Big Bills, Fake Backstories & Billionaire Bling — Welcome to America 2025

Trump's comprehensive legislation package is advancing through Congress with a focus on tax cuts, border security funding, and military readiness, while including controversial Medicaid cuts as legislators make difficult trade-offs to achieve progress.

• The "One Big Beautiful Bill" represents the first major legislative advancement in nearly four years
• Chuck Schumer removed the bill's name in what many consider a petty political move
• The Supreme Court ruled that lower court judges can no longer issue nationwide injunctions against federal policies
• Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered a rare public rebuke to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her majority opinion
• A $14.6 billion healthcare fraud operation was uncovered spanning multiple countries with 324 defendants including 96 medical professionals
• Two Idaho firefighters were killed in a premeditated ambush while responding to a brush fire
• Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faces criticism after evidence emerged she grew up in wealthy Westchester County rather than the Bronx as she claims
• Jeff Bezos's $50 million three-day wedding celebration highlighted the contradiction of climate-conscious celebrities arriving on private jets
• The University of Pennsylvania has complied with presidential mandates on transgender athletes in sports, stripping Lia Thomas of titles and reinstating Riley Gaines's proper rankings

Chapters

• 0:00 Show Introduction
• 1:22 One Big Beautiful Bill Negotiations
• 10:41 Supreme Court Reigns in Activist Judges
• 19:00 $14.6 Billion Medicare Fraud Bust
• 35:18 Honoring Fallen Idaho Firefighters
• 43:15 AOC's Bronx Identity Crisis
• 51:19 Bezos Wedding and Celebrity Culture
• 56:30 UPenn Transgender Sports Decision

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

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 3: 0:13

So well, happy, happy Wednesday for us, thursday for everybody that's going to be watching. Look at that, I hit it right off the top there right at the beginning yes. And that means like three people just said well, I'm not going to watch it if it's not live. We love you anyway, it's okay, it's okay 4.30 on Wednesday on the East Coast folks.

Speaker 1: 0:47

That's when we're recording and it's been a rapid fire week and we're going to talk about a lot. There's even stuff we set our topics yesterday and there's been plenty of stuff that's happened between yesterday and today. So we're trying to stay on top of things, folks, but we'll talk about all of it right after this.

Speaker 2: 1:05

From border bills and broken budgets to judges finally being put in check. We're exposing billion dollar scams, honoring fallen heroes, calling out fake Bronx fairy tales and, yes, crashing Bezos's billionaire love fest. Truth, grit and just the right amount of snark. Let's get on with the show.

Speaker 3: 1:23

So we've got we've got big topics, this, of course, one big beautiful bill, and we've got to get it done. One big beautiful bill, although it's technically unnamed right now, thanks to Chucky right.

Speaker 1: 1:36

That's right. Yeah, chuck Schumer's parting gift to the one big beautiful bill. As it departed, the Senate was to take that name off of it, which I thought was incredibly petty but also very apropos for for Chuck Schumer. So, yeah, one big beautiful bill is a very, very big deal and, yeah, yeah, covers a lot. I mean, the name says it all. That was the intent, but you know, with that it takes a process and when you make an all encompassing bill like this, there's concessions to be made, and that's exactly what happened.

Speaker 3: 2:11

Yeah, and there's. You know there's a lot of big feelings about it on both sides. Everybody's got big feelings about it and you know, I mean I understand why. So so here you know. The plain English version of it is the bill cuts taxes for families and small businesses Great news, obviously, especially if you're the kind of person that likes keeping more of what you earn in your pockets. Right, let's see what else throws big bucks at border security and military readiness Kind of big deals. If you're asking me, that's America first. I love that.

Speaker 3: 2:43

But it also slashes funding for Medicaid, which is the one that people are making the biggest fuss about. And I have to be honest, I had to kind of do a little bit deeper dive in this because you know, of course, you good, it's fine, it's great, it's it's taking it away from people who shouldn't be getting it anyhow, like illegals, blah, blah, blah, that stuff. Other people are saying you know, of course you got elizabeth warren, you know pocahontas, you know crying that you're, you know you're harming millions of people, um, so I, I did kind of I shouldn't say I dove deep, but I dove into it a little bit more. And you know, I have to be honest, it kind of sounds to me like it's it's people that people aren't going to be eligible for. Are able bodied people, like people who are eligible to work, are able to work. So you're kind of like lessening the burden, lessening and I think the bigger deal here is lessening the dependence on the government, right, because that, I mean that seems to be, in my opinion, one of our biggest issues as a nation.

Speaker 3: 3:53

The left in particular pushes this dependence on government, you know, for basically everything, and the right says you don't want big government in all of your business, let's get out of your pockets, out of your personal lives, out of all of this. Step back, let the states determine. You know the majority of things, and this is one of those things that you know. I mean, based on my understanding, it kind of makes sense. What do you think?

Speaker 1: 4:19

Yeah, so you know this bill administratively. You know it started obviously administratively in the Senate by whatever I think it was one vote moved to that for you know really the negotiation and then the round robin voting that happened over the last week or so and then now it's been kicked back to the Senate for approval or I'm sorry I have that backwards. So House first very narrow vote over to the Senate for the negotiation and you know the vice president ended up being the tie breaking vote because you know the Democrats all ran party line. There was three Republicans that moved and voted with the Democrats and then vice president was a tie breaker. And now it's been kicked back to the House for the final vote before it goes to President Trump and the goal is to have it to him by the 4th of July. So you know it's been administratively.

Speaker 1: 5:10

It's been an interesting proposition because this is such a widespread bill. You know a lot of a lot of him and Han. You know Chuck Schumer had the whole 940 pages read out loud or whatever. It was his proposal. There's a lot of give and take and certain people won and certain interests won and certain interests lost. I don't think there's a single congressperson on either side of the aisle that will say it's an awesome bill, but this is getting things done which we haven't done in so long. Literally nothing has moved in four years.

Speaker 1: 5:46

Whether you like it or not, things are, are happening and there are things that both sides of the aisle, or I should say, you know, there's things that the Democrats like and things they don't like, and things that Republicans like and things they don't like, and you know, but it's moving, which this is progress, and I understand, you know you're, you dove into Medicare more than I did, but I, I I got the same gist. Uh, you probably have more detail than I do. Um, but that's perspective, it's always it's. That is the. The biggest difference in the two parties is how they choose to spend the nation's money. Um, you know, conservatives generally, it's for security, uh, and those, you know those, those lines of money. And then you know, on the, on the Democrat side, it's social programs and social support and and those sorts of things, and it's two very, very different mindsets in how to spend that money. So, again, moving forward, but we're talking. This is a what is it? $4.4 trillion. Have I got that number right?

Speaker 3: 6:44

I think so. I think so. I don't even know if I have the number in my notes here. Yeah, I don't see the exact number, but I think you're, I think you're right.

