny to me? Um, but yes, I'm using that word and I guess, from what I understand. So Kendrick Lamar has a song out called not like us, which is the one I'm actually referring to, that he did that little dance to, I think, and he says something right to the camera which I've already forgotten what he said, but it was a direct hit at Drake. And the fascinating what makes it fascinating, at least vaguely, is that I guess they have the same record label and Drake is suing his own record label because they released that song which is about him and really trashes him bad, like very bad, from what I understand. So that's the drama with that.

Speaker 3: 11:30

That sounds like good business by that record label is what that's right Business by them, absolutely. So yes.

Speaker 2: 11:36

I guess they didn't want him to sing that song and obviously he did it anyway. So who knows what the repercussions will be from that? And yes, I know, guys, it's going to be in the comments. Who cares? Nobody really cares. It's just a topic, it's just a thing that it's.

Speaker 3: 11:51

It's the super bowl, um, and I know you know, for for America and America, it is the single greatest sporting event of the year. So I mean you can't go without us, and we had the, you know, president Trump showed up, so it's not like we can ignore it, folks.

Speaker 2: 12:06

I mean you know, yes, now in my research, I saw that Joe Biden was there as well. Did you hear that I did?

Speaker 2: 12:15

not hear that. That's what it's. That's what this article said I was reading. I went to People magazine, of all places, to read what they were saying because they had like they claimed to have the full recap said she was there. So go figure, um, who else? Oh, I know what I wanted to ask you about. Now, I have not looked up any of the commercials. Normally I would. Normally I would like go look at, you know, scroll through all the commercials that they played. Uh, there was a lot of talk about elon doing a commercial.

Speaker 3: 12:41

That did not happen, correct, so that was not in the, not in what everybody was expecting. What everybody was expecting, what the rumor was, was that he was going to, he had paid, you know, for four or five spots, and that he was going to use those to like, have the doge running clock like how much money they've recovered, which didn't happen. Um, I will tell you, though, that one of the spots that really I don't know if t-mobile paid for it or Starlink paid for it, but that was, to me, I think, probably the biggest news out of the Superbowl was that T-Mobile and Starlink have now partnered up. So where there is no cell tower coverage, t-mobile now has satellites, has Starlink technology cell phones. So, your regular cell phone, my regular cell phone right, you're not a cell, not a sat phone, but if you're in a place where there is no cell coverage, they're providing satellite coverage, and it is available to every carrier, including AT&T and Verizon, until July to try out.

Speaker 3: 13:41

But this is like a. This has the potential for certain markets, and I'm talking about those quote, unquote flyover states where cell phone coverage is not the greatest and they're probably still running a lot of 4G, if anything else. But when you're out in the middle of nowhere, you will still have cell coverage through satellite, through Starlink, so that's an Elon touch within the Super Bowl itself. You know Budweiser tried. You know they had a decent commercial. It's not one of their best ones.

Speaker 2: 14:11

No, huh.

Speaker 3: 14:13

No, still Clydesdale, still cute, nothing groundbreaking. There was a, I think Jeep did a, you know last year I heard Jeep was yeah. It's Springsteen a couple of years ago, yeah, and then this year it was Harrison Ford. So they're kind of, you know, the nostalgia, america American. So that was another one. But no, overall I was, you know, mostly unimpressed with the commercial lineup, and really I was. I was hoping for that, the Elon commercials commercials too, and they just never happened.

Speaker 2: 14:46

They didn't happen. The only one that I heard that was well, they always and I think they've run it for a couple, couple of few years now the he gets us commercials, the you know one is supposed to be faith-based and the Christians get all up in arms about it because it's just not not a correct representation of of Jesus and all of that stuff. I heard about that one. I haven't watched any of them. But the other one that I heard and maybe you know more than well, you probably know more than I do on this one, kanye West spent like 4 million or something on a commercial and it took everybody to a link where he was selling swastika t-shirts. Is that correct?

Speaker 3: 15:24

I heard about the t-shirts. I don't know about the commercial with a link where he was selling swastika t-shirts. Is that correct? I heard about the t-shirts. I don't know about the commercial with a link. It would not surprise me. You know, people have done the QR code commercial for the last couple of years, so I do know about the t-shirts. I do know that he has a website, or had a website, and the only thing that was being sold was a white t-shirt with a black swastika on it.

Speaker 3: 15:53

I know that the product code is HH01, which is supposedly for Heil Hitler. Right, you know this is a. You know the guy's got some issues, we all know that and I think this was an attempt at like freedom of speech is freedom of speech even if you don't like what I'm saying, right? Or it is a freedom of speech kind of thing. There's the argument on whether or not a swastika is hate speech and you know whether it should be allowed, and those kinds of things. So shock value in typical Kanye fashion. But I don't know. I don't know for a fact that that was linked to a commercial.

Speaker 2: 16:25

Okay, yeah, I don't really know. I read it. Don't know the accuracy of it, because we can't believe everything we hear. Let's see what else I'm trying to see. I think that's it. That's kind of it on that, nothing else. Who else performed Lauren Daigle? Who's a?

Speaker 3: 16:40

great rendition of America, the Beautiful yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:42

I heard that was really cool.

Speaker 3: 16:44

What's his name? Trombone Shorty. Yeah, he played with her, so that was a great, you know great opener. You know the National Anthem. I can't even remember the guy's name. Yeah, I think it was like John Baptiste or something like that he interpreted it. I'm a traditionalist. I would rather have somebody just sing it the way it was written Minimal deviation.

