Tonight on The Podcast, Joe addresses some technical issues faced during the last episode, expressing his frustration over audio quality problems and his commitment to delivering the best quality broadcast possible. He discusses reaching out to Barry Luijbregts from Podhome.fm for assistance and reflects on the importance of maintaining high standards for the podcast.
The episode also covers recent news, including the cancellation of Joy Reid's show on MSNBC and the subsequent reactions from her and Rachel Maddow. Joe shares his thoughts on the media landscape and the importance of merit over race in media roles.
In political news, Joe discusses Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' initiative to implement a state DOGE task force to cut government spending and the implications of such measures. He also touches on the controversial topic of property taxes and the moral implications of taxation.
Joe highlights the ongoing issues with the release of the JFK and Epstein files, expressing concerns over the delays and the need for transparency. He also discusses the recent controversy involving Dan Crenshaw and his comments about Tucker Carlson.
The episode wraps up with some lighter topics, including updates on DOGE news and the humorous antics of Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Joe also shares his thoughts on the potential establishment of an Islamic city in Texas and the importance of maintaining cultural and constitutional values.
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(00:01:03) Introduction and Show Overview
(00:02:32) Weather and Personal Updates
(00:04:23) Technical Issues and Apologies
(00:10:34) Upcoming Interviews and Show Plans
(00:13:02) Podcast Support and Sponsorship
(00:25:58) Current News and Commentary
(00:43:00) Property Taxes and Government Spending
(01:06:02) Doge and Government Transparency
(01:27:53) Texas News and Local Issues
(01:35:24) Islamic City Proposal in Texas
(01:43:08) Trump's Media Presence and Humor
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- Rosanna Rankin
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Hey, folks.
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This is Joe Rusciello, and it is great to be with you once again on a beautiful Tuesday night here on the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. And, we got some feedback. As always, it wouldn't be my show without it. Right? There we go. We got it under control. Alright. Well, folks, we are coming to you live tonight once again from the asylum studios, and we are bringing you well, we're gonna attempt to bring you the best quality talk radio we can muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the podcast.
Well, folks, it's, it's great, to be here with you again tonight. Happy Tuesday evening. It's been a a beautiful day here in in Eagle Pass. Very surprised by the weather. We had, all rain last week, you know, the whole week, that, that our buddy Wayne's been here, had rained, it was cold, it was nasty. Between the two of us, we both came down with sinus infections, and so it was just a miserable time in that regard. But we had a great time of fellowship, we had a lot of fun, kicking ideas around talking about the show, And, we are gonna miss him, but, don't forget, don't fret.
We'll have him on the show, remotely, sometime in the coming weeks. Once he's, once he's all settled in, I know that he had to, travel to Alaska. We didn't really get much of a chance to talk to him, about some of the things that he gets involved with while he was here, so we'll talk to him about that, the next time he's on the show with us. But, some of the things that he does is a lot of volunteer work. He's affiliated with, Franklin Graham's organization, Samaritan's Purse, and he travels all around, doing volunteer work. And, next week, I believe he said, he's gonna be traveling to Alaska, he and his wife, and they'll be out there for about two weeks.
So, we won't be hearing from him anytime in that period of time because it's just gonna be difficult. But when he gets back, he'll he'll jump back on the show with us, you know, from time to time, and we'll have a lot of fun. So, that means that, you are stuck with me again. It's a horrible prospect, is it? Not. I think so. But, well, I'm not really. I don't think so. I don't think I'm that bad. Right? And how how horrible could I be? I have tens of people watching, and tens of people listen, so it's can't be that bad. But we'll, you know, we'll we'll improve. We'll improve.
Now, let's see. So last night, we had Mark Becker on the show with us. And, folks, before we get into the the rest of the show, there there is something that I really needed to, to to get on tonight. I wasn't planning on, like I said, doing a show tonight. We were trying to go to the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, but, something happened yesterday that, that really really bothered me tremendously. And, you know, I had a number of issues yesterday with the show. As you guys know, we had an issue, with the audio stream, connecting and, being being heard live. And then we had to, we had to do some we had a rip from the from the video stream, the audio for the show, to to so we can upload the audio as the podcast.
And then we had a number of other issues like the quality of the audio. I, very, very disturbed by that and very upset by that. And I wanna apologize to you, for the technical problems that we've been having. Sometimes you can't foresee these, difficulties popping up, and it's, it it bothers me tremendously. Now, last night, I I I reached out to the, to the, the the owner of our host platform, Barry Lurebrecht, over at pod home dot f m. I was asking for his help. If you could check our settings on the show to make sure that, you you know, we are, broadcasting the audio stream at least at the best quality we could possibly do.
He assured me that we are. You know, he also listened to the show, and he said that, you know, the audio to him, you know, is better than 80% of other podcasts that are out there, and I disagree with that. The opening, music intro, you know, aside from the fact that that our guest jumped in a little too early, You know, that really doesn't affect the audio quality, but, you know, it was like, listening to it, it sounded, like, very distorted, very warbly, more like I was holding up a a little speaker or something to the microphone and playing the opening music, the closing music, the music we did for our break, through one of those little microphones or, like, a maybe a headset held up to the to the mic here.
I'm sorry for that. I don't I don't I'm just I don't have an explanation for it. I don't know what happened. I don't know why. Maybe it's because we had to pull it from the audio that the quality was kinda degraded. I I don't know. But, when, when Barry mentioned to me, last night that, you know, after listening to it, the audio quality hymns is better than 80% of other podcasts, I appreciate the encouragement, I I appreciate it, you know, that, he tried to kinda boost my spirits up on that one because I was really, really horribly, horribly bummed out from it.
I know for myself that if I if I were listening to a podcast, or if I turned on a podcast and I heard opening audio like that, I wouldn't listen. I would have turned it off immediately, and regardless of what the content was after the technical problems, I wouldn't be listening. I expect better from what we're trying to do here. I I value every single one of you that listen, and to me, it's unacceptable that the quality hasn't been where I expect it to be. So I had told I had told Barry yesterday that I'm done. I am pulling the plug, and I am not gonna be doing any more shows. I'm gonna, complete my obligation, to the upcoming interviews, and that's it. I'm done.
Gonna throw everything out the window and, just call it quits. Because, if if I can't give you the best, when I when I say the best quality, broadcast that we can, it's not just a saying, it's not just a tagline that I came up with, you know, it's it's that's a that's a that's a promise from me to you that we're gonna do the best we can, give you the best quality broadcast that we can possibly put together. And if it's not gonna work, then it's not gonna work, and we're not gonna do it. So, again, today, I I, was thinking about it all day, and I decided that, well, maybe I was upset last night. I'm gonna try again, and we'll see how the audio sounds, because to me, on on the cans, it sounds perfect.
Sounds nice and rich in quality, and and and and the voice, the, the tracks, the audio, the the the music that we play. I I went through a whole series. That's why I wanted to start at 08:00, and then we started at just a little bit after nine because I kept on going over everything that we had set up. So, if we're still having problems, going down the road here, I'm not sure exactly what else I'm gonna be able to do, but I'm not gonna put out a a a piece of shit podcast. You know, we're trying to do something here with this, and we're trying to reach as many people as possible with news, current events.
And if it's not gonna be quality, then I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do it. So, let's let's see how things go over the next couple of days. We have an interview set up, for tomorrow. We have a guest gonna be on the show, live with us. I I I fixed the little, little settings I needed to fix, to keep our guests from jumping in whenever they want. And, so hopefully tomorrow, we'll be able to get that all squared away. So I'd like to encourage you to jump on the show tomorrow, 08:00 central time, nine o'clock eastern time. It we'll we will be sitting down with, Jack Cammer, who is a I think I'm saying his last name right. If I'm not, forgive me, and he'll correct me tomorrow.
But, Jack is a, is a social worker. He's, he's he's specializes in men's relationship, and mental health. So, we're really looking forward to that. We're gonna do something very, very interesting. We're gonna do a couple of case studies, and, we're gonna be talking about some, and these are real life stories. These are things that actually took place, from two people that I know, that I know very well, that have given me the permission to use their story, you know, albeit no personal details like names, addresses, or anything like that. But, we'll be talking about those. We'll be doing a, a case study on those two, individual circumstances, and, just talk our way through those things, and and try to be, as helpful as we possibly can with the advice and the counsel that we'll bring forward. And, hopefully, it'll be something because if if the conversation goes the way it did, when when Jack and I spoke over the weekend, just talking about these things. I think this is gonna be a a very, very helpful and very informative show, and I would encourage you to, to jump on in on the show. Check us out tomorrow at 08:00 central time, nine o'clock eastern time.
Again, a live show. And so, the the the beautiful part about that is we have our live chat, so you could, drop your drop comments and questions in the live chat tomorrow night, and, both Jack and I will, will sort through them as we're going through, and we will answer your questions live on the show. So, if you find yourself if you're a guy and you find yourself in a situation in a relationship that, that you might might be questioning a few things. This is a be a good opportunity and a good time and a good show for you to jump on to, and don't forget to share it with your friends, your family, your followers. Let them know about the show. Let them know what we're doing. And, you might be wondering about, you know, why all of a sudden last night we talked about UFOs, UAPs, whatever you wanna call them, USOs, interdimensional beings, flat earth, you know, where did that come from? Well, this you know, originally, when we started the show, we were gonna be in anything and everything podcast. We're gonna do, topics that that covered a wide range of subjects.
So here we are, and that's what we're trying to do. We were we were in that political, loop for a while. We're gonna be dumping back into it tonight just a little bit. We're not gonna be running too long. It's, we're already, fourteen minutes into the show, so, we don't wanna keep, we don't wanna keep, you guys sitting up too late on a Tuesday night. Now, so before we start getting into the stories, just the usual housekeeping stuff that we're gonna do. Head over to our website, jorociello.com. Open up the web form. Send us over any questions, comments, cares, or concerns that you have. Also, if you don't wanna use the website, you could always email me directly at [email protected].
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She's an outright racist, and she was given a platform by MS MSLSD or MSDNC or whatever you wanna call it, but she was given this platform. And, she is I tried to watch every now and then just to get material. Very, very hard to watch. Just a very angry, very bitter, very, just not a nice person. You you could tell that just from her personality just by watching her on the show. I can only imagine what she must be like outside the show. Well, Joy Reid, was, canceled as part of a shakeup that's going on over at the network, and, she made the announcement on her show, the readout. Well, what was her show on the readout, on a on a Sunday podcast.
And, again, like I said, you know, she she's she's she's one of these racially divisive people. She had a lot of just hateful rhetoric. And, on on this podcast, you know, she she visibly broke down, when she reacted to the news of her show being canceled. So, I have some I have some video here of that. So let's take a look at that. This is Joy Reid having a meltdown on her show. My show had value.
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And that I'm sorry. That, that what I was doing had value had value. And in the end I'm sorry. I'm not I try not to cry on TV. And I take this is kinda like me on TV, so I apologize. And then and then it kind of and then it mattered. I see Karen, is there, and she's been texting me as well. And so what I will just say is that in the end thank you. Where I land is that the moment that I've of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby, or a mom or a dad that was killed, or, when we opened up people's eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks that or went hard for immigrants who've done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and try to make a life and defended them.
Or whether we've talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nikole Hannah Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country, whether it's talking about any of these issues, and and yes, whether it's talking about Gaza, and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object to have a right to object to little babies being bombed. And and where I come down on that is I'm not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.
And and, you know, I'm a church girl too. And those are those are the things that I was taught were of God. And so I I'm not sorry. I'm just proud of my show.
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Well, I'm not sure, what church she goes to, and and because I've been to many, many churches. I've done, I've preached in churches, I've taught in churches, and I don't recall any churches spouting the absolute hateful rhetoric that, that, miss Reed has spouted out over the years on on on her show. And, you know, I'm sorry to say it. Maybe it's, oh, no. I'm not really sorry to say it. You know, it couldn't have happened to a better racist. I'm sorry. It, it's it's a long time coming. It should have happened a long time ago. But, you know, you gotta remember also, you know, she was, she was she was a a loud and very vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter.
She constantly constantly derided on white Americans and white America, especially especially if, you know, if you supported Donald Trump. I mean, she, you know, she went hard on you. And then she also went hard on things like racial justice and immigration and Trump's policies. And, you know, she was, you know, like like you heard her say it, she's she's not sorry for taking these stances, you know. Well, I'm not sorry, but it it couldn't have happened to a better racist. Now, of course, you know what she's gonna do. She's gonna go out there and become a podcaster, which is fine. She could do that, but she's probably gonna suffer the same fate as, as, Lemonade, came across.
Realizing that you don't have the, you don't have the the corporate media standing behind you, defending you and paying for all your legal expenses when you, when you upset people. So, you know, sorry, but not sorry. Don't feel bad for you. And again, a long time coming. I cannot say that I I well, should I be nice? Alright. You twisted my arm. I'll be nice. I wish you the best. I hope everything works out for her in her new endeavors. And, with that, I'm gonna take a drink. Moving on. Not to be undone, one of her, one of her colleagues had, decided that, you know, if this was a good opportunity, for her to say something. So Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow, she decided, to use her platform, her part time platform on her show, to to basically rail against, her her home, network.
And, I don't know if I don't know if I'm gonna play the whole thing for you. It's about four minutes. But, but, basically, she called out her network for for for four minutes. A whole four minute four minutes just, you know, not just how talking about not about just how special Joy Reid is, and and she's special. Alright? And then, of course, she made it into a racial thing. And and, let's, let's let's let's see what Mad Cow had to say. PM hour all the other nights except for Mondays.
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So that's a big change. And even bigger programming change is at 7PM, 7PM Eastern, where Joy Reid's show, The Readout, ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different job in the network. She is leaving the network altogether, and that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid. I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call, and I understand that, but that's what I think.
I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two, count them, two non white hosts in prime time, both of our nonwhite hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Fang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it. But there's just one other piece of it that you should know. From your side of the TV screen, you will you will mostly see changes in terms of who's in the anchor chair. And actually, everybody who's going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they do, and you are not going to be disappointed in who's on our air and what you're gonna be seeing. But one thing you cannot necessarily see is that the people who get our shows on the air, they're really being put through the wringer.
Dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building, are facing being laid off. They're being invited to reapply for new jobs. That has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, presumably because it's not the right way to treat people and it's inefficient and it's unnecessary And it kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work, and so we don't generally do things that way. Maybe all of our folks, including most of the people who are getting this very show on the air right now, maybe they will all get new jobs here, and I hope they do. But in the meantime, being put in this kind of limbo, the anxiety and the discombobulation is off the charts. At a time when this job already is extra stressful and difficult, It is not news for me to tell you that the press and freedom of the press are under attack in a way that is really, it's a big deal for our country. It's very visceral for us here.