Speaker 1: 6:52

Yeah, yeah, I'm still looking. I know that. You know some of the concessions that were made. Like you said, medicare, you know was, was a a a negotiating point on both sides. Um, I, I know that there's some food program delays, like cost increase in social food programs, that were a negotiating point. I know that where Second Amendment stuff is concerned, there was some negotiation there. There was a big push to have short barreled rifles and shotguns not registered and not pay a tax stamp $200. The same thing with suppressors, and the negotiation point was well, you don't have to pay the $200 extra fee to the federal government but you do still have to register them. So you know both sides. You know there's a lot of give and take. The parliamentarian stuck her nose in the middle of this multiple times. You know the Senate had to work around her. It was just. I learned a lot about this, the round robin voting and and those sorts of things. This was very different, I think, than most of us have ever experienced because of the size and scope of this bill.

Speaker 3: 7:57

Yeah, it's huge and we all I mean everybody had to have known and I'm talking about insiders and outsiders, observers of the whole process. Everybody has to know that the whole thing is not going to pass. They're not going to agree on every single detail. They can't agree on small things, let alone big things. This is a constant battle, particularly because it's Trump and they don't want to give him any wins if they could help it. And, of course, obviously, the American people are the ones who always get lost in the shuffle of all of this contest that they have. I was going to say something vulgar and I'll just let everybody's imaginations run. You know the funny part to me, going back to Schumer for a second there, remember when Obama's big bill was going to be passed? And what's her name? The Crypt Keeper Pelosi.

Speaker 2: 8:48

I can see her.

Speaker 3: 8:49

No, pelosi. Oh, they both could. They both could be. Yeah, it was a great guess, though actually no Pelosi, remember. She said well, we have to pass it if you want to see what's in it. But this time around they managed right, you know. And this one, they had to read all, would you say, 900 pages of it before they could take a step forward. And you know, and I don't know, maybe that's like one of the many of the significant differences between the two parties. Why didn't the GOP do that, you know? Why didn't? Why didn't the Republicans do that with that bill? Why didn't they force it? I guess if they didn't have the majority, they maybe didn't have the say to do it. Is that? Does that ring true?

Speaker 1: 9:27

Probably yeah. So part of that part of the, you know, the give and take in this was because of the Bird Act. You know, the stipulations associated with that would be a 60 percent vote, which they knew they wouldn't get. So they basically negotiated out portions of the bill to allow it to go to a simple majority of 51, which in this case, included the vice president. So I think they wanted to, I think they just wanted to get it through and I think they had their hard line points that they wanted, you know, and as long as those hard lines weren't violated, then they were happy to move it through. And I think, like any good negotiator, they had all of the things lined up that they were willing to give up. And so they negotiated through and kept it at the hey, let's just get it through with 51. But I think if they hard lined it in the same way that Pelosi had done those years ago, it would have turned into uh, you need 60%, and they just weren't going to have it.

Speaker 1: 10:27

So, um, you know, my understanding is like Alaska was the big winner in all of this. Um, you know, because we had a lot of senators who were really what we want them to do, which was acting on the behalf of their constituency. Um, yeah, and she, you know, um, the Senator from from Alaska, negotiated quite a few things to benefit her state and a lot of it had to do with oil drilling and leases and those kinds of things. And so you know good for her. You know that's what we all, that's what we elect these people to do is to, you know, work on our behalf or the behalf of their constituents.

Speaker 1: 11:01

And you know, in this case, she did what her constituency, what was best for her constituency, and good honor. You know that's what we all want them to do. But this is progress Again. We've went four years without really getting anything done and now we're actually a bill is moving to change some things. So I think it's a bonus, no matter what, even if there's things that I don't agree with, or, you know, whatever party you belong to, if you don't agree with the fact that we're making any progress whatsoever, I think is huge.

Speaker 3: 11:28

Yeah, I agree. And a question for you. I don't know if you know the answer to this. So the things that were taken out, removed from it, does that mean that they are? It can't possibly mean that those are completely dead. I would imagine they're going to try and work those in, likely somewhere else at another time, and another bill and another something right.

Speaker 1: 11:52

I mean, all is not lost. Yeah, they will try and work them as. Yeah, they'll either be individual bills or they'll be, you know, pork and some other kind of a bill, you know, but they, they it. Just because they've been pulled out of this doesn't mean that they're dead forever and they'll. You know, if they're super important, then they'll reintroduce them later in another form or fashion.

Speaker 1: 12:09

I can promise you that all of this stuff, as they prep to go into these things by party, whether it's by the whip or whoever it is they look through there and they say these are hard lines, these are second tier, we want to keep as many of these as possible, but we can, you know, negotiate, and then these are like we'll throw these away in a heartbeat, you know what I mean. And then they probably got, as you know, reintroduced later. Let's bring this back another time. That kind of thing must has been like the biggest opposition to this bill. Even after him and President Trump had their little fight, it seems like he is still going after this thing in the way that you know. He's now talking about building a third party, an America party, because this bill as a whole is such a disappointment.

Speaker 3: 12:55

Yeah, yeah, I think it is such a embarrassingly petty and childish move on his part and you know, I don't have anything against Elon currently except for, you know this, this kind of absurd behavior that he's got going on right now. Yeah, he has to know that that's nothing but detrimental, you know. So who knows what he's going to do? He's, he's kind of a loose cannon, right. I mean, he just does whatever it is he wants to do and he can change on a whim. And you know, we'll just have to see what happens.

Speaker 3: 13:23

But I think it's, you know, and I think most people, I think that's kind of the consensus of a lot of people that that is a terrible idea. You're not going to take votes away from the Democrats, you're going to take votes away from Republicans, and you know we've had third parties. You know you're Ross Perot and all of that stuff, and all it does is damage the process and any viable candidate that we might actually have. So you know, but there's also enough people that love the idea. I think it's a brilliant idea, and those are people that just like to throw the wrench in the system, I think Right.

Speaker 1: 13:53

Yeah, you know, whether it's Ross Perot or even RFK Jr, it does you know, habitually take away uh from you know the I hate to say the conservative side, but that you know, rfk backing Trump in the election is really what carried the day. In my opinion, that security election and Ross Perot running until the end against essentially to the end against president Bush, one is what lost him. Reelection against president Clinton. So, yeah, the conservative side rarely benefits from that, but I, you know, I'm all for it. I think you know whether it's the Tea Party, whether it's independent, I don't. I think we need more options, you know, across the board. I think it's better for the nation. But you, before I brought up Elon, you were going to ask another question before I rudely interrupted you.

Speaker 3: 14:42

Oh, it wasn't rude at all. You know what, if I could remember what it was, it's like a total bummer. I remember what the question was. It's all good, you're just getting me to remember something from like five minutes ago. Stop being crazy, clay. That's a silly notion.

Speaker 1: 14:55

My bad, my bad.

Speaker 3: 14:57

Listen. You asked me the lyrics to a song that I listened to when I was 12 years old. I've got you, but don't ask me anything from you know five minutes ago, or this morning, or yesterday or last week. It's terrible. It's actually kind of frightening. Did anybody else?

Speaker 1: 15:12

get a picture of Elsa in a jean jacket listening to White Snake. That's what I just pictured in my head.