Speaker 2: 17:10

Yeah, I'm with you on that. Actually, I don't like when they kind of go off the rails on it. But Chris Stapleton is probably my favorite. Maybe between him and was it Whitney Houston?

Speaker 3: 17:23

Yeah, she's the GOAT.

Speaker 2: 17:28

That's probably the absolute best. And then for me, next in line I think would be Chris Stapleton. I still got I get chills just just thinking about it. His voice, man, oh my goodness, but yeah so.

Speaker 3: 17:38

President Trump did also meet with many of the victims from New Orleans, from New Year's Day, which he said one of his primary, if not his primary reason for going. They brought them together, which I thought was great, you know. So he took advantage of that opportunity to stop and talk with those folks and see them. So, in typical President Trump fashion, you know he turned it into, you know, even if it was controversial, he turned it into something great.

Speaker 2: 18:01

Yeah, yeah absolutely. Yep, I love that. Let's see. Let's go back to what we opened the show with. Let's talk about these confirmation updates Tulsi, yeah, baby yeah.

Speaker 3: 18:13

Yeah, confirmed 52-48. My understanding is the only Republican that did not vote for her. Surprise, surprise wascconnell. Yeah, um, who yeah no surprise, no surprise, um. There was evidently a last ditch effort by um I don't remember his name from virginia. He's been on the uh intelligence committee since 2011. I'm drawing a blank on his name, but he tried to give some, you know, last ditch speech before the vote to try and convince people. Basically called her irresponsible, wasn't up to task, didn't have the qualifications, blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 3: 18:55

Schumer went on his little rant too, and I guess Tom Cotton and Vice President Vance were the ones who rallied the troops to get her over 50. They did some campaigning on her behalf, so they got her 52-48. Did not need to involve the vice president this time, which is good, yeah. And so she got through. And then, as soon as she got through, she got sworn in and I'm sure she's at work Right.

Speaker 2: 19:18

Yeah, I guarantee, right off the work, that seems to be the pattern. They right after work, that seems to be the pattern. They are all workhorses, man.

Speaker 3: 19:27

Every single one of them has just hit the ground. Did you see, pete Hedges?

Speaker 2: 19:29

on Monday morning.

Speaker 3: 19:30

Yes, so we'll talk about his flight on Sunday and the act he took in just a minute or two, but he flew to Europe. So he flew to Europe over the weekend and I think it was Monday morning. He got up and did PT with 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group. Yeah, and he's a rock star for doing it Right, everybody. We've never had a sec def who's done this and it's the reality. We've never had a sec def who could who could even yes, so true.

Speaker 3: 19:58

So you know it's good on him. You know, see the four-star standing behind him, but I would imagine it was the US commander of Europe or somebody like that Europe and Africa, whoever the four-star is now. But he was talking to the press and he said, hey, this gives me an opportunity to. Or he said what he started out with was, hey, no offense General, but I'm probably closer to, or I'm more relatable to, the group of guys that I did pt with than I am to the four-star generals and this gives me an opportunity to talk to them. You know, as I go and talk to these four stars. So you know he's trying to. He's trying, he's doing what good leaders do. He's trying to bridge the gap between, you know, the executor and, uh, the policymaker, and and good on him. So, but you're right, he's another.

Speaker 2: 20:49

He's another workhorse, just like he's gonna be yeah, absolutely every single pan bondi everybody, every single one of them he was doing construction work today.

Speaker 3: 20:57

Did you see that?

Speaker 3: 20:59

did not see that really personally took down photographs of uh, the chain of command, photographs of President Biden, vice President Harris and, like she was in DOJ, like herself removing them. Yeah, same thing, doing all that, doing all that. You know, it's a lot of PR, it's a lot of image, but it's also a lot of message sending. It's a lot of messaging to the folks that work for them that this is some serious stuff, but it's also a lot of message sending. It's a lot of messaging to the folks that work for them that this is some serious stuff. I saw you posted on Facebook, I think, before we started recording about your buddy, the guy I think you're rooting for more than anybody Rooting for him hard Junior.

Speaker 2: 21:35

Yeah, yep, junior, bobby, bobby, junior, yes, so he moves on to the next phase. Now I saw on x, of course, um, that according to this whole, uh, every single one of them that we're waiting on is pretty much guaranteed to get confirmed. So I don't, I don't, honestly, I don't know what the basis is for that. I know it. It seemed to be a pretty reputable and reputable, sorry and reliable page. I saved it, but it's not up here right now. So, yes, come on, guys, you know, go, go look it up. I can see I get crotchety with that because it's like, you know, that's, that's what they do on the left when they're too lazy to go look things up themselves. I'm not calling our guys lazy, I'm just saying you know I get agitated when people are like well, can you write your sources? Go look at it. If you don't believe me, go look.

Speaker 3: 22:29

Google, google it. It's not like you put the Dewey Decimal System in a card catalog in the library.

Speaker 2: 22:34

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3: 22:35

Come on, guys, it's nice and easy.

Speaker 2: 22:38

And just think of the joy you'll get if you get to come back back and say you were wrong. Oh, but yeah, so up to final vote.

Speaker 3: 22:47

So his confirmation vote is is it tomorrow? Do we think? Is that the?

