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It's been a long while since we've been on. In this episode John starts us off with his about Virginia redistricting, we then talk about Iran, DHS funding and much more. We are begging for your comments as to what you think about this episode. Thank you for joining us at the bar!This episode is also available on YouTube so please make sure to check it out by clicking the link below for Youtube or typing in "Three people Walk into a bar" in the search bar! Please, all feedback is appreciated so don't hesitate to let us know what you think. As always, we hope you enjoy being here at the bar with us and until next time, Cheers!

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SPEAKER_02 0:16

Two, one. All right, we are back at the bar enjoying what appears to be the first day of spring in the Washington metropolitan area. We're all very excited to be out of the ice cube and into the sun. So lovely here in the DMV.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Right. And was it a week ago that there was like tornadoes and Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Yeah, on Tuesday.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

All the schools canceled, like That's right.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Yeah. We got a little bit of rain, a little bit of wind, but there was no evidence of any tornadoes. I know. There was none.

SPEAKER_03 0:57

I know. Yeah. When I first got the email from this some of our meetings that we're canceling because of the weather, and I look at my phone, it's like, it's just gonna rain tomorrow. Canceling.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Well, the president cut out all the uh weather stuff, so here we are. Um too early. Oh, wait a minute, it's too early.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

That's why we thought there was a tornado that we don't have good information on that.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

We don't have good data. Um here's to the warm weather.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Here's the warm weather. Back out on the golf course. Thank God. Amen. Well, I think since our last it's been a while since we've been at the bar. Um yeah, we've had a lot of going on. Uh beyond the ridiculously bad winter we had here in DC. But I Rachel has some family news.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

Yes. I have my second grandson arrived who is now uh almost three weeks old. Okay. And so yeah, now I have two grandsons under the age of seven months. Yes. So very exciting. That's awesome. And a lot of work to do.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

And still grandma? Are we still doing grandma?

SPEAKER_03 2:16

We are so doing grandma.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

Oh, no unique name in the name, nothing.

SPEAKER_03 2:22

Oh, oh, oh, grandma. Well, you mean the name. The name. Yeah, yeah, I'm still grandma. I'm gonna see what my kids, what my grandkids come up with. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

I got it.

SPEAKER_03 2:30

Well, now here's the big presenting, I'm presenting as grandma.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Okay, well, you're presenting as grandma. To be clear, you're not identifying as grandma. You're presenting as grandma, right?

SPEAKER_03 2:44

But my very best friend, or one of my best friends, had told she gave she warned me, like, don't go with grandma. You want to be grandma? Me, man, or Mia, Mama Mio, or Grammy or something.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Manny or me, me, la la.

SPEAKER_03 3:00

But my I only use grandma with my grandparents, and my kids only use grandma with my parents.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

So now here's the big question Have you purchased the dual seat jogging strawler?

SPEAKER_00 3:20

Because we know they're gonna be on a roller.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

I was watching with my older grandson just today.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

It's probably was he talking back to you when you were informing him this?

SPEAKER_03 3:37

No, but the thing is that we have we are gonna do a like a beach vacation to all the both daughters, husbands, and grandsons in May, and we decided that rather than getting a trailer and bringing everything down there, we're gonna do this baby quip stuff that brings stuff to your place, and one of the things will be a double job in the street.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Oh wow. I like that I like it. Does this uh does this idea have the blessing of your daughters? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Well, good luck with that. It doesn't like having the parent uh you know screaming at you because you've done things wrong.

SPEAKER_03 4:23

I know, I know, but reality is setting it with the parents, so this is gonna happen. And also that a juggle stroller is there's no nothing, there's no different than like the regular stroller.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

And they're indestructible. That's true. Yeah, they're they're huge, they're indestructible. Clearly, you were right about this. Yes. So don't listen to that. Clearly I was right about this. Um all right, so uh moving into our gripe. Uh uh I gripe. Well, I should say my gripe. Yes. To be clear, this is my gripe. Um because of the three of us, I am the only one that lives here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. No. Two of us, Louis. Oh, that's right, you live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, too. But we're on the wrong, we're on opposite sides of this. I'm certain we're on opposite sides of this. Um so the uh uh over the last several months, there have been states that have tried to uh to do redistricting, like mid-decade redistricting. And for the record, I think this is a really stupid idea. I don't think any state should be doing mid-district redistricting. And this all started because the state of Texas did mid-district redistricting, which is perfectly legal to do in Texas. Uh they're not you know, not breaking any laws, they're not, you know, amending anything. They they can legally do mid-district redistricting in Texas. So they've done that. Um so of course, the state of California uh decided that they would do mid-district redistricting. Of course, they couldn't do it because it was against the law in California to do it. So Gavin Newsom decided to come up with this ballot initiative. Uh, you know, so he put the initiative on the ballot where he lied to the voters and said, we're doing this as a matter of fairness, and it's only temporary until we can get back to 2030. So this is the only reason we're doing this. So, and sadly, the people of my people of my birth state voted for this ridiculous idea. So now the Commonwealth of Virginia, under their new so-called moderate governor, Abigail Spanberger, has decided that they are gonna do mid-decade redistricting. Now, the Commonwealth of Virginia currently has what may be the fairest map in America. It was approved by the voters several years ago. A commission is the one that draws the maps. These are fair maps, you know, where you have a you know a sufficient number of Democrats and Republicans based on how people vote in the state.