I know that the business of the press is not an easy thing, and I know that no job is forever. But, I think I think I'm safe and safe. For all of us anchors who you know through the TV, please know that what pains us the most is not what happens to us. It is what happens to our coworkers on whom we depend and who you don't necessarily know,
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but we respect it. Alright. That's enough. I I can't. I can't. So she went on, and she and she just, just basically unloaded on this on this, particular segment of her show. Just took the took the opportunity right there to, to accuse her own network against racism, you know, and that basically because she fired the two non white prime time hosts, which included Joy Reid. Now here's the thing. You're it's dangerous when you start to think like that because, you're you're tying, you know, because of your race, you should have a show. Right? Because of your race. Not because of your success, not because of merit, but because of your race, you should have a show.
I'm not mistaken, I'm looking on the article here. I wanna see if it if it lists just how poorly her show has, the readout had had been doing. It's not in this article. I think I probably picked up the wrong one. But, when I was when I was reading it earlier today, another article about this, basically, she she was barely getting 900,000 viewers on her show, which is nothing. And we look, I have what? Tens of people watching right now. I have who know? I don't know how many people are listening right now. I'm not looking at that screen. So, you you know, I so you can look at me and say, well, who are you talking about? You're nobody. Right? No. I know that. I and I understand that. I accept that. But, you know, someday we will be.
But you're on you're on cable television. You're on a a a network TV show. You're barely bringing in a million viewers. How much longer do you think it's gonna be before the advertisers start pulling out? The whole thing with, with with, with network TV and network, or or cable TV is sponsors, your ads. And if if there aren't enough people watching the show, your advertisers are going to start to pull back, and they're gonna start to, say, well, it's not worth it for us to invest this much money. It's a loss for us because we're not reaching the maximum amount of people that we could reach. Now I don't know if that makes sense to you. It makes sense to me be maybe because I I'm I'm a free market person, and I and I believe in merit, and I believe in in in achieving, you know, if if I want like, for example, for myself, if I want if I want more and and if I wanna be successful at what I'm doing, I am going to fix the problems that I talked about earlier in the show. I'm gonna do everything I can to improve what I'm doing. If if I'm talking about something, if I if I use Joy Reid as an example, if I'm talking about something that that is, extremely divisive, granted, I'm in I'm in a position where I I I truly believe that PC is is is is shit. It's garbage. It doesn't need to we need to be we we have to be less offended by by things and pea and other people's opinions. We just say what you gotta say.
You know? Maybe because I'm Gen x. You know? If you if you wanna kinda dip into that stuff, I mean, I'm sure she is too, although I think she's a little bit older than me. But, you know, we have a tough skin. You're a public you're a public figure, so on and so forth. You to have a tough skin. It's not about race. You were let go because you were doing poorly. You were performing poorly. Alright? I'm sorry, but race baiting right now is is not the way to go. I think the American people are tired of it. I think that, I think that that people just don't wanna hear it anymore. All they want is to be successful.
All they want is to have they want people want equality. They don't want equity. There's two different things. Okay? Race baiters like Joy Reid, race haters like Rachel Maddow, you know, people who who who, are ashamed of their own race, they don't seem to understand that. Or if they do, if they do understand that, they they they they pretend really well that they don't, and they don't care. So, again, like I said, this couldn't have happened to a better racist. The next one I'd like to see lose their job is is, Al Sharpton because he is a piece of he look. I lived in New York. I dealt with him. You know? I I I don't really talk about what I what I used to do back in New York, but I, you know, I I worked for the, I worked for New York City. I worked in law enforcement.
I also worked, for a brief period of time for the, US Department of State and the Diplomatic Security Service and the uniform Brit, division. I've had several opportunities to, to see and speak to, this person. And, you know, he's not a nice guy, never was. And, you know, I know what I'm talking about. I've had dealings with the guy. So, you know, he's he's when when Donald Trump says that he's a low IQ person, he's not lying. Alright? He's made his way grifting off of the the the, you know, race baiting and and and racial, imbalance.
That's all. That's that's how he made his name for himself, and that's it. So so he's the next one I'd like to see lose his job. You know? So got rid of Joy Reid. Hopefully, we'll get rid of Sharpton soon, and, you you know, just just put to death this whole thing with, equity, inclusion, diversity, and just do things based on merit. If Joy Reid's type of show would have, resonated with people and had better ratings, better viewership, I am quite sure quite sure she would still have a show. She doesn't have a show because she didn't deserve one. No matter what she thinks about the value of her show, there wasn't much.
Just my opinion, it's an opinion show. If if you don't like it, don't watch, or you can leave a comment in the in the chat or in the, comments below at the very, very bottom of this little window. Alright. Let's move on. Let's see. This is great, by the way. This this this next thing I'm gonna tell you about, is is is long time coming, and I think that this is something that needs to be done in all 50, of these states. But, the issue here is property taxes. My position on taxation, on property taxes especially, you know, the income taxes, it's another it's another issue altogether. But let since the story here we're gonna talk about is basically mainly property tax, we're gonna gonna stick with that. I think all taxes, income, sales, all that property taxes are immoral and should be illegal and should be done away with altogether.
I think I think, mafia style organizations like the IRS, both at the state and federal level, need to be abolished and gotten rid of completely. And I think that we do need I agree with, with president Trump about tariffs. Our country was the most prosperous. When we strictly relied on tariffs, we saw the the the decline in individual prosperity with the adoption of the income tax, which was, you know, supposed to be on it's only gonna be 10% of the income, and it's only going to be applied to the people who make over this amount. But now we see that it's not that. Now we see it's almost 40% of your income is taken in taxes, and as we've been seeing with Doge, which by the way is not an original creation of Donald Trump.
Doge actually started under a different name under Obama. So this isn't anything new. Alright? So I had a clip for you. I I took it out of my system, and I I I never put it back, but, from a from a couple of shows ago. But, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, DeSantis in Florida is right on the money here. He is calling for several things. First of all, this is something that should be done in every single state, and I'm looking forward to governor Abbott here in my state of Texas to doing something like this. Florida governor, Ron DeSantis announces state Doge task force. Florida state Doge task force is based in the federal, based off of the federal agency started by president Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk to, cut government spending.
Bravo. Long time coming and should be done in every state. And, you know, it it says a lot to me when you have a governor of a state stepping up and saying, hey. You know, we're gonna do the same thing. That tells me that this guy is straight on the level walking the good line, And, I think this is huge. Absolutely huge, and it should be implemented in every state. Man, could you imagine? Can you imagine if New York was investigated through Doge? Holy crap. What about New Jersey? Chicago, Illinois, the state. California. Hey now.
Right? Think about that. Of course, red states are gonna are probably gonna do this much easier because I think there's, there's corruption. There's misappropriations. Republicans are not unscathed by these types of, shenanigans with with taxpayer money. I think they're I think it's fewer Republicans than Democrats, but I I think it's an it's it's an equal distribution of the dirt. So, but for for, for a governor of the state to say, we're gonna do the same thing, that says a lot. So Florida let's see. Let's go to the article here. This is, an article by Just the News. Florida has set the standard for fiscally conservative governance, and our new Florida Doge task force will do even more to serve the people of Florida descent to set. Some of the goals for Florida version will include a deep dive into government funding, going to the state universities. Another goal will be looking into the continued existence of 70 boards and commissions in 02/2025.
The Florida State Doge Task Force will implement a multi pronged approach to eliminating bureaucratic bloat and modernizing our state government to best serve the people of Florida. That's huge. Should be done in every state, and I again, I'm looking forward to, governor Abbott doing the same thing. Ron DeSantis all also was talking about, the, doing away with property taxes, and that's that's that's another issue. I get it, but let me just float this by you. So when I say that that taxation is immoral, and I say taxation should be, illegal and abolished, let me explain it to you this way in in under the the umbrella of property taxes.
Alright. Here you are. You you purchased land. You purchased property. You spend thirty years paying for that property. Is the property yours? Is it? Well, if you are still paying taxes on that property, what happens if you stop paying it? What happens if you miss payments? What happens? Well, the state comes in and confiscates your property, takes it away from you. Who owns your property? Well, basically, you're renting from the state. Isn't that right? You're making payments that you're paying taxes on property that you've already paid for and have been taxed for. That's immoral.
And then you have someone who, say, is you know, paid off their property, took them thirty years to pay it off, over 65, retired, limited, fixed income, and their property taxes just keep going up and up and up and up and up. Now I know I'm doing the typical liberal type thing. I'm I'm playing on emotion. I'm not dealing with facts. I'm dealing with emotion, but it's appropriate in a situation like this. You take my state here in Texas. Texas had a 24 or $28,000,000,000 surplus in taxes. They're talking about the possibility of doing, tax rebates on property taxes and and and so forth, returning that money to the people of the state. Well, how about this?
How about this? And there are a few voices for this in the Texas state legislature. How about we just get rid of property taxes altogether? Or maybe maybe Instead of doing a, basically, it's a sales tax, you know, when you when you purchase a property. How about how about instead of a sales tax on the property, how about your property taxes for the thirty years that you're paying off the mortgage goes to that purpose? But that property tax will be a fixed rate for the duration of your mortgage, and then when you finish paying off your mortgage, you don't pay any more taxes. I think that kinda makes some sense. I think that could work, and I think that's something that should be discussed and talked about.
Alright? So we'll see. Again, my opinion. It's just my opinion. You know? I'm not an expert in any of this stuff. I'm just going off of what I read and what I see in my real life experience. So I think that I think that's something that could be work, worked on, and I think it's something that could be, very easily and very widely loved and accepted. And, of course, you know, Texas has its problems and, you know, Texas has a lot of, you know, there there are some liberal areas in Texas even though Texas is predominantly a red state, a a pretty solid red state to be honest with you. Texas, house, senate, and and, Governor's Mansion are are all, Republican, red.
Although, you know, we have a swamp here too, and, right now, the swamp is holding the speaker's chair at this Texas house and has given Democrats a lot of authority and power in in the committees and so on and so forth. So it's almost like living in a in a blue state, but, you know, but, you know, we have a lot of work here to do ourselves. But, one of the things that we do need to do, and this is at the federal levels, we need to get rid of morons, and yes, I said morons. I don't care about his military service. I don't care that he lost an eye. I don't care he runs around wearing a web wearing an eyepatch. What's his name? Crenshaw over in, excuse me.
Dan Crenshaw over here in, in Texas. He this guy is every single interview I've seen him do of late I don't know if this is PTSD kicking in or anything like that, but everything I've seen him do of late, has has been troublesome to to see. Just recently, a hot mic caught, Dan Crenshaw threatening Tucker Carlson, and he said, quote, if I ever meet him, I will fucking kill him. Does that sound like somebody well, he was just kidding. He was kidding. No. No. No. He he he wasn't kidding. As a matter of fact, how about we, hear from, old how about we hear from old patches ourselves?
Thank you. Have you ever met soccer?
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You just saw the video of Republican congressman from Texas. The gay pirate, Dan Crenshaw, saying, no. I've never met Tucker Carlson. I'd kill him if I did. Well, I know the inside baseball about Crenshaw. He's a terrible voting record. He's a complete liar. He's a WEF alumni. He's a globalist stooge. And so Tucker Carlson responded by saying, hey. DM me. I'll give you my address. Come on the show. Stop acting like a coward. And so after Tucker responded back and said, here's my address. Well, Elon piped in and says, why is Crenshaw homicidal regarding Tucker? Oh, you got the bloodhound sniffing around now.
Oh, no. If you're a bad guy, you don't want Elon to start fee fi fo fum. I smell the blood of globalist scum. Be he live. Be he dead. I'll grind his bones to make my bread. But not I love Alex Jones. I
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I can't help it. I I love him. But he's got a he has he's got a great point. So out so, so Tucker reaches out to him, and, the response here is is quite comical. After the interview, dad Steven Edgington, who's the the gentleman that he's that was, interviewing, Dan Crenshaw, after after Dan Crenshaw said he said that, after sorry. After Dan Crenshaw said that he would kill Tucker Carlson, Edgington actually asked him. He goes, he goes he he goes, really? And and he said, no. Seriously. I would. I would kill him. So, you you can go over to x and you could find, Steve Steven Edgington on x, and you can watch his whole video, the whole interview there where actually the live mic does, in fact, catch the entire conversation that proceeded afterward.
And then he said, so, of course, you know, he mentions it and, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, who I I like. I do. I I think she I think she's great, but there's there's never, there's never a a a a a a controversy that she runs away from, which I think is great too. So, as soon as as soon as that footage came out, Marjorie Taylor Greene sends out a a a message over x, and she says and then she, she tagged, Dan Crenshaw, Tucker Carlson, and this whole thing shows, did you threaten to kill my friend Tucker Carlson? And, Dan Crenshaw's response was, LOL, no.
And then then this is why I love x. You know? This is this is why I love it. This is why, you know, when I when I but basically when I when I cut myself off of all of the, social medias and stuff that I was on, the the one that I did keep was x or Twitter at the time, now x, but because of this type of stuff. And this is what's great about free speech, this is what's great about x, and what Elon Musk is doing there. You can even, you know, another great platform is Truth Social. You gotta try out Truth Social if you haven't done that yet. But, so, so, Dan Crenshaw basically says, no. I didn't say that.
Well, Steve Edgerton responds to that tweet and says, we have it on tape, and he gives them the link to it. Proof Dan Crenshaw said he would kill, capitals, Tucker Carlson, if he met him. He told me when I laughed, it wasn't a joke. That should be disturbing to you. That should be troubling to you that Dan Crenshaw is running around threatening to kill people. Now I know. Look. We all in our in the course of our lives have have gotten to, you know, I've said it. Everybody's said it, you know, oh, man. I just wanna kill him, you know. This was different though.
This was different. When you when you actually see the video, you watch the whole interview, and I encourage you to do it. Go do it. I'm I I can't play the whole thing. It's too long, but go watch the video on x, and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Dan Crenshaw was not kidding. He was dead serious. Dead serious. This man is unhinged, and he needs to be voted out. So folks in in Dan Crenshaw's district, you know what you need to do. Get him out. Let's get him out. Alright. Let's see. Oh, this was interesting today. I heard about this today. So apparently, there are some concerns here that are that are brewing with, the the newly appointed AG, Pam Bondi.
We all remember that, president Trump said that, he was going to have the, JFK tapes and, the, tapes. I'm sorry. The files and the, the Epstein client list all released, you know, day one. Now we we know that that wasn't gonna happen day one. It's gonna take time to to get people to put in place to be able to do it, but what president Trump did is he signed the executive order to release all this information. Alright? And if you remember a couple of days ago, we talked about this and we said that, that we we presented audio, video of, Pam Bondi that, you know, she actually has the files on her desk and so on and so forth. Now here's the question though, and what disturbs me is that maybe for different reasons, I find myself aligning with Ilhan Omar of all freaking people because I wanna know what's taken the DOJ so long to release these files.