Speaker 2: 22:50

I think um late tomorrow. Yeah, I think it's late tomorrow, which will be um essentially while we're well. We should know collectively. We should maybe know while we're on air tomorrow. Yeah, it should have already been decided so we can chat about it all in the comments that um that spot on x.

Speaker 3: 23:11

They're confident that kosh is gonna.

Speaker 2: 23:13

They're confident, yeah, they were they were um, they were, they were confident.

Speaker 1: 23:17

So yeah, I guess they go by like these betting sites that's.

Speaker 3: 23:22

I did that during the election, did you?

Speaker 2: 23:24

oh yeah, we did talk about that, you're right yeah, that's the most accurate.

Speaker 3: 23:28

That gets doesn't lose like right.

Speaker 2: 23:30

Yeah, so it makes sense, so that's good. I that that makes me feel good, very happy. Um, yes, I. You know people are gonna think I have a crush on bobby jr there. I really don't, um, I just I have a crush on what, what I expect him to do with his role, with his position. You know, the more I read, I just I just shared something or maybe I, maybe I scheduled it to share about you know, people always say things like you know, when you tell them, well, don't eat that, it's full of crap, it's garbage, don't drink that, it's pure garbage, and they say I drank that as a kid, it's fine, it's like no, you didn't, it's not the same thing what you drink as a kid. Like the example um, you guys will see it tomorrow in my um on Facebook, uh, but the example was Gatorade, of all things.

Speaker 4: 24:17

Right, it's a great it's a great example.

Speaker 2: 24:20

Yeah, the glass bottles, right. Yeah, it used to be glass bottles. And maybe, maybe, half a dozen ingredients, right.

Speaker 3: 24:27

It's like four. It's like four yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:28

Yeah, and now it's probably like minimum of a yeah, exactly, exactly, and things you cannot pronounce and the plastic, and you know, oh well, don't get me started, I'll go on the tirade. But, yes, you know, so, yeah, so I'm'm very hopeful and I don't want to hear and one of the biggest things I'll tell you, and I'll be all over it posting about it if I don't see things happening as fast as we're seeing these other things happen. You know, for the example, that red dye number three 30 years they knew that it had cancer causing agents. 30 years they waited and then, a hot minute before they think he's coming in, they're like, oh, we're banning that. However, manufacturers get to use it, um, for another two years, two years before they have to. No, I want it gone immediately.

Speaker 2: 25:15

And yes, I know all my like. You know, smart people are gonna be like well, you know, you have to understand the production cost of things. I don't care, I don't care, figure it out. You've had plenty of time to figure, don't care, I don't care, figure it out. You've had plenty of time to figure this out. They used to do it. You can do it again, don't?

Speaker 3: 25:29

dye it. Yeah, that's all. Don't use it Like if the red Skittles just come out white, fine, and I'm not saying red Skittles has that dye color in it, but you know what I mean, like Fruit Loops or whatever it is. Just don't use the dye Like we'll be okay for a little while until you come up with a healthy replacement.

Speaker 2: 25:56

Fruit Loops was a great example actually, because there's an Aldi's brand or Aldi's brand doesn't have it in there, it doesn't have the dye. So plenty of people are doing it. You can do it too, and don't go raising the prices of everything on it just because you took out stuff. That's the biggest bracket.

Speaker 3: 26:05

All the cereal companies sell these same things in Canada and they don't have any of those ingredients. So they have the capability, they just don't want to. And so yeah, go without for a while, we'll be OK. Nobody's going to forget what red Froot Loops look like. It's just fine, exactly.

Speaker 2: 26:21

And I don't think anybody's going to sit there a few years from now and go gosh, remember when Froot Loops had that great red color. Nobody would care, right? Nobody is going to sit there and have nostalgia over red Froot Lo loops, so just stop it immediately.

Speaker 3: 26:37

On the flip side. Yeah, be a little bit nostalgic. Do you remember like Pepsi clear?

Speaker 2: 26:44

Yeah, I do. That was like. When was that, though? How long ago was that?

Speaker 3: 26:47

A long time ago, so they tried it too, but they but Pepsi tried clear, so no, I forgot coloring and it was. You know. Know, I won't say it was a colossal, you know failure, but it yeah, we don't have it anymore no, that tells, you. Yeah, you know based on past precedents that if we don't put colors in it then people won't buy it right?

Speaker 2: 27:08

yeah, yeah, it's all about, you know, or at least under the guise of aesthetics and making things look appealing and and you know all of those things. I certainly get that. You know, I, I was raised my, my grandmother always, you know, we, my grandmother always made beautiful, amazing food, but she always plated everything nice and she, you know. So it was ingrained in my head that your food should look beautiful.

Speaker 3: 27:32

You eat with your eyes.

Speaker 2: 27:34

You do exactly, so I totally understand it. However, I think we are in such a different place Um knowledge-wise than we were back then when they did the Pepsi clear and tried that. Now you know, we would welcome that, I think. I don't know, I don't drink soda, so, but I would think that, knowing what we know now, if it's still tastes the same and it's better for me, I mean, it's a win-win right there, I agree.

Speaker 3: 27:59

So we're still waiting on Kosh, which I personally believe is going to be even more of a fight than RFK, and I say that because there's more to protect and hide. Yes, so I think he will be the one who will be the most uphill battle. I hope that one resolves itself quickly and he can get in there and start breaking stuff.

Speaker 2: 28:20

He said, he said day one list is released.