SPEAKER_03 7:05

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Hold on, I'm not done griping yet.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Keep griping. So so so, but the current map is considered fair when you look at all the other maps around the country. It is considered fair. So, what the Democrats want to do is they want to take a map that is fair and they want to rig it so Democrats will have 10 of the 11 seats in the congressional delegation. Now, in what universe is that fair? And they've got Barack Obama running television ads saying this is about fairness. We are just trying to give the voters a say. We don't want the politicians controlling this. What the hell is he talking about? This is all about the politicians controlling this.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

It always is. That is what redistricting is all about.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Always always in Texas. And in Texas.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

Well, everywhere anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Regardless of if the law allows it. Always a very done this in Texas mid-decade. But this time, our president decided, as soon as he got elected, he knew he was going to lose the midterms. And he decided, well, then let me just tell y'all I'm entitled to five new seats. We just go down there and draw the map like we want, and we'll get five new seats. But what universe is that fair? Yeah, redistrict.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

It's your right redistrict. I will not step on your case. When is registering not political? And it's always about, like I said, beauty's in the eye of the beholder. It's like in the eye of the beholder, this is what's fair.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

How can this map in what universe is creating a map where the Democrats have 10 seats and the Republicans have one? In what universe is that fair?

SPEAKER_03 8:54

Redistrying is all about how many seats you get. Always. Since the caveman.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Surely.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

I mean, you as the rock is mine. You as I had 10 kids.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

You as the independent moderate, there's no possible way you could look at this and think that this is fair.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

It's bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Oh, come on. You guys are gonna lose the midterms, and it's not.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

But it has nothing to do with the this is about disenfranchising half the voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Well, I'm voting yes.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Of course you are. Because you like it.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

I gotta hurry up and get over the vote.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

I've already voted no.

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Maybe there is.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

In defiance of the president, I use a mail and ballot, just so you know.

SPEAKER_03 9:47

But I, you know, this uh If you let if you say it's okay for one party to redistrict, you can't get the other party.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Thank you, Rachel.

SPEAKER_03 9:55

It's always political. It's always about designing the district so that your party gets more political.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

So so Texas redistricted to allegedly give Republicans five more seats. California has now redistricted. By the way, the state of California was already severely gerrymandered in favor of the Democrats. They just made it worse. Now they're gonna get five more seats. So they're canceling each other out. Donald Trump got 38% of the vote in California. Republicans will now have like five percent of the congressional seats in California. Look, I mean, it's it's it's blatantly.

SPEAKER_03 10:35

I I think redistricting redistricting is a problem, but both sides are equally guilty.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Let's go back to episode four. I think we covered this.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

Well both sides are equally guilty. So I would like exploiting redistricting options.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

So I would remind you that um between 1954 and 1994, the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives for 40 years. Well, how did they do it? Gerrymandering! In every state in the country.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Well, we've all agreed that we should have a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

They do it, they do it every year, they do it every cycle. Well, they love it when it works.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

I'm just saying. I'm just saying that both sides are equally guilty.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Yes. If you let's just put this to the test. If you were a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, would you be voting with me on this or would you be voting with Kevin? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I don't want to have to move you over, but it's it's blatantly unfair.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

Well I mean I'd have to have to look at the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

Rachel, I didn't look at it.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

I mean, you're you're you're taking a map that's gonna give Democrats more than 90% of the seats.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

But let's be honest. With all the craziness going on, this has got to be the smallest part. Well we we everybody should want this change right now. Everybody should want this change right now. Everybody should want balance in the government right now. Everybody should want balance in the government.

SPEAKER_03 12:28

This is not balance.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

At least get some somebody who, people who have to negotiate, which we talk about all the time, more Democrats who are in a position to fight the Republicans, balance in the House and the Senate, so that we have compromise, which we all said we agree on, and we can move things forward. Because this right now is a fantastic. Okay, but that is a fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

We have had divided government almost like a borderline 50-50. It is so much worse right now, you guys know it.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

It's so much worse right now.

SPEAKER_03 13:02

But you're saying the balance has not helped with compromise. I'm just saying we've had a lot of balance, it's almost like 50-50 in House, Senate, and the world. So, I mean, we're getting nothing done. And well, the fact so balance does not necessarily help with the company.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

The president is ruling by executive order.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

Balance does not help with we don't have a speaker of the house. And I haven't I haven't speaked, I don't know how he vote. I haven't don't know how he voted because I haven't looked at the maps. I'm just all I'm saying is both sides are equally guilty of gerrymandering, redistricting. Have you ever heard of two wrongs, don't make a right?

SPEAKER_00 13:44

That went out the window with the constitution. Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 13:47

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Wait, what? They put the constitution out of the window. Yeah, we'll see here. This is a naked and horrible power grab. And the idea that if you put more Democrats in Congress, that this is somehow going to lead to compromise. There has to be compromise.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Look at what they're doing right now.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

They've shut down the entire government because they hate ICE. Not the entire government. Well, they've shut down DHS, which funds TSA, FEMA, right? Coast Guard.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

Okay, I there definitely should be more compromised. But putting more Democrats in the House.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

That ain't compromise.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

No, that's not gonna result in more compromise.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

That's more logical things.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

It's not gonna be not gonna result in more compromise. We are listening.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

We tried this little experiment. Let's try this new this one I got coming up.

SPEAKER_03 14:35

No, well, we have lost the art of compromise, and putting a few more Democrats in the House is not gonna change that. We have lost our compromise altogether. So I got you.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

But the point is, do you talk about DHS's uh budget is now? I think the repu the Democrats should give it up at this point. We're at war, let's give it up. Although they did you're jumping the guy. But they did support, they did put out their uh opportunity for Republicans to say, we'll just you know, close up ICE by itself and fund it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

Yeah, so as long as we defund ICE, then we'll vote for all the other stuff. Which is stupid. No, it's not no it's not because if you're having a fight, well, that's the compromise. The compromise is to defund border controls ICE is already funded.

