Trump's First 100 Disastrous Days Ends with Arresting a Judge

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Nathan Brady: Hey everyone and welcome to episode 41 of the Blue Sedition Podcast. Uh I'm Nate Brady alongside my interrupting co-host
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Nathan Brady: we have survived um 100 days of Donald Trump's Donald Trump too. Uh
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Nathan Brady: we're gonna we're gonna Hey, something for you guys to look forward to. I know you all want to hear more about Donald Trump. Uh, but I think we're gonna jump right in because we have a lot to talk about today. And I I don't think we uh we were we had a show since uh the Trump team started arresting judges. Have we have we had a
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: show since then?

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Mike Smith: no,
Nathan Brady: No.
Mike Smith: we we haven't done a show since the Trump team decided to start arresting judges.
Nathan Brady: So, I mean, you probably know by now, but Milwaukee County uh Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on April 25th, Friday, April 25th, for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant um Eduardo Flores Ruiz evade quote unquote evade arrest by federal immigration agents at the courthouse. So, Mike, you and I have been talking about this offline. Of course, this has been going on, you know, for a few days now. Both its implications, um, you know, and and how, you know, this specific case itself,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: we we have some disagreements, but why don't you share with us a little bit about the story and then your take, your hot your hot take. What's your hot take?
Mike Smith: Well, I have a lot of the notes here because it's a lot of minutia. It's not a It's
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: not an interesting, you know, the details are important, but they're not super interesting. I think the headline is what what grabs everybody.

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Mike Smith: So, obviously
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: there's the accusation and the arrest of of Judge Dugan. Um, and the idea was that they were she was avoid helping this this uh this person avoid an ICE agent arrest uh who had arrived on scene with a warrant. Um, from what I understand, there's a difference between the types of warrants that you can get. There's there's uh there there's um basically like I I don't know the two names of them. I don't even have them. But basically one of them is something that you can present to any person anywhere in public and then arrest them on those on those uh merits. And then the other one is like in this specific case this type of warrant is supposed to be taken to like the head of the judicial something or other like that building that they're working
Nathan Brady: Chief
Mike Smith: in.
Nathan Brady: the chief the chief judge.
Mike Smith: Thank you. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Chief Justice,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Chief Judge, whatever it is, and

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Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: then they make a dis they make it a a decision based on what's presented in the warrant. And so it was one of these uh secondary ones where they had to go talk to the chief and that's where the ICE agents were at the time when when Dugan uh Judge Dugan basically pulled the the the I'm sorry, I've forgotten the name already. Ruiz, is that right?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: into into the hallway ostensibly and said like head that way.
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: even that is
Mike Smith: they were in they're
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: in like the public building in the public. They're outside of the court at this point because it doesn't have any there's no there's no nothing to try at the moment. And she's just like you got to go that way now. And
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: here's
Mike Smith: arrested her for that.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. So allegedly, at least the federal complaint is that uh Dugan instructed Ruiz to go out

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Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: a jury door, which is is a non-public door. And this is being um uh argued, right? Like that's that's people are saying that's not what happened. And what actually happened was was Ruiz and his attorney went out into a hallway where two uh I believe they were DEA agents. So, there were actually six agents that went to pick this first of all, six people had to go pick this guy up. I mean, that that's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: wild, first of all. Okay, so I guess two agents were were outside of the door where Ruiz and his attorney left and then actually they didn't arrest him there. And then
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: he went into an elevator with the agents and they still didn't arrest him and they waited
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: for him to exit the building
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: before they arrested him. So, so the whole thing is just very strange, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah. There. So the the wrinkle that I forgot as well is that that the two different types of warrants that are really at at play in discussion is administrative uh warrant and a judicial warrant.

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Mike Smith: There's also this like third type that people have been calling a quote unquote immigration warrant that ICE has been presenting which doesn't have to be run in front of a judge and many judges are like I'm just not like and Judge Dugan is one of them who's
Nathan Brady: Sure.
Mike Smith: like I'm not acknowledging this. This has no bearing on the law so it doesn't mean anything to me. And so that was part of the other thing. These warrants particularly state that they the that that the detainees, the people who they're whisking away and deporting probably need to be in a public space to be uh uh I want to say arrested, but that's not the the term, you know, detained and kept. And so that's why they went through all that rear moral where they're in the elevator with the guy and they're in the hallway with the guy. They don't matter. And as soon as he steps foot on public ground, they're like, "Now our warrant works." And they arrested him there.

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Mike Smith: Amazing.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. So, and I want to I want to add to this story by saying on on that morning, on the morning that she was arrested, um the FBI director, which I still cannot believe we we have to call him the FBI director, um Cash Patel posted on his Twitter account a picture of uh Judge Dugan and called it a perp walk and said, you know, nobody nobody is above the law. He posted
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: this here, this this photo here, of course, blurring out the faces of uh you know, the agents that went to go pick her up. I mean, this is this is so this is so absurd to me. Um, so
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: we
Mike Smith: uh it's not good.
Nathan Brady: It's not good. It's not good. What do you think the implications of this are?
Mike Smith: The implications are that this is just a this is a toe in the water. This is seeing what the administration can get
Nathan Brady: Always.
Mike Smith: away with.