What's the problem? Pam Bondi said they're on her desk. Well, what are we waiting for? What are we waiting for in these things? Now, I I mentioned Elon Omar because, Elon Omar actually posted a tweet that said, that that, well, she raised the concern also that that AG Bondi is taking so long to release these things, and she wondered who they were covering for. Now I know that she wasn't that that she was being somewhat facetious, and I I know that. And I know that she was talking more about, you know, thinking that that that she they they were, you know, hiding, information about, about Israel and all this because, you know, you know, she's she's, she hates Israel.
And we all know that, that Jeffrey Epstein was probably a a triple or a quadruple agent. He was working for the CIA. He was working for Mossad. He was probably working for MI six or MI five. He was probably who knows? He he he he was probably at least a triple agent. So he has all of this information that is potentially harmful to not just, people of power and authority here in The United States, but probably all around the world. So, so I understand where she is coming from on that, but it just creeps me out that I'm I'm asking the same question. Now, Congresswoman, Anna Paulina Luna, who I think is just the best, she said, we saw over the weekend that you're reviewing all files from JFK to Epstein. We were all anticipating the release.
When will they be declassified and available to the public? Now, of course, she put that up on, on she posted up on x, so all this information is getting out there. And, let's see. So she's, she says that, she still hasn't heard anything. February 11, February nineteenth, House Oversight sent a letter to the DOJ asking for status on releasing the Epstein files as well as well as JFK. The DOJ has not responded. Now that's kinda troubling. You think about it, you know, it's it's like, you know, the spider sense is tingling? What is the holdup? What is the delay?
You know, president Trump did already release or or sign the executive order to do it. In fact, general Flynn, Mike Flynn kinda got involved in this, when, representative Luna, made a post to to, Pam Bondi regarding the the the one I just posted to you, general Flynn jumped in on this. And, well, I'm sorry. I let me back that up. General Flynn sent a tweet that said, to, representative Luna, release everything at once. We don't need a trip down memory lane. We need full transparency from the USG. Her response was, hey, at general Flynn, you of all people would know that I nor the committee have any declass authority. The declastification approval is done by Waltz, Tulsi, Bondi, and White House counsel. You know this.
We do need transparency, but we also need people like you putting out correct info. Now I I I don't I don't know if that response was justified for the question. I don't know. But, Flynn did acknowledge what she had to say, and he and he said this in a responding tweet. Representative Luna, thank you very much for responding. I do appreciate it. I am fully aware of the d class authorities. The POTUS has already signed the order. At this stage, there is no more debating the classification. The file should be fully 100% released without any redactions.
The American people can take whatever it is we ought to learn. We already know a lot. The people and the USG agencies that can't take it are those, who will be exposed because of what we will learn. We need accountability and no more long legislative processes and congressional investigations. We need doge like transparency. Again, many thanks for all that you're doing. You're a fighter, and we want you to keep fighting. There are very few in Congress who are willing to stick their necks out, to which she just simply responded, thank you.
And then, and then representative Luna later pressed, Pam Bondi, stating, you know, February, the house oversight, sent a letter to DOJ asking the status on releasing the Epstein's files, well as JFK's. Now, Luna also sent a letter to, Director of National Intelligence, Chelsea Gabbard, attorney general Pam Botti, national security adviser, Michael Waltz, and the White House counsel, David Warrington, demanding updates. She requested a briefing for the task force regarding JFK, RFK, MLK assassination records asking for a specific timeline when the documents that Trump ordered declassified they were already ordered declassified, would be made available.
Meanwhile, house oversight committee chairman James Comer also, demanded briefings from various agencies on multiple classified matters, including the JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations, COVID nineteen origins, unidentified anomalous phenomena, which we talked about yesterday, and unidentified submerged objects, which we talked about yesterday. Also, nine eleven documents and the fully redacted, the fully unredacted Epstein client list. So I am really looking forward to all of this information coming out. Now another thing that I saw, it was kinda interesting, and I saw this right before the show. So I didn't get an opportunity to really, review all of the audio on this. So it might be it might be a bit long. But, I was watching the Alex Jones show and, on Infowars, and, yes, I'm an Alex Jones fan.
I like Alex Jones. I think Alex Jones is right more times than he was not, you know. And I think it's kinda creepy. He's as right as he is, and I know all the theories and all the conspiracies that are out there talking about Alex Jones and his connections, you know, does does he have connections with the CIA? Does he have connections here or there? Is he some kind of an agent or I don't know. I just think the man's smart. He he he he he knows he he can tell which way the wind is blowing. He reads the tea leaves, if you wanna put it that way. He knows what's going on. He has his finger on everything on on the pulse of it all, and I think he does he does a great job. And I think he's been unjustly persecuted, unjustly targeted, and, I will stand with Alex Jones no matter what. I think he I you know, and I'm not doing this for any reason other than the fact that I do appreciate Alex Jones and what he does. I've been I've been a follow I've been following Alex Jones for years.
For year I wanna say at least fifteen, twenty years. So, you know, I I trust him more than I trust the mainstream media. Let's put it that way. Alright. But, this was very interesting today. Apple has confirmed to Fox News, and I don't know if you've heard this or not, but, that iPhones are actually changing the word racist to Trump in voice to text feature confirming the bombshell story that first broke by Infowars. So let's, let's let's take a look. This it's a long clip. I'm only gonna play play about maybe a minute or two of it, so, you can get the rest of it on on Alex Jones' Twitter account. But, basically, Apple has confirmed to Fox News that iPhones are in fact changing the word racist to Trump in a voice to text feature confirming, what, what they broke the other day. Let's take a look.
Maybe? I think we're having some problems with this particular piece of video. So I guess we're gonna skip that. Right? Yep. Alright. Never mind. So, unfortunately but, you know, that's the, that's that's a clip from it at least. That popped up on your screen there. Anyway, let's move on, shall we? Alright. So I think that's that's pretty that's pretty low class garbage that, that, that Apple would do that. And, And, of course, they say it's just a glitch, you know, it's it's just a little problem, that they're they're working on fixing and and so on and so forth. Well, I call bullshit on that, but we'll see what happens. We shall see. Alright. What what else do I have here for you? Okay. So USAID.
Alright. Remember, we we when we first, we really started getting into the show, We talked about USAID when it all started, you know, The United States, Agency for International Development. So it's not USAID, it's USAID. So I saw this on, is it The Federalist? And, by the way, Federalist is a great site. You should check them out, thefederalist.com. Lot of really, really good information in there. But, USAID in Egypt, this is, who's this written by? Larry Taunton. USAID in Egypt had me detained for walking in and asking if it's following Trump's orders.
Folks, this agency needs to come to an end, and it needs to come to an end now. So, the article says, I recently traveled from Davos to the, sit the ancient city on the Nile with USAID's nefarious activities dominating the news. I decided to visit its Cairo office to see how it was responding to Trump's recent order slashing USAID activities. To call USAID Egypt in office is misleading. It is a military style compound. My driver, Mohammed, and I approached the boom gate where security guards stood in a small guardhouse of the type you see all over the world. They raised the gate arm and waved us through. I found that the key to entering government buildings, much like the World Economic Forum, is simply to walk in as if I own the place more often than than you might think. Security just steps aside.
So he's he goes on to say, Mohammed zigzagged the Mercedes van, through the suicide bomber barriers we we parked, told him to wait. There was no USAID signage that I could see. The facility was a fortress with high block walls topped with metal spikes and cameras. I walked to the perimeter of the compound looking for the entrance, taking video as I went. Finding it, I walked casually past the security guard and entered, snapping a picture of the USAID signage within. So here, he says, another security guard greeted me, asked if I had an appointment, and request my my ID. I said no and gave him my driver's license. He looked at it and briefly handed back, because what's your business? I said I was investigating the activities of USAID, and since I was in Cairo, I wondered what they what they did here and how they were responding to president Trump's executive orders.
He he went on to say nervous eyes darted. The security guard whispers, I don't think I should talk to you. I told him he should he probably shouldn't then, at least not here on camera. Perhaps he or one of his colleagues would like to speak away from his office, and then he called his supervisor. And then this happened.
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So hopefully this works. What's he saying? Stay here. Hopefully, I'm holding this up properly here and they're, go ahead. You're fine. They're, stopping my driver. They're telling me they want my phone because I have videoed the, the USAID facility and so forth. I've told them they can't have the phone. So now they're telling my driver he has to get out. So I'm continuing to video, and I can't see if I'm aiming this correctly. So hopefully Can you see the buzzword?
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So, there was another video too that I wanted to play, but I I couldn't get it converted. So he says a week later, he returned this time in a Mercedes sedan. He had no intention to enter the compound. Wanna drive by to confirm a couple of misconceptions. Security recognized me. Came out from beyond the boom gate. Stopped the vehicle. And, where was I? South of I ordered my driver and me to get out. As an Egyptian national, Mohammed wisely did. As he was told, I didn't move. Mohammed, I said, throw me under the bus. You're merely my driver, and and as as your client, I told you to drive here.
He nodded, shut the door. You were taking video. True. But and and it went on. So they accused me of being a terrorist, and then one of the guards kinda just smirked at him, and there was, like, a quiet, you know they they even knew that the terrorism thing was was ridiculous. And, let's see. Where were we? I lost it in this case. Well, I'm having a problem here right now. So so let me again, this is ridiculous. I can't. Alright. But just head over to the federalist.com and look for the article USAID in Egypt, by Larry Taunton. Great article. Read the whole thing. I had another clip I was gonna play here for you, but it's just not loading.
I don't and I could try to play it from here. I don't know if you're gonna hear it or not. We'll see.
[01:15:10] Unknown:
Alright. I'm being detained by USAID Cairo. I'm outside of the gate. They've taken my driver's driver's license, not mine, his. They've demanded my passport. They have demanded, I gotta put this down. They have demanded my phone. Again, we've not entered into the entered into the the facility. We've taken no pictures of the facility on this particular occasion, but they do not did know that who I was, that I was the guy who was here last week. And I decided to come back to just take one more look. Had no intention of entering, and we didn't. But this time, they were laying in wait for us. They, they blocked the car, and, now they've suggested that I'm some sort of terrorist. Then they know better than that. They know that I I have no such intentions. I'm quite Google able, and they were very aware of my, my viral tweet, from last time. But, again, that's what's going on here.
So
[01:16:20] Unknown:
Okay. So there's no audio. I can see it. I hear it on my end, but it's not coming up on yours. So that's what I was just checking on the phone there. So if you saw me doing that, that's what I was doing. Alright. Let's move on. We already covered that. We covered that. Let's close that up. Let's close that so I don't keep going back to it. Alright. How about we get to some Doge news? Alright. Let let's start to have some, you know, happier, much more fun conversation. Alright. So, did you know? If you go to the if you if you're on x, you should be following at doge, d o g e. Alright?
It is the official, Doge, Twitter account, x account. And, today, I was reading this, and I was like, you know, I gotta I gotta bring this up. So they they they give a regular update on what your tax dollars and my tax dollars are going for going to. Okay? So this is what they posted today. US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items. Let me see if I have that available, and I could show it to you. There we go. Alright. That should be popping up. Alright. So U US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all of which have been canceled. Alright. So that's that's that's great. Alright. Canceled. Sorry for my stuffy nose. I'm over here sniffling.
Alright. So you ready? Here we go. $69,000,000 for the Eurasia Foundation to do, quote, digital transformation activity in Europe. What the hell is digital transformation activity? 32,000,000 to inter news for programs including media enabling democracy, inclusion, and accountability in Moldova and the promotion of sustainable may media outlets. Just sounds like another DEI program for me. 7,000,000 for the American Bar Association to to promote the resilience of the Eurasian legal sector and civic society. Right.
Alright. Now, here here's where it starts getting pricey. Right. Here, we're we're at, half a billion dollars. Alright. $520,000,000 to a consultant to do ESG investments in Africa and mobilize private sector resources and expertise. 520,000,000 of your tax dollars, my tax dollars, for a consultant. Twenty five million to to promote biodiversity conservation and promote, licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behaviors in Colombia. Forty Million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
42,000,000 to Johns Johns Hopkins to research and drive social and behavior change in Uganda, Forty Five Million Dollars to address the needs, opportunities, and challenges identified by activists and other civic actors engaged in nonviolent collective action. And then, of course, the icing on the cake, 52,000,000 of your dollars to the World Economic Forum so they could force you to eat the bugs. Isn't that just wonderful? Wonderful. Where your tax dollars and my tax dollars are going. It's insane. It is absolutely insane, and this is why the left is freaking out over Doge, because all of this money do you really think that all of this money is going to these places?
Do you really think that 520,000,000, half a billion dollars is going to a consultant. Do you really think so? Do you do you really now that you're seeing these numbers, do you do you wonder why? Does it make sense to you now? Why morons and mental midgets like AOC and others go into congress making a hundred and 70, a hundred and $74,000 a year, and after a year or two are millionaires? Is it all making sense to you now why they're so opposed to Doge? Because the cash cow was coming to an end. Because all of these payments that I just read to you, all these payments we just put up there on the wall, they're all canceled. They're gone. And this government wants to give you your money back.
They wanna give you dividend payments, which I think is fantastic. It should have been done all it should it should be done already. It should we shouldn't be be waiting right now. That money should be in your bank account tomorrow. We did not vote for the things that this money is going to. We voted for Donald Trump. We voted for Donald Trump's appointments, and we voted for Donald Trump to be cleaning out the swamp, and that's exactly what he's doing. And all you're seeing with all the opposition is the swamp fighting back, doing everything they can to try to derail the whole thing, and that's why they're so opposed to this. Because all of this money, maybe some of it was actually going to where it's supposed to be going where where it was well, not supposed to be, but allocated to go.
But I guarantee you the majority of that money was going into congress's pockets or other family members, Hunter Biden, for example. It's fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. And then along along the same lines as as Doge and Elon Musk, did you know that in 02/2003, Joe Biden now mind you, this is the left is apoplectic over the fact of Doge auditing the auditors, IRS. They all you've heard from them is they're giving them access to taxpayer information and taxpayer IDs and taxpayer this and taxpayer all this information is getting is being given out, and none of these people are pay none of these people are have been appointed by by, by Congress. None of these people, you know, or or, should have access to any of this information.
But but in 02/2023, Joe Biden gave 53 unpaid researchers, and you're gonna love it, and student volunteers. Here you go. 53 unpaid researchers and student volunteers access to the same information that DOJ is having access to, and the Democrats had no problem with it. No problem whatsoever. Have at it. Go get them. Let's see what Byron had to say.
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No. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with this very simple thing. They love the massive bloat in waste because it's like you said, Mark, they get to fit all of their little pet projects underneath the covers where nobody can see it. You got Stacey Abrams at one of her climate funk groups is supposed to get $2,000,000,000. When if you look at their tax returns, their revenue is only a hundred dollars, and they're getting $2,000,000,000. This is the kind of stuff. They're so upset about Elon Musk and the DOS team having access to the Internal Revenue Service data into the treasury payment system. But there's a g there's a report that came out the other day that under Joe Biden, he let 53 researchers and students, unpaid people, go in and actually have full access to the data of the American people at the IRS. Joe Biden's administration let that happen. So they have no problem with the waste and the fraud and the abuse as long as their special interest groups are being funded and their ideology is being promoted regardless of the will of the American people. But our country can't simply survive that. We are very thankful that Donald Trump and his team are saying enough is enough. They are going to save this nation for the American people and begin the process of restoring a constitutional republic.
