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Special Mailbag Episode: Reuniting The GOP, Legacy vs. Independent Media, AI Content Moderation & More · The Chuck ToddCast

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  Speaker 1: Hello there, welcome to a special episode of a check podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Why am I calling it special because I am doing
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  Speaker 1: a special back to back mailbag episode. Yes, I am
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  Speaker 1: doing this because it is First of all, I owe
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  Speaker 1: you guys some answers. There's been some tremendous questions in
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  Speaker 1: here that I haven't gotten to, and as you know,
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  Speaker 1: I try to get to anywhere from three to five
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  Speaker 1: every episode. But I figured, hey, let's use this first
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  Speaker 1: week of the new year to sort of I view
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  Speaker 1: the new year a bit as like spring cleaning, right
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  Speaker 1: you want to. I'm not saying I'm going to get
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  Speaker 1: to zero inbox, but in some ways I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to zero inbox when it comes to the podcast
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  Speaker 1: mail Bag, so that we can start building towards a
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  Speaker 1: whole new year of questions and hopefully they won't pile
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  Speaker 1: up as long. But I also I like having an
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  Speaker 1: entire episode devoted to the mailbags. I don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm rushing on any of these fronts. So this is
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  Speaker 1: the first part of a two part a couple of
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  Speaker 1: Mailbag episodes, and the beauty is I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: all over the map here right. I got a list
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  Speaker 1: of questions that are politics and policy, some about the
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  Speaker 1: media industry, some about sports, books, personal, you name it.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to plow through all of it. Two
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  Speaker 1: part are here. Here's part one. I'm going to climb through.
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  Speaker 1: First question comes from Bart Bird from one of from home,
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  Speaker 1: my future longtime residency I'm hoping, which is Penscola, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bart, first question, Thank you for not being
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  Speaker 1: a crazy person. There you go. It's a strange start,
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  Speaker 1: but there you have it. The real issue behind are
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  Speaker 1: out of control deficit isn't coruption or tax cuts. It's
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  Speaker 1: that Congress refuses to make our choices, which is per
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution, literally their job. We need structural reform, like
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  Speaker 1: a balanced budget amendment or a mandate to reduce the
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  Speaker 1: debt by one percent a year to give the country
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  Speaker 1: real fiscal goals. Again, you know, Bart, I think I
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  Speaker 1: agree that I agree generally. I think where you're going,
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  Speaker 1: which is, if Congress isn't forced to do these things,
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  Speaker 1: they are not going to make these choices. And when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to our debt, when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: balancing budgets, when it comes to making decisions to cut
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  Speaker 1: spending or raise taxes, or you know, if you really
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  Speaker 1: want a new government program, making the case and showing
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  Speaker 1: how you pay for it and all those things, the
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  Speaker 1: only way you're going to have them do it in
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  Speaker 1: some sort of fiscally sane way is for a con
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  Speaker 1: social amendment. You know, if we can continue to borrow money,
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  Speaker 1: and when you're the when you're the number one country
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  Speaker 1: in the world, we basically have the best credit in
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  Speaker 1: the world. We can essentially borrow on our good name.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we've been doing is since the end
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  Speaker 1: of World War Two, it has made us an economic juggernaut.
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  Speaker 1: It has raised the standard of living. Trust me, the
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  Speaker 1: standard of living in our poorest state is better than
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  Speaker 1: many places in Europe and in Asia, including places that
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  Speaker 1: you think are Western sort of first world places. That's
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  Speaker 1: how successful we've been and growing our economy over the
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  Speaker 1: last seventy or eighty years. But you're not wrong that
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  Speaker 1: Congress is and inability. Now the issue is incentives, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, why is it so hard? Right? Getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of a government program means you're making somebody mad, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody runs to the polls to elect somebody to stop
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  Speaker 1: giving out government benefits. Right, That's what we've learned. So
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  Speaker 1: if if we're going to do this, then we have
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  Speaker 1: to sort of force the choice making. Right, You've got
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  Speaker 1: to force provisions into our constitution in order to force
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  Speaker 1: new incentives on members of Congress. I think there are
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  Speaker 1: a variety of ways to do this, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of my pet issues over the years,
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  Speaker 1: I've always I've always wanted to mandate that every government
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  Speaker 1: and to agency slash department have a sunset clause at
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years, meaning that without Congress sort of essentially
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  Speaker 1: re essentially repassing the bill to create recreating a Pentagon,
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  Speaker 1: recreating a Homeland Security department, recreating a labor department, recreating
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  Speaker 1: a health department. Right then every twenty five years you're
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  Speaker 1: actually forced to rethink, okay, let's do that. What would
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  Speaker 1: this look like if we were doing it from scratch.