Speaker 3: 15:19

Yeah, I, you know I had a very we're segueing guys, just roll with it. I had such a super eclectic musical taste. You know, my mother, when I was a kid, listened to a mixture of like Motown and then she had her what I call depressing music. It was like Carole King and you know all oh, and Helen Reddy, oh, my gosh, all of these things that like just always made me feel like super depressed and I was too young to even understand why. Now, when I hear him back, I'm like because they were depressing songs, they were so like sad and mopey.

Speaker 3: 15:50

Um, and my brother was listening to things like in excess and like his, everybody was eclectic. It was like rolling stones in excess. You know super 80 stuff. So I listened to everything, including white snake. Never had, um, I had a jean jacket but I never had a white denim jacket. So, yeah, never liked that weird, weird thing to point out, just saying I don't know. But yeah, yeah, I definitely had the big hair, huge hair. I'll have to, I'll have to scrape up a picture for you guys and show it.

Speaker 1: 16:18

Believe it or not. Um, I was a scruffy haired uh soccer player in high school, so it was a lot of cuffed jeans and you know the rolled in cuffed jeans indoor soccer shoes, T-shirts, dirty baseball hat which clearly hasn't changed and and scruffy hair. That was, that was me.

Speaker 3: 16:38

Like as in long scruffy hair. I need to see a picture of like Shaggy.

Speaker 1: 16:42

It was Shaggy yeah it was Shaggy. I'll dig up and send you a picture as well.

Speaker 3: 16:48

Yeah, all right, if he sends it in time. These pictures are going to be, we're going to be up like right in the middle of us, or maybe I'll just put it right over, right over us, and I'll I'll do a little cutouts for the mouths, and the mouths can be. I'm not that talented, I can't do that. All right, all right, sorry, guys. Back to business. Back to business. So yeah, as far as the one big beautiful bill, do you think it's going to be through by the fourth? I mean, I guess it's possible, but not likely, right? Or yeah, it is, yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:16

OK, I think it will. I think it's going to get voted through. I think it's going to make it. I think it's going to go to the president Um, and you know him. He'll sign it at midnight on the third Um, if that's what he's got to do, and be done with it. But I do, I think it'll be for the weekend.

Speaker 3: 17:31

Nice, cool, I love it. Let's get going Like, whatever the case is, just let's go tired of hearing about it and let's just do it, move on from it and and go from there, and I think there's a greater plan going on. You know what do they say? Somebody has it's been said many times about Trump that you know he plays chess while everybody else is playing checkers, right, so he's got a plan. I'm not worried about it. Speaking about wins for Trump, this is a big win for him. Finally, with this, I mean I shouldn't say finally. I mean this has only been a few few months, six months, I don't know um, so yeah, so supreme court finally is doing something that makes actual sense. They told lower court judges to stay in their lane. It's about time they stay in their lane. Um, let's see, they can no longer issue nationwide blocks against federal policies. Uh, one judge, as in basically one judge in California, can't shut down a Trump order meant for the whole country. Anymore is done, guys. You can't do it, so suck on that.

Speaker 1: 18:31

And and yet in the days since, there have been a number of judges who have continued to do exactly the same thing. So I don't know where and how the the uh, you know how this is uh employed, how it's enforced. Um, who's enforced? Who's holding who accountable? Are they going to keep putting these injunctions in place only to have them fought again?

Speaker 1: 18:54

I understand the ruling and I love the ruling and I love Amy Comey Bryant and how she put this, but what I don't get is what's the enforcement on this? So if you've got a, if you've got a lower level judge, we'll go with your example of California that says you know, this Trump policy is illegal, null and void, national injunction. Does everybody else in the country just look at that judge and give him the finger and just do what they were doing? Does somebody at a higher level court, like the Supreme court, you know, call down to them and say, hey, you can't do it and if you do it again, we're going to hold you in contempt and you know, we're going to send you to jail or whatever it is Like. I don't understand the enforcement of this. I do love the ruling, though.

Speaker 3: 19:35

Love it and I and I would be willing to bet it's going to be a combination and say you silly fool, nobody's listening to you, shut up. But and if they keep it up, yeah, I would imagine you know they'll be held in contempt. I mean, I would think that's like the most logical thing to happen right, so I don't know.

Speaker 1: 19:54

Yeah, Procedurally that seems.

Speaker 3: 19:57

Yeah, let's see. Win for checks and balances. It keeps power in the hands of your vote. Yeah, I mean, I love it. And, of course, the left is claiming that this is going to allow dangerous policies to go unchecked, which is awfully silly because there's still a process. I mean, there's still process, like it's not. You know this. This obsession with a Trump dictatorship is literally the silliest, stupidest thing that they could possibly run with, and they've run with so many stupid, illogical, impractical things that this is just. It's just. It becomes comical after all, as frustrating and annoying as it is, it's just like this you know this one gnat that keeps flying around your face and you keep swiping at it and it keeps coming back. You know I mean, that's what they're doing right now, but but you know it just stops judicial dictatorship. So he's not trying to be a dictator, he's just doing his job, what he's allowed to do in his role executive decisions that the judicial, these courts, have no saying, so it's just restoring that simple fact. They're so crazy.

Speaker 1: 21:02

Yeah, and that's. That's exactly what Amy Comey Bryant wrote in her opinion, right? So she wrote for the majority opinion and I am not a legal scholar, folks, I don't follow the written word of every legal opinion written by the Supreme Court. However, I don't ever recall anyone on the Supreme Court another justice outing one of their fellow justices in a written decision, which is exactly what happened. So Amy Comey Bryant essentially said what you just said, except way smarter. Oh yeah, she outed I always screw it up Kajani Brown Jackson.

Speaker 3: 21:49

What's her?

Speaker 1: 21:49

name. Yeah, you know, amy Coney Bryant said, said you know this other justice, you know Supreme Court Justice Kajani Brown would much rather have a judiciary dictatorship than a, you know, executive dictatorship, which is what she's trying to say is appropriate. In other words, you know it gives the president the power that his office is supposed to have, even though you know the left-leaning justices would all prefer to have the judiciary have all the power to stop the president, in which case they have their own dictatorial edict that they're following. And she said that's not how this nation works, that's not how our checks and balances work, that's not the powers of the judiciary do not arbitrarily trump the powers of the president at an individual judge level below the Supreme Court. It doesn't work that way. But she outed her by name, which I don't ever recall happening. It may have happened before and I didn't know, but she outed it was a slap down of epic proportions they must have, like the most eloquent, intelligent battles behind closed doors.

Speaker 3: 23:02

Right, because that was written so well that I listen. I'm humble enough to tell you I had to read it like four times to understand what she was saying. I'm like wait what? And then again wait what. And then, as as it was sinking in, I was like, oh she, that would be what we call a smack down in our layman's terms, you know, in our everyday, everyday people terms. Yeah, that was, that was pretty wild. So I can, I can take a pretty good guess that they aren't getting along very well.