SPEAKER_03 15:26

They already got money. ICE is already funded. Don't tell anybody that's what makes a whole thing crazy. Exactly. But yes, but you are bringing a point that yes, both sides need to remember how to compromise.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

But the Republicans are all or nothing. Oh, like the Democrats are all nothing. So when you're in the minority, you gotta hold on to something.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

The Democrats are also all or nothing. Like I said, we're not all or nothing.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

We're given options. We're given options. We're being flexible.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Maybe because there are some bipartisan.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

Maybe uh maybe you and John Fetterman are interested in compromising, but the rest of the Democrats have no interest in it. Alright, we've got to move on to another, we have to move on to another non-controversial issue. Uh so another non-controversial issue. So, uh, well, uh, depending on who you're talking to about this, we're either in a conflict with Iran or we're at war. Because different people seem to have different explanations about whether this is a war or whether it's not a war. Um so just uh, and obviously everybody in America knows that we're involved in this conflict. Yes. What do you think? Was this the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do? I'll leverage one person.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

Okay. So I I kind of liken this to the whole doge thing in a certain way, because everybody, Democrats, Republicans, agree there is incredible bloat in the federal government. And um but Doge was like, you know, overboard and not kind of refined and and um so it didn't really work. But on the other hand, there it probably is never gonna be tackled again. Probably no one is ever gonna tackle the idea of getting rid of the bloat in the federal government because it's too hard and just gonna ruffle too many feathers, and so Trump is like someone that will go in and like take these big risks and do it in and doesn't didn't do it in a thoughtful way. So in the case of Iran, I mean, uh there's no one that mourns the death of Ali Khomeini, and Iran has been a brutal, ruthless dictatorship for decades. 47 years. 47 years, and I mean, just you know, when the people of Iran were protesting now two months ago in January, I guess it was, I mean, the the government was ruthless. I mean, within two days, 30,000 protesters were shot, just I mean, brutally killed, their families, their associates, and now again, the the population of Iran is not going, you know, they did that partially because Trump was out there saying, We have your bags, go out there, overthrow the government, overthrow the government. They all did, and then they had like 30,000.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

They went forth.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

30,000.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Just like the voters of America.

SPEAKER_03 18:56

30,000 plus. I mean, some estimates are this more than 30,000 people were just really shy, killed, and um, and they're not gonna they're not gonna do it again because like no one thinks that Trump has their back anymore. So um, you know, ideally, yes, we want, we would like a regime change in in Iran, but Trump did a shooting from the hip as usual, and didn't consult, you know, he first of all insulted all of NATO, and we this is actually an endeavor, if you really want to do it, that you need our allies to work together, and so it all should have been.

SPEAKER_02 19:40

We should actually want our allies to work. We don't need them.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

So that was just a test. So on the one hand, on one hand, like Trump, Trump's got this, like, uh, you know, he's got this like whatever it is, to take on something that nobody else will take on. And, you know, in the case of Syria, which was equally brutal to its population, killing its people, chemical weapons, whatever, and Obama said, Don't if you cross this red line in the sand, then you know, there'll be consequences. And Syria went, Assad went and crossed that red line in the sand, and there were no consequences.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

And Obama ran for the tall grass. And and there were no consequences.

SPEAKER_03 20:21

And so uh Assad continued to do what he did, and eventually all the journalists that were covering the situation in Syria were either killed or ran for their lives. And so the American public and the a lot of the Western world forgot about it because there was no one, it wasn't on the front page news anymore. But Assad continued to be brutal to his population and um and no one would take it on. So here, like, you know, I think I would like to think that the world takes on an immoral brutal dictatorship. But I don't think it will, you know, but and Trump does it the wrong way, shoots from the hip, doesn't coordinate, doesn't think through think it through. So that, you know, it's gonna fail. But then again, no one else is likely to take it on.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

Well, this was a horrible decision by the president. Let's just say that. He's the most thoughtless. This is not a bulletin, folks. He is the most thoughtless president we have ever had. And in my core, he always has something else going on in the back, which is money. He's a thief. So, whatever he's doing, he is going to benefit from this little adventure he's done. He does not put America first. So it is hard for me to even imagine he would do this thinking about the American people in a way to make us safe and the world safe. That's not even his style. So he went over there, he got he's stuck now. Because Iran didn't do what he thought they were going to do. And everybody else knew Iran wouldn't do what he thought they would do. So now he's sitting there trying to figure out how do I get out of this. So whatever he's now he's talking to Russia every day. And whatever you think about Israel, whatever, it's just a mess, is the point. And our soldiers are now having to deal with this. And we're going to lose lives. If this continues, we're going to lose a lot of our lives. And then my last point America wants to go and fight and kill these brutal people, but it only benefits them. There are a lot of countries around the world who kill their citizens, but we don't show up.

SPEAKER_03 22:44

Well, I nobody cares. But no, but right, but that's not the right thing.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Black and brown people are first on the list who get killed by their leaders, and America don't show up.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

Well, okay, but that's not that's not to be lauded. I mean, it's not to be lauded that we don't that we shouldn't that we should just care about ourselves and not the rest of the world.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Well, that's America first. I know, but that's disrepresenting wars.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

Okay, you know what? I don't believe in America. I mean, okay, first of all, going back to we bring this up before, but I mean America didn't want to get involved in World War II because like though it was uh they didn't know America didn't want to get involved in World War I. Okay, so America, so having had family that was like killing the Holocaust and all that, it was like America didn't want to get involved because it's not our problem. They knew what was going on in Europe. And so is that is that to be lauded then? It was like America first, that's not our problem, because if if Japanese hadn't hit Pearl Harbor, we you know Hitler might have won the war, and like it'd be a whole different world.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

So I think the point is he's told this. Okay, hold on. Let's take a step.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Let's take a step back here for a second, okay? So everybody knows what the Iranians have been doing for 47 years. Okay? Right. The Iranians have funded every terrorist group in this world. And I mean the mantra is death to America. And death to Israel. So I mean so Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, I mean, all of the killing that has been done by these three terrorist groups over the last 47 years. Our marine barracks, you know, the Cobalt Towers, um, you know, nobody likes these people. Not even their Arab neighbors.