Speaker 3: 28:24

So they just? I just saw a press conference. They have what was her name. They just appointed a lady. They just appointed a lady I think she falls under Department of Justice who is going to investigate and release the documents for JF files and something else. But it's all the conspiracy theory stuff on the Epstein list, right? All the things that are going to come out.

Speaker 2: 29:01

She just got put into this position, right, she's got a long name.

Speaker 3: 29:06

Yes, yes.

Speaker 2: 29:08

I saw that. I saw that. I love that.

Speaker 3: 29:10

They're just going to keep breaking stuff, and I'm all for it. And I know there's a lot of people you know I had been sparring with people for the last two weeks about, you know. Well, you know it started out with the nobody elected Elon and now it's the like this is being done. You know swipe of a pen executive branch. You know there's no oversight, this and that, and you know my question to them remains the same Did you complain this loud for the last four years? Because if you didn't?

Speaker 2: 29:38

I don't want to hear it. Did you complain about Obama running a shadow governor? George Soros?

Speaker 3: 29:42

I bring up Soros all the time.

Speaker 2: 29:46

Did you complain about Kamala Harris not being voted on to run for president? Did you complain about Fauci running the show and telling everybody you know they had to get back to eat it? Just shut up already. Nobody cares, nobody's listening and you know, half the time we're actually laughing at you as you stomp your feet and hold your breath and you know, foam at the mouth, so cry more. So that's going to be the next T-shirt I put out Cry more, cry more. I like that.

Speaker 3: 30:20

That's coming out. You heard it first, guys, it's coming out. So we talked about Secretary Hegseth breaking stuff. I think he fixed something. He did he did. It's close to home for me. I'm not shy about this. Fort Bragg, you know, was my, was my army home for many, many years. I've got, you know, my memorabilia is on my wall. I was, you know, in the 82nd Airborne Division for most of my deployments and that it, you know. When they renamed Fort Bragg, I was, I was adamant that it was absolute garbage or Liberty.

Speaker 2: 30:50

Is that what they?

Speaker 3: 30:51

they named it Liberty and there's a lot most people don't know. The reasoning behind it's actually one of the worst received renaming of the eight bases that got renamed because it wasn't a person.

Speaker 3: 31:02

I do know the story behind it and because there's such a confluence of special operations and airborne you know the 82nd, they didn't want to pick one person and then potentially alienating the other community. So pick a special operator and the regular 82nd guys were like hey, you know, or vice versa, which I think was you know. I don't think it was sound reasoning, but that was the, the fear. So the reason they went with Liberty is because the word Liberty is, you know, in the 82nd airborne division song and all the paratroopers out there know the song. So you know the word liberty is in the song and you know the Latin motto of Special Forces is Deo presso liber, which is free, the oppressed right, and liber in Latin obviously means liberty. So they thought it was a good balance to touch, to use that word.

Speaker 2: 31:55

Sure.

Speaker 3: 31:55

They were wrong. They were very wrong. It was terrible. But so in a C-17 US Air Force aircraft on his way to Europe over the weekend, secretary Hicks renamed yet again Fort Bragg back to Fort Bragg in a very, very barracks lawyer loophole Amazing, swift, brilliant move. Barracks lawyer loophole amazing, swift, brilliant move. Not name it after General Confederate General Braxton Bragg, who it was originally named after. Right, and that's what all the hub was about was because of the war, right, yes, Yep.

Speaker 3: 32:26

What they found was from World War II a young private, first class Roland.

Speaker 4: 32:32

Bragg, roland Bragg.

Speaker 3: 32:33

Yes, class, roland Bragg signed to the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, assigned to 18th Airborne Corps, which resides at Fort Bragg, received the Silver Star. For you know gallantry and action, you know valor and all those things. He got shot. Right, yeah, he got wounded in the Battle of the bulge, stole a german ambulance right so clearly. Like you know, yeah, went somewhere beyond there.

Speaker 3: 33:04

Yes, german ambulance came back, picked up a bunch of other wounded guys and then drove a german vehicle backwards through us lines to a hospital, killed a million times over, received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart for his actions. So Fort Bragg is now named after PFC Roland Bragg. Now, I love it. I think it's great. I wrote a blog about it. It's out there. I think you know the name Bragg. Fort Bragg is synonymous with a lot of things in the Army, and specifically that that installation has the most unit pride in the esprit de corps of any Army installation you'll ever go to and you'll never convince me otherwise, and if anybody you know any Army veteran is honest with themselves, they'll agree. So, unfortunately, though, I don't think the other bases will have the same kind of luck finding a valorous award winner with the same name on their rolls that they can rename the installation after.

Speaker 2: 34:05

It won't be for lack of trying, though I'm sure they're going to.

Speaker 3: 34:07

I'm sure there's a lot of a lot of history, you know, research going on right now, but you know, I think it's a great move. A lot of people will say it has nothing to do with war fighting, which is one of the things that secretary Hegseth, you know, said that he was going to focus on. People will say it was caught, it's costly. People say it's a, you know, a waste of time or whatever.

Speaker 2: 34:29

We got a lot of money getting saved in other areas.

Speaker 3: 34:36

One, we are saving a lot of money too. It's his budget as the SEC Right. And three, you can't put a price tag on camaraderie, esprit de corps, and you know, unit pride, yeah so, and that stuff all matters in war fighting. And you know, in the blog I wrote I said you know the Marine Corps has cornered the market on being proud of who they are. Nobody's better at it than the Marines are, period. So go find a Marine, tell them that you know it's not important to be called a Marine and that they're going to change the name of the Marine Corps to something else, and you'll watch them froth at the mouth.