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Keep this in mind also. The previous administration hired 80,000 armed IRS agents or funded the hiring of 80,000 IRS agents to audit Americans who had $600 in their accounts, and the left applauded. Donald Trump hired one billionaire who works for free to audit the federal government, and the Democrats are flipping out. Apoplectic. Losing it. I used that word twice today. Alright? So be impressed. You should be. Do you understand? Do you see the problem here? Doge also found that Biden gave 900 over 900 people access to the IRS. Gateway Pundit put out a piece. As as legacy media freaks out over one Doge employee getting IRS access, We found out that Biden gave 919 people access.
Folks were not the same. I'm sorry. No. I'm not sorry. Screw them. Oh, my my my my my my my my my. Alright. As always, we'd like to close out the show with some Texas news. I wish I had something better for you tonight, but, local Texas news here. So, representative, state representative Brian Harrison on his Twitter account. If you're not following Brian Harrison on your Twitter on on Twitter, you need to. This guy and and especially if you're a Texas resident and if you are in his district, you need to be following Brian Harrison. Alright?
He posted this this, today on on his Twitter account. Let me pull this baby up. So the Texas Department of Transportation confirms that they have spent up to $1,000,000,000 on DEI contracts to build railroads and bridges, and 50 taxpayer funded employees working in their civil rights division, which promotes inclusion, diversity, and equity. He goes on to say in his tweet here, you know, Texas should be leading the fight against DS DEI, not spending billions of dollars on it. And he is quite quite right. Let's see what they have to say.
[01:29:20] Unknown:
This is Department of Transportation. Correct? That's right. Y'all build roads. Roads, bridges Yes. Rail. Yes. You've got a civil rights division. We do. You have an office of civil rights. Why?
[01:29:33] Unknown:
Well, the office of civil rights exists to, administer programs that are governed by federal law and regulation and state law and regulation. Those include our disadvantaged business enterprise programs and, our, historically underutilized business programs. And and I I did see your your your your tweet that you put out. Appreciate, calling your attention to to to that. We ensured that that website was updated to clearly clarify what that division does and their purpose of of of their function and how they interrelate with, their counterparts at the federal level. They're within the USDOT. There are six different offices of civil rights that we have to work with because
[01:30:19] Unknown:
of the requirements in the administration of federal funds. Well, yeah, I was gonna bring the website up in a second, but since you raised it, I'll I'll jump right into that because this is and I printed it out this morning. This is what the home page for your civil rights division at TxDOT looks like as of right now. But you alluded to something a second ago that maybe it didn't look like this very recently. Mhmm. Okay. So there have been changes to this website. Yes, sir. How recently?
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They were made over the weekend. Okay. Yeah. So
[01:30:46] Unknown:
this is pretty consistent with what you just said although I do still want to come back to some of this especially on the hubs, but two days ago it looked like this. Is this accurate? I believe that's I I can't read it from here, but I I know what you're referring to, and I think you're holding it up. What I've what I've highlighted here is language that was on your website over the weekend, and I about fell out of my chair when I read this. So on the the homepage of the, TxDOT civil rights division, You're bragging that the TxDOT, so our Department of Transportation, is promoting diversity and inclusion opportunities and then explicitly engaged in affirmative action activities.
What were you doing two days ago to promote diversity and inclusion and affirmative action?
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Well, I wanna first of all say, you know, I appreciate you bringing that to my attention, and what we did was we wanted to review that and ensure that, what is conveyed is consistent with what our mission is. As you know or may be aware, the the Watching these committee hearings alike. Three months ago, or three months ago. Getting a root canal without Novacan. An executive order that, that spoke to that and spoke to the importance of affirming that as an organization, we need to ensure that, that the work that we do as an agency, equally, protects individuals under the law. And, and that's what we wanna consistently do, and we wanna remove any kind of terminology that might suggest otherwise. And so that was the intent was to remove that terminology that would be construed or or maybe confused, with,
[01:32:23] Unknown:
efforts that that we don't do as a department. No. Yeah. And I I very much appreciate the governor issuing that executive order. I do have a copy of it here in my hands. So much appreciation for everybody. Months now posting daily examples of our state agencies using taxpayer funds to promote, DEI, and I very much appreciate the governor taking taking that action, but I have very real concerns. And I I would love to understand because you say clarifying terminology. I would like to know what was TxDOT doing regarding DEI that that led y'all to have this on the front page of your website?
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Well, I would as I said before, we support the governor's executive order and his direction in that area. We're working to administer our programs consistent with that executive order and with federal
[01:33:06] Unknown:
and state law that covers that. Everything that we're doing is consistent with federal and state law. And I and I appreciate that. But you can understand, like, thirty hours ago, the website looked very differently. Although I certainly appreciate change, but I do wanna know, like, were there any actual substantive changes? Like, were staff reprogrammed or retasked? Were staff eliminated? I would say that what was, outlined on
[01:33:28] Unknown:
So you get the idea, of where that whole mess was going. So this is this is it's a this is insanity. A billion dollars. And he said, you know, he said something interesting, and I'm surprised that the representative didn't jump on this. He said, in, compliance with the federal, did Donald Trump or did he not sign an executive order eliminating DEI from anything to do with the federal government? I do believe so. I I think that was maybe the first day, quite possibly the first day. But, you know, thirty hours ago, according to at that time, the Texas DOT did not find itself in compliance with that. So but that's what's going on here in Texas, my friends. Something else going on here in Texas, which is which should be very concerning, on the surface, but, I think that governor Abbott, is handling this properly.
So, I don't know how many people heard about this, but, there's an organization, that, it's an Islamic organization that has, apparently purchased or attempted to purchase some land, about 400 acres of land, in the, in the Dallas Fort Worth area. And what they were planning on doing, is they were planning on establishing a, an Islamic city an Islamic city called, Epic City. And, so basically where where Shariah law would be the rule of the law, the the rule of the land in that specific city. So let me see. Do I have that? Is that it?
No. Here it is. So this is from, this is from the, this is from Twitter. So, this Twitter user, Carlos, ex user, Carlos Tercios posted this. And, I'm gonna play the audio in a second here, but, what's what's really important is is is, governor Abbott's responses here. And he says, in in one particular message, to be clear, Shariah law is not allowed in Texas nor are Shariah cities, nor are, no go zones, which this project seems to imply. Bottom line, the project as proposed in the video is not allowed in Texas. Alright. And one of my favorite people, of course, on x, Valentina Gomez response in Islam, rape is incest and pedophilia are legalized. They're not compatible with Texas.
They have 56 Muslim nations. They can go enjoy their Sharia law there. Alright. And, let's take a look at this video. Let's see. Where is she? Here you go.
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Today, we take the next bold step. We are proud to announce the successful purchase of land for Epic City.
[01:36:40] Unknown:
Four hundred to acres of beautiful scenery. Welcome to the future of living. Welcome to Epic City.
[01:36:52] Unknown:
Folks, this is what they're trying to do. They're trying to take over a piece at a time, and we cannot let that happen. So, you know, I appreciate the governor's stance on this, but, according to that clip, they've already purchased the land, and I think that this is something that you're gonna have to get DPS involved in, and, maybe the, the the the Texas State Guard. We cannot allow this backwards religion of Islam a foothold in Texas. It is not compatible culturally, and it is not compatible constitutionally, and it is not compatible religiously.
And like, like Valentino Gomez said, there are 52 Muslim countries. If they want Sharia law, buy, go. Go back to where it was. Don't turn my Texas into the shithole country that you came from. Go back and live your Sharia law there. Do I care if this pisses you off? No. I couldn't care less. Go back to where you came from if that's the lifestyle you want. Plain and simple. Alright. Well, here here's a good one. Did you hear that, that, that that Frank? Pope Francis, is on his deathbed? TPV Shawn, great great great x account. Check him out. T p v at t p v Shawn. Post pope Francis deathbed sermon.
This is this is classic. You but you shouldn't be surprised. Pope Francis deathbed sermon urges Christians to pray to Lucifer. Y'all know who Lucifer is, right, for real enlightenment. Lucifer is the name of the, the angel, the archangel, who was the covering angel over the throne of God, sinned and rebelled against God, was, cast out of heaven, and then, ended up, on the Earth, tempted Eve, who then tempted Adam. Like, I I wanna say she tempted Adam. I Adam, I think, knew full well what he was doing when he took the fruit, when he ate the fruit that Eve partook of at the urging of Lucifer, or as you might know him as, Satan, the devil.
So, if there was any more clear example, I know people could say, well, you know, he's on his deathbed. I don't know. I mean, not in his right frame of mind. No. This is the Catholic church. I'm sorry. No. I'm not. That's the Catholic church. Alright. So Sean says, if you thought pope Francis couldn't make it any clearer that he is a Satan worshiping false prophet dedicated to the ushering in the new world order, think again. The pontiff who rose to power after the conservative pope Benedict was ousted in a globalist coup has found a new way, even more shocking way, to betray his followers.
Now, on his deathbed, he has played his final hand, dropping all pretense and making his most brazen, blasphemous move yet. Pope Francis announced the coming of Lucifer and urged the Catholics to bow down and seek true enlightenment from the dark lord.
[01:41:21] Unknown:
That's the that's the post. Here's the video. If you thought pope Francis couldn't make it any clearer that he's a Satan worshiping false prophet dedicated to ushering in the new world order, think again. The pontiff, who rose to power after the conservative pope Benedict was ousted in a globalist coup, has found a new and even more shocking way to betray his followers. Now on his deathbed, he's played his final hand, dropping all pretense and making his most brazen, blasphemous move yet. That's right. According to witnesses, Francis announced the coming of Lucifer and urged his followers to bow down and seek true enlightenment from the dark lord himself. Before we dive in Now I'm not gonna play his commercials for you, but
[01:42:02] Unknown:
head over to, TPV Sean, Thomas Peter Victor Sean, and, take a look at the at at this post yourself. Listen to the video. Really, really great stuff. Good piece. Solid. Check it out. Alright? Alright. Let's see. What else else could we get for for you? Oh, so have you did you see what happened, today at the at the at the Oval Office? So, you know what? You gotta love Donald Trump. You you do. I'm sorry. Whether you whether whether you're a supporter or not, you gotta appreciate Donald Trump. He is the, I I mean, he just owns the media. He really does. He absolutely does. So earlier today, somebody had, come up well, new hats.
I want one. I very, very, very want one, And, I'm I'm hoping I'll be able to get one very, very soon. But, today at the, Oval Office Oval Office, let's see. I I had this happened.
[01:43:08] Unknown:
Give me all of them. Sure. Look. Yes. See
[01:43:13] Unknown:
that?
[01:43:15] Unknown:
Trump was right about everything. It just came in. Somebody said I said but this was sent in by a fan. I said, I think we should make some of them. Right? But we were pretty much. You want one? I'll pass. Are you allowed to take one? Because he'll consider it. I know him well. He's sort of a stiff I said you're a You're a You're sort of a stiff guy. He'll take other things, but not a free hand. Don't always say yes to the president. Always say yes to the president. Would anybody like one?
[01:43:44] Unknown:
You gotta love him. That's my president. And you know what? Whether you like it or not, he's your president too. So that is awesome. I he just absolutely owned the room. And he does it all the time, you know. Nest one of the things about Donald Trump that people don't understand. He he look. Trump offers the guy a hat. He reads that. Trump is right about everything, and the reporter says, no. He he asked the reporter if he wants, but, no. I'll pass on it. And I'd love the response. Well, he you're you're a stiff guy. You know, he'll take other things, but not a free hat. I I'll take a free hat. You know, hello. I'll take one over here. That would be great. I would love one. That is fantastic.
And, you you know, the reason why people he he just he just knows it, and he just knows how to work a room. He knows how to work people. He knows how to talk to people. And, you know, it's just it's one of those things with Donald Trump. He just knows everything. And and a couple years ago, Dave Chappelle actually, and we're gonna end the show today on this. It's a it's a minute thirty clip, but it's worth it. It's worth a listen. Dave Chappelle a number of years ago, and I'm sure you guys heard this, he he he he was hosting Saturday Night Live. He was doing his little bit, and this is this is what he said. This has this is back in 02/2016, but he is absolutely spot on.
Absolutely spot on. You know? And this was the moment that Donald Trump won over, I think, politically speaking, the hearts and minds of Americans. Take a look.
[01:45:25] Unknown:
A lot of you don't understand why Trump was so popular, but I I get it because I hear it every day. He's very loved. And the reason he's loved is because people in Ohio have never seen somebody like him. That first debate, I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen a white male billionaire screaming at the top of his lungs. This whole system is rigged, he said. And across the stage was white woman, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, sitting over there looking at him like, no. It's not. I said, now wait a minute, bro. It's what he said.
And the moderator said, well, mister Trump, if in fact the system is rigged, as you suggest, what would be your evidence? Remember what he said, bro? He said, I know the system is rigged because I use it. I said, god damn. That's right. I remember that. I never heard someone say something that true. And then Hillary Clinton tried to punch him in the taxes. She said, this man doesn't pay his taxes. He shot right back. That makes me smart. And then he said, if you want me to pay my taxes, then change the tax code. But I know you won't because your friends and your donors enjoy the same tax breaks that I do.
And with that, my friends, the star was born.
[01:46:54] Unknown:
Absolutely 1000% right. 1000% right. From that moment on, the politician Donald Trump won the hearts of conservative America. I remember it, I watched those debates, I was I was doing, Internet radio before they call it podcasting. I did Internet radio with a bunch of friends, it was a three man team, it was myself, I was the conservative voice, and then we had my friend Jason, was the liberal voice. We had another Joe, who was the, the, the pot smoking libertarian voice. Not if there's anything wrong with that. I am a conservatarian, but we were doing the Internet radio show at that time, and I remember watching that. I remember talking about that on that show.
And that at at that point, I wasn't sold yet on Donald Trump as a candidate, but that debate appearance is what convinced me, and I was sold on him. And I've been I've been a a fan, a follower ever since. So I agree with everything? No. I don't agree with everything, which is fine. You don't have to. But you gotta remember that Donald Trump is a spreadsheets guy like like, Bongino says. He's a spreadsheets guy, and that's how we have to be as conservatives. That's how we have to be, in my situation as a conservatarian. You have to go by the facts.