SPEAKER_03 24:36

And the fact of the matter is And and 80% of the population of Iran is is is living in misery.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

Because they're secular and they're smart and they want freedom.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

And they want freedom. They want basic rights, and they don't they're not getting them. But they but it's such a brutal repressive.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

So you start with all of these things about what Iran has done over the last 47 years, right? You know that they want to enrich uranium to build a bomb. Right. And Obama entered into this ridiculous agreement with them, which, you know, ultimately would have ended up with the Iranians getting a bomb. There's you can't stop them from the body. You can't put lipstick on this thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

You're not gonna stop them from the body.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Okay, you just can't.

SPEAKER_00 25:23

You're just not gonna stop it from the body. Okay. And I don't know what the, I don't know why we're the most logical thing to do is to make sure that uh we are leasing them with the uranium, all the things that was in the agreement to make sure things are escalating. And by the way, our president said they dropped a bomb and they were they they destroyed all their obliterated. So why are we over there? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_02 25:50

We're over there because they were retrenching and rebuilding. But the fact of the matter is, all of the Arab neighbors, they're actually for this. They hate Iran. Okay, that's that's fine, but you don't do it this way. Well, don't do it this way. Well, I mean, that's my whole thing. Could Morphot have gone into this? Yes. Did they underestimate the ability of the regime to wreak havoc on the region? You know, frankly, for not a lot of money. They're using these drones. I mean, the drones aren't very expensive. And, you know, we're spending uh we're spending a billion dollars a day on the Al Foxes, huh?

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Well, because the big bully action didn't work.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

So again, I'm saying like uh go and have a conversation.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

Well, again, so then you chopped off the head, which makes it even worse. Uh so again, it's like we chopped we chopped off like the first ten heads. Okay. It is gonna be even worse.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

It's gonna be even that we don't we don't know that. I mean I think it's too soon to tell I think it's too soon to tell whether this was a good idea or not. Um obviously.

SPEAKER_03 26:56

So I mean in the I mean like well, I think uh a regime change in Iran is a great idea. Do I think that's a good idea? I think that that is a desirable outcome. It's a desirable outcome, yeah, for sure. You can't you can't go into a desirable outcome, and just like like reducing the bloat in government is a desirable outcome because there's no one that disagrees that there's a ton of bloat in government. So is it a desirable outcome? Well, guess what? Did Trump do it right? No, guess what?

SPEAKER_00 27:25

They're hiring all the people back in the government. Yeah, but Kevin. I'm saying he didn't know because they fired all the capable people.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Right. I'm saying that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Thoughtless again. I'm saying Elon Musk and President Trump thoughtless.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

All right. Well, but again, no one else has ever tackled this. So what? Being thoughtful about it. At some point you gotta deal with it. And probably no one's gonna tackle it again. That's true. The same thing with the right. I'm just like, well, you know, I mean, so we like you said, this has been they've been in the regime for 47 years, brutal, ruthless.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

This is the time to do it. Well after 47 years. The man was going nah next week. Well the man was gonna he's been on his deathbed in the last decade. He's going nah next week.

SPEAKER_03 28:13

That would not have changed. That would have been nice, he could die. That would not be a change of regime, and we still don't have a change of regime because it doesn't.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

You should be fully supportive of this because since we're all out there paying$550 a gallon, the Democrats' affordability argument is gonna be working for the next few months. We certainly hope so. We certainly hope so. We gotta we gotta we gotta refill these glasses.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

But before we go, I just wanted to make sure we know that the president just asked for$200 billion for his war. He hasn't officially America, get ready. Bubble up. All right, we'll we'll be back.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

We have what we what I will describe as semi-full glasses. We did it again, didn't we? Yeah, we did it. We did it again, didn't we? You know, Britney Spears. One of the things we we talk about is uh, you know, we really ought to be filming when we're like filling up the drinks because that might be actually quite entertaining. But uh we'll have our producer work on that. But you got some behind the scenes switch, huh? Behind the scenes switch. Yeah, there you go. Alright, so uh so in addition to the uh to the Iran conflict slash war, um we are currently in the midst of uh the Department of Homeland Security not being funded. Yes. Um for those of you who are interested in the Department of Homeland Security being funded, please call Senator Chuck Schumer immediately. Um, this is a really weird situation because the Department of Homeland Security oversees not just uh ICE and Border Patrol, but FEMA, the Transportation Security Administration. So if any of you have traveled in the last few uh weeks, you might be experiencing the pain of DHS being shut down by Coast Guard. Um there are all kinds of things that are involved with the Department of Homeland Security. And the absurdity, in my view, the absurdity of this is the Democrats are holding out because they want to get all these ridiculous reforms. Well, some of them are you, some of them, some of them are actually sensible reforms to ICE, but some of them are not sensible. So they're holding out to try to get all these ICE reforms. And the fact of the matter is, ICE is already funded. So they're holding out for these statutory changes to ICE, but they're keeping everything else shut down. And look, I mean, I and look, this is the second time the Democrats have done this this year, right? So we had a we had a 48-day shutdown, you know, last fall uh because they just refused to open the government, which is not you know, which is completely contradicts the position that the Democratic Party has held forever, which is we always need CRS to government funded. But now all of a sudden, because Trump is president and we hate Trump, gotta keep everything shut down. It's one day.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Come on now, the Republicans did this before. Let's not be naive, but I don't think we should uh be holding this position right now. Uh we're at war. I mentioned it earlier, but we're at war. And I think they should let this go for now and get the TSA workers uh paid. Um ice is ice. We got a new director now. Let's see what he does to figure this out. Um people are okay with immigration reform, just not killing Americans in the street. We don't like that, correct? So we we did that already, so let's try not to do that again. Um we should, we should, we should, we should get the funding.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