Speaker 3: 35:09

I'm married to one of those. You can't even joke about that. My baseball hat will get thrown. Their Marine Corps polo will come off and they'll try and fight. It matters that stuff matters in war, fighting folks it really really does. So I think this is a great move. I think it was a little, you know, slick move Um, but I I'm super happy about it and you know people may think my priorities are messed up but I really don't care.

Speaker 2: 35:31

Yeah, who cares? Cry more, cry more See we're going to have plenty of opportunities to use that, and you know side note, and it's a really great side note because we have talked about this several times over the past couple of years about army enrollments and guess what.

Speaker 3: 35:50

Exploded.

Speaker 2: 35:51

Yes, exploded. Yes, since the election. Yes, it's loaded. How exciting.

Speaker 3: 35:55

Yes, Since the election. Yes, december was a massive month and then January beat December, set an all-time record for enlistments. They met their goals for the first time in a couple of years, and it's all since the election. So if you think the Trump effect and Hegzeth truthfully, if you think that that you know it doesn't matter to our defense it does matter.

Speaker 2: 36:18

It absolutely matters, yeah, and this is just a, you know, another example of the restoration of American pride and love of this country and it is so exciting to see, makes me so happy.

Speaker 3: 36:32

Yeah, and, and some of it is policy change, some of it is, listen, we're not going to sacrifice the goods of the many for a few. You know everybody talks about, you know, the right to serve and all these other things as American citizens, but at the same and listen, the military has been a social experiment for decades. Racial equality started in the military well before it started anywhere else. And, and you know, same thing, right, you know, equal opportunities for women and all kinds of things were accelerated within the military. But we took some missteps and it and it affected enlistments, it affected retention, and so they're they're rolling some of that back and a lot of it is. You know, I, you know to focus on the trans thing, but you know they've said it, we're not doing operations anymore.

Speaker 2: 37:23

Right, which is mind blowing to me, that they were in the first place.

Speaker 3: 37:27

Yeah, I, I know you and I talked about this once before and I'll lay it out again. So if, if you were to do a four year enlistment and and you're you know you were going to transition, right? So you would enlist, you would go through basic training and AIT and as soon as you would come out of that you would go into the counseling phase of these things. You would go for a consult, just like you would normally a medical consult, psychological consult. They would start you on the um, all of the uh medications that the hormone replacement would go into a preoperational status, which would make you immediately non-deployable, right, okay. Then once you got in you know, so far in your hormone, and then you got into the to the physical operation right, surgical portion of this. You would go through the surgery, you would go through your transition. You would go through a 12 to 18 month physical recovery, the entire time non-deployable, and then, by the time you are deployable, you have less than a year left in your timeline, your service timeline, and you can't be deployed anyway.

Speaker 2: 38:30

I was going to say how can you even be deployed? Because the treatments you have to be on, the medications you have to be on, are lifelong. So if you can't get, access.

Speaker 3: 38:38

There was always discussion about being able to give that in theater if they needed to. But if you were only going to do one enlistment like you, literally the Army paid for you to transition, or the Navy or the Air Force or whoever, and you have done none of your wartime job Right. So they've stopped doing that, it's off the table, and I think that those are the. Those are the types of policy moves that are appealing to more people and getting them to not only join but to stay in. So I think you're going to see not only enlistment numbers go up, but retention numbers as well.

Speaker 2: 39:12

I love it. I love it. It's just common sense. Good old return to common sense. It's such a beautiful thing and so bizarre that it's something you need to come back to and not just simply have. But we all know where we were for the past four years, plus you know um. What else have we got? I don't see anything to segue.

Speaker 3: 39:31

I do Common sense. Two cents Common sense segue.

Speaker 2: 39:35

Common sense. Two cents, that's right. Where's my? Where's my banner? There it is. Yeah, it costs us two cents to make a one cent coin and president Trump said we're not doing it anymore. Now, these are things I had no knowledge of. When I read that, I'm like what Yep Talk about illogic, yeah.

Speaker 3: 39:54

And and so there's been a number of movements in the last probably 15 years to stop this. In fact, he's getting a lot of bipartisan support on this because it doesn't make sense at all the value of the penny at one cent and two cents to make. So it's, it's a loss and obviously President Trump, being financial guy, was like this is the dumbest thing ever. So silly, right. So he's not taking it out of circulation. People, the pennies are not going away. The only move he has made so far is he has told the mint you know whoever that is under the Treasury Department stop making new pennies.

Speaker 2: 40:30

No more new pennies, so go out. That was my big question, clay. I'm like gosh. I feel like such a dum-dum asking this, but what happens to all the pennies that people have in their jars and save up?

Speaker 3: 40:40

They're still legal tender. Yeah, so that never stops. No, we haven't made. You know we haven't made. Not that you know it's a dollar, but, like Susan B Anthony, dollars haven't made in years. They're still legal tender. Kennedy, half dollars, same thing, right, right, the pennies are still viable. We're just not making any more of them. So you know it's. You know there's a couple of good memes out there where how useless the penny is. You know, like electricians have figured out that washers are like eight cents. So what you know, jokingly, what some of them have started doing is drilling holes in pennies because they make a two cent washer.