Facts, John Adams said, are stubborn things. You gotta go with the facts. Donald Trump laid the facts out as as as bluntly and as plain as you could, and that's why he's where he is today. And that's why the left hates him as much as he does because he speaks what's on his mind. He lays it out directly as a matter of fact. No emotion behind it, and that's why they don't like it. Alright, folks. Just wanna say thank you so much to everybody that's been watching tonight. Thank you very much. Our numbers have fluctuated between the, the the the twenties and tens. So we appreciate that. Thank you very much for watching, and, for those of you that are listening on the live audio stream or will be listening later on, thank you so much for spending your time with us tonight. I know it's it's kinda late, but, needed to get this in tonight.
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again. Happy trails to you. Goodbye.
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Well, that's about it really. The film ends mainly visually.
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Welcome to the podcast where every episode promises an unfiltered dive into the eclectic, the profound, and sometimes the absurd. No topic is off limits. Nothing is sacred, and political correctness takes a back seat.
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Hey, folks.
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This is Joe Rusciello, and it is great to be with you once again on a beautiful Tuesday night here on the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. And, we got some feedback. As always, it wouldn't be my show without it. Right? There we go. We got it under control. Alright. Well, folks, we are coming to you live tonight once again from the asylum studios, and we are bringing you well, we're gonna attempt to bring you the best quality talk radio we can muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the podcast.
Well, folks, it's, it's great, to be here with you again tonight. Happy Tuesday evening. It's been a a beautiful day here in in Eagle Pass. Very surprised by the weather. We had, all rain last week, you know, the whole week, that, that our buddy Wayne's been here, had rained, it was cold, it was nasty. Between the two of us, we both came down with sinus infections, and so it was just a miserable time in that regard. But we had a great time of fellowship, we had a lot of fun, kicking ideas around talking about the show, And, we are gonna miss him, but, don't forget, don't fret.
We'll have him on the show, remotely, sometime in the coming weeks. Once he's, once he's all settled in, I know that he had to, travel to Alaska. We didn't really get much of a chance to talk to him, about some of the things that he gets involved with while he was here, so we'll talk to him about that, the next time he's on the show with us. But, some of the things that he does is a lot of volunteer work. He's affiliated with, Franklin Graham's organization, Samaritan's Purse, and he travels all around, doing volunteer work. And, next week, I believe he said, he's gonna be traveling to Alaska, he and his wife, and they'll be out there for about two weeks.
So, we won't be hearing from him anytime in that period of time because it's just gonna be difficult. But when he gets back, he'll he'll jump back on the show with us, you know, from time to time, and we'll have a lot of fun. So, that means that, you are stuck with me again. It's a horrible prospect, is it? Not. I think so. But, well, I'm not really. I don't think so. I don't think I'm that bad. Right? And how how horrible could I be? I have tens of people watching, and tens of people listen, so it's can't be that bad. But we'll, you know, we'll we'll improve. We'll improve.
Now, let's see. So last night, we had Mark Becker on the show with us. And, folks, before we get into the the rest of the show, there there is something that I really needed to, to to get on tonight. I wasn't planning on, like I said, doing a show tonight. We were trying to go to the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, but, something happened yesterday that, that really really bothered me tremendously. And, you know, I had a number of issues yesterday with the show. As you guys know, we had an issue, with the audio stream, connecting and, being being heard live. And then we had to, we had to do some we had a rip from the from the video stream, the audio for the show, to to so we can upload the audio as the podcast.
And then we had a number of other issues like the quality of the audio. I, very, very disturbed by that and very upset by that. And I wanna apologize to you, for the technical problems that we've been having. Sometimes you can't foresee these, difficulties popping up, and it's, it it bothers me tremendously. Now, last night, I I I reached out to the, to the, the the owner of our host platform, Barry Lurebrecht, over at pod home dot f m. I was asking for his help. If you could check our settings on the show to make sure that, you you know, we are, broadcasting the audio stream at least at the best quality we could possibly do.
He assured me that we are. You know, he also listened to the show, and he said that, you know, the audio to him, you know, is better than 80% of other podcasts that are out there, and I disagree with that. The opening, music intro, you know, aside from the fact that that our guest jumped in a little too early, You know, that really doesn't affect the audio quality, but, you know, it was like, listening to it, it sounded, like, very distorted, very warbly, more like I was holding up a a little speaker or something to the microphone and playing the opening music, the closing music, the music we did for our break, through one of those little microphones or, like, a maybe a headset held up to the to the mic here.
I'm sorry for that. I don't I don't I'm just I don't have an explanation for it. I don't know what happened. I don't know why. Maybe it's because we had to pull it from the audio that the quality was kinda degraded. I I don't know. But, when, when Barry mentioned to me, last night that, you know, after listening to it, the audio quality hymns is better than 80% of other podcasts, I appreciate the encouragement, I I appreciate it, you know, that, he tried to kinda boost my spirits up on that one because I was really, really horribly, horribly bummed out from it.
I know for myself that if I if I were listening to a podcast, or if I turned on a podcast and I heard opening audio like that, I wouldn't listen. I would have turned it off immediately, and regardless of what the content was after the technical problems, I wouldn't be listening. I expect better from what we're trying to do here. I I value every single one of you that listen, and to me, it's unacceptable that the quality hasn't been where I expect it to be. So I had told I had told Barry yesterday that I'm done. I am pulling the plug, and I am not gonna be doing any more shows. I'm gonna, complete my obligation, to the upcoming interviews, and that's it. I'm done.
Gonna throw everything out the window and, just call it quits. Because, if if I can't give you the best, when I when I say the best quality, broadcast that we can, it's not just a saying, it's not just a tagline that I came up with, you know, it's it's that's a that's a that's a promise from me to you that we're gonna do the best we can, give you the best quality broadcast that we can possibly put together. And if it's not gonna work, then it's not gonna work, and we're not gonna do it. So, again, today, I I, was thinking about it all day, and I decided that, well, maybe I was upset last night. I'm gonna try again, and we'll see how the audio sounds, because to me, on on the cans, it sounds perfect.
Sounds nice and rich in quality, and and and and the voice, the, the tracks, the audio, the the the music that we play. I I went through a whole series. That's why I wanted to start at 08:00, and then we started at just a little bit after nine because I kept on going over everything that we had set up. So, if we're still having problems, going down the road here, I'm not sure exactly what else I'm gonna be able to do, but I'm not gonna put out a a a piece of shit podcast. You know, we're trying to do something here with this, and we're trying to reach as many people as possible with news, current events.
And if it's not gonna be quality, then I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do it. So, let's let's see how things go over the next couple of days. We have an interview set up, for tomorrow. We have a guest gonna be on the show, live with us. I I I fixed the little, little settings I needed to fix, to keep our guests from jumping in whenever they want. And, so hopefully tomorrow, we'll be able to get that all squared away. So I'd like to encourage you to jump on the show tomorrow, 08:00 central time, nine o'clock eastern time. It we'll we will be sitting down with, Jack Cammer, who is a I think I'm saying his last name right. If I'm not, forgive me, and he'll correct me tomorrow.
But, Jack is a, is a social worker. He's, he's he's specializes in men's relationship, and mental health. So, we're really looking forward to that. We're gonna do something very, very interesting. We're gonna do a couple of case studies, and, we're gonna be talking about some, and these are real life stories. These are things that actually took place, from two people that I know, that I know very well, that have given me the permission to use their story, you know, albeit no personal details like names, addresses, or anything like that. But, we'll be talking about those. We'll be doing a, a case study on those two, individual circumstances, and, just talk our way through those things, and and try to be, as helpful as we possibly can with the advice and the counsel that we'll bring forward. And, hopefully, it'll be something because if if the conversation goes the way it did, when when Jack and I spoke over the weekend, just talking about these things. I think this is gonna be a a very, very helpful and very informative show, and I would encourage you to, to jump on in on the show. Check us out tomorrow at 08:00 central time, nine o'clock eastern time.
Again, a live show. And so, the the the beautiful part about that is we have our live chat, so you could, drop your drop comments and questions in the live chat tomorrow night, and, both Jack and I will, will sort through them as we're going through, and we will answer your questions live on the show. So, if you find yourself if you're a guy and you find yourself in a situation in a relationship that, that you might might be questioning a few things. This is a be a good opportunity and a good time and a good show for you to jump on to, and don't forget to share it with your friends, your family, your followers. Let them know about the show. Let them know what we're doing. And, you might be wondering about, you know, why all of a sudden last night we talked about UFOs, UAPs, whatever you wanna call them, USOs, interdimensional beings, flat earth, you know, where did that come from? Well, this you know, originally, when we started the show, we were gonna be in anything and everything podcast. We're gonna do, topics that that covered a wide range of subjects.
So here we are, and that's what we're trying to do. We were we were in that political, loop for a while. We're gonna be dumping back into it tonight just a little bit. We're not gonna be running too long. It's, we're already, fourteen minutes into the show, so, we don't wanna keep, we don't wanna keep, you guys sitting up too late on a Tuesday night. Now, so before we start getting into the stories, just the usual housekeeping stuff that we're gonna do. Head over to our website, jorociello.com. Open up the web form. Send us over any questions, comments, cares, or concerns that you have. Also, if you don't wanna use the website, you could always email me directly at [email protected].
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She's an outright racist, and she was given a platform by MS MSLSD or MSDNC or whatever you wanna call it, but she was given this platform. And, she is I tried to watch every now and then just to get material. Very, very hard to watch. Just a very angry, very bitter, very, just not a nice person. You you could tell that just from her personality just by watching her on the show. I can only imagine what she must be like outside the show. Well, Joy Reid, was, canceled as part of a shakeup that's going on over at the network, and, she made the announcement on her show, the readout. Well, what was her show on the readout, on a on a Sunday podcast.
And, again, like I said, you know, she she's she's she's one of these racially divisive people. She had a lot of just hateful rhetoric. And, on on this podcast, you know, she she visibly broke down, when she reacted to the news of her show being canceled. So, I have some I have some video here of that. So let's take a look at that. This is Joy Reid having a meltdown on her show. My show had value.
[00:28:06] Unknown:
And that I'm sorry. That, that what I was doing had value had value. And in the end I'm sorry. I'm not I try not to cry on TV. And I take this is kinda like me on TV, so I apologize. And then and then it kind of and then it mattered. I see Karen, is there, and she's been texting me as well. And so what I will just say is that in the end thank you. Where I land is that the moment that I've of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby, or a mom or a dad that was killed, or, when we opened up people's eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks that or went hard for immigrants who've done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and try to make a life and defended them.
Or whether we've talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nikole Hannah Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country, whether it's talking about any of these issues, and and yes, whether it's talking about Gaza, and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object to have a right to object to little babies being bombed. And and where I come down on that is I'm not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.
And and, you know, I'm a church girl too. And those are those are the things that I was taught were of God. And so I I'm not sorry. I'm just proud of my show.
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Well, I'm not sure, what church she goes to, and and because I've been to many, many churches. I've done, I've preached in churches, I've taught in churches, and I don't recall any churches spouting the absolute hateful rhetoric that, that, miss Reed has spouted out over the years on on on her show. And, you know, I'm sorry to say it. Maybe it's, oh, no. I'm not really sorry to say it. You know, it couldn't have happened to a better racist. I'm sorry. It, it's it's a long time coming. It should have happened a long time ago. But, you know, you gotta remember also, you know, she was, she was she was a a loud and very vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter.
She constantly constantly derided on white Americans and white America, especially especially if, you know, if you supported Donald Trump. I mean, she, you know, she went hard on you. And then she also went hard on things like racial justice and immigration and Trump's policies. And, you know, she was, you know, like like you heard her say it, she's she's not sorry for taking these stances, you know. Well, I'm not sorry, but it it couldn't have happened to a better racist. Now, of course, you know what she's gonna do. She's gonna go out there and become a podcaster, which is fine. She could do that, but she's probably gonna suffer the same fate as, as, Lemonade, came across.
Realizing that you don't have the, you don't have the the corporate media standing behind you, defending you and paying for all your legal expenses when you, when you upset people. So, you know, sorry, but not sorry. Don't feel bad for you. And again, a long time coming. I cannot say that I I well, should I be nice? Alright. You twisted my arm. I'll be nice. I wish you the best. I hope everything works out for her in her new endeavors. And, with that, I'm gonna take a drink. Moving on. Not to be undone, one of her, one of her colleagues had, decided that, you know, if this was a good opportunity, for her to say something. So Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow, she decided, to use her platform, her part time platform on her show, to to basically rail against, her her home, network.
And, I don't know if I don't know if I'm gonna play the whole thing for you. It's about four minutes. But, but, basically, she called out her network for for for four minutes. A whole four minute four minutes just, you know, not just how talking about not about just how special Joy Reid is, and and she's special. Alright? And then, of course, she made it into a racial thing. And and, let's, let's let's let's see what Mad Cow had to say. PM hour all the other nights except for Mondays.
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So that's a big change. And even bigger programming change is at 7PM, 7PM Eastern, where Joy Reid's show, The Readout, ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different job in the network. She is leaving the network altogether, and that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid. I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call, and I understand that, but that's what I think.
I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two, count them, two non white hosts in prime time, both of our nonwhite hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Fang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it. But there's just one other piece of it that you should know. From your side of the TV screen, you will you will mostly see changes in terms of who's in the anchor chair. And actually, everybody who's going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they do, and you are not going to be disappointed in who's on our air and what you're gonna be seeing. But one thing you cannot necessarily see is that the people who get our shows on the air, they're really being put through the wringer.
Dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building, are facing being laid off. They're being invited to reapply for new jobs. That has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, presumably because it's not the right way to treat people and it's inefficient and it's unnecessary And it kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work, and so we don't generally do things that way. Maybe all of our folks, including most of the people who are getting this very show on the air right now, maybe they will all get new jobs here, and I hope they do. But in the meantime, being put in this kind of limbo, the anxiety and the discombobulation is off the charts. At a time when this job already is extra stressful and difficult, It is not news for me to tell you that the press and freedom of the press are under attack in a way that is really, it's a big deal for our country. It's very visceral for us here.
I know that the business of the press is not an easy thing, and I know that no job is forever. But, I think I think I'm safe and safe. For all of us anchors who you know through the TV, please know that what pains us the most is not what happens to us. It is what happens to our coworkers on whom we depend and who you don't necessarily know,
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but we respect it. Alright. That's enough. I I can't. I can't. So she went on, and she and she just, just basically unloaded on this on this, particular segment of her show. Just took the took the opportunity right there to, to accuse her own network against racism, you know, and that basically because she fired the two non white prime time hosts, which included Joy Reid. Now here's the thing. You're it's dangerous when you start to think like that because, you're you're tying, you know, because of your race, you should have a show. Right? Because of your race. Not because of your success, not because of merit, but because of your race, you should have a show.