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  Speaker 1: In some ways, by always having these things continuous, you
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  Speaker 1: end up you end up you end up having these
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  Speaker 1: convoluted government agencies where there are some things that make
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  Speaker 1: sense and then there are things over time that don't
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  Speaker 1: make sense that they do it like, you know, after
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  Speaker 1: a while, it made no sense the Secret Service was
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  Speaker 1: within the Treasury Department. But if you sort of force
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  Speaker 1: the sunsetting of every agency at twenty five years, then
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  Speaker 1: when you re establish it because you say that this entity, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we need to we're going to have to have a
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  Speaker 1: homeland Security department, but you basically reimagine it right from
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  Speaker 1: day one, so that you have you think about some
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  Speaker 1: more modern thing. You know, I would argue twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years is a generation of time, and there are some
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  Speaker 1: things that become obsolete, and there are some things that
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  Speaker 1: government doesn't have to worry about overseeing after a twenty
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  Speaker 1: five year period that maybe was crucial to Agency X
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  Speaker 1: in there. So I've had there's provisions like that I've
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  Speaker 1: thought about. But I think the point you're making, and
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  Speaker 1: the point I would make, is none of this happens
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  Speaker 1: unless it's unless it's part of the Instruction Manual of
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  Speaker 1: governing the United States, and which means it's going to
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  Speaker 1: have to be within a constitutional amendment before you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get because how else are you going to create
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  Speaker 1: the incentive? Creating a political incentive is very difficult when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the debt and deficit, that's for sure,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Next question comes from William Watkins Temple Hills, Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: as a fellow political history buff. I've often thought about
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  Speaker 1: Trump's role in the GOP as analogous to Oliver Cromwell
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  Speaker 1: disrupting traditional leadership and becomes sort of a lord protector
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  Speaker 1: of the MEGA movement. Is there anyone within MEGA who
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  Speaker 1: could serve as a George Monk type figure, someone to
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  Speaker 1: reunite traditional conservatives in the megabase after Trump exits the stage,
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  Speaker 1: or will the movement keep sharpening the guillotine French Revolution
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  Speaker 1: style with no end to internal purges. I guess I've
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  Speaker 1: looked at it as is, Look, we know it's going
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  Speaker 1: to evolve, and it'll it'll evolve into something different. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go away. I think one of this idea that
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  Speaker 1: somehow Trump goes away, Maga goes away, it's more of Remember,
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  Speaker 1: this wing of the party is always been there, just
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  Speaker 1: was dormant for about seventy years. This was the most
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  Speaker 1: this protectionist wing, sort of nativist wing, nationalist wing of
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  Speaker 1: the party was more prominent in the twenties and thirties
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  Speaker 1: version of the Republican Party. And then we had because
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  Speaker 1: it was very dormant, you know, basically nineteen forty six
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  Speaker 1: through twenty twelve, and so I guess you're you're asking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who's going to Is there somebody that could
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  Speaker 1: bridge you know, Ronald Reagan bridged essentially the Goldwater wing
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  Speaker 1: of the party and the Eisenhower wing of the party together, right,
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  Speaker 1: because there was a common concern, and that was communism
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  Speaker 1: in the Soviet Union. So it bridged this divide that
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  Speaker 1: was there on some of these cultural issues that was
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  Speaker 1: there on race and stuff. But it bridged the divide
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  Speaker 1: because there was this common issue there I'm not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I actually think there's as good of a chance that
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  Speaker 1: the realignment is so dramatic post Trump that there are
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  Speaker 1: portions of it that end up in the far left,
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  Speaker 1: in the Mamdani AOC Sanders Rocanna sort of you know,
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  Speaker 1: wing of the of sort of the what I think
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  Speaker 1: is becoming a more culturally neutral, working class left wing
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  Speaker 1: of the party. We'll see. I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the ultimate sort of conflict there is, I think
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  Speaker 1: on some of these cultural issues where you have sort
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  Speaker 1: of economic progressives and cultural progressives. Where they disagree is
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  Speaker 1: on the emphasis on some of the social issues versus
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  Speaker 1: the emphasis emphasis on economic issues. But anyway, I just
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  Speaker 1: think that the entire MAGA wing is for play. I
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  Speaker 1: find Marjorie Taylor Green to be an interesting sort of
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  Speaker 1: avatar for the true believers in the Mega movement, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm more convinced than ever that she might be a
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  Speaker 1: player in twenty seven or twenty eight, whether she's running
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  Speaker 1: or supporting somebody who's who's more of that. I think
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  Speaker 1: Vance and Rubio both see themselves as bridge as the
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  Speaker 1: bridge between the old Romney Ryan wing of the party
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  Speaker 1: and the Trump wing of the party that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll be successful on that front. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think this. I think the the UH
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  Speaker 1: ant there's this faction of anti Semites that of Perkle
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  Speaker 1: on the right, faction of xenophobes that percolated on the right,
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  Speaker 1: faction of sort of religious intolerance on the right. I
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  Speaker 1: think that that's going to come into conflict with other
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  Speaker 1: parts of the Conservative coalition. So, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: the true believers in what really animated MAGA, the sort
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  Speaker 1: of trying to culturally reset America, I think that they
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  Speaker 1: I think it more likely disperses into multiple different factions.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it look I do. Do I
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  Speaker 1: think it will stay cobbled together at least through twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirty in some form, yes, I do. But losing if
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  Speaker 1: the coalition loses in twenty eight the presidency, then it's
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  Speaker 1: that's when it really starts to fragment, and we'll start
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  Speaker 1: to see it in twenty thirty. But some of this
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  Speaker 1: is I think more personality based. Then we give it
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  Speaker 1: full of credit for it sort of is if you know,
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  Speaker 1: I could make an argument that our politics of the
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  Speaker 1: post World War two, you know, sort of in conjunction
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  Speaker 1: with the rise of mass media has made the charismatic
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  Speaker 1: political leader almost a necessity, and in some ways our
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  Speaker 1: political our political movements have been led by sort of
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  Speaker 1: cultural you know, larger than life figures. Eisenhower was right.
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  Speaker 1: He may not have been charismatic, but when you're the general,
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  Speaker 1: you know that saved the Western world, and then you're
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  Speaker 1: an American president. He was sort of like in a
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  Speaker 1: class by himself. Kennedy was a celebrity. President Nixon, in
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  Speaker 1: his own way, became larger than life in some ways
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  Speaker 1: because of his bad deeds as well as some of
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  Speaker 1: the good deeds. You know, Carter and Ford just they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the charismatic chops, which is why neither which
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  Speaker 1: is why they didn't survive. Right, You could look at
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  Speaker 1: that's one theory of the case. Right and then Reagan.
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  Speaker 1: So I think the better question is, is either Vance
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  Speaker 1: or Rubio magnetic enough to keep this coalition together? Do
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  Speaker 1: you need someone? Does it have to be a is
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  Speaker 1: it going to end up being a pundit of some sort?