Speaker 3: 41:16

There, you go yeah, right and really so, but president Trump did that on super bowl Sunday as well. He's like, yeah, we're not doing this. So what about the? What about the nostalgia piece? I mean we're you know it's commonsensical, but does it bother you that we won't have a penny anymore? Should we replace it with something else?

Speaker 2: 41:37

Again something I will never think about outside of this moment right now. You know what I mean. Like I'll see, I don't know. I mean, I think all of us who, for as long as we're of the, you know old enough to remember You're right We'll be like oh yeah, pennies, that was a thing. And then, oh yeah, pennies, that was a thing. And then the you know, like my grandkids, would be like what's this funny looking thing, what do you do with this? You know, I mean whatever, who cares? If it's going to save us money, if it's going to eliminate waste, if it's going to be practical, I'll, you know, I'm good with having a moment of oh, pennies, it's not going to happen. Use them for jewelry or something.

Speaker 2: 42:15

I've seen videos. I've seen those DIY videos. People have actually used them in floors and they put like an epoxy over. It looks gorgeous. It's the most fascinating thing, to me, at least. Yeah, so I mean plenty of uses for your pennies, and I mean, you know, like you said, though, there's still, it's still use them, but if you don't want to, let's be a decrease in some fantastic practical jokes.

Speaker 3: 42:38

I saw a guy. This was probably maybe three or four years ago. He was a divorced guy somewhere in the Midwest and his ex-wife was giving him a hard time and there was an argument about alimony. It was like fine. So he paid her alimony in pennies, with a dump truck and a wheelbarrow in her driveway. Thousands of dollars of pennies in a pile in her driveway.

Speaker 2: 43:01

Oh, there was another one too. Somebody brought them into a bank. They had to like they were. I don't know. I think they were harassing him over something. Maybe it wasn't a bank, maybe it was like some business or something that was harassing him over a payment and he just came in with like bags and bags of pennies and just like here you go.

Speaker 3: 43:17

Count it, count it, yeah, use it.

Speaker 2: 43:20

Yep, yep, so isn't that funny? Yeah, so I'm good with that. I'm fine with saying goodbye to the penny.

Speaker 3: 43:26

I am curious though. So that's like, you know, that's a notorious sales scheme, right, right, you know. Twelve, ninety, nine, seventeen, ninety eight, you know whatever it is, twenty twenty five, seventy nine. So people don't you know, they just look at it and they say twenty five dollars instead of twenty six dollars. So are we going to replace that with nickels now, do we?

Speaker 2: 43:47

have a feeling. Yeah, that would make sense. I think it was like Canada. I think it was Canada that did that. Like they got rid of their, their penny and um and they, you know, they just told businesses, people selling goods or whatever, just you know, instead of 1299, make it 1295. And I think they still used it, like in digital currency. You know what I mean. So, like, if you're selling, if I was selling my t-shirts, whatever online, which is the only place I sell them- actually, um, you know you would.

Speaker 3: 44:22

You could still do the $12.99 or $24.99, whatever. The case is like in-person stuff, you would just go to the nickel. Listen, we're still dumb enough to use nine-tenths of a cent for gas. Yeah, I know, it is what it is. We'll. We'll see where this takes us, but yes, it sounds like we will be manufacturing minting. No more pennies. So for you collectors out there, put them in a mason jar somewhere and bury them in your backyard.

Speaker 2: 44:39

Hey, I found this a good segue. Oh, another, another thing we're going to say goodbye to. Maybe, oh maybe, maybe we've been talking about this kind of loosely over the past, I don't know, probably a couple of weeks or so, yeah, you know. And as surprise, surprise, the left is freaking out, going crazy. In particular, did you see the video of the, the Democrat Congress, men and women moving in like a mob of banshees and converging at the office of the DOE and essentially verbally attacking this one lone security guard, who is the badass of the week for sure? That guy's my hero.

Speaker 2: 45:24

He was amazing, mine too. I think there are a lot of. I think you know he's not your movie star, handsome guy, but I think a lot of women swooned a little bit Like, oh my heart, now that's a man right there.

Speaker 3: 45:39

Never raised his voice, never got animated, never got angry, Stood there stoically. You know I only heard him. I'm sure he's probably spoke more than once, but you and I talked about this. You know Maxine Waters. You know with her, you know, you know she looks like a Star Wars character to me, so crazy. She's pointing at him and saying, well, what, if, what, if? We're going to come back here in the middle of the night?

Speaker 2: 46:11

Does that mean that you're going, gonna stay here the whole time? And he's like, I guess. So he was so chill, like he looked like. I loved his look of annoyance, but it was the kind of annoyance that if, like a you know a nap kept flying around you and it said that's enough to annoy you. That was the extent of his facial reaction and even his responses. You know like at one point she said are you going to? I think she said something to the effect of are you?

Speaker 2: 46:31

going to stop us all from going in there. And he said what are you going to do? Steamroll me. Every part of his response and reaction was spectacular. Response and reaction was spectacular. Everything about their behavior and their actions was so disgusting and such an embarrassment to this country really to to themselves more than anything. Um, what else did she do? She says this is the funniest part to me Where's your ID? Show me your ID. Isn't this the party of no ID? Right? Like, suddenly you want an ID. Right, suddenly, an ID is so important to you. And then, when he shows her the ID, that woman has the audacity to like, flick it. She flicked it with that bony finger.