I'm not mistaken, I'm looking on the article here. I wanna see if it if it lists just how poorly her show has, the readout had had been doing. It's not in this article. I think I probably picked up the wrong one. But, when I was when I was reading it earlier today, another article about this, basically, she she was barely getting 900,000 viewers on her show, which is nothing. And we look, I have what? Tens of people watching right now. I have who know? I don't know how many people are listening right now. I'm not looking at that screen. So, you you know, I so you can look at me and say, well, who are you talking about? You're nobody. Right? No. I know that. I and I understand that. I accept that. But, you know, someday we will be.
But you're on you're on cable television. You're on a a a network TV show. You're barely bringing in a million viewers. How much longer do you think it's gonna be before the advertisers start pulling out? The whole thing with, with with, with network TV and network, or or cable TV is sponsors, your ads. And if if there aren't enough people watching the show, your advertisers are going to start to pull back, and they're gonna start to, say, well, it's not worth it for us to invest this much money. It's a loss for us because we're not reaching the maximum amount of people that we could reach. Now I don't know if that makes sense to you. It makes sense to me be maybe because I I'm I'm a free market person, and I and I believe in merit, and I believe in in in achieving, you know, if if I want like, for example, for myself, if I want if I want more and and if I wanna be successful at what I'm doing, I am going to fix the problems that I talked about earlier in the show. I'm gonna do everything I can to improve what I'm doing. If if I'm talking about something, if I if I use Joy Reid as an example, if I'm talking about something that that is, extremely divisive, granted, I'm in I'm in a position where I I I truly believe that PC is is is is shit. It's garbage. It doesn't need to we need to be we we have to be less offended by by things and pea and other people's opinions. We just say what you gotta say.
You know? Maybe because I'm Gen x. You know? If you if you wanna kinda dip into that stuff, I mean, I'm sure she is too, although I think she's a little bit older than me. But, you know, we have a tough skin. You're a public you're a public figure, so on and so forth. You to have a tough skin. It's not about race. You were let go because you were doing poorly. You were performing poorly. Alright? I'm sorry, but race baiting right now is is not the way to go. I think the American people are tired of it. I think that, I think that that people just don't wanna hear it anymore. All they want is to be successful.
All they want is to have they want people want equality. They don't want equity. There's two different things. Okay? Race baiters like Joy Reid, race haters like Rachel Maddow, you know, people who who who, are ashamed of their own race, they don't seem to understand that. Or if they do, if they do understand that, they they they they pretend really well that they don't, and they don't care. So, again, like I said, this couldn't have happened to a better racist. The next one I'd like to see lose their job is is, Al Sharpton because he is a piece of he look. I lived in New York. I dealt with him. You know? I I I don't really talk about what I what I used to do back in New York, but I, you know, I I worked for the, I worked for New York City. I worked in law enforcement.
I also worked, for a brief period of time for the, US Department of State and the Diplomatic Security Service and the uniform Brit, division. I've had several opportunities to, to see and speak to, this person. And, you know, he's not a nice guy, never was. And, you know, I know what I'm talking about. I've had dealings with the guy. So, you know, he's he's when when Donald Trump says that he's a low IQ person, he's not lying. Alright? He's made his way grifting off of the the the, you know, race baiting and and and racial, imbalance.
That's all. That's that's how he made his name for himself, and that's it. So so he's the next one I'd like to see lose his job. You know? So got rid of Joy Reid. Hopefully, we'll get rid of Sharpton soon, and, you you know, just just put to death this whole thing with, equity, inclusion, diversity, and just do things based on merit. If Joy Reid's type of show would have, resonated with people and had better ratings, better viewership, I am quite sure quite sure she would still have a show. She doesn't have a show because she didn't deserve one. No matter what she thinks about the value of her show, there wasn't much.
Just my opinion, it's an opinion show. If if you don't like it, don't watch, or you can leave a comment in the in the chat or in the, comments below at the very, very bottom of this little window. Alright. Let's move on. Let's see. This is great, by the way. This this this next thing I'm gonna tell you about, is is is long time coming, and I think that this is something that needs to be done in all 50, of these states. But, the issue here is property taxes. My position on taxation, on property taxes especially, you know, the income taxes, it's another it's another issue altogether. But let since the story here we're gonna talk about is basically mainly property tax, we're gonna gonna stick with that. I think all taxes, income, sales, all that property taxes are immoral and should be illegal and should be done away with altogether.
I think I think, mafia style organizations like the IRS, both at the state and federal level, need to be abolished and gotten rid of completely. And I think that we do need I agree with, with president Trump about tariffs. Our country was the most prosperous. When we strictly relied on tariffs, we saw the the the decline in individual prosperity with the adoption of the income tax, which was, you know, supposed to be on it's only gonna be 10% of the income, and it's only going to be applied to the people who make over this amount. But now we see that it's not that. Now we see it's almost 40% of your income is taken in taxes, and as we've been seeing with Doge, which by the way is not an original creation of Donald Trump.
Doge actually started under a different name under Obama. So this isn't anything new. Alright? So I had a clip for you. I I took it out of my system, and I I I never put it back, but, from a from a couple of shows ago. But, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, DeSantis in Florida is right on the money here. He is calling for several things. First of all, this is something that should be done in every single state, and I'm looking forward to governor Abbott here in my state of Texas to doing something like this. Florida governor, Ron DeSantis announces state Doge task force. Florida state Doge task force is based in the federal, based off of the federal agency started by president Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk to, cut government spending.
Bravo. Long time coming and should be done in every state. And, you know, it it says a lot to me when you have a governor of a state stepping up and saying, hey. You know, we're gonna do the same thing. That tells me that this guy is straight on the level walking the good line, And, I think this is huge. Absolutely huge, and it should be implemented in every state. Man, could you imagine? Can you imagine if New York was investigated through Doge? Holy crap. What about New Jersey? Chicago, Illinois, the state. California. Hey now.
Right? Think about that. Of course, red states are gonna are probably gonna do this much easier because I think there's, there's corruption. There's misappropriations. Republicans are not unscathed by these types of, shenanigans with with taxpayer money. I think they're I think it's fewer Republicans than Democrats, but I I think it's an it's it's an equal distribution of the dirt. So, but for for, for a governor of the state to say, we're gonna do the same thing, that says a lot. So Florida let's see. Let's go to the article here. This is, an article by Just the News. Florida has set the standard for fiscally conservative governance, and our new Florida Doge task force will do even more to serve the people of Florida descent to set. Some of the goals for Florida version will include a deep dive into government funding, going to the state universities. Another goal will be looking into the continued existence of 70 boards and commissions in 02/2025.
The Florida State Doge Task Force will implement a multi pronged approach to eliminating bureaucratic bloat and modernizing our state government to best serve the people of Florida. That's huge. Should be done in every state, and I again, I'm looking forward to, governor Abbott doing the same thing. Ron DeSantis all also was talking about, the, doing away with property taxes, and that's that's that's another issue. I get it, but let me just float this by you. So when I say that that taxation is immoral, and I say taxation should be, illegal and abolished, let me explain it to you this way in in under the the umbrella of property taxes.
Alright. Here you are. You you purchased land. You purchased property. You spend thirty years paying for that property. Is the property yours? Is it? Well, if you are still paying taxes on that property, what happens if you stop paying it? What happens if you miss payments? What happens? Well, the state comes in and confiscates your property, takes it away from you. Who owns your property? Well, basically, you're renting from the state. Isn't that right? You're making payments that you're paying taxes on property that you've already paid for and have been taxed for. That's immoral.
And then you have someone who, say, is you know, paid off their property, took them thirty years to pay it off, over 65, retired, limited, fixed income, and their property taxes just keep going up and up and up and up and up. Now I know I'm doing the typical liberal type thing. I'm I'm playing on emotion. I'm not dealing with facts. I'm dealing with emotion, but it's appropriate in a situation like this. You take my state here in Texas. Texas had a 24 or $28,000,000,000 surplus in taxes. They're talking about the possibility of doing, tax rebates on property taxes and and and so forth, returning that money to the people of the state. Well, how about this?
How about this? And there are a few voices for this in the Texas state legislature. How about we just get rid of property taxes altogether? Or maybe maybe Instead of doing a, basically, it's a sales tax, you know, when you when you purchase a property. How about how about instead of a sales tax on the property, how about your property taxes for the thirty years that you're paying off the mortgage goes to that purpose? But that property tax will be a fixed rate for the duration of your mortgage, and then when you finish paying off your mortgage, you don't pay any more taxes. I think that kinda makes some sense. I think that could work, and I think that's something that should be discussed and talked about.
Alright? So we'll see. Again, my opinion. It's just my opinion. You know? I'm not an expert in any of this stuff. I'm just going off of what I read and what I see in my real life experience. So I think that I think that's something that could be work, worked on, and I think it's something that could be, very easily and very widely loved and accepted. And, of course, you know, Texas has its problems and, you know, Texas has a lot of, you know, there there are some liberal areas in Texas even though Texas is predominantly a red state, a a pretty solid red state to be honest with you. Texas, house, senate, and and, Governor's Mansion are are all, Republican, red.
Although, you know, we have a swamp here too, and, right now, the swamp is holding the speaker's chair at this Texas house and has given Democrats a lot of authority and power in in the committees and so on and so forth. So it's almost like living in a in a blue state, but, you know, but, you know, we have a lot of work here to do ourselves. But, one of the things that we do need to do, and this is at the federal levels, we need to get rid of morons, and yes, I said morons. I don't care about his military service. I don't care that he lost an eye. I don't care he runs around wearing a web wearing an eyepatch. What's his name? Crenshaw over in, excuse me.
Dan Crenshaw over here in, in Texas. He this guy is every single interview I've seen him do of late I don't know if this is PTSD kicking in or anything like that, but everything I've seen him do of late, has has been troublesome to to see. Just recently, a hot mic caught, Dan Crenshaw threatening Tucker Carlson, and he said, quote, if I ever meet him, I will fucking kill him. Does that sound like somebody well, he was just kidding. He was kidding. No. No. No. He he he wasn't kidding. As a matter of fact, how about we, hear from, old how about we hear from old patches ourselves?
Thank you. Have you ever met soccer?
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You just saw the video of Republican congressman from Texas. The gay pirate, Dan Crenshaw, saying, no. I've never met Tucker Carlson. I'd kill him if I did. Well, I know the inside baseball about Crenshaw. He's a terrible voting record. He's a complete liar. He's a WEF alumni. He's a globalist stooge. And so Tucker Carlson responded by saying, hey. DM me. I'll give you my address. Come on the show. Stop acting like a coward. And so after Tucker responded back and said, here's my address. Well, Elon piped in and says, why is Crenshaw homicidal regarding Tucker? Oh, you got the bloodhound sniffing around now.
Oh, no. If you're a bad guy, you don't want Elon to start fee fi fo fum. I smell the blood of globalist scum. Be he live. Be he dead. I'll grind his bones to make my bread. But not I love Alex Jones. I
[00:55:44] Unknown:
I can't help it. I I love him. But he's got a he has he's got a great point. So out so, so Tucker reaches out to him, and, the response here is is quite comical. After the interview, dad Steven Edgington, who's the the gentleman that he's that was, interviewing, Dan Crenshaw, after after Dan Crenshaw said he said that, after sorry. After Dan Crenshaw said that he would kill Tucker Carlson, Edgington actually asked him. He goes, he goes he he goes, really? And and he said, no. Seriously. I would. I would kill him. So, you you can go over to x and you could find, Steve Steven Edgington on x, and you can watch his whole video, the whole interview there where actually the live mic does, in fact, catch the entire conversation that proceeded afterward.
And then he said, so, of course, you know, he mentions it and, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, who I I like. I do. I I think she I think she's great, but there's there's never, there's never a a a a a a controversy that she runs away from, which I think is great too. So, as soon as as soon as that footage came out, Marjorie Taylor Greene sends out a a a message over x, and she says and then she, she tagged, Dan Crenshaw, Tucker Carlson, and this whole thing shows, did you threaten to kill my friend Tucker Carlson? And, Dan Crenshaw's response was, LOL, no.
And then then this is why I love x. You know? This is this is why I love it. This is why, you know, when I when I but basically when I when I cut myself off of all of the, social medias and stuff that I was on, the the one that I did keep was x or Twitter at the time, now x, but because of this type of stuff. And this is what's great about free speech, this is what's great about x, and what Elon Musk is doing there. You can even, you know, another great platform is Truth Social. You gotta try out Truth Social if you haven't done that yet. But, so, so, Dan Crenshaw basically says, no. I didn't say that.
Well, Steve Edgerton responds to that tweet and says, we have it on tape, and he gives them the link to it. Proof Dan Crenshaw said he would kill, capitals, Tucker Carlson, if he met him. He told me when I laughed, it wasn't a joke. That should be disturbing to you. That should be troubling to you that Dan Crenshaw is running around threatening to kill people. Now I know. Look. We all in our in the course of our lives have have gotten to, you know, I've said it. Everybody's said it, you know, oh, man. I just wanna kill him, you know. This was different though.
This was different. When you when you actually see the video, you watch the whole interview, and I encourage you to do it. Go do it. I'm I I can't play the whole thing. It's too long, but go watch the video on x, and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Dan Crenshaw was not kidding. He was dead serious. Dead serious. This man is unhinged, and he needs to be voted out. So folks in in Dan Crenshaw's district, you know what you need to do. Get him out. Let's get him out. Alright. Let's see. Oh, this was interesting today. I heard about this today. So apparently, there are some concerns here that are that are brewing with, the the newly appointed AG, Pam Bondi.
We all remember that, president Trump said that, he was going to have the, JFK tapes and, the, tapes. I'm sorry. The files and the, the Epstein client list all released, you know, day one. Now we we know that that wasn't gonna happen day one. It's gonna take time to to get people to put in place to be able to do it, but what president Trump did is he signed the executive order to release all this information. Alright? And if you remember a couple of days ago, we talked about this and we said that, that we we presented audio, video of, Pam Bondi that, you know, she actually has the files on her desk and so on and so forth. Now here's the question though, and what disturbs me is that maybe for different reasons, I find myself aligning with Ilhan Omar of all freaking people because I wanna know what's taken the DOJ so long to release these files.
What's the problem? Pam Bondi said they're on her desk. Well, what are we waiting for? What are we waiting for in these things? Now, I I mentioned Elon Omar because, Elon Omar actually posted a tweet that said, that that, well, she raised the concern also that that AG Bondi is taking so long to release these things, and she wondered who they were covering for. Now I know that she wasn't that that she was being somewhat facetious, and I I know that. And I know that she was talking more about, you know, thinking that that that she they they were, you know, hiding, information about, about Israel and all this because, you know, you know, she's she's, she hates Israel.
And we all know that, that Jeffrey Epstein was probably a a triple or a quadruple agent. He was working for the CIA. He was working for Mossad. He was probably working for MI six or MI five. He was probably who knows? He he he he was probably at least a triple agent. So he has all of this information that is potentially harmful to not just, people of power and authority here in The United States, but probably all around the world. So, so I understand where she is coming from on that, but it just creeps me out that I'm I'm asking the same question. Now, Congresswoman, Anna Paulina Luna, who I think is just the best, she said, we saw over the weekend that you're reviewing all files from JFK to Epstein. We were all anticipating the release.