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  Speaker 1: The version of Tucker Carlson of three years ago made
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  Speaker 1: more sense to me than obviously the version of Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Carlson today. So I'm not sure there's anybody is I
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  Speaker 1: guess the short answer to that, But I do think
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  Speaker 1: it in the same way the Reagan Coalition didn't start
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  Speaker 1: splintering until I would argue, the nineteen ninety midterms and
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  Speaker 1: the tax and the tax hike deal that George hw
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  Speaker 1: Bush ended up signing. That sort of began, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the rise of Gingrich and splinter off and sort of
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  Speaker 1: this more sharpened right wing of the Republican Party. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just kind of think that it will
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  Speaker 1: stay cobbled together in twenty eight out of this political necessity.
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  Speaker 1: But if they don't win in twenty eight, and even
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  Speaker 1: if they do, it probably really starts fragmenting a lot
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  Speaker 1: more with the twenty thirty mid terms in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirty two presidential All right, next question me, Chuck, What
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  Speaker 1: if Mett Romney was president and he proposed the Affordable
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  Speaker 1: Care Act? Would you have received the blowback from the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans as Obama did. Well, I know why you're asking
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  Speaker 1: the question, right, because the Affordable Care Act was modeled
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  Speaker 1: essentially after romney Care in Massachusetts, which itself was based
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  Speaker 1: on a framework that the Heritage Foundation came up with
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties. As just a counter idea to what
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  Speaker 1: the Clintons were proposing in the nineties, and so if
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  Speaker 1: I could be you know, I've never been convinced that
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  Speaker 1: the Conservative movement wanted to find this solution or whether
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  Speaker 1: they just embraced the Heritage Foundation solution because they had
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  Speaker 1: to have some plan if they were going to come
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  Speaker 1: out against the Clinton plan on healthcare. I do think
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  Speaker 1: you would have had I think that any sort of attempt.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at if you want to see an
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  Speaker 1: example of Republicans not falling in line just because a
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  Speaker 1: Republican proposes it, look at the pushback Bush got when
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  Speaker 1: he was expanding Medicare. Party. Here was a Republican instead
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  Speaker 1: of fighting the expansion of Medicare, who was actually advocating
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  Speaker 1: for the expansion of Medicare. That was a tough vote
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of conservatives, and a lot of conservatives
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  Speaker 1: will argue that the Tea Party. You know, before the
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  Speaker 1: financial crisis, there was Medicare Party, and there was this
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  Speaker 1: like the republic the Conservative movement had become as had
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  Speaker 1: become as pro government as the liberal movement. That essentially
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  Speaker 1: the Conservatives had turned into the party of using a
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  Speaker 1: public private partnerships to expand the power of government rather
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  Speaker 1: than just the public government, if you will, right, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think the better question is would
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  Speaker 1: any Democrats have embraced it or would you have had
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  Speaker 1: two thirds of the party come out against it? Because
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  Speaker 1: Romney was for it. Remember, a lot of Democrats struggled
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  Speaker 1: to come out for Medicare party, even though in theory
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't have been that hard of a vote, but
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  Speaker 1: it was because it was like, well, we don't like
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  Speaker 1: the way they're doing it. So I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: I think you could you know, that's the that's a
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  Speaker 1: that's another counterfactual that you know when I look at
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  Speaker 1: the conservative blowback that did show up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was a tough vote for Bush to
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  Speaker 1: get through. They really had to muscle it through on
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  Speaker 1: that front. So I you know, maybe he gets half
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  Speaker 1: his party to embrace it. But the question I have
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  Speaker 1: is how many Democrats would have embraced it if it
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  Speaker 1: happened without the existence of the Affordable Care Act? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Imagine Obama had failed in twenty eight, in twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty oh ten, right, twenty oh nine and ten,
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't get health Care done, and Romney runs
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  Speaker 1: his campaign in twenty twelve on hey, I actually got
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  Speaker 1: this done in Massachusetts. I'll get it done for America.
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  Speaker 1: And is it so as a campaign talking point? Does
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  Speaker 1: it increase Republican support? Maybe under that circumstance. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to paint the circumstance where Republicans
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  Speaker 1: might rally around this, and the one I could come
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  Speaker 1: up with. Obama fails at getting universal health care done,
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  Speaker 1: can't get the affordable air cat you know, basically doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: And then Romney, as the twenty twelve nominee, runs as
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  Speaker 1: the guy who the look it runs as the guy
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  Speaker 1: who can implement healthcare. Took a Republican to do in Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to take a Republican to do it in
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• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I used to work in national security and live in
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Pentagon City, so I love all your DC and Arlington insights.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, I got three words for you
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the Crystal City restaurant. What does that mean to you?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And I'll just leave it at that. I'm kidding. I'm
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: closely watching the Crockett versus tallerco primary in Texas and
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Worri Crockett might win the primary but struggle in a
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: general election against Backston. Are there any broader sources beyond
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the Texas Tribune and political instagram accounts that you'd recommend
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: for tracking this rate as we approach the primaries. Look,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think Texas Tribune is going to be strong, but
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: then there's certain feeds. Look, you know you, this is
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a race that is going to get more coverage than
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it deserves. What do I mean by that in two thousand, Well,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: actually you heard if you listen to Jonathan Martin and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I earlier this week when we dropped, we both sort
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: of lamented that the Texas Senate race is going to
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: get a larger share of coverage nationally compared to North Carolina.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Main basically everything that'll be more competitive. That's not to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: say Texas might not be competitive. And Paxton versus Crockett
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: is the Senate race our politics deserves, right, this is
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the Senate race that algorithms have created, and so we'll
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: find out. You know, if our AI algorithmic tech overlords
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: do control the information ecosystem as much as they appeared to,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: then we're it's we're doomed for Crockett versus Tolerico. And
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I say that, Excuse me, Crockett versus Paxton. I say that,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and it sounds like what I hate when I hate
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: putting in those terms because I don't want to. I
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: think Crockett is a is a good public servant. Ken
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Paxton's a crook and a terrible, you know, low character.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So I feel I don't like the idea that, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: but we're also realistic. We know Crockett will be polarizing
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: nominee period. So she's polarizing for just political views cultural views.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: She's not polarizing because she's corrupt. Right. Paxton's polarizing because
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: he's corrupt first and foremost, so in that sense that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: there shouldn't be an equation. And you know what we're