And to Kevin's point, um because we're at war, we've had some incidents. This is why we need the Department of Homeland Security for sure to do this. Cyber. The Homeland Security, you know, is involved with cybersecurity. Absolutely. This is rather important in a war. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

We can all agree that this is not a good time to stand on a hill. Let's just get the money flowing. I mean, I came through the airport the other day. Uh, I was in Houston. Lines were really long. Um, so to all my fans out there. And there are plenty of them apparently.

unknown 33:07

Lily.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

If you are uh going to the airport, make sure you got clear. Go and sign up for it. Clear gives you a better pathway to uh get through the lines.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

Um but also actually do we really want to be advising people to use clear? If all of a sudden all these people start signing up for clear, that line's gonna get a lot longer.

SPEAKER_03 33:30

I'm gonna find with my TSA preparation.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

I walked I walked right, I have no no, I got TSA pre-check and I got clear. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

So TSA pre-check isn't working right now.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

So TSA pre check is not working right now. But I also tried to give a TSA worker lunch money. And she said that she could not take actual money.

SPEAKER_04 33:51

Oh really?

SPEAKER_00 33:52

Really? So think you can my wife, who is the smartest person in the world, if you guys don't know, she told me that you can give them goodness. You might give them Renee, are you a smart? You might give them a gift card or gas card or something like that. So if I'm back in the airport uh anytime soon I'll try to do something.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

So I I I did not know that, and I I I that is good advice. There you go. So we love our American, our fellow Americans.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

We do. Regardless of what side they like.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Because I actually think uh I mean because the uh smear coffee and I mean so there's I saw one proposal about having they should have a bucket there and everybody can put in five dollars because I think like federal employees, my recollection is that you can you can accept something that's under a certain amount of money, fifteen dollars or ten dollars. So if everybody traveling through security would put in five dollars, that could buy a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

But you can take billions. You can't take five millions. You can't take over ten dollars, but you can take millions.

SPEAKER_03 34:59

You can't really anymore.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

I'm just trying to figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 35:01

This was all part of the crack.

SPEAKER_02 35:02

Well, Kevin, you should move you should move to Minnesota and get on the government dole because there's plenty of fraud going on in that state. Or the White House. Or the White House.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

There's no fraud going on in the White House, but there's a lot of fraud going on in Minnesota. Hopefully get to get your watch. He could have been selling a penis.

unknown 35:31

Or a Billy Bear. That is obscene, but not technicalities, ladies and gentlemen. I know you voted for this.

SPEAKER_02 35:44

77 million people voted for this. We're still not sure about that. What is your view on this? I mean, uh do you have a view on uh PDF?

SPEAKER_01 36:04

You're not in the roundabout.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Inside joke everybody. Inside joke.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

That's right, obscene versus fraud, and they're gonna put no, but no, I think, yeah, I think we're talking about Chuck Shu.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

We're talking about Chuck THS DLC is not funded.

SPEAKER_03 36:33

I mean the the ridiculous thing about it is that ICE is funded. Yes, funding in the business is funded. So the whole thing, the whole premise is ridiculous. And I mean Republicans are interested in compromising on the other issue.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

But go on.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

Got it, got it right. And so um, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

So holding this up for cameras and uh masks. What's the masks? All right, get the mask off. If you want to be a police officer, you should be uh be able to be identified. I okay.

SPEAKER_03 37:08

I you know, I I think the better solution is to have cameras. I totally believe in having cameras.

SPEAKER_02 37:13

And the White House is the White House has agreed to.

SPEAKER_03 37:15

Because that uh then everything is like on record. So uh the mask is a different thing, it's more complicated, and uh and I think that's a harder call. But there's no mask.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Every police officer walks around with no mask on.

SPEAKER_02 37:31

Everyone. Every single one. But every police officer has not been demonized in the way that ICE has been demonized. Don't be a demon. So if you if if you take off the mask and you allow these people to be doxxed and you've got all these be respectful people that you're already showing up at their homes.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

I think respectful to the people that you're engaging. Don't drag people out by the hair. Okay. So I've I've I have a solution. I have a solution.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

I think you solved, I think you solved the accountability issues with a with a camera. An always an ongoing camera.

SPEAKER_02 38:08

I yeah, I solve accountability. I agree. But if you so if you want ICE to be taking off the masks, then here's what you do. You require all of the states and the cities who are sanctuary states and cities, who are refusing to cooperate with ICE, if if if the sanctuary cities go away and the cities and the states are going to cooperate with ICE so that ICE can go into the jails to retrieve the criminals, there would be no need for ICE to wear masks.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

It's incredible that we're saying that folks are not cooperative. Obama was successful at getting the criminal. Because they cooperated with Obama. Yeah. There's something. And we don't know what it is. I don't know what it is, so I'm not going to speak on it.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

It's Trump hatred.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

That's what it is.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

And they're Obama.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

Because people are people are going to the courthouse, they're going through the process, and they're still dragging these people out of the courthouse and taking them and putting them on planes and shipping them out of the country. Which is not rational or reasonable.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

Non-sanctuary cities. They're not like there was that the one judge that let the guy out the back door.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

And they caught them. And then they tried to subventi the judge.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

What are we talking about? Because what the judge said was illegal.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

People are trying to go through the process. Let them go through the process without being arrested and shipped out of the country.