Speaker 3: 47:14

Like, yeah, and all of this was started because Elon Musk, on Sunday, right before the Super Bowl, I think said you know that the Department of Education doesn't exist anymore and everybody was like what? So Monday morning they all went to the building and the doors were locked and listen, there's no. I don't care who you are and I don't care what you know, what industry you're in, I don't care what you do for a living. What you do for a living If you have an organization, a business of any kind that has failed in their mission.

Speaker 3: 47:50

As just colossally as the deal is, you would tear that place apart and shut it too, without a doubt. Yeah, if you went from second place in your industry and you implemented this new department that was supposed to revolutionize everything, and then you went to 40th place, you would. You would close that, you would get rid of that completely and you would at least, at a minimum, go back to doing what you're doing. However, you wouldn't waste 40 years waiting to do that. We should have closed DOE a long time ago. This is a long time ago.

Speaker 2: 48:22

They are and you know, and if I understand correctly, the doors were shut. Everything was shut down because they were essentially auditing at that point. So they're looking for the waste. This is not the time to come in and have your little conversations and, you know, wag that bony finger in anybody's face. You're going to wait until it's time to have a conversation. Right now, this is what's happening. You're okay, nothing's going to happen to you. You know, kids are still going to school, everybody's still learning things. Calm yourself and wait. And we're going to find the wasteful spending and we're going to eliminate it. And guess what? The whole thing is a waste.

Speaker 2: 48:55

And I think he already. I think he found, well, I don't know how many million, but millions of dollars going to DEI, you know, initiatives and programs and everything. So I think it was like 79 million or 80 million, $89 million, going to DEI training initiatives. You know, whatever they, however they termed it, but yeah, and that's done. These days are done of that kind of nonsense, you know, and how infuriating. And if you're sitting there saying, oh no, we need those, those DEI training and initiatives, what are we going to do with them? Screw you. That's the nicest way I can put it, because I wanted to say something else, because if I'm giving money to the Department of Education, you know, somebody says you have to give money to the Department of Education. I would say, okay, well, what's that money going for Education? I would say, of course, take my money, because I want my kids to have the best education, and that means, you know, math, science, reading, all of the important things, not gender studies, and I, you know, I don't even know what.

Speaker 3: 50:01

Listen, we suck at STEM. We do Comparatively in the Listen. We suck at STEM. We do Comparatively in the world. We suck at STEM. And if we're not focused on that as the number one priority, then we are wrong. I would tell you, it's probably STEM one and physical fitness as part of education, and when I say physical fitness, I'm talking about nutritional education, I'm talking about exercise for kids, I'm talking about lowering the obesity rate, and this all ties into RFK, but like, that's part of it. So STEM and then PE are the two biggest things Absolutely, and I don't know if you know this or not, but I, you know, I substitute, taught for a while and you know that, for in some places, stem became STEM A.

Speaker 2: 50:44

No I know Right.

Speaker 3: 50:46

Is it the A? Is the art? Is the arts? Oh, ok, because they weren't getting the funding. Right and all the liberal arts teachers got offended because they weren't getting the same share of money that the STEM teachers were getting. So a lot of schools to avoid conflict and stop hurting people's feelings and extended it to a STEM a. So it's, you know, engineering, it's all that stuff, mathematics and the arts, you know.

Speaker 2: 51:15

Well, so here's the funny thing. So I, I love, I love the arts. I loved all the creative stuff as a kid. It was like one of the few things I excelled at at school because I was a little troublemaker Don't come for me, people, I was, I can't help it Um, and I, I loved all of that stuff. Now here's where I draw the line, Like I would love to see the arts included in that, because I think music and you know, uh, art in general, we'll just go with. I think those are so beneficial to have in your life, right Developmentally everything. But where I draw the line is where you take it too far. And now you're having drag. You know shows and things. You know what I mean. They always take everything too damn far. Yeah, you know. So stay focused. Teach the fundamentals of you know, I don't know color theory, I don't freaking know, but you know what I mean Normal stuff, Don't take it off the rails, but Listen, and I would tell you that you know STEM, obviously being science, technology, you know engineering, mathematics, right.

Speaker 3: 52:14

So we need that as a nation. We need that to compete globally. I would tell you that you know, the baseline for all of that is being able to read. You know, obviously, as part of the liberal arts is not and it's not just being able to read, but comprehending as well. So it's intricate. To all of that, that doesn't mean it needs to be extended into the creative arts, like listen, if your school wants to and can afford to, you know, after everything else is said and done, have a great liberal arts program, right? If not, you still have to know how to do math.

Speaker 2: 52:49

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 52:51

You know it is what it is. So, yeah, I, you know this whole thing has been convoluted. I am all for, you know, pushing things back down to the states. I think some states are still going to suffer because of their own culture. I think you're still going to have problems in places like California and specifically Los Angeles County. You're going to have problems in Illinois, specifically Cook County, chicago. You're going to have problems in New York. You know New York City, you know Michigan, detroit. You're still going to have problems in those areas because the states, you know, are going to be overridden by mayors and public school teachers unions and those kinds of things and there's still going to be a challenge. But for the most part, the rest of the country, the best thing we can do is cut, doe and push it back down and let the States run it Right. I'm sorry. I think that's the best option.