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I think the uncomfortable aspect about Crockett versus Paxton is
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: could a corrupt guy win because simply because the Democratic
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: nominee is a black woman? Right? Is that how superficial
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: things are in Texas that they will take a corrupt,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: impeached public official over a qualified African American woman because
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: they think they don't like her Instagram feed? Right? I mean,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: but hey, I'm not This is politics in twenty twenty six. So,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: as I say all the time, I cover politics as
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it is, not as I wish it were. This is
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the reality. Okay. So I do think that Politico, Puck,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and punch Bowl are actually all three good places for
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: this race, in particular because leadership there is a there
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is a lot of all of the micromanaging of these races.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Bringing in outside money is actually those were all that
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: reporting is gonna is going to come out of Washington,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: so I would you know, Look, the Texas Tribune is
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: going to be on top of this more than anybody else,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and it's going to be the best source hard stop.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: My friend Abbi Livingston, who works for PUCK, used to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: be at the Texas Tribune. She's going to own this too.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: So that's why you should pay attention to PUCK because
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of specifically a reporter there that covers that knows Texas
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: like the back of her hands. She grew up in
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Fort Worth. She just knows, which our argues is important
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of a areas there is these days in Texas politics,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So follow her at PUCK in particular. But Puck's political
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: reporting over there as well. You know both the Dallas
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Morning News. The Dallas Morning News, uh has is not
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: you know it is. It isn't what it once was,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: but it's not as it hasn't been as gutted as
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: other major market papers. So I do think that they're
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: worth a follow on this, that they're covering it closely.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: You've allow a lot of Dallas based figures in here. Anyway.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: They know Jasmine Crockett very well, so I'd throw those
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: two on there to keep up with this race, but
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it's going to be the most If you're looking for content,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and even good content on this race, there's going to
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: be a plethora of it. What's going to be frustrating
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: is the lack of good content on Mississippi Senate, on
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Alabama Governor, on Kansas Senate, on Iowa s it, which
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: are arguably going to be as competitive, if not more so. Okay,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: but I digress. Next question comes from another Texan, Kelly
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: from Aubrey, Texas. Hey, I recently found your podcast. I
• 26:14
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• 26:17
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• 26:21
  Speaker 1: With transgender rights being a central issue in the twenty
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: twenty five goubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, do
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you think Republicans will make it a broader campaign strategy
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. Will they stick to familiar topics
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: like sports and bathrooms or push further into areas like
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: adult care or legal recognition. In Texas, we've already seen
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: proposed legislation criminalizing trans people for not disclosing their identity.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Could this become more widespread. Well, I'm going to be
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: extraordinarily cynical in how I answer this question, Kelly, in
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that the trans issue is one that shows up when
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: there are other issues sort of in the way of
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the messaging for the right. So, you know, you had
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a weak economy and an unpopular president in the White House,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: so Republicans had to you know, how do you paint
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the Democrats is out of touch? And both of them
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: were moderate Democrats national security credentials. They didn't both Abigail S.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Bamberger and Mikey Cheryl, they didn't come from the left
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: wing of the Democratic Party. They very much came from
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the more center left of the party. And I think
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: trans issues in general are used to try by the right,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: by consultants on the right to try to paint Democrats
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: is out of the mainstream right, and it's been a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and a lot of So how else do you do that?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: You do that by having by putting some legislation on
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the floors of state legislatures, legislatures or Congress to sort
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: of create uncomfortable wedge votes that may not actually put
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: anything into law, but sort of put surfaces and issues.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: My point is is that I don't think, you know,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of these transgender issues run counter
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to the libertarian conservative that also matters too, that still
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: exists on the right, you know, the sort of live
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and let live. You know, I'm not going to you know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: get you know, you you know, you don't. I won't
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: go into your bedroom. You don't come into my bedroom. Right,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and they're particularly out west. The libertarian conservatives still exists,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: if you will on that front. If this economy gets
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: more sour, I mean, I absolutely look it. What did
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Democrats do? They didn't. They were trying to pivot away
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: from Biden, knowing Biden was a bit was was sort
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: of was. They couldn't really run on Biden's policies, so
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: they ran on another issue in twenty two. Right, when
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: do they run on abortion rights? Right? This is if
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you can't run with Trump and you can't run on
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Trump's economy. Well, the other ways into swing voters are
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: these cultural issues. Now. The problem is these cultural issues
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: don't resonate unless the economy is humming, right. They resonate
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: more when the economy is going well. When the economy
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: is not going well, then it looks like you're afraid
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of confronting the issues that matter. You know, you're you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: know and that, and it's why these trans issues, this
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: trans anti trans campaigning did not work in those two races.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It's not that they are blue states. They did not
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: work because the economic messages were simply stronger and more relevant.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: So to answer your question, I think you will see
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: more attempts at bringing these cultural issues in because there
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that's what you do when you can't run on bread
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and butter. That's what the Democrats do it when they
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: can't run on bread and butter. For their side, you know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they find cultural issues that they think create a wedge
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: on the right, that that paint a conservative is out
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of the mainstream. That's where abortion rights comes in, same
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: sex marriage, things like that. And then I think in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: some cases trans writes fit right now fall into that
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: same bucket when it comes to campaign strategy. All right,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: next question here comes from Yari and he writes, Hey, Chuck,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: friends suggested your pod after a discussion we had recently,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to hear your take. My sister's Instagram
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: business account, used to promoter nail Salon was permanently suspended
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: by Metaphor allegedly violating child sexual exploitation policies despite having
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: no such content. She's appealed without success, and it seems
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: this is happening the thousands of other users based on
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: flawed AI moderation. Yep. Do you see space for this