SPEAKER_03 39:32

Sanctuary cities. We know this is bad for the country already. Because they're snatching.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

Did anybody hear Stephen Miller say recently we should just give rid of due process? Anyone hear Miller? Oh yeah, Stephen Miller. Okay, well, we're gonna do it.

unknown 39:56

He's a great guy. I don't have to come in.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Oh no. We are a country of due process for now. For now. True. And it is going it is sliding through our fingers. Okay, nobody else believes it.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

Well, listen. So I I am guessing that the three of us would agree on the following things. Okay. We would all agree that all of the people who were allowed into the country during the Biden administration who were on the terrorist watch list should be found and deported. Okay. Right? I'll go with that. Okay. I'll go with that.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

And the censure is that you can't do that.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

And I think we would all agree that people who were allowed into the country that have criminal records should not be here and should be deported. Let's clarify criminal records. Felonies. Right. Okay, thank you. Okay. We would all we would all we would all agree that people who came into the country illegally and who have committed crimes in this country should be gone. Not not blowing through a red light, but actual crimes, right? Okay. Okay. So this is like an 80-20 issue in America. Everybody agrees with all of that. And in addition to that, all of the people who entered the country illegally and have had their cases adjudicated by the courts and were told to leave. They should be deported.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

Everybody agrees with it. Let me just ask you. Let me just ask. I can agree with most of that. I'll give you that. But you agree with all of it. Okay, okay, but here's the question. Why do we hate people so much? Well, what's the problem? We are ruining our workforce. We are ruining our economy. That's not people are. Listen, strawberries are gonna be$8 a box this summer. Do what you say what you want. It's already a problem. But we hate these people so much that we want to get everybody out of here who is illegal.

SPEAKER_03 42:02

That's terrible. We are the melting. Well last that's not what we're saying.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

We're not the melting pot anymore.

SPEAKER_03 42:09

We're talking about people here illegally that have committed a crime.

SPEAKER_00 42:12

But let's let's get everybody out of the illegal then. Not just I don't agree with mass deportations. I don't agree with that. Well, that's that's my point. Well, what are we doing? Be systematic. Have be thoughtful, not thought. Well, I I I come I completely agree with that.

SPEAKER_03 42:32

You have to define that.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

It means you go knock and you say, hey, we let me just say this. We found the guy who dropped bombs in front of Republican and a Democratic. We found him six years later. Okay, okay. That's not a problem. That's not a problem. We could do we can find him six years later. There's nobody we can't find. So if y'all didn't committing crimes, they're gonna find you. It may take six years.

SPEAKER_04 42:57

But they're gonna find him.

SPEAKER_00 42:58

Why are we so hell-bent? Just as a decide. It's the show. It's right, it's the feed and the MAGA people. We're getting rid of them.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Well, we have a lot of that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 43:10

So just as an aside.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

Do you know what that guy's lawyer is claiming? I'm with him too. Let him go. Let them go. It's claiming that he's going because Trump hard everybody. Everybody who has committed a crime on January 6. That's right. Let them go.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

Yeah, we should agree on that, everybody. They might hit it. It's gotta go. We should agree on that. We should all agree on that. We should be let go. It's crazy. But why are we doing this to people who come here looking for a better life? Well, you have a system in place, and by the way, everybody knows we should fix the immigration system. So let's fix it. But not like this. You don't drag children and kids and mamas down the street just because you you want to be an ass.

SPEAKER_02 43:56

But this problem would be solved if all of the sanctuary States and cities would simply cooperate with the federal government.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

It'd be solved to do it. It'd be solved if the people we sent up to the hill sat their asses down and wrote a bill to fix it. Well, we've tried to leave it to the sanctuary cities.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

We haven't got a sanctuary cities is a great way to start to start to do to deal with this. I mean, you if if you solve that problem, if there were no sanctuary states and cities, it would go a long way towards solving this problem. And we wouldn't have had these big blow-ups that we've had.

SPEAKER_00 44:32

Well, nobody's coming there. Everybody's sad not to come. Zero people crossing the border.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

Well, you mean zero people crossing the border illegally?

SPEAKER_00 44:43

Yeah, I mean I don't think anybody wants to come here.

SPEAKER_03 44:51

That's not uh causing us a problem at the moment.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

No, no, no, no. Everything takes time to weave its way through our system. And we'll see. We'll see.

SPEAKER_02 45:00

You have to fund, I think where we all agree is you have to fund the Department of Homelands. I agree with you. I mean, you need to know. Bring it back.

SPEAKER_03 45:08

We should defund the Department of Homeland.

SPEAKER_02 45:11

We should do that.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

ICE is already funded, so the whole thing is kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_02 45:15

It's silly. It's silly. So Kevin and John Fetterman and the rest of us all agree, but we're just trying to get the rest of the Democrats to go along. So the other interesting thing that's going on right now is there's this big issue now, or so Republicans have tried to pass this law called the Save America Act. Most of which is incredibly sensible. Most of the stuff in here is pretty sensible. Again, another 80-20 issue. Should people be required to show 80-20? Should people have it? It's an 80-20 issue that people should be. Should people be required to show a photo ID in order to go?

SPEAKER_00 46:03

Go further than that, ladies and gentlemen. Go further than that. In what way?

SPEAKER_03 46:06

No, they're not.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

They're asking you to show your birth certificates in some instances. If you don't have another form of identification, a passport in some cases. Well, they want you to prove that you're a citizen. So here's here's a pro here's a problem. And it's not 80-20. This is not 80-20.