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Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Always. Always. Yeah. And so they have Judge Dugan with the facts as we understand them to be as basically having committed obstruction of justice under this this particular, you know, term. But it feels very much like you had to get him outside to arrest him and I didn't I didn't stop you from doing that. So, I don't really
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: see how they could hold
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: an objection
Nathan Brady: no.
Mike Smith: uh in a in a court. I'm expecting this to to just get thrown out. But
Nathan Brady: I mean, I hear the argument, right? like, okay, so first of all, her courtroom, um, if you've ever been if you've ever been to traffic court, you know, or or some other court where you have to uh argue uh in front of a judge where there's other like misdemeanor or other types of of trials going on. That's the kind of courtroom that she runs. So, so while this was happening, there were actually other people in the courtroom.

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Nathan Brady: So, she hears
Mike Smith: unrelated.
Nathan Brady: a lot of cases
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: a day, completely unrelated, right? So, one of the the most obvious um uh responses from a judge when something is happening inside your courtroom unrelated to all the other cases that are going on is not in my not in my courtroom. Take this
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: outside, you know,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: because this type of thing um can have an effect on other cases that
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: are going on. Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: and one of one of the great examples I I heard recently was whenever you whenever you're arresting people inside a court or around a courtroom like like this, it creates fear even among people that aren't uh on trial. So, for instance, if I'm an immigrant and I need to testify against uh somebody who is uh you know, it was an abuse case or it was something like that, am
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: I likely to do that now? Do I want to show up to the courthouse to do that?

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Nathan Brady: Of course not. I I'm not going to go. Um so, and if you've ever if you've ever seen a judge, if you ever ever interacted with a judge, one of the worst things that you can do is disrupt their their
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: courtroom.
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: that's like that is that this is their home,
Mike Smith: that.
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: know,
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: their
Nathan Brady: they
Mike Smith: home
Nathan Brady: take
Mike Smith: field.
Nathan Brady: that very seriously. Um so yeah, I mean I I I hopefully this falls flat, but it does send kind of this chilling effect right through the to and it it's trying to send in my opinion trying to send a message to judges.
Mike Smith: It's sending a message. So,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: so the other side of this is that this actually happened already in Trump's first term. from another judge did ostensibly the exact same thing and they were, you know, uh, obstruction of justice was the the,

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Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: you know, and I think that the court case was actually dropped in 2022 because by then, of course, Trump is no longer in power and everyone's like, why are we trying this? Nobody, it didn't change the outcome of anything and this is just a dumb court case, so they they just let it go.
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: Uh,
Nathan Brady: that was that was um uh Shelley Dugan of Massachusetts. She was a mass Massachusetts judge, I believe. Um
Mike Smith: Really?
Nathan Brady: yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: They're both named Dugan.
Nathan Brady: No, no, sorry. Uh did I say Dugan? Uh
Mike Smith: You said Shelley
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: Dugan. I got
Nathan Brady: no,
Mike Smith: confused.
Nathan Brady: sorry. Shel Shelley Joseph. Um
Mike Smith: Joseph. Okay. Yeah, that
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: sounds
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: yeah. She she was a Massachusetts state judge, which
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: um yeah, I followed Massachusetts stuff a lot for,

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Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: uh but
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: yeah, I I remember that. I remember that specifically as well, but however, I've I've forgotten it because so much has happened between now and then. But it was the same thing. It was aiding and abetting, conspiracy, obstruction of justice. Um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it was like just like Dugan is facing now. Uh facing up to 10 years in jail, you know, just ridiculous nonsense, right? Um
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: and it's
Mike Smith: And and
Nathan Brady: there.
Mike Smith: the Biden DOJ was like, "Why are we doing this? Just drop this. This was nonsense. Move it along.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Saves the taxpayer
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: some money.
Nathan Brady: so that's the what what's scary in this case is it's happening so early in Trump's term that it's likely not going, you know, it's going to be heard by Trump's DOJ and they're going to press for prosecution here.

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Nathan Brady: Um it's not just going to get dropped. I think they're I you
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: don't think they have a
Nathan Brady: listen
Mike Smith: good case. And you're
Nathan Brady: listen.
Mike Smith: and you're facing off against against a judge. So,
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean I uh I agree with you that I don't think they have a good case. Um so we'll see.
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: Uh okay.
Mike Smith: we we'll keep we'll keep a we'll keep tabs on it,
Nathan Brady: Yeah, we're
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: going
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: to keep
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: an eye on it.
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: not sure it's going to be The other problem with this is that this is such a an obvious like flex of the muscle more so than caring about the results that I think that they're just wanted to do this for that exact thing. Now they're like, "That's done. We'll just keep annoying her until this, you know, either resolves in one way or the other." But

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Mike Smith: we don't really care anymore. The point was to make a statement.
Nathan Brady: yeah. Um, I I really feel I I think this this just this just shows how important it is that we don't lay down and play dead like James Carville would would suggest that we do. And
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: we stand up to these bullies because you are right. They are dipping their toes in the water. They're seeing, hey, how how much of this can
Mike Smith: How
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: much
Nathan Brady: get away with?
Mike Smith: fascism can I get away with,
Nathan Brady: how much f and if we and and I mean guy we we have to stop pretending like fascism isn't here like Trump isn't an authoritarian it's here it's now it's happening and
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: and he's he's pushing back against the checks and balances he's trying to see what he can get away with before people stop him and if nobody is going to stop him he's going to keep doing this so we have to push back against this I don't see where the push back is yet.