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: kind of issue, especially how metas policies are affecting small businesses,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to discussed more widely in the media. Boy, I look this,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I think this is this gets it to a larger
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: issue that I think is going to be going to resignate, resignate,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: resonate quite a bit in both twenty twenty six and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: more so in twenty twenty eight. The fact that you know,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: we're we're not going to be for a computer deciding
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: whether or not our insurance company is going to cover
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a certain procedure that a doctor recommends, and we're not
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: going to tolerate a computer deciding whether or not I
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: can advertise my business on Instagram. And you know, right
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: now there's a lot of this. You know, all of
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: this stuff is trying to be automated. They're trying to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: automate all of it. And one could argue there's an
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: eight you know that it might be an eighty to
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: eighty five percent successful thing to do the problem is
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: when you when you you know, you may think, oh geez,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: we're it works well for about eighty five percent of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: this you know, to use AI to do this, but
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: for the fifteen percent it doesn't work well with that's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a huge you know, that's still millions of people, right,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you know, what's ten percent of the American population, thirty
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: three million people? Right, So you know, I always try
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to remind myself of raw numbers sometimes instead of percentages,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to sort of truly put this. And so the point
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: why do I single that out? Because I think I've
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: not Your specific example is not one I've come across,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: but it is similar to other examples I've heard, whether
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: it is in trying to get a mortgage application approved,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: trying to get your resume read by a human being
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: versus an AI bot that sort of weeds it out.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: This right, this is going to be I think where
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a smart politician is going to exploit this fear. I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: think it's I think it's worthy fear. Right, But to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: government has to regulate these algorithms more. Government has to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: regulate this usage of AI when it comes to making
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you know, a computer making decisions and impact actual human beings.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I think this is all going to be in under
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: that larger bucket and having if you're going to use
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: AI to make some of these decisions, you're going to
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: have to have a human resource person of some sort
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: that actually is there to adjudicate issues like the one
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you've addressed in yours. And right now, these companies don't
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: want to do that. I mean try, you know, just
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: for your own exercise. I do it. Whenever I'm looking
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to solve a problem, I always want to talk to somebody,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and they constantly want to put me into an AI
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: chat bot or an a you know, some sort of
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: automated this, automated that, and you're constantly pushing zero or
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: one just to get to a see if you can
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: get to a live operator, a live person, and this
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: or that, and you know whatever it is. In every
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: company now, even regardless of whether they're a tech company
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: or not, makes it nearly impossible to find a human being.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I think this is going to just become a political
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: wedge issue, and I think companies that use human beings
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: are going to get rewarded and companies that don't are
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: going to get punished. And they're going to get punished
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: by the market. They're going to get punished by consumer behavior.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe over time will be tolerant of this, but not
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: right away right And I think that that's where I
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: think this is going to be an issue that resonates
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: quite broadly within the electorate. It's going to cut across
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: ideological lines. You know, I don't know about you, but
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: if I were running for office, I'd run as a
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: pro human, not as an anti human. And I think
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: it's very easy to be a populist on issues like this.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: And I think with everybody sharpening the pitchforks and coming
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: at the elites, you know, using a robot to deal
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: with actual human problems is I think going to be
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a political net negative for the foreseeable future. So I
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: do think this will only get more attention, more coverage
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: of how AI is harming people's lives one way or
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the other, all inadvertently perhaps, but how the lack that
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: basically this technology isn't working well enough yet to cut
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the human element out. Hello, check and everyone at the podcast.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I'd love to hear a discussion about the ways that
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Trump administration may try to rig the next election. Texas
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: mail and ballots, troops and blue cities, et cetera. What
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: other ways Trump try to affect the election. How effective
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: could they be? How would Dems fight back? Sent from
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Planet Earth edge of the Milky Way. Well, look, I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: understand this concern, and I'm not saying that it isn't
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: concern you should you know that this isn't something that
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: we should be vigilant about. But I think it's proving.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I guess what I would say is, I'm curious if
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: you're at all reassured that the redistricting efforts have actually
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: not gone as well as Trump thought they would, that
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: he's gotten more pushback in more places than he expected,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that Democrats have enough firepower to fight back and to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: sort of marginalize this, that you actually do have a
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court that isn't a six' Three trump. Court it
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: is a three three three, court meaning there's three that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: will support Whatever trump. Wants there's three that are going
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: to pose just about Anything trump, wants and there's three
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: that are that are want to be favorable to conservative
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: principles but struggle with some of the things that are asked.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: For right That's Robert barrett And, kavanaugh and And i'm
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: sure that doesn't give you you, KNOW i, KNOW i
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: know How barrett And kavanaugh and to a lesser Extent
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: roberts are seen by. Some but if you look at that,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: court there's there's a just there's three distinctive, groups not
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: two and and The republican, appointees which is probably the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: better way to describe. Them there's three distinctive, buckets. Right
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: one is one is a bit you, know one wants
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: to sort of roll back roll back. Time one is
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: trying to sort of live in the, moments, uh and
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: three are a bit more uh liberal or. Progressive SO
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: i think THAT i guess What i'm saying is that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the things we should the things that would be concerning
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: me more as if he were trying to nationalize and federalize.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Things as long as the states have the power to
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: hold elections and the states have the power to just draw,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: lines and the states have the power as long as
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: that stuff is still state, based it's it's you, know
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: if The Justice department gets more aggressive at at purging voter,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: files that's when you, know those would be little things
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: that we could expect that WOULD i think raise some