SPEAKER_03 46:26

It is.

SPEAKER_00 46:27

It absolutely is. With the Republicans, it's probably 100% support. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Actually, in the country, the vast majority of the government. 80% of the population.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

Let me just say this. Supports the population. It's like a choice. The Democrats are totally out of touch with their own people.

unknown 46:41

80% of the population are not. You hit the load of belt, ladies and gentlemen. Supports voter ID.

SPEAKER_00 46:48

Why shouldn't you? I have never voted without showing my ID. Have you? So why are you objecting it? Why do you object to it? Have you? Have you ever? No, but why do you object to this? Who is voting without an ID? Tell me.

SPEAKER_03 47:02

There are some. Millions of people around the country are requirement. The reason is because 36 states require voter ID. Isn't that something?

SPEAKER_00 47:13

Most of the states in the country require an ID. And which 14 states are all governed by Liberal Democrats. What's possible? Make it easy for people. This is just them trying to shrink the voting pool. That's all. No, it's not. But nonetheless, people can't access, a lot of people cannot afford to access their documents to prove that they're an American citizen.

SPEAKER_01 47:40

What do you mean? What do you mean that's the thing that's not a good thing?

SPEAKER_00 47:43

It's already passports. There are a lot of people who listen, there are a lot of people who can't afford passports. And there are a lot of people who can't even get to their birth certificates. It would take quite a haul. Now listen, hold on. Before everybody goes all crazy, there are older Americans. Go ahead and say it. It's full of shit. It is not. There are older Americans in this country who have been here for years. They do not have the documentation to get what they need. And this will eliminate them, not unlike them trying to get rid of the mailing ballots, which I'm okay with that. Go on, let them. Because that's where they make that's where they won elections. Are you for it? Are you for that? Are you really for them? I'm not really for it, but Republicans mailing their ballots more than anybody. That's what they do. Yeah, I'm not for getting rid of mailing ballots. Me, but I'm not. I'm for shortening the period. I don't think we should be voting for three months. Listen, the whole idea is to get as many people to vote as possible. Period. Make it easy. You want people to get their birth certificate? Make it free.

unknown 48:53

Make it free.

SPEAKER_00 48:55

Reduce the cost on passports.

SPEAKER_02 48:56

When people get bull, when people are born, they get a birth certificate. Okay. Do you have a social security card?

SPEAKER_00 49:02

Do you have your birth certificate? I have this. Yes.

unknown 49:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

You have your birth certificate? You do?

unknown 49:07

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

All right, very good. Doesn't seem that hard, does it? So you're saying it's not hard. You're saying it's not hard, but elderly Americans, some of them don't have them. Yeah, but elderly Americans have a driver's license. Especially elderly after drivers. But wait.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

Anybody that's driving but they have a driver's license.

SPEAKER_00 49:25

Not all of them, eh? Everybody doesn't drive. Everybody doesn't have a driver's license. Just a normal ID.

SPEAKER_02 49:29

Everybody doesn't drive. You think elder elder elder Americans, you think they have social security cards? We would like to think so, but maybe not.

SPEAKER_00 49:37

I'll be honest. I'll be honest. If you don't have one, you can't. They're getting a social security check. You shouldn't be doing anything. No, no. My children, my children, when I when they were young, things would come up. I would have to go to the office, the certificate office, and purchase a new birth certificate every now and then. Because I didn't have it in a safe place. You can call me irresponsible if you want to. But I could afford to go down and spend$25 for the birth certificate so they can have a birth certificate. I could prove that they were born here, yada yada yada. I'm just saying, this is an obstacle. I mean, you can you can take any utility bill. I mean, they're all utility. You can approve your you. You lost me on that one just because if you if if if you you said you can afford$25, right? If you're not going to be responsible and hold like a I don't know, a binder, a folder, any folder, and put it in your closet with your birth certificate or any other important documents. You don't know your American citizens, speak quiet, young man.

unknown 50:43

But that's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

You don't know people. That's ridiculous. You should be able to have something.

SPEAKER_03 50:50

Right now, we have to show an ID for any number of things. We have to show an ID to fly. You cannot fly.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

You can't do anything. You can't fly with that.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

Do you know how many people don't fly? You can't talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 51:05

Yes, you can't. No, you can't. No, you can buy alcohol. Oh no, you can't. I mean not legally. No, then you can say what you want.

unknown 51:14

You can buy alcohol. 12 years would buy alcohol somewhere. Well make it a hundred dollars.

SPEAKER_02 51:19

Not in the states where they're smitting those drivers' license. We just learned about this reason. Did you download yours? I'm of age, so I do not need a fake ID.

SPEAKER_03 51:33

There are countless times I go into a bar and I need to show my driver's license and they check my birthday. Are you really? Kevin. Listen, Kevin, that I'm over to one.

SPEAKER_02 51:52

When I go to Wegmans, when I go to Wegmans and I try to buy liquor, they require me to pull out my driver's life. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 52:02

Silly fools. Exactly. And this is what they require. They only do it to the people who they know are going to show them. The people who are trying to buy it, they do it different ways.

SPEAKER_03 52:12

No.

SPEAKER_00 52:12

You think people listen. Okay, when I was 16. People who want to get around the system, they're not you.

unknown 52:19

That's not true.

SPEAKER_00 52:21

What are we doing? That's a different way.

SPEAKER_03 52:23

What are we talking about? But they're also not voting. You know, when I was 16.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

They're also not voting.

SPEAKER_03 52:29

Well, probably not.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Okay, so there are people who are who want to vote, have been voting for years, will be eliminated from this process.