Speaker 1: 23:40

I can't imagine the lunchroom at the Supreme Court is a friendly place to be right now. There's probably a lot of passing and using the microwave and not talking to each other kind of stuff going on. I'm sure it's not like that. I'm sure they all have their own kind of support life around them that they don't have to worry about that, but they do have to sit with each other. I mean, there is a professional relationship which I'm sure right now is is, like you said, very ice cold. So interesting.

Speaker 3: 24:09

Yeah, strained would be the understatement right. Oh my goodness, yep, yeah, that was pretty sure there were seven other justices. Yes, no doubt, no doubt.

Speaker 1: 24:21

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 24:21

I wonder if they, like I do wonder about the like behind the scenes stuff, like, did she, like you know, call up one of the other ones, like, okay, listen, what do you think of this? I'm going to say? What do you think if I say this, gossiping, and oh but boy, it'd be so funny to to be behind those closed doors and hear all of that stuff. It would probably go over my head anyhow. So it's all good. Oh, what else? Oh, my goodness, it is, I listen, government wise. It has been, um, it's been on like Donkey Kong, as they say how about this? Did you even know? I mean, I don't know. Did anybody publicly know that this was going on? Like, was this investigation spoken about before the big bombshell was dropped? I didn't think so. Okay.

Speaker 2: 25:13

I'm like I know I don't pay attention to a lot of things.

Speaker 3: 25:16

But I'm like, I feel like I would have. I feel like I would have heard that that was coming down the pipe Right. Oh my goodness, Hang on, I'm getting my, I'm getting my notes here.

Speaker 1: 25:28

Yeah, it was very quiet in an investigation, with the FBI and others participating, and so this is multinational. This isn't just inside the United States. They broke up in a number of different vertical methods of fraud $14.6 billion health insurance fraud, again across a number of different continents, a number of different districts within the United States, and then a bunch of different methods or what was being fraudulently done. I mean, you've got everything. There's what do they say? 324 defendants, including 96 various doctors and medical professionals. You've got Russia, eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Far East all involved. You know crime syndicates within each of those. You've got identity theft. You've got Medicare fraud. You've got wound fraud. You've got prescription meds, specifically opioids, which was fraud with the intent to sell. That was a drug ring. The FBI is already seizing millions of dollars in assets to recover real money that was stolen from the American people.

Speaker 1: 26:42

Listen, folks, medicare was in the one big beautiful bill. Elsa talked about it and she talked about how people are not happy about cutting Medicare costs and benefits and some other things as part of the bill. Medicare has been ripped off. Most of this money that is being recovered or has been identified is Medicare money, almost all of it. So you can be upset about holding people accountable within Medicare for their benefits, but when you don't hold them accountable for their benefits, this is what you get. You get an easily defrauded system and people take advantage. Why? Because people suck globally, and that's what's going on here.

Speaker 3: 27:22

Yeah, yeah. You give people an opportunity to abuse the system. They're going to abuse the system. It is that simple. It's unfortunate. We like to think the best of everyone and in a perfect world we could. This is not that perfect world. We don't live in that, and you know this is part of what we voted for. We want major reform of these systems, these organizations, these departments. We want massive overhaul and accountability, and that is exactly what we're getting. So you know, to answer the the months old question of is this what you voted for? Yeah, it is, yes, it is.

Speaker 3: 27:58

This makes me right Me and so many people happy to see. You know, because I mean really and you hit it you said you know the American people are the ones that are getting defrauded here, getting money taken out of their pockets. Their hard earned money is being taken out of your pockets, our pockets. I mean we're talking about people working overtime and struggling and just and doing all like that's the kicker right there, doing all of the right things, and these SOBs are out there just taking and taking and taking and profiting, you know, off of your struggles. So you should be very glad about this. You should be glad of all the movement that's happening right now to get things the way that they should be, and it's going to be a long process. This isn't going to be overnight. This is this is incredible, government wise. This is warp speed compared to what we're used to, you know. So, no, no complaints on my part.

Speaker 1: 28:52

Yeah, this is not in. Keep this in perspective, folks. This is not workman's comp fraud. This isn't the guy down the street who says he's got a bad back, but he's outside mowing his lawn and he's drawing a workman's comp check. This is not a doctor who is, you know, erroneously or being lazy about their prescriptions. This is not petty stuff. These are massive crime syndicate. This is stolen identity right. Just think in these terms. This is somebody on another continent stealing 100,000 identities, different identities of American citizens, using those identities to put in medical claim, insurance claims right that can pay out from Medicare to them. This is a bank account.

Speaker 1: 29:40

This is high crime in the sense of, you know, stealing from the government by identity fraud or insurance fraud, you know. And then, on the edge of it, you've also got and I think these were the Russians, the Russian crime syndicate doing this who were using this as a way to sell drugs, opioids right, prescription medication. They had doctors, american doctors, on the hook, american healthcare professionals that were prescribing erroneously or or outright stealing and selling, you know, prescription med and selling prescription meds on behalf of them. So this is big stuff. This isn't small potatoes. It's $14.6 billion and this is a big deal and attaboy to the FBI and all the other law enforcement agencies that played a part in this. Folks, this is white-collar crime that we want and need the FBI to be looking into. You know, it's nice to bust the drug dealer on the corner to get it out of your neighborhood, but this, this is a huge, huge thing.

Speaker 3: 30:39

Yeah, that's always one of the big complaints, right, Like, oh, white collar crime. They always get away with all that stuff. You know well not anymore. They should be shaking in their in their patent leather shoes right now and, like you said, I mean it's crazy, so fake. Like you said, fake patient names, fake claims, real government checks being sent out, Some, just like an example, some build Medicare for catheters that were never delivered. Others submitted here's a crazy one Others submitted claims for diabetic monitors for dead people, Come on. And it's because. Why do they do it? Because they can, Because there's been no checks and balances for any of this. It's just been running rampant. People are, because they're making money off it and the people who are probably up until this point, who should have been monitoring this and stopping it. We're probably profiting as well. You know, here's a little something for you. Just keep your mouth shut, Don't worry about it. It's gross, but I'm glad to see. That's hopefully the beginning of the end for all that stuff you know.

Speaker 1: 31:40

Yeah, and just a message for all those folks in the healthcare community Listen, we are. We are for those of you that are working your asses off and most of you are and you're working on the up and up. We're not lumping you in with these people. That's not what we're talking about. We're not vilifying the entire healthcare industry. However, if you're in the healthcare industry and a lot of folks are that are looking at the one big, beautiful bill and they're complaining because now they're saying, oh well, x amount of people aren't going to have healthcare and X amount of people aren't going to have healthcare and X amount of people aren't going to have access to this and X amount of people aren't going to have access to that, well, you have an obligation, especially if you work within the industry, to clean up the industry. Right?

Speaker 1: 32:23

You know there are people within the industry who may not be guilty of all of the things that the FBI just uncovered, but you probably have some visibility. There are folks out there who have visibility and have knowledge, who have decided to turn their head and not say anything. So you know, unfortunately now you've got national level law enforcement involved and drastic measures have to be taken. So I don't. I don't like associating one with the other. You know I would prefer that Medicare had had all the funding that it absolutely needs, but at the same time $14.6 billion being stolen and now being recovered is a big deal and hopefully that kind of levels the playing field a little bit. But we'll see what happens.