When will they be declassified and available to the public? Now, of course, she put that up on, on she posted up on x, so all this information is getting out there. And, let's see. So she's, she says that, she still hasn't heard anything. February 11, February nineteenth, House Oversight sent a letter to the DOJ asking for status on releasing the Epstein files as well as well as JFK. The DOJ has not responded. Now that's kinda troubling. You think about it, you know, it's it's like, you know, the spider sense is tingling? What is the holdup? What is the delay?
You know, president Trump did already release or or sign the executive order to do it. In fact, general Flynn, Mike Flynn kinda got involved in this, when, representative Luna, made a post to to, Pam Bondi regarding the the the one I just posted to you, general Flynn jumped in on this. And, well, I'm sorry. I let me back that up. General Flynn sent a tweet that said, to, representative Luna, release everything at once. We don't need a trip down memory lane. We need full transparency from the USG. Her response was, hey, at general Flynn, you of all people would know that I nor the committee have any declass authority. The declastification approval is done by Waltz, Tulsi, Bondi, and White House counsel. You know this.
We do need transparency, but we also need people like you putting out correct info. Now I I I don't I don't know if that response was justified for the question. I don't know. But, Flynn did acknowledge what she had to say, and he and he said this in a responding tweet. Representative Luna, thank you very much for responding. I do appreciate it. I am fully aware of the d class authorities. The POTUS has already signed the order. At this stage, there is no more debating the classification. The file should be fully 100% released without any redactions.
The American people can take whatever it is we ought to learn. We already know a lot. The people and the USG agencies that can't take it are those, who will be exposed because of what we will learn. We need accountability and no more long legislative processes and congressional investigations. We need doge like transparency. Again, many thanks for all that you're doing. You're a fighter, and we want you to keep fighting. There are very few in Congress who are willing to stick their necks out, to which she just simply responded, thank you.
And then, and then representative Luna later pressed, Pam Bondi, stating, you know, February, the house oversight, sent a letter to DOJ asking the status on releasing the Epstein's files, well as JFK's. Now, Luna also sent a letter to, Director of National Intelligence, Chelsea Gabbard, attorney general Pam Botti, national security adviser, Michael Waltz, and the White House counsel, David Warrington, demanding updates. She requested a briefing for the task force regarding JFK, RFK, MLK assassination records asking for a specific timeline when the documents that Trump ordered declassified they were already ordered declassified, would be made available.
Meanwhile, house oversight committee chairman James Comer also, demanded briefings from various agencies on multiple classified matters, including the JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations, COVID nineteen origins, unidentified anomalous phenomena, which we talked about yesterday, and unidentified submerged objects, which we talked about yesterday. Also, nine eleven documents and the fully redacted, the fully unredacted Epstein client list. So I am really looking forward to all of this information coming out. Now another thing that I saw, it was kinda interesting, and I saw this right before the show. So I didn't get an opportunity to really, review all of the audio on this. So it might be it might be a bit long. But, I was watching the Alex Jones show and, on Infowars, and, yes, I'm an Alex Jones fan.
I like Alex Jones. I think Alex Jones is right more times than he was not, you know. And I think it's kinda creepy. He's as right as he is, and I know all the theories and all the conspiracies that are out there talking about Alex Jones and his connections, you know, does does he have connections with the CIA? Does he have connections here or there? Is he some kind of an agent or I don't know. I just think the man's smart. He he he he he knows he he can tell which way the wind is blowing. He reads the tea leaves, if you wanna put it that way. He knows what's going on. He has his finger on everything on on the pulse of it all, and I think he does he does a great job. And I think he's been unjustly persecuted, unjustly targeted, and, I will stand with Alex Jones no matter what. I think he I you know, and I'm not doing this for any reason other than the fact that I do appreciate Alex Jones and what he does. I've been I've been a follow I've been following Alex Jones for years.
For year I wanna say at least fifteen, twenty years. So, you know, I I trust him more than I trust the mainstream media. Let's put it that way. Alright. But, this was very interesting today. Apple has confirmed to Fox News, and I don't know if you've heard this or not, but, that iPhones are actually changing the word racist to Trump in voice to text feature confirming the bombshell story that first broke by Infowars. So let's, let's let's take a look. This it's a long clip. I'm only gonna play play about maybe a minute or two of it, so, you can get the rest of it on on Alex Jones' Twitter account. But, basically, Apple has confirmed to Fox News that iPhones are in fact changing the word racist to Trump in a voice to text feature confirming, what, what they broke the other day. Let's take a look.
Maybe? I think we're having some problems with this particular piece of video. So I guess we're gonna skip that. Right? Yep. Alright. Never mind. So, unfortunately but, you know, that's the, that's that's a clip from it at least. That popped up on your screen there. Anyway, let's move on, shall we? Alright. So I think that's that's pretty that's pretty low class garbage that, that, that Apple would do that. And, And, of course, they say it's just a glitch, you know, it's it's just a little problem, that they're they're working on fixing and and so on and so forth. Well, I call bullshit on that, but we'll see what happens. We shall see. Alright. What what else do I have here for you? Okay. So USAID.
Alright. Remember, we we when we first, we really started getting into the show, We talked about USAID when it all started, you know, The United States, Agency for International Development. So it's not USAID, it's USAID. So I saw this on, is it The Federalist? And, by the way, Federalist is a great site. You should check them out, thefederalist.com. Lot of really, really good information in there. But, USAID in Egypt, this is, who's this written by? Larry Taunton. USAID in Egypt had me detained for walking in and asking if it's following Trump's orders.
Folks, this agency needs to come to an end, and it needs to come to an end now. So, the article says, I recently traveled from Davos to the, sit the ancient city on the Nile with USAID's nefarious activities dominating the news. I decided to visit its Cairo office to see how it was responding to Trump's recent order slashing USAID activities. To call USAID Egypt in office is misleading. It is a military style compound. My driver, Mohammed, and I approached the boom gate where security guards stood in a small guardhouse of the type you see all over the world. They raised the gate arm and waved us through. I found that the key to entering government buildings, much like the World Economic Forum, is simply to walk in as if I own the place more often than than you might think. Security just steps aside.
So he's he goes on to say, Mohammed zigzagged the Mercedes van, through the suicide bomber barriers we we parked, told him to wait. There was no USAID signage that I could see. The facility was a fortress with high block walls topped with metal spikes and cameras. I walked to the perimeter of the compound looking for the entrance, taking video as I went. Finding it, I walked casually past the security guard and entered, snapping a picture of the USAID signage within. So here, he says, another security guard greeted me, asked if I had an appointment, and request my my ID. I said no and gave him my driver's license. He looked at it and briefly handed back, because what's your business? I said I was investigating the activities of USAID, and since I was in Cairo, I wondered what they what they did here and how they were responding to president Trump's executive orders.
He he went on to say nervous eyes darted. The security guard whispers, I don't think I should talk to you. I told him he should he probably shouldn't then, at least not here on camera. Perhaps he or one of his colleagues would like to speak away from his office, and then he called his supervisor. And then this happened.
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So hopefully this works. What's he saying? Stay here. Hopefully, I'm holding this up properly here and they're, go ahead. You're fine. They're, stopping my driver. They're telling me they want my phone because I have videoed the, the USAID facility and so forth. I've told them they can't have the phone. So now they're telling my driver he has to get out. So I'm continuing to video, and I can't see if I'm aiming this correctly. So hopefully Can you see the buzzword?
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So, there was another video too that I wanted to play, but I I couldn't get it converted. So he says a week later, he returned this time in a Mercedes sedan. He had no intention to enter the compound. Wanna drive by to confirm a couple of misconceptions. Security recognized me. Came out from beyond the boom gate. Stopped the vehicle. And, where was I? South of I ordered my driver and me to get out. As an Egyptian national, Mohammed wisely did. As he was told, I didn't move. Mohammed, I said, throw me under the bus. You're merely my driver, and and as as your client, I told you to drive here.
He nodded, shut the door. You were taking video. True. But and and it went on. So they accused me of being a terrorist, and then one of the guards kinda just smirked at him, and there was, like, a quiet, you know they they even knew that the terrorism thing was was ridiculous. And, let's see. Where were we? I lost it in this case. Well, I'm having a problem here right now. So so let me again, this is ridiculous. I can't. Alright. But just head over to the federalist.com and look for the article USAID in Egypt, by Larry Taunton. Great article. Read the whole thing. I had another clip I was gonna play here for you, but it's just not loading.
I don't and I could try to play it from here. I don't know if you're gonna hear it or not. We'll see.
[01:15:10] Unknown:
Alright. I'm being detained by USAID Cairo. I'm outside of the gate. They've taken my driver's driver's license, not mine, his. They've demanded my passport. They have demanded, I gotta put this down. They have demanded my phone. Again, we've not entered into the entered into the the facility. We've taken no pictures of the facility on this particular occasion, but they do not did know that who I was, that I was the guy who was here last week. And I decided to come back to just take one more look. Had no intention of entering, and we didn't. But this time, they were laying in wait for us. They, they blocked the car, and, now they've suggested that I'm some sort of terrorist. Then they know better than that. They know that I I have no such intentions. I'm quite Google able, and they were very aware of my, my viral tweet, from last time. But, again, that's what's going on here.
So
[01:16:20] Unknown:
Okay. So there's no audio. I can see it. I hear it on my end, but it's not coming up on yours. So that's what I was just checking on the phone there. So if you saw me doing that, that's what I was doing. Alright. Let's move on. We already covered that. We covered that. Let's close that up. Let's close that so I don't keep going back to it. Alright. How about we get to some Doge news? Alright. Let let's start to have some, you know, happier, much more fun conversation. Alright. So, did you know? If you go to the if you if you're on x, you should be following at doge, d o g e. Alright?
It is the official, Doge, Twitter account, x account. And, today, I was reading this, and I was like, you know, I gotta I gotta bring this up. So they they they give a regular update on what your tax dollars and my tax dollars are going for going to. Okay? So this is what they posted today. US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items. Let me see if I have that available, and I could show it to you. There we go. Alright. That should be popping up. Alright. So U US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all of which have been canceled. Alright. So that's that's that's great. Alright. Canceled. Sorry for my stuffy nose. I'm over here sniffling.
Alright. So you ready? Here we go. $69,000,000 for the Eurasia Foundation to do, quote, digital transformation activity in Europe. What the hell is digital transformation activity? 32,000,000 to inter news for programs including media enabling democracy, inclusion, and accountability in Moldova and the promotion of sustainable may media outlets. Just sounds like another DEI program for me. 7,000,000 for the American Bar Association to to promote the resilience of the Eurasian legal sector and civic society. Right.
Alright. Now, here here's where it starts getting pricey. Right. Here, we're we're at, half a billion dollars. Alright. $520,000,000 to a consultant to do ESG investments in Africa and mobilize private sector resources and expertise. 520,000,000 of your tax dollars, my tax dollars, for a consultant. Twenty five million to to promote biodiversity conservation and promote, licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behaviors in Colombia. Forty Million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
42,000,000 to Johns Johns Hopkins to research and drive social and behavior change in Uganda, Forty Five Million Dollars to address the needs, opportunities, and challenges identified by activists and other civic actors engaged in nonviolent collective action. And then, of course, the icing on the cake, 52,000,000 of your dollars to the World Economic Forum so they could force you to eat the bugs. Isn't that just wonderful? Wonderful. Where your tax dollars and my tax dollars are going. It's insane. It is absolutely insane, and this is why the left is freaking out over Doge, because all of this money do you really think that all of this money is going to these places?
Do you really think that 520,000,000, half a billion dollars is going to a consultant. Do you really think so? Do you do you really now that you're seeing these numbers, do you do you wonder why? Does it make sense to you now? Why morons and mental midgets like AOC and others go into congress making a hundred and 70, a hundred and $74,000 a year, and after a year or two are millionaires? Is it all making sense to you now why they're so opposed to Doge? Because the cash cow was coming to an end. Because all of these payments that I just read to you, all these payments we just put up there on the wall, they're all canceled. They're gone. And this government wants to give you your money back.
They wanna give you dividend payments, which I think is fantastic. It should have been done all it should it should be done already. It should we shouldn't be be waiting right now. That money should be in your bank account tomorrow. We did not vote for the things that this money is going to. We voted for Donald Trump. We voted for Donald Trump's appointments, and we voted for Donald Trump to be cleaning out the swamp, and that's exactly what he's doing. And all you're seeing with all the opposition is the swamp fighting back, doing everything they can to try to derail the whole thing, and that's why they're so opposed to this. Because all of this money, maybe some of it was actually going to where it's supposed to be going where where it was well, not supposed to be, but allocated to go.
But I guarantee you the majority of that money was going into congress's pockets or other family members, Hunter Biden, for example. It's fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. And then along along the same lines as as Doge and Elon Musk, did you know that in 02/2003, Joe Biden now mind you, this is the left is apoplectic over the fact of Doge auditing the auditors, IRS. They all you've heard from them is they're giving them access to taxpayer information and taxpayer IDs and taxpayer this and taxpayer all this information is getting is being given out, and none of these people are pay none of these people are have been appointed by by, by Congress. None of these people, you know, or or, should have access to any of this information.
But but in 02/2023, Joe Biden gave 53 unpaid researchers, and you're gonna love it, and student volunteers. Here you go. 53 unpaid researchers and student volunteers access to the same information that DOJ is having access to, and the Democrats had no problem with it. No problem whatsoever. Have at it. Go get them. Let's see what Byron had to say.
[01:24:49] Unknown:
No. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with this very simple thing. They love the massive bloat in waste because it's like you said, Mark, they get to fit all of their little pet projects underneath the covers where nobody can see it. You got Stacey Abrams at one of her climate funk groups is supposed to get $2,000,000,000. When if you look at their tax returns, their revenue is only a hundred dollars, and they're getting $2,000,000,000. This is the kind of stuff. They're so upset about Elon Musk and the DOS team having access to the Internal Revenue Service data into the treasury payment system. But there's a g there's a report that came out the other day that under Joe Biden, he let 53 researchers and students, unpaid people, go in and actually have full access to the data of the American people at the IRS. Joe Biden's administration let that happen. So they have no problem with the waste and the fraud and the abuse as long as their special interest groups are being funded and their ideology is being promoted regardless of the will of the American people. But our country can't simply survive that. We are very thankful that Donald Trump and his team are saying enough is enough. They are going to save this nation for the American people and begin the process of restoring a constitutional republic.
[01:26:08] Unknown:
Keep this in mind also. The previous administration hired 80,000 armed IRS agents or funded the hiring of 80,000 IRS agents to audit Americans who had $600 in their accounts, and the left applauded. Donald Trump hired one billionaire who works for free to audit the federal government, and the Democrats are flipping out. Apoplectic. Losing it. I used that word twice today. Alright? So be impressed. You should be. Do you understand? Do you see the problem here? Doge also found that Biden gave 900 over 900 people access to the IRS. Gateway Pundit put out a piece. As as legacy media freaks out over one Doge employee getting IRS access, We found out that Biden gave 919 people access.