Speaker 2: 53:35

Yeah, yeah, no argument for me. I'm with you and you know I I've said many times by um, you know, dislike of the public education system, and it's for all the reasons that we were just talking about, you know, and maybe with getting rid of the Board of Education, then, you know, maybe some changes will take place that you know, the parents have been essentially kicked out of involvement with the educating of their children. They're expected to just hand them over, leave them with these people for eight hours a day plus because after school, curriculums and everything, and then they're being told that they have no say and it's none of their business. So you know, that's where my real problem with public education comes in. If somebody told me that it was none of my business what my kid was doing in school, what they were teaching them, and that they could keep secrets from me as a parent about my child and indoctrinate them into, you know, whatever their agenda is, it's a hard pass for me. So hopefully we're going to see a lot of changes there.

Speaker 3: 54:36

Yeah, I think there's a. You know it's a multifaceted problem. Teachers don't get paid enough. We all know that, right, I mean, it is the most it is probably, you know, next to the military, or, you know, military cops, teachers, firefighters none of them get paid enough to do what they do None, and that's a travesty. So that's probably one thing that needs to be fixed. But at the same time, what you said is true in a lot of school districts where it's like listen, we're the experts, we know and this is, you know, comes out of a lot of the unions we're the experts, we know how to educate your kid, don't tell us how to do it. Okay, so that's one Contradictory or in contradiction to that. They will also tell you we're not a babysitter, right, we're not here to babysit, they're your kids. We're not here to babysit, okay. Well, it's one way or the other. Either you want me involved or you don't want me involved.

Speaker 1: 55:28

Yeah, which one is it Right.

Speaker 3: 55:29

You don't want me involved when it comes to you know what's in the curriculum, right, what your child is being taught and told outside of your eyes. But at the same time, you do want me involved so that you can, you know, minimize your work and effort outside of school hours. You know, and oh, by the way, you know, you just want kids to show up and behave, right. So there's a lot of levels to the school issue, but I will tell you that in the mix of all that, there are really, really awesome school districts. Listen, folks, we're not attacking every school district in the country.

Speaker 2: 56:02

No, we're attacking the system, the parent system of public schools and I feel for so many wonderful teachers out there that kind of have their hands tied and they have to toe the line and follow, you know, whatever is passed down the pipe to them and so many of them disagree with it fundamentally but it's like what are they going to do? You know what are they going to do.

Speaker 3: 56:27

So when I was substitute teaching and I think you and I talked about this I would have closet conservative teachers come up to me in the hallway and go hey, your podcast with Elsa was awesome.

Speaker 2: 56:39

Yes, because they didn't want to say it out loud.

Speaker 3: 56:41

They didn't want to say it out loud. They didn't want to be pegged as conservative. They didn't want to be. You know, and a lot of teachers don't verbally disagree with administrations for a lot of reasons, job security being one of them, yeah. So you know, a lot of them are in a tough spot and I don't envy them. It's one of the things that I and I miss a lot of things about teaching. I did enjoy my time as a full-time sub, but that's not one of the things I miss. So you know, all you teachers out there, we love you, we feel for you, but I do believe in my heart of hearts that getting rid of the DOE is the best move.

Speaker 2: 57:11

Yeah, absolutely Absolutely. Everything will work out. There will be a. I'm sure there already is a new plan in place. You know what I mean. They're not going to take one thing away without having something else to replace it, and I think that's always the big fear.

Speaker 2: 57:24

I just spoke to the sweetest woman the other day and she's a conservative. She voted for Trump, she loves Trump, but she was so upset because her, her liberal friends were wagging their bony fingers in her face saying well, I hope you're happy now he's taken away cancer research funding. And as soon as she said I'm like hang on, hang on, hang on, give me a minute. I haven't heard anything about this. It took me, like you know, 30 seconds in a search to find out the truth. And you know, and the reality is, federally, so many things are getting frozen. Right now it's the assessment time. This is the audit time. We're looking for ways and making sure that the money that you say is going here is really going here, you know.

Speaker 2: 58:02

So just I told her, I said just hang tight, deep breath. If he takes it away from one area, it's coming from another spot. You're not going to and it's probably going to be better than ever, because you have to remember that historically, here we have a government and a system that does not want you to get healthy, they don't want to cure cancer. So we're entering a new era here. I believe in my heart. We're entering a new era where they actually want to cure things, they actually want you to be healthy and all of those things. So she was she left very relieved and I better be right, because I'm in trouble. She can't come get me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 3: 58:40

I don't even know if we hit all the topics we were planning on hitting. We didn't. We didn't get a lot of stuff, but we're out of time. We're out of time.

Speaker 2: 58:47

We're out of time. We're out of time, we're out of time.

Speaker 3: 58:50

Listen, if it's still relevant next week, we'll cover it next week.

Speaker 2: 58:53

Yes, Exactly Probably will.

Speaker 3: 58:55

Exactly yeah. It'll be all ongoing right, we're going to talk about we'll pick that up next week.

Speaker 2: 59:04

Exactly. It'll still be going on. We'll probably have even more fun stuff to talk about with that, so looking forward to it. Oh, guys, we thank you for joining us. As always, it's always a blast with you, clay, and hanging out with you guys, and we look forward to chatting with you in the comments section. All of that good stuff. And Clay, you know the deal you close them out.

Speaker 3: 59:23

And listen folks. One last time, a big thanks to the team over at Henry rifles for all the cool swag and if you are a shooter, go check them out. They make some phenomenal and they have some great technology coming out. I saw some of their new prototype products at the shot show Pretty cool. But, henry rifles, go check them out and, as always for me, keep moving keep shooting.

Speaker 2: 59:43

Take care guys.

Speaker 1: 59:44

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