Speaker 3: 33:00

Yeah, and correct me if I'm wrong, but common sense tells me that we are literally the ones paying for that, paying for this in our premiums. I mean, this is the probably the biggest part, besides our, you know, propensity for obesity and poor lifestyle and all those things Besides that. This is probably the biggest reason for why we spend so much in healthcare is because we're covering for the fraud of other people who are sitting back and enjoying the fruits of our labor, you know, off of our broken backs, you know, sometimes pretty literally. So, yeah, this is, this is a much bigger win, or the start of a much bigger win that we should all be, you know, big time applauding right.

Speaker 1: 33:43

Yeah for sure, and and and again it's. It's about tightening things up, you know it's. It's nice when your physician says you know this is the treatment you need and you know we'll get it for you, but really you could also do this and this and this and this, and maybe you don't need it and maybe you do, but we can try it and I'm going to prescribe it and those kinds of things. And that kind of free handed attitude is exactly why you have people exploiting the system is because they know that inside of the system nobody wants to look into it. Because there is that.

Speaker 1: 34:22

You know, a lot of doctors have that mentality and I appreciate the fact that they're trying to take care of their patients, but you open the door to things like this at the same time. It's a very, it's a razor's edge, you know kind of thing. It's. It's like the cop that is nice to the neighborhood kids, right, and then you know they're nice to them and they're nice to them and they let them go. And then three years later that kid, you know, has gone the opposite. Instead of taking that graciousness from that police officer and said, hey, I could have been a great direction with my life. They go the other way and they say, hey, sucker cop, and three years later drugs on the corner right. So it's a razor's edge, and I don't necessarily blame the doctors, but the system itself is flawed and that's why opportunities like this exist.

Speaker 3: 35:02

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. How are we doing? We're doing okay. We got to move on. We got still several more topics here. Uh, this one is, um, a heartbreaker and, um, if you're someone like me, it fills you with righteous rage. Um, on behalf of of these, these people, uh, absolutely awful. Two firefighters were intentionally ambushed and killed in idaho while responding to a brush fire. A A third was wounded. Investigators believed that the suspect lured them in and opened fire. It was a premeditated attack on public servants. This is awful. Their names were, and I've got their pictures here because I want to make sure we give them some respect here. Their names were Frank Harwood and John Morrison, and they died doing what they were called to do, which is serve and protect their community. And now, of course, their families are planning funerals instead of homecomings, and it is absolutely horrendous. I don't know the status of the third victim at the moment. I just know that you know recovering, recovering third victim at the moment.

Speaker 1: 36:12

I just know that, um, do you know? Recovering? Recovering, um, yeah, so you know those were listen, folks, those were not two um average Joe firefighters, those were two battalion chiefs. Right, that's leadership. Uh, in, in, uh, two fire departments that you know. We watch wildfires out West every year. Um, and folks like that are so important to you, know those areas on so many levels.

Speaker 1: 36:34

Um, and this young man, wes Rowley Rowley, um, like you said, it's an ambush. Um, he, he purposely set the fire is what they're saying right now. Um, there is speculation that he spoke to these three um firemen and then, and then you know, backed away and opened fire on them after there was something about his car. I don't know if maybe they caught him in the act in a in a way, but they basically said something about hey, your car's not supposed to be parked there. And there was an interaction. And then he shot him, killed two, wounded a third, and then, you know, there's been a lot of. He did commit suicide, cowards, way, way out. As a matter of fact, he continued to fire on the firefighters for a while. It delayed, obviously, treating the brush fire that he started, which made things even worse and then the police found him dead. He killed himself.

Speaker 1: 37:25

But this is a troubled young man and there have been some falsehoods out there already, which is sickening. Um, you know he has. His parents were, um arborists. They've worked in the woods. He's been in the woods his entire life. He wanted to be a firefighter. Um, you know he has had some sort of falling out, uh, with his mother and, uh, you know she separated herself from him. There was speculation that she had filed a restraining order against him. That has been debunked. That is not true. Rumors about him being transgender I think those have also been debunked. But there was obviously something very mentally wrong with this young man and he was prone and known to violent outbursts. His friends from high school which he's only been out of high school for a year his friends said you had to take him in small doses. He was a very aggressive person. He could switch on and off and he was just a lot to deal with. So it sounds like he was mentally unstable in probably more ways than one and this is how he decided to act, which is horrible.

Speaker 3: 38:29

Yeah, and I know people are always very quick to, you know, blame the parents, and there are plenty of times where that is not incorrect to do. But you don't know until you know, and you know the the mental health system, mental health care facilities, all of those things, that whole system is yet another broken system. So, and I do know people, families who have mentally unstable children, who are violently unstable, and to get the help that they need is it is. You would be horrified if you don't know what what they go through. You would be so disheartened and heartbroken and angry, really, that they can't get the help that they need and then things like this happen. So this certainly could very well be a case like that, Cause you know, like you, Clay, I'm so tired of people just running with falsehoods and just making things up and um. Slight segue for a second, not unlike the whole. Did you hear about the little girl that fell off of the Disney cruise ship and the father jumped in Incredible story.

Speaker 3: 39:33

But almost immediately people were saying on the internet, people were saying, oh well, you know what happened. He put the girl on the railing and that's why she fell off. That's been debunked, that did not happen. So you know, just, I just wish everybody would just shut up until you know what happened. But back to this one.

Speaker 3: 39:53

You know, I just, you have certain people like the only thing that they'll say about us and we talked about this last week the stories that we should be as a society, we should be talking about and that get ignored by the mainstream media. This falls under that category also. You know, the only thing that they have to say about this is what we need. What do they always say? We need stricter gun laws, gun control legislation, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 3: 40:17

And the fact is you cannot legislate away evil, mental illness. It doesn't work. A mentally stable, sane person would not do these things. You know a legal gun owner. More often than not. I mean, we can. You know, we can find those statistics pretty easily. I'm sure um are not doing these things. These are, you know, whether you want to look at them as evil or mentally ill or combination of both, however you want to look at it. These are people that operate outside of societal norms. They are not going to follow the rules. It's, it's literally that simple. So you know, please spare me the whole gun control conversation. I'm so over that one too, you know.

Speaker 1: 41:01

Yeah, this is um, um, this is a breakdown in in mental health. Um, you know the harder part too, and you talked about those, those families that have, you know, children with challenges. As soon as somebody hits 18, it becomes even more difficult for the family because now they have no legal, you know, oversight or even really input into what happens with that individual once they become an adult, or even really input into what happens with that individual once they become an adult. So in this kid's case, wes Rowley, or Rowley, he was 20 years old, you know at that point his parents, and supposedly he spoke to his grandfather about once a week.

Speaker 1: 41:37

The young man was living in his car, he was, you know, very kind of in an unstable situation and then he kind of went off the net a couple of weeks ago and hadn't talked to his grandfather.