SPEAKER_03 52:36

Okay. That's just not true. Now, you know what? We run a program that has certain requirements. It has an income requirement. You require people to prove who they are. And we require everybody to prove with documents the income requirement and the residency requirement. So for voting, there is a requirement. So for drinking, there's a requirement, for driving, there is a requirement, and you have to prove a requirement. And so for voting, you need to prove you're a citizen. Okay. And most people, this is this is so radical in any way.

SPEAKER_00 53:12

Have you ever heard of the rationale that gun laws are only for the law-abiding citizens? Have you ever heard of that?

SPEAKER_03 53:20

Are you going to tell me that we let scholarships to people that do not have to do it? Gun laws are for criminals and income?

SPEAKER_00 53:28

Gun laws are not for criminals. So the people who want to get around the gun law are not coming in with an ID saying, hi, I'm Mike Jones. I'm pretty sure Kevin's. I want to buy the AK.

SPEAKER_02 53:42

You're not buying a gun without a driver's license.

unknown 53:46

You're not buying a gun.

SPEAKER_00 53:48

Unless you're buying it on the black market. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to go buy a gun without a license.

SPEAKER_02 53:56

You know what? You come back here and you just show that gun.

SPEAKER_00 54:01

I'm going to figure it out. Good luck. And you show that gun to the people that you won't be showing it here.

SPEAKER_03 54:11

I don't have a problem with having it having to have an identity.

SPEAKER_00 54:14

This is totally having an identity.

SPEAKER_03 54:17

But that's what the same act is. It's just No, it's not.

SPEAKER_00 54:19

They're going deeper than that.

SPEAKER_02 54:22

The idiot Democrats talking about how this is Jim Crow 2.0.

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Give me a break.

SPEAKER_03 54:34

The numerous.

SPEAKER_00 54:36

You gotta prove you're you. I think it's gonna be like a citizenship question. No, it isn't.

SPEAKER_03 54:41

You can look at the law. You can look at the Save Act. You just need an ID. Okay, now license, passport, a birth certificate, or anything else that shows the country of birth.

SPEAKER_00 54:54

Say it again. The list again.

SPEAKER_02 54:55

Do it again.

SPEAKER_03 54:56

License.

SPEAKER_02 54:57

License. Birth certificate. Social security card. You can probably bring a utility bill.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

Those are three easy. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are out there and you're elderly listening to us and you have a challenge with proving your citizenship. Yeah, please let us know. Please let me know. Because we'd love to YouTube. If you voted the past 400 years, and now they're telling you you gotta show up with something new. And it's gonna show up with something new. It's not new. If this is gonna eliminate you from the voting process, please let us know.

SPEAKER_02 55:35

Look, there are certain sensible things that we ought to do, right? I mean having people prove who they are in order to vote is perfectly sensible.

SPEAKER_04 55:43

We require it.

SPEAKER_00 55:45

All I'm saying is make it easy. It is okay, but here say it is because it's easy for you. A license? You're not in a wheelchair, you're not a person who has a disability, you're not a person with a discount.

SPEAKER_03 56:00

Or a license, passport.

SPEAKER_02 56:02

Okay, well, I want to get to one other thing because I'm getting the hook. So I know what my own view of this is, which is no, but do you believe that you know they ought to blow up the filibuster in order to pass this thing? I just do not believe they should do that.

SPEAKER_00 56:23

We need it.

SPEAKER_03 56:25

It preserves the rights of the minority.

SPEAKER_00 56:29

Anyone want to do some quick hits? Howard University uh men's and women's basketball team went to the dance this year.

SPEAKER_01 56:37

Oh, fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 56:39

Go Bison? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:45

Well, I there's a there's a shout-out to another Howard that I want to give, which is Dr. Howard Fuller. So if anybody um uh Dr. Fuller had there's a documentary on PBS. Uh it's called a I believe it's called a Fuller Education. I would encourage everybody to watch this. Uh Dr. Fuller is a hero to those of us in the school of choice movement. He inspired so many of us to get involved in this. Umrior his entire life. Um he's an amazing human being, and I would encourage everybody to watch this.

SPEAKER_00 57:22

And I had the privilege of working with Dr.

SPEAKER_02 57:23

Fuller.

SPEAKER_00 57:24

Indeed, you did. Great guy. Rachel, anything else? Can I shout out my the producer? He bought his first home.

unknown 57:32

Woohoo!

SPEAKER_00 57:33

Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 57:35

Home ownership in America is not dead.

unknown 57:39

This is all life support, but we'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_02 57:47

Uh and I want to I want to do another one I wanted another quick yes, Rachel reminded me. I wanted another quick shout-out to Chuck Norris, uh, just an amazing guy. Uh this is a guy who came up in the martial arts world. Um, you know, he trained with Bruce Lee. He did movies with Bruce Lee, uh, just an incredible martial arts guy, you know, became a big movie star, starred in this great TV show, Walker Texas Ranger. Oh, yeah. I would add that Chuck Norris was a great Republican. Um super, super guy.

SPEAKER_00 58:20

I was about to back it up, uh piggyback off of your shout-out with the Chuck. Then you added that in there. Yeah, let's just stick to Chuck Norris. Chuck Chuck was awesome. Marshall. He was awesome last time. He rest in peace. Rest in peace for sure. Well, alrighty. We'll be back soon, guys. We won't stay away so too long. Please leave us some comments in the YouTube uh uh video. Let us know what you think. In the comment section. In the comment section. There you go. Sorry, sorry. But yeah, we didn't get to the question. Uh I had came in. We'll we'll get to it next time. Okay. So Larry, who are we are willing to get it?