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: alarm bells if he if he messes around with the certification,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: dates if he tries, to you, know create essentially loopholes
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that would throw ballots out so they wouldn't be, counted you,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: know saying all ballots have to be counted by a certain,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: date and you know that would usurp sort of state
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: authority about them deciding when does a postmark count things like.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: THAT i GUESS i view that's where the alarm belt
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the more anything he tries to take away from states
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: when it comes to governing our, elections because what makes
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: our democracy safer than most democracies is the fact that
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: it is. Diffuse it is not you, know we don't
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: have a national election board holding all this, elections, Right
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: it is individual fifty states and within their counties and within,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: there you. Know so that is what sort of can
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: prevent some voter, fraud and it can prevent some, shenanigans
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: and it certainly it just makes it harder to rig an.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Election doesn't mean it isn't, riggable as we saw with
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: some of the absentee ballot fraud we've seen with Those
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: republicans in That North carolina congressional. District there was A
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: miami runoff back in the nineteen ninety, nine so THAT'S
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: i guess that's a way Why i'm not as it's
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: on my list of, concerns but it's not on my
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: top five list of. Concerns all, right next question in
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: this policy. Face that's the last one on That love the.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: PODCAST i wanted your take on a few proposed constitutional.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Amendments all. Right, FIRST i think impeachment And senate conviction
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: votes should be confidential to reduce, partisanship like jury. Votes,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: huh so members can vote their. Conscience that is an interesting.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Idea that should all impeachment trials be secret ballot for
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: the jurors AKA us. Senators. Huh that that is a
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Huge that is a that is a fascinating. Idea let's
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: just SAY i agree my instinct just to agree with this,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Idea so thank, you B ray that's who wrote. This all. Right,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: SECOND i SUPPORT scotus reforms like twenty two year term,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: limits expanding to eleven seats and guaranteeing each president two
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: appointments per term with Timely senate. Votes, Finally i'd like
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: to see federal elections reformed with ranked choice, voting open,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: primaries and Expanded house representation under The Wyoming rule to
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: reduce partisanship and improve access for independent. Thoughts, WELL i
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: assume The wyoming rule, is you, know the idea of
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: of you. Know, note look right, Now wyoming has six
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: times the voting power for president That california. DOES A
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: california voter, does, right an individual In wyoming has six
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: times more, influence, right and their vote counts. More if
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: you doubled the size of The house Of, representatives that
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: would go down to two and a half, times which
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: would to, me is the right say that's a better
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: ratio because our founders did want small states to have some, advantages,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: right to be to sort of punch above their, weight
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: not get overwhelmed by the large. States BUT i don't
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: think they wanted our large states to have very little
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: influence on the ultimate. Outcome so six times the power
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: seems a little absurd for the small. States two and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: a half times feels a bit more. Prescient SO i
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: want To i'm hoping that is The wyoming rule that
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you're referring, to SINCE i sort of that's been part
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: of my plan to expanding The house Of, representatives, which
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: by the, way you don't need a constitutional amendment for
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: this is a it's up to The house Of, representatives
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: just An act Of. Congress they used to do it
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: every year or excually every ten. Years it was part
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: of The it was with The. Senate we haven't done
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: it since nineteen, ten and they disagreed on how to
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: do it nineteen, twenty and by nineteen thirty they locked
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: us into four and thirty Five house. MEMBERS i think
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: that's been a huge. Mistake there's no doubt we need.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: That the only ONE i take issue with IS i
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: don't why do we guarantee HE i don't think you should.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Guarante we shouldn't guarantee any presidential term a certain number of.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: APPOINTMENTS i just, don't, RIGHT i think that THAT'S i
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: think if you're going to put in sort of either
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: age limits or service limits for the federal, government AND i,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: would by the, way service limits is the WAY i
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: would word, it because it should be both elective and. Appointed,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: RIGHT i think twenty two years that's a pretty good.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: One that feels better than eighteen in twenty two years,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: combined you, know, say of combined service an elective or
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: appointed Pointed senate confirmed. Office you could make it. There you,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: know offices that Are senate confirmed By, cabinet secretary Of
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Supreme court, judges et. Cetera so twenty two years feels
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: pretty feels pretty good on that. Front maybe you would
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: extend it to twenty eight if you Combined congressional all
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: of it is, one but guaranteeing each president two appointments
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: per term is you, know none of, this none of
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: this will ever sort of be, clean right because you
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Know Supreme court members might you, know don't die on a, schedule,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Right nobody dies on a, Schedule so no matter how
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: much you try to schedule, THINGS i think that that
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that that makes it difficult to abide. By but that's
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: that's me being in. Technicality AND i assume you're expanding
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: to eleven seats because if we have eleven, circuits maybe
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: you have one per. Circuit that THAT i think you
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: don't expand THE Us Supreme court more than the number
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: of circuits that we, have SO i COULD i could
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: see that tying that. Together but that doesn't need to
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: have a constitutional amendment. Either by the, way the age
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: limits have to be in the constitution because we put
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: age minimums in the, constitution but this other stuff doesn't
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: have to be in the. Constitution that's an act of,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: this that's An act Of. Congress on that, one They
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: congress can. Decide you, know they've, expanded they've created new, circuits,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: right they can keep doing. This they've created all the
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: entire sort of ecosystem of the courts was created by
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: acts of. Commerce so all of this could be. Done
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: you don't need on that. One you don't need. THAT
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: i do think a constitutional amendment that prevents partisan, primaries
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: LIKE i. DON'T i actually think you shouldn't need. ONE
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: i think there's a case to be. Made you've heard
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: me rant about this before THAT i think the equal
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: protection clause is violated the minute you tell ME i
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: can't vote in A republican Primary democratic primary Because i'm
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: not a member of that private club that's not a government.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Entity The Democratic party of The Republican party is not
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: a government entity at. All it's a Private it's a private, club,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: right the political. Party it's a private. Club and you're