Speaker 1: 41:47

But as a family member you can say all you want, but once they're adults, unless they're breaking the law, there's not a lot you can do.

Speaker 1: 41:57

So it becomes even more challenging and I think that this one is a failure along the way, probably of the mental health and criminal justice system, along the way to get this young man help or identify him as a potential violent actor and at least get him into some sort of an institution or protective custody of some kind. But we could second guess all of this. Like you said, we only know what we've been told so far, I think hopefully this won't go into the back page of the newspaper and we won't ever hear about it again, but most likely that's what's going to happen, unfortunately and we'll never really know, especially since this young man decided to kill himself there's no follow-up to this right, no right right, other than the potential to charge a parent for some sort of neglectful, you know, purchasing of a gun for a minor, but the kid's 20 years old, like there's. There's really not much more. I think we're going to get out of this one, which is a shame, but that's kind of where things are at right now.

Speaker 3: 42:53

Yeah, yeah, and it's just, you know, it's just that reminder. I think that you know first of all what, what is out there in the world right now Not that, like, like anybody needs that reminder, right, but you know it kind of is. It's just a societal breakdown, mental illness, all of these things. These are such ongoing, long-term problems that we face and deal with and you know, the implications and the causes of all of that are so big and so intertwined and it's one of those things that you know. Solution wise, if there is ever one, it's going to take a really, really long time. So I'm guessing at the very least.

Speaker 3: 43:29

I feel like the least we can do is get the story straight, or not even speculate on them until you get it. Or you can speculate on them. Everybody does that, that's what you do. But don't pass things off as fact until you know what the facts actually are and offer some grace and compassion to the families until you know. You know if they're dirtbags, you know who contributed this. Well then your feelings change a little bit on that. But again, we don't know until we know. All right, listen, we hit all of the heavy stuff right at the get-go. I think everything else we have on here is kind of a little bit fun. You guys want to have some fun? Yeah, what?

Speaker 1: 44:10

do you think, clay, we were talking before the show started about you know we. We were trying to figure out we want to do something at the end to to we. We occasionally hit a, I'll say, human interest story. That's probably being a little gracious, but, um, something more in the you know tabloid people magazine make you laugh or smile. We hit some of these stories occasionally and I think that we both agree that we need to do a little bit more of this, especially at the end of the show when we hit so many heavy topics like this.

Speaker 3: 44:51

So we're going to hit a few of those, those newsstand, you know, as you're standing there in the grocery line and you're looking at all of those magazines that sit there, uh, some of those kinds of stories which maybe aren't so heavy. So what do we got first bezos. Bezos, okay, um, wait, we gotta do so. We're gonna like we'll do a gentle, uh, a gentle transition, because we gotta talk about this silly girl. We gotta start with her. So we're like easing out of the political lane into the, uh, people magazine, which she's probably on people magazine too. I'm sure she's's a little celebrity in her own mind. So I listen. So I crack myself up every day because this is what I do. So I did, I did two things here. I'm going to show you the first one. So listen, if you know, you know what this is a reference to, and if you don't know, let's see, I'm trying to think how much of this other clip that I put in here. Well, if you don't know, I'll tell you, everybody remembers J-Lo, right? I mean, she's still around, but Jenny from the block, you know, she's the Bronx girl, yeah. So I had to do this. This is very similar to her little outfit that, you know I'm used myself to no end with that and I did a skit an AOC skit the other day yesterday I think it was yesterday about this. It's a longer skit. I cut most of it out and I'll just show you the end here. So here it is.

Speaker 3: 45:56

I wrote in that post, but I want you to say it like you're from the Bronx, I am a Bronx girl and you should know that we eat Queens boys for breakfast not even close, not even close. Bronx, bronx, bronx, bronx, bronx, bronx, bronx, bronx. I'm gonna stop you there. I'll tell you what I got. Just the thing for you to listen to. This is going to tell you how to talk and act like a real bronx girl. Okay, oh, all right, all right. Where's that play button? Where is it? It is when I was 16 in the.

Speaker 2: 46:25

Bronx, running up and down the block. A crazy little girl. Be wild and no limits, all dreams.

Speaker 3: 46:34

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got. I'm still, I'm still AOC from the block. That was like that was so good. Right, yeah, I think it was really good. So, yeah, listen guys, I know you don't have to jump in the comments, so you don't quite have the voice yet it's close. But I know that I don't, I know and I don't really think it's going to happen, so we're just going to.

Speaker 3: 46:54

You know, extreme parody here. Just, you know, imagine it in your mind. But I was told, I was told that I got the crazy eyes down pretty well, so, down pretty well. So I'm, I'm, I'm good with that. The deer in headlight, wild eyes. So yay, I got that right. Um, so yeah, so if anybody is sitting here going I don't even know what's going on what are you talking about? Elsa? I will tell you. So, uh, a yearbook photo and multiple witnesses confirmed that.

Speaker 3: 47:20

Uh, aoc grew up in a wealthy Westchester County, in wealthy Westchester County, not the crime ridden Bronx persona she built her career on. So she's been telling everybody that she's from the Bronx she's representing, and she's another one. This is their favorite thing to do. She changes her accent to whatever group she's talking to, so sometimes she puts on her you know her Latina voice and she puts the heavy Latina accent, you know, or ghetto Latina is what she tries to do. And then when she's talking to white people, she talks very nasally. Well, she talks nasally anyhow. So she does all of the trademark things that they do, but she's been telling everybody that she's a Bronx girl. That quote that she said is exactly what she did say Something about us Bronx girls eat Queens boys for breakfast. She's referring to president Trump. She's, that's who she was directing that at. So you know. So somebody, of course, dug up the, the high school pitcher, or, yeah, high school pitcher, maybe elementary high school pitcher, and she's like what is it like York town or something like that.

Speaker 1: 48:25

This is another politician, conservative politician who went to high school with her and, you know, when she said that about the president, he's like, ok, I've had enough. And so he said he watched her, he saw it pop up, he reached behind him, he grabbed his yearbook, he snapped a photo of it and he posted it on social media. Snapped a photo of it and he posted it on social media and it is of her in science, uh, in high school, yorktown, new York. Uh, very, you know, kind of comfortable live. You know, upbringing suburban neighborhood. Um, she was in the science club, uh, you know, in high school, and everybody they didn't call her Alexandria or Lexi, or everybody called her Sandy. So, yeah, like, or Lexi or everybody called her Sandy so yeah, like you know, Danny Zuko is Sandy.

Speaker 1: 49:09

Um, so she, uh, she was known as Sandy and a very well off, you know suburban neighborhood, and she's not a Bronx girl Like she. They left, she moved out of the neighborhood when she was five, five years old, Right, yeah. And and didn't go back there until after college. So she's she's not a Bronx girl, folks.

Speaker 3: 49:27

She's not a tough girl from the streets, she's a suburban girl and is not anything that she has claimed that she is, Go figure Right right and you know, and let's not get it twisted, you know, because there's going to be like oh, you're making such a big deal of nothing. So she did. She did live in the Bronx for a period of time. You're just nitpicking her because you don't like her. No, this is about authenticity. This is about honesty. This is about accountability calling people out for lying to the American people.