Folks were not the same. I'm sorry. No. I'm not sorry. Screw them. Oh, my my my my my my my my my. Alright. As always, we'd like to close out the show with some Texas news. I wish I had something better for you tonight, but, local Texas news here. So, representative, state representative Brian Harrison on his Twitter account. If you're not following Brian Harrison on your Twitter on on Twitter, you need to. This guy and and especially if you're a Texas resident and if you are in his district, you need to be following Brian Harrison. Alright?
He posted this this, today on on his Twitter account. Let me pull this baby up. So the Texas Department of Transportation confirms that they have spent up to $1,000,000,000 on DEI contracts to build railroads and bridges, and 50 taxpayer funded employees working in their civil rights division, which promotes inclusion, diversity, and equity. He goes on to say in his tweet here, you know, Texas should be leading the fight against DS DEI, not spending billions of dollars on it. And he is quite quite right. Let's see what they have to say.
[01:29:20] Unknown:
This is Department of Transportation. Correct? That's right. Y'all build roads. Roads, bridges Yes. Rail. Yes. You've got a civil rights division. We do. You have an office of civil rights. Why?
[01:29:33] Unknown:
Well, the office of civil rights exists to, administer programs that are governed by federal law and regulation and state law and regulation. Those include our disadvantaged business enterprise programs and, our, historically underutilized business programs. And and I I did see your your your your tweet that you put out. Appreciate, calling your attention to to to that. We ensured that that website was updated to clearly clarify what that division does and their purpose of of of their function and how they interrelate with, their counterparts at the federal level. They're within the USDOT. There are six different offices of civil rights that we have to work with because
[01:30:19] Unknown:
of the requirements in the administration of federal funds. Well, yeah, I was gonna bring the website up in a second, but since you raised it, I'll I'll jump right into that because this is and I printed it out this morning. This is what the home page for your civil rights division at TxDOT looks like as of right now. But you alluded to something a second ago that maybe it didn't look like this very recently. Mhmm. Okay. So there have been changes to this website. Yes, sir. How recently?
[01:30:42] Unknown:
They were made over the weekend. Okay. Yeah. So
[01:30:46] Unknown:
this is pretty consistent with what you just said although I do still want to come back to some of this especially on the hubs, but two days ago it looked like this. Is this accurate? I believe that's I I can't read it from here, but I I know what you're referring to, and I think you're holding it up. What I've what I've highlighted here is language that was on your website over the weekend, and I about fell out of my chair when I read this. So on the the homepage of the, TxDOT civil rights division, You're bragging that the TxDOT, so our Department of Transportation, is promoting diversity and inclusion opportunities and then explicitly engaged in affirmative action activities.
What were you doing two days ago to promote diversity and inclusion and affirmative action?
[01:31:33] Unknown:
Well, I wanna first of all say, you know, I appreciate you bringing that to my attention, and what we did was we wanted to review that and ensure that, what is conveyed is consistent with what our mission is. As you know or may be aware, the the Watching these committee hearings alike. Three months ago, or three months ago. Getting a root canal without Novacan. An executive order that, that spoke to that and spoke to the importance of affirming that as an organization, we need to ensure that, that the work that we do as an agency, equally, protects individuals under the law. And, and that's what we wanna consistently do, and we wanna remove any kind of terminology that might suggest otherwise. And so that was the intent was to remove that terminology that would be construed or or maybe confused, with,
[01:32:23] Unknown:
efforts that that we don't do as a department. No. Yeah. And I I very much appreciate the governor issuing that executive order. I do have a copy of it here in my hands. So much appreciation for everybody. Months now posting daily examples of our state agencies using taxpayer funds to promote, DEI, and I very much appreciate the governor taking taking that action, but I have very real concerns. And I I would love to understand because you say clarifying terminology. I would like to know what was TxDOT doing regarding DEI that that led y'all to have this on the front page of your website?
[01:32:55] Unknown:
Well, I would as I said before, we support the governor's executive order and his direction in that area. We're working to administer our programs consistent with that executive order and with federal
[01:33:06] Unknown:
and state law that covers that. Everything that we're doing is consistent with federal and state law. And I and I appreciate that. But you can understand, like, thirty hours ago, the website looked very differently. Although I certainly appreciate change, but I do wanna know, like, were there any actual substantive changes? Like, were staff reprogrammed or retasked? Were staff eliminated? I would say that what was, outlined on
[01:33:28] Unknown:
So you get the idea, of where that whole mess was going. So this is this is it's a this is insanity. A billion dollars. And he said, you know, he said something interesting, and I'm surprised that the representative didn't jump on this. He said, in, compliance with the federal, did Donald Trump or did he not sign an executive order eliminating DEI from anything to do with the federal government? I do believe so. I I think that was maybe the first day, quite possibly the first day. But, you know, thirty hours ago, according to at that time, the Texas DOT did not find itself in compliance with that. So but that's what's going on here in Texas, my friends. Something else going on here in Texas, which is which should be very concerning, on the surface, but, I think that governor Abbott, is handling this properly.
So, I don't know how many people heard about this, but, there's an organization, that, it's an Islamic organization that has, apparently purchased or attempted to purchase some land, about 400 acres of land, in the, in the Dallas Fort Worth area. And what they were planning on doing, is they were planning on establishing a, an Islamic city an Islamic city called, Epic City. And, so basically where where Shariah law would be the rule of the law, the the rule of the land in that specific city. So let me see. Do I have that? Is that it?
No. Here it is. So this is from, this is from the, this is from Twitter. So, this Twitter user, Carlos, ex user, Carlos Tercios posted this. And, I'm gonna play the audio in a second here, but, what's what's really important is is is, governor Abbott's responses here. And he says, in in one particular message, to be clear, Shariah law is not allowed in Texas nor are Shariah cities, nor are, no go zones, which this project seems to imply. Bottom line, the project as proposed in the video is not allowed in Texas. Alright. And one of my favorite people, of course, on x, Valentina Gomez response in Islam, rape is incest and pedophilia are legalized. They're not compatible with Texas.
They have 56 Muslim nations. They can go enjoy their Sharia law there. Alright. And, let's take a look at this video. Let's see. Where is she? Here you go.
[01:36:32] Unknown:
Today, we take the next bold step. We are proud to announce the successful purchase of land for Epic City.
[01:36:40] Unknown:
Four hundred to acres of beautiful scenery. Welcome to the future of living. Welcome to Epic City.
[01:36:52] Unknown:
Folks, this is what they're trying to do. They're trying to take over a piece at a time, and we cannot let that happen. So, you know, I appreciate the governor's stance on this, but, according to that clip, they've already purchased the land, and I think that this is something that you're gonna have to get DPS involved in, and, maybe the, the the the Texas State Guard. We cannot allow this backwards religion of Islam a foothold in Texas. It is not compatible culturally, and it is not compatible constitutionally, and it is not compatible religiously.
And like, like Valentino Gomez said, there are 52 Muslim countries. If they want Sharia law, buy, go. Go back to where it was. Don't turn my Texas into the shithole country that you came from. Go back and live your Sharia law there. Do I care if this pisses you off? No. I couldn't care less. Go back to where you came from if that's the lifestyle you want. Plain and simple. Alright. Well, here here's a good one. Did you hear that, that, that that Frank? Pope Francis, is on his deathbed? TPV Shawn, great great great x account. Check him out. T p v at t p v Shawn. Post pope Francis deathbed sermon.
This is this is classic. You but you shouldn't be surprised. Pope Francis deathbed sermon urges Christians to pray to Lucifer. Y'all know who Lucifer is, right, for real enlightenment. Lucifer is the name of the, the angel, the archangel, who was the covering angel over the throne of God, sinned and rebelled against God, was, cast out of heaven, and then, ended up, on the Earth, tempted Eve, who then tempted Adam. Like, I I wanna say she tempted Adam. I Adam, I think, knew full well what he was doing when he took the fruit, when he ate the fruit that Eve partook of at the urging of Lucifer, or as you might know him as, Satan, the devil.
So, if there was any more clear example, I know people could say, well, you know, he's on his deathbed. I don't know. I mean, not in his right frame of mind. No. This is the Catholic church. I'm sorry. No. I'm not. That's the Catholic church. Alright. So Sean says, if you thought pope Francis couldn't make it any clearer that he is a Satan worshiping false prophet dedicated to the ushering in the new world order, think again. The pontiff who rose to power after the conservative pope Benedict was ousted in a globalist coup has found a new way, even more shocking way, to betray his followers.
Now, on his deathbed, he has played his final hand, dropping all pretense and making his most brazen, blasphemous move yet. Pope Francis announced the coming of Lucifer and urged the Catholics to bow down and seek true enlightenment from the dark lord.
[01:41:21] Unknown:
That's the that's the post. Here's the video. If you thought pope Francis couldn't make it any clearer that he's a Satan worshiping false prophet dedicated to ushering in the new world order, think again. The pontiff, who rose to power after the conservative pope Benedict was ousted in a globalist coup, has found a new and even more shocking way to betray his followers. Now on his deathbed, he's played his final hand, dropping all pretense and making his most brazen, blasphemous move yet. That's right. According to witnesses, Francis announced the coming of Lucifer and urged his followers to bow down and seek true enlightenment from the dark lord himself. Before we dive in Now I'm not gonna play his commercials for you, but
[01:42:02] Unknown:
head over to, TPV Sean, Thomas Peter Victor Sean, and, take a look at the at at this post yourself. Listen to the video. Really, really great stuff. Good piece. Solid. Check it out. Alright? Alright. Let's see. What else else could we get for for you? Oh, so have you did you see what happened, today at the at the at the Oval Office? So, you know what? You gotta love Donald Trump. You you do. I'm sorry. Whether you whether whether you're a supporter or not, you gotta appreciate Donald Trump. He is the, I I mean, he just owns the media. He really does. He absolutely does. So earlier today, somebody had, come up well, new hats.
I want one. I very, very, very want one, And, I'm I'm hoping I'll be able to get one very, very soon. But, today at the, Oval Office Oval Office, let's see. I I had this happened.
[01:43:08] Unknown:
Give me all of them. Sure. Look. Yes. See
[01:43:13] Unknown:
that?
[01:43:15] Unknown:
Trump was right about everything. It just came in. Somebody said I said but this was sent in by a fan. I said, I think we should make some of them. Right? But we were pretty much. You want one? I'll pass. Are you allowed to take one? Because he'll consider it. I know him well. He's sort of a stiff I said you're a You're a You're sort of a stiff guy. He'll take other things, but not a free hand. Don't always say yes to the president. Always say yes to the president. Would anybody like one?
[01:43:44] Unknown:
You gotta love him. That's my president. And you know what? Whether you like it or not, he's your president too. So that is awesome. I he just absolutely owned the room. And he does it all the time, you know. Nest one of the things about Donald Trump that people don't understand. He he look. Trump offers the guy a hat. He reads that. Trump is right about everything, and the reporter says, no. He he asked the reporter if he wants, but, no. I'll pass on it. And I'd love the response. Well, he you're you're a stiff guy. You know, he'll take other things, but not a free hat. I I'll take a free hat. You know, hello. I'll take one over here. That would be great. I would love one. That is fantastic.
And, you you know, the reason why people he he just he just knows it, and he just knows how to work a room. He knows how to work people. He knows how to talk to people. And, you know, it's just it's one of those things with Donald Trump. He just knows everything. And and a couple years ago, Dave Chappelle actually, and we're gonna end the show today on this. It's a it's a minute thirty clip, but it's worth it. It's worth a listen. Dave Chappelle a number of years ago, and I'm sure you guys heard this, he he he he was hosting Saturday Night Live. He was doing his little bit, and this is this is what he said. This has this is back in 02/2016, but he is absolutely spot on.
Absolutely spot on. You know? And this was the moment that Donald Trump won over, I think, politically speaking, the hearts and minds of Americans. Take a look.
[01:45:25] Unknown:
A lot of you don't understand why Trump was so popular, but I I get it because I hear it every day. He's very loved. And the reason he's loved is because people in Ohio have never seen somebody like him. That first debate, I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen a white male billionaire screaming at the top of his lungs. This whole system is rigged, he said. And across the stage was white woman, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, sitting over there looking at him like, no. It's not. I said, now wait a minute, bro. It's what he said.
And the moderator said, well, mister Trump, if in fact the system is rigged, as you suggest, what would be your evidence? Remember what he said, bro? He said, I know the system is rigged because I use it. I said, god damn. That's right. I remember that. I never heard someone say something that true. And then Hillary Clinton tried to punch him in the taxes. She said, this man doesn't pay his taxes. He shot right back. That makes me smart. And then he said, if you want me to pay my taxes, then change the tax code. But I know you won't because your friends and your donors enjoy the same tax breaks that I do.
And with that, my friends, the star was born.
[01:46:54] Unknown:
Absolutely 1000% right. 1000% right. From that moment on, the politician Donald Trump won the hearts of conservative America. I remember it, I watched those debates, I was I was doing, Internet radio before they call it podcasting. I did Internet radio with a bunch of friends, it was a three man team, it was myself, I was the conservative voice, and then we had my friend Jason, was the liberal voice. We had another Joe, who was the, the, the pot smoking libertarian voice. Not if there's anything wrong with that. I am a conservatarian, but we were doing the Internet radio show at that time, and I remember watching that. I remember talking about that on that show.
And that at at that point, I wasn't sold yet on Donald Trump as a candidate, but that debate appearance is what convinced me, and I was sold on him. And I've been I've been a a fan, a follower ever since. So I agree with everything? No. I don't agree with everything, which is fine. You don't have to. But you gotta remember that Donald Trump is a spreadsheets guy like like, Bongino says. He's a spreadsheets guy, and that's how we have to be as conservatives. That's how we have to be, in my situation as a conservatarian. You have to go by the facts.
Facts, John Adams said, are stubborn things. You gotta go with the facts. Donald Trump laid the facts out as as as bluntly and as plain as you could, and that's why he's where he is today. And that's why the left hates him as much as he does because he speaks what's on his mind. He lays it out directly as a matter of fact. No emotion behind it, and that's why they don't like it. Alright, folks. Just wanna say thank you so much to everybody that's been watching tonight. Thank you very much. Our numbers have fluctuated between the, the the the twenties and tens. So we appreciate that. Thank you very much for watching, and, for those of you that are listening on the live audio stream or will be listening later on, thank you so much for spending your time with us tonight. I know it's it's kinda late, but, needed to get this in tonight.
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[01:52:21] Unknown:
again. Happy trails to you. Goodbye.
[01:52:53] Unknown:
Well, that's about it really. The film ends mainly visually.
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