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: telling me taxpayer dollars are funding a a an election
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: that not everybody's allowed to vote. It how is that
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: not a violation of equal? Protection SO i THINK i
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: actually think we just need better, lawyering and we would
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: probably could get rid of partisan primaries without a constitutional.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Amendment but if you're saying we need, one, Man i'm
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: all for. It where you cannot all you cannot hold
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: an election that isn't open to all voters in that, district,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: precinct or, state. Hardstop maybe we just have to have
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: a straight up constitutional amendment that does. That all, Right
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: i'm going to do one more question with part one
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: here and then we're going to get into part. Two hey,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: check longtime, listener first time. Writer, well all, right fellow
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: cheesehead behind Enemy lines In, Stillwater. Minnesota, hey, good look at.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: That and you know, What i've always felt, This The
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: bears have stunk my whole, lifetime except for like you,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: know two, flashes, right the eighty Five bears and the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Accidental Super Bowl bear Super bowl Appearance bears with the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: back in the in the mid mid ODDS i think
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: it was or. Whatever but, ultimately The bears have been
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: terrible in my. Life i've NEVER i, know it's the
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: longest rivalry for The, packers but it's for, me The,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: vikings they've been the chief. Rival so, yes enemy enemy
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: lines is the Correct And Britt farv was in that
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: horrible purple uniform and all of those. Things so, ANYWAY
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: i just want to get it straight to all My viking,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: friends and this means, you my Friend dennis, McDonough WHO
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: i know is a. Listener The vikings they're the RIVAL
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: i take the most seriously as A packer. Fan The
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: bears whatever you, know they're they're sort Of it's not
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: a rivalry if you haven't won in a, while, Right
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: vikings they've been tougher, Anyway BUT i. Digress here's your, Question.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Jake is it really as there are some game between
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: legacy and independent media or is traditional media is still
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: essential for news while independence mostly react and. Analyze also
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: loved Hearing packers. Talk are they just playing spoiler now
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: or can they make a real playoff? Front let, MEAN i,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: WILL i. Will this is a good way to make
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: this last of this, RIGHT i get to end with
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the little. Sports but, no it's funny you say. That
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: let me give you my sense of where you, know
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: mainstream media is, dead long lived mainstream. Media that's been
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: my mantra of. Late what DO i mean by? That
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: mainstream media constantly is evolving and. Changing we just don't
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: mark time very well with. IT i don't know how
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: familiar you are with something Called life, magazine BECAUSE i
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: don't want to presume that you're of a certain age
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: that remembers When Life magazine was. Relevant but there was a.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Time Life magazine And Look magazine were two of the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: most important news entities out there because they were one
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: of the few places you could get the pictures of
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: the events that were taking place around the world or
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: in this. Country and you, know they became essential parts
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: of mainstream media for a period of time for about fifty,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: years and then we got moving pictures and television be
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: can and so then the idea of the great. Photograph
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and don't get me, WRONG i love me a good
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: iconic photograph out Of Sports illustrated Or time Or Life
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: magazine or The National. Geographic but it doesn't have you,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: know it. Doesn't it. Doesn't it still pales when you
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: can see it in real, life right moving. Pictures so
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: my point is is That Life magazine was in the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: mainstream media and then it. Wasn't you, know mutual radio
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: was part of the mainstream media until it. Wasn't SO
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: i do believe all of this is technologically driven and
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: that we go through AND i think media is a
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: cycle of this meaning and in, fact if you look
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: at the last one hundred and fifty, years this cycle
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: has repeated itself and we're in the middle of it.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Now new technology comes along and initially there's. Fragmentation eventually there's.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Consolidation so you had the printing press and everybody could
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: be could do their own. Newspaper in the nineteenth, century
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: it seems like everybody had their own, newspaper and then
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: you started to have. Consolidation but when you figured out
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: how to, reprint how to print, photographs we got a
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: proliferation of. Magazines then we got some, consolidation right time
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: life all that, stuff more, consolidation and then eventually the
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: technology became less. Relevant when television first started acsuse, me
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: when radio first, started there were smaller radio stations popping up.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Everywhere over, time eventually you'd have consolidation and we had
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: a network, effect and then that's where the initial broadcast
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: television was built off of CABLE. Tv, right, fragmentation then
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: the bundles and, consolidation and so we're in the middle
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: of this. Now so it's not that there is a
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: it's a ZERO i don't think there's a zero sum.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: GAME i think there's always a new media that's pushing
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: what is the mainstream media of that, moment and the
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: definition of mainstream media changes with our times and with our,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: culture right and so right, NOW i, think you, know it's.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Funny it's like there's all these debates about, like, oh
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: the new anchor of THE Cbs Evening news, Who and you,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Know Megan kelly did a tweet that's sort of really
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: sort of, saying, ah this is, irrelevant no one cares.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: ANYMORE i thought she was overly brutal about it because
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: she sees it as a threat to her. Business AND
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: i get, That but the fact, IS i don't Think
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: megan's yet. Mainstream but she's, not and she's, independent but
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: she's part of a of a of a larger movement
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: that's within the larger definition of. Mainstream. Right, SO i
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: think what you're gonna see is consolidation of some sort
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: where you'll, have in the same, way you'll have these individual,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: networks and some of them through four maybe six of
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: them end up being the most read or the most,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: membered or the most you, KNOW i don't know how
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: we're going to count, it, right but sort of the
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: most prolific that will fit what we call mainstream media
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: come twenty thirty, five and that could some of some
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: of these consolidated players could have old legacy. Names now
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: DO i think LIKE i think we're in a moment
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: where major media companies are going to get out of
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the news business. Altogether, Right disney is going to SELL
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Abc news this calendar. Year that will be put up
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: for sale as soon as THE tegna Next our merger.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: HAPPENS i promise YOU Abc news gets put up for.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Sale does that Mean paramount will PUT Cbs news up for?
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Sale they? Could IS cnn going to be put up for?