Speaker 3: 49:55

If you're lying about who you are, you're going to lie about anything and everything. You have lost all credibility right out the gate if that is what you're doing. Credibility right out the gate if that is what you're doing, and that's more of what it is. You don't get to just cosplay a whole life, a whole existence, to just fit in with every group that you're talking to and change your little cosplay costume for each one and expect that you're not going to get called out for it. You should be called out for it. It's garbage, it's a gross thing to be doing. You're lying, you're deceiving and it's not cute, and called out for it. It's garbage, it's a gross thing to be doing. You're lying, you're deceiving and it's not cute and it's not funny. We're making fun, but the reality of it is is really not funny at all, which is why we have to make jokes about it, because otherwise we would get so angry. It's.

Speaker 1: 50:41

Kamala. It's Kamala, part two. It's the exact same thing Misrepresenting who they are. You know it's it's Barack Obama.

Speaker 3: 50:48

Same thing Misrepresenting who they are Hillary Clinton. Same thing with the hot sauce.

Speaker 1: 50:53

Yeah, he was exactly hot sauce in her purse. But Obama Barry, the whole time he was growing up. You know, and that's what they do. They play to, you know, they play to the crowd, they play to the masses. And now the question is is anybody going to hold her accountable other than making fun of her to her face now, which they are definitely going to do? And God, I hope that people catch it and they put it on the Internet, because that's the stuff I want to see. Same.

Speaker 1: 51:19

Speaking of manufactured, let's take a look at the three-day $50 million celebration, the three-day $50 million celebration. And I say manufactured folks, because when you look at the crowd, well, first of all you look at his wife. That is like plastic. Yes, you know, that is definitely manufactured. But you look at the crowd, who's there? And this is billionaire's row. We all know that these people do not hang out together. This is all of these friendships are manufactured. This is not like he is not calling Oprah on the weekends. They're not hanging out and you know doing the thing. He doesn't hang out with DiCaprio, um, you know Tom Brady was there. I know he doesn't hang out with Brady, um, there's a big view about him and uh, who's the young girl? There was some 24 year old. Yeah, there's a big review about him. And who's the young girl? There was some 24 year old, oh Sweeney.

Speaker 1: 52:09

Sidney Sweeney. Yeah, there was a bunch of guys who were upset about that. They're like, listen, because there was rumors of Tom Brady hitting on Sidney Sweeney or the two of them, you know, having a little chat up. It's like you don't get to be like that good looking and be the best quarterback of all time and be in that kind of great physical shape in your in your forties and get Sidney Sweeney Like you can't. That's not cool.

Speaker 3: 52:27

You can't have it all. You cannot have everything.

Speaker 1: 52:29

Yeah, but the wedding the wedding party itself was, was totally manufactured. Um and it and it was, and it was.

Speaker 3: 52:36

uh, it's embarrassing, truthfully, it was a you know it was an embarrassing gross display of you know obscene wealth, and which, by the way, more power to you. I don't really care. I mean, I genuinely don't care. You figured out a way to become a billionaire. Congratulations. That is what this country is all about the opportunities and the abilities for a guy who started his business out of his garage to become a multi-billionaire. More power to you, so there's nothing about that.

Speaker 3: 53:06

Yeah, exactly Right, I mean it is so. Not about that, and I know it is for other people. I know a lot of people are, like you know, so angry about the you know, grotesque display of wasteful spending when the money can go to other things and you know better things and all of that. All of that is absolutely true. However, it is his money to do with what he wishes and that's his business. I kind of look at it more like at the guests, really, that the people, all of them flying in on their private jets.

Speaker 3: 53:38

Those are all the same people that are lecturing us about saving the environment and our carbon footprint and all of these things and being more careful and caring about the planet. You're terrible people. I'm trying to. It's one of those times where I'd like to swear I'm not doing it. But just how about? How about do this? Shut up, go ahead, enjoy your obscene wealth, fly around on your jet planes, but don't you dare, dare tell me about my carbon footprint or what I should do to protect the climate. How about? Don't lecture me on one single thing ever after this nonsense. So stupid, right, clay? All right.

Speaker 1: 54:23

Well, who's our next celebrity?

Speaker 3: 54:25

Oh, let's see, oh, so, so, so gross, so gross, and that's why I'm I mean, I don't even have a picture to put up, cause I cannot even look at that man's face Um, so did he? Um, you know, he basically got away with everything. I think he, I think it was five charges. I think he got hit on two of them, which would be mildest, most minor ones, all of the big stuff not guilty. You know, we could speculate all day.

Speaker 1: 54:52

He walked away from the racketeering stuff and the trafficking stuff, you know, and those are the big ones that we're going to put him away forever. There's been an interesting celebrity reaction to this Rosie O'Donnell, who I really don't care about, you know. She said well, you know, of course nobody believed the women, which may or may not have been true. Honestly, folks, I didn't follow up on this because it was really really disgusting, but very interesting that 50 Cent was like did he beat the feds? That's a bad dude.

Speaker 1: 55:18

There's people that know the truth and they know that he got over on this, which is pretty disgusting, but an absolute failure of the justice system. Hopefully, on this, which is pretty disgusting, but an absolute failure of the justice system, hopefully he spends a little bit of time in jail. But I have a feeling this is one of those things where nature is going to take its course and somebody is going to write this along the way in some way, shape or form. I'm not prognosticating, but you know he does dabble in the world of, you know, biggie Smalls and Tupac and those folks who are both dead, by the way, yes, and of you know, biggie Smalls and Tupac and those folks who are both dead, by the way yes, and so this one might get settled in a outside of a courtroom. We'll have to see how that works.

Speaker 3: 55:51

Yeah, yeah, I you know. It's funny that you said that, because I was thinking the same thing when that verdict came out.

Speaker 3: 55:58

I was like okay you got away with this right now. Well, they're a little street justice probably coming your way, sir. So I hope you got your bodyguards ready, because you're going to need them, because somebody's going to get at them, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, yeah, you know, let's, let's be real here.

Speaker 3: 56:10

There was nonstop talk and, I think, some verification of like copious amounts of videos and proof and evidence against people that were at these parties. So much so, like I think they showed pictures of like I don't know if it was a cabinet or I don't know what it was, but it was just. You know top to bottom videos, you know cassettes and whatever. This is what he had on all of these people. And if we, if anybody, thinks that those are the only copies that he had of stuff he had too much on too many people who have too much power and influence, and you know this was, this was set to happen, probably right from the get-go, that nothing really was going to come of this because too many people, it's again. It's another Epstein, it's another Epstein. We're never going to get closure on these things.

Speaker 1: 56:58

So there is a rumored and I have not proven this. Please somebody tell me if it's true or not that the attorney, the prosecuting attorney for this is the same prosecuting attorney for Dwayne Maxwell. It is James Comey. She is his daughter, I believe, former director of the FBI, his daughter, and so she failed in both prosecutions. And oh, by the way, we still have not seen a list of the people that they trafficked in any way, shape or form. So, yeah, it's, there's too many famous names involved with this and that's why. So anything else? Who else Is there one more?

Speaker 3: 57:33

Oh, we'll squeeze in our last one here, UPenn. This is actually a great one to end on because it's a victory. We love a little good victory. Yes, this was a great victory. Go ahead, Clay.

Speaker 1: 57:42

Yeah. So UPenn finally caved to the mandate by the president about transgenders in sports and, if you remember, upenn was is the center of this because of Riley Gaines and Leah Thomas, and so they have since said we will no longer have transgender athletes competing in the women's categories and and have stripped all of the winnings and titles and everything else from Leah. And so Riley Gaines and the women who also got screwed over in this whole thing have been given their rightful titles and accolades and everything else. And of course, you've got people out there like Keith Olverman, who's never done anything but run his mouth in his entire life, is know, is taking pot shots at her. You know, oh yeah, you know.

Speaker 1: 58:31

Congratulations on now being tied for fourth instead of tied for fifth. Yes, nationally, keith Olbermann, you stopped playing sports in high school because you had a concussion and but now all you do is run your mouth. So, good for good for, you know, riley Gaines and all of those other ladies who who've gotten now the accolades they deserve. Um, should have been better done at the time, but UPenn has said, yep, we're done. No more transgender athletes, we would prefer. Our athletic funding is being withheld and, uh, you know the purse. The power of the purse folks, that's where it's at. So the power of the purse folks, that's where it's at.

Speaker 3: 59:05

Power of the purse? Yeah, absolutely, and Trump has known that all along and I feel like you know, if you picture that house of cards and the foundation, and I feel like Penn, you, penn was like that card, that one card right at the bottom that just got pulled out, and I really feel like this is the start. You know the true start. We know that there's been cases where things have been reversed and turned around already, but this is probably one of the biggest ones because this is where it started it all, particularly for Riley Gaines, and you know what she's done with this has been absolutely incredible for women and girls in sports. She has done so much for them and it's just amazing. I hope she continues to get like all the recognition for that. This actually reminds me I know that was supposed to be our last one, but it just as we're talking, I'm like, oh, this is so funny, so I had shared. I don't know if you saw it, but you know how JK Rowling, just you know, gets battered by you know, or attack, I should say battered, because she batters them pretty well. You know the trans communities or trans supporters. They're always coming after her and especially like big name people like Pedro Pascal. You know who you know is such a girly man, just shut up, but the funniest one for me. I have to share this very quickly. I had shared over. I had put together the exchange that she had with boy George and I don't know if you saw that when she had a little exchange with boy George, boy George thought he would enter the chat, say a little one-liner and just prance away and call it a win. Well, she unleashed on him epically, just ground him into the dirt verbally, and I had shared that with my own little comment about it. I also put with it music. I put Boy George's old song, do you Really Want to Hurry? So it was like the whole thing Never really thought anything. I put it out there, gave my opinion on it, moved on in life.

Speaker 3: 1:00:52

Um days later I happened to see the notifications on my phone and I see the name boy George. You know like at boy George, his his handle, basically on Instagram, and I'm like, oh geez, what is this? Uh, you know a fake account. You know that's pretty funny. So I look at it and it's a verified and I'm like it's not really him. So I go off and I look it up, I find out that it really is Boy George commenting on my post. It's so I'm embarrassed for him. It was a very silly, stupid comment. Nothing, it wasn't even bad. Like it wasn't bad, I put it up on the screen and everything too. Um. So yeah, misspelling, um, it was just right, and I gave him a very nice response back and you know that's been the end of it, but it just cracked me up. It's, it's right up there.

Speaker 3: 1:01:35

I've had, I've had a couple of funny ones. I had Mark Cuban comment on, on one of my Kamala Harris impressions. Uh, Alec Baldwin, who I haven't been very nice to, followed me. Had to be by accident, I don't know if he still is. Yeah, it's very weird. It's very weird, but entertaining and amusing, so whatever.

Speaker 3: 1:01:52

But yeah, that was my fun little segue there that I had to share. My 80s girl heart kind of hurt a little bit because that was. You know, we talked about this before. My eclectic music, love and culture club I'm sorry, guys, was was one of my favorites for a hot minute. So yeah, anyhow, well, this was fun, this was a fun way to end the show right, just talking about these kind of fluffy, silly things or happy things you can is not a fluffy thing, it's. It's a happy, happy conclusion to a not happy situation. So but that was fun. I like that. What do you guys think? Do you think we should end every show with something light and fun and just maybe like a culture commentary stuff, like, like Clay said, you know a little people magazine here for you, right, I like it, clay, do you like it?

Speaker 1: 1:02:41

Yeah, I think it's good. I think we cover a lot of cover. You know so many heavy things in the world. I think we have often tried to go out the door on a good note. It doesn't always work out that way, but I think if we kind of put our minds to it, we can focus and go out with a fun one or a funny one one way or the other, and I think it's a good way to tie things up.

Speaker 3: 1:03:00

Yeah, yes, absolutely All right. You let us know in the comments if you agree. Hopefully you agree, we might do it anyway. Even if you don't agree, it's our show, we can do whatever you want. Sorry, I'm just kidding, I'm just being bratty. We love you guys. As always, we appreciate you hanging out with us, join us in the comments section and let's talk about all these topics. Give your opinions, you know. If you disagree, agree whatever, have close them out with your exciting news reminder, please. Okay, so you?

Speaker 1: 1:03:25

guys will be watching. You'll be watching this on Thursday night, the 3rd of July, and, uh, happy to announce the re-release of uh keep moving, keep shooting, second edition. New cover um will be coming out tomorrow, on the 4th. Uh, it'll be available on Amazon hardcover, softcover. I am working on the audio book. Uh, it's also out. It will be out ebook as well, but I am working on the audio.

Speaker 1: 1:03:44

There's been a ton of people that have asked for that, but I'm working with a new publisher and if you haven't read it, read it now, because the sequel is coming out next month. And for those of you, like you know, longtime fans, which I love, you all, um, I know you've been asking for this, pestering and, in some cases, threatening me about second, I'm happy to announce that's coming as well. But yes, tomorrow, the fourth of the 4th of July, keep Moving, keep Shooting is available on Amazon. If you like action fiction Jack Ryan, Jack Reacher, jason Bourne this is right up your alley. And until then, enjoy your 4th of July and, as always for me, keep moving, keep shooting.

Speaker 2: 1:04:19

Happy 4th of July, everyone Prepare for the re-release of Clay's electrifying novel Keep Moving, keep Shooting. This is book one in his gripping Terry Davis series. Experience an edge of your seat thriller that will leave you breathless. Get your copy of this highly anticipated re-release. It drops July 4th, don't miss it. She's the voice behind the viral comedy, bold commentary and truth-packed interviews that cut through the chaos. Author, brand creator, proud conservative Christian. This is Elsa Quote. Welcome to the show that always brings bold faith, real truth and no apologies.