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: SALE i think it. WILL i don't know ABOUT, nbc
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: but if the other two do, that it wouldn't surprise
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: me if comcasts followed. Suit the point being is THAT
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: i do think there's a that there is more acknowledgement
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: that shareholder driven companies aren't going to be trusted to
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: be the stewards of media organ of news. Organizations and
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: if you want those news organizations to survive in this,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: era they need to have some sort of independence to. Them.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Right but there's still going to be, networks and it's possible,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: that you, know maybe you, Know, Look i'm my joke
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: about What i'm doing. Now i've started a media, company
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: And i'm hoping to expand not just What i'm doing,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: here but maybe in another in another, area but all
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: with the goal of sort of modernizing the information. Ecosystem
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: but you, know my joke, IS i hope to be a.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Consolidator but If i'm, consolidated maybe that'll be okay. TOO
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: i think we're in a we're at the tail end
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: of this of this web two point zero fragmentation right
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: with streaming and YouTube and, substack TikTok, et, cetera and
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: a consolidation is, coming you, Know and it could be,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: like you, know Mister, beast WHO i saw Is hawk
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: and all sorts of candy bars at the targets and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: the walmarts in these, days you, know is he his
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: own news network that also will have a news division
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: that you, know maybe he partners with somebody that runs.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: That maybe it's my friends at the fourteen forty or
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: At All, sides or who, knows, Right but the point
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: being is THAT i THINK i wouldn't look at it
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: as a death march between legacy. Media we're in the
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: middle where there's a whole bunch of us that want
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: to rebuild a new mainstream. Media right, Now today's independent
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: outlet is tomorrow's member of the mainstream. Media trust, me
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: there was a TIME cnn was a, disruptor then it became. Mainstream,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: okay there was a time that cable news was a,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: disruptor then it became the. Mainstream SO i guess to
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: just so for what it's. WORTH i think that's that's
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: HOW i frame. This as for The, packers my son
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: AND i my son accuses me of not being as
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: devoted of A packer fan as he. Is he will
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: say THAT i am, too that my obsession with The
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: hurricanes this year is trumping and it's making him sad
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: because he doesn't Think i'm as upset about This packer
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: failure this year he. Is, HARRISON i am just as
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: obsessed about this as you. Are i've just been through
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: this a bunch of, times AND i went thirty years
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: with The packers. SUCKING i had to be the kid
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: that was a fan of The packers When David whitehurst was,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: quarterback and NO i Love David, WHITEHURST i still wanted
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to be. HIM i Loved Lynn, dickey but none of
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: them Were Aaron, Rodgers Bred, Farver Jordan. Love so here's
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: my concern of The. PACKERS i just think we you,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: know you're asking The packers to make a. Run although
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: if we're ever going to make our unlikely, run this
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: would be the year to do. It we're asking to
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: make a run with Our we've lost our best offensive,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: lineman which happened earlier this year In. JENKINS i don't
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: know what's going on With Zach. Tom we've had multiple
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: receivers be out at, times including now our best arguably
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: our best wide receiver who happens to be a tight
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: end Is. Tuckerkraft jacobs hasn't been healthy all. Year our
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: best defensive guy is out for the. Year we lost
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: two more guys than, that, RIGHT i just don't think
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: we have the potties right to. Win we have to
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: win three road. Games so DO i think we can
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: play spoiler and destroy The bears? Dreams? YES i will
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: get plenty of satisfaction to sort of let those let
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Those bears fans who are been nipping at our heels
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit be reminded that this is a little
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: bit harder that even A packer team with one arm
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: time behind its back is still probably better than what
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: The bears have at the, MOMENT i say with less
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: with sounding LIKE i have, confidence but maybe SECRETLY i
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: don't have as much. Confidence But i'd like to think
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: we are still inside the head of The bears a little.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Bit but if you, look you know it's funny my
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: son AND i have gone. Through SO i prefer to
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: play The bears as the two, seven then The. Eagles
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: when you're listening to, this that was still a. Possibility
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: so if you told me we could play The, eagles
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: it should be The bears and knock them. Off then
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: the way THE nfl, works, right the lowest seed is
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: at the one, seed and it's The seahawks that are
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: the one seed and not The. Niners THEN i like
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: our chances in the second round of Beating seattle In
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: seattle VERSUS i like our changes better doing that THAN
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: i do trying to beat The niners In Santa. Clara.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Right The niners are like are kryptonite for The packers
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: in the, playoffs, RIGHT i JUST i never ever want
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: to see us playing The. Niners always feels like they
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: break our. Hearts. Right it goes back to that that
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: that that Damn Steve young To Terrell Steve, Young Toterrell. Owens,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: uh not quite Hail, mary but pretty, close, right it
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: was last. Minute wasn't Hail mary? Throw it was just
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: a dart a. BULLET i mean to this, DAY i went.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: THROUGH i felt LIKE i went through like Three packers'
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: hands and it falls Into Torell owan's. Hands, so but
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: it seems like ever since that, happened and what was
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: that ninety five ninety you know that The niners have
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: always been our. Kryptonite so so if you're telling me
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: we the one that we could, play The bears is
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: a two seed and The seahawks is the one, seed
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: and then THE nfc title game is oh between the
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: you know in so far against The, rams, right if that's?
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Who so that's the path that The packers THAT i
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: could get The packers to the Super. Bowl It's, Bears,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Seahawks Rams i'd like to. HAVE i Think i'd like
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: to avoid The eagles And. Niners so that's my two.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Cents but, ultimately if you're asking me the, truth if
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: we win one, game we should be. Satisfied there's the
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: only good news is this, team if, healthy is the
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: best team in THE. Nfl maybe our years next year
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: are not this? Year all? Right with, that that's the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: end Of part one of My mailbag. Episode coming up
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: in part, two it's going to get a few what
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: ifs in. There it's going to get a little. Personal,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: yes they'll probably be a little bit more, sports but
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: also some book, PROMOTIONS tv, shows and who knows what
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: kind of fun political Predictions i'm forced to, make all
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: thanks to your wonderful. Questions so with, THAT i appreciate
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: you listening