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Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: I mean, I think that Scotas handed him pretty strong push back in the way of a Nino decision that he had to return
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: Garcia
Nathan Brady: one that he
Mike Smith: back
Nathan Brady: keeps
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: saying
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: wasn't even about him and had nothing to do with him and that ah
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: my lawyers
Mike Smith: no. Yeah,
Nathan Brady: tell
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: me
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: it been something
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: different.
Mike Smith: He said the lawyers didn't say that that I had to do that. So he's he's feigning ignorance on this idea of like I can get away with this so long as I keep saying that it's I don't know what you're talking about.
Nathan Brady: And and and
Mike Smith: But I think at some point they're going to walk down the street and they're going to stand out in front, hold a press conference and loudly shout in a megaphone, "Bring him back." And then what are you going to do?

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Mike Smith: You didn't hear it then.
Nathan Brady: But I guess that's the thing. What are you going to do? What are you going to do if I Trump is obviously very plainly defying a Supreme Court order, right, with a Prago Garcia? What are you going to do about it? What? Look, my wife asked me this question the other day. I legitimately didn't have an answer for her. What are you going to
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: do about it?
Mike Smith: Well, I don't know. I don't have
Nathan Brady: You
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: good answer
Nathan Brady: going to send
Mike Smith: for that.
Nathan Brady: US marshals who are directed by the executive branch to go pick up the president? What are you going to do?
Mike Smith: The Marshall Service is directed by the judicial, but but
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: it's it's
Mike Smith: might they might
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: do that.
Nathan Brady: not I don't think so. I don't think that's correct.

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Mike Smith: I think we looked this up before, too. That's okay, though.
Nathan Brady: Uh all right. No, let's let's let's answer that
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: do
Nathan Brady: our viewers. Okay. Who are the US Marshals? Uh, I don't know. Under the service of
Mike Smith: Yeah. Which branch
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: of government
Nathan Brady: with Yeah. Okay. May maybe I'm wrong. I I want to be wrong. Uh, yeah, you're right. Why did I think this is a m No, no, wait. No, no, you're wrong. You're wrong.
Mike Smith: So close.
Nathan Brady: You're
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: This
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: so
Nathan Brady: why you're
Mike Smith: close.
Nathan Brady: getting it mixed up. It's the It's
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: the It's the Department of Justice, which is under the executive branch. They They
Mike Smith: Wow.
Nathan Brady: are
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: Yeah.

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Mike Smith: wouldn't mix up DOJ with the judicial branch, but but that's
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: fine.
Nathan Brady: I mean, you're maybe you're just thinking justice
Mike Smith: Maybe
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: thinking of other options that the that that the judiciary could enact. One thing that I have heard is that that they can deputize marshals of their own. So they can say
Nathan Brady: so so yes,
Mike Smith: this
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: is a
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: deputy
Nathan Brady: true.
Mike Smith: and I'm going to
Nathan Brady: Yes.
Mike Smith: give them a badge and they they operate with me now.
Nathan Brady: In fact, judge
Mike Smith: And I
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: think they're
Nathan Brady: one
Mike Smith: still
Nathan Brady: of the
Mike Smith: called
Nathan Brady: judges,
Mike Smith: marshals. So maybe that's why I'm confused.
Nathan Brady: well, one of the judges in the in um I think it was ago G Garcia's case said that if you if you can't find a marshall uh if the you know the Department of Justice can't find a marshall to do this, then I'm going to assign one or something

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Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: similar
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: that. Um so yeah, you're right there. But yeah, the US Department of Justice and the director of US Marshals service is both appointed by the president but supervised by the deputy attorney general under the US Department of Justice under the purview of the executive branch. So uh
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: so to answer, here's what you do. You deputize some folks as marshals for the judiciary and you march them down to this to to,
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: then
Mike Smith: know,
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: executive
Mike Smith: White House.
Nathan Brady: branch says arrest the marshalss that were deputized. I mean, this is just the the real the
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: real
Mike Smith: now
Nathan Brady: question
Mike Smith: you're talking
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: about a military coup, and that's that's
Nathan Brady: well
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: well
Mike Smith: have bigger
Nathan Brady: that I
Mike Smith: problems.

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Nathan Brady: mean that's the real question. The real question is what leg is that's not going to happen. You you're not going to deputize marshals that are going to go pick up pick up the president of the United States who
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: has
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: control
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: of the
Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: FBI,
Mike Smith: not going to get
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: him.
Nathan Brady: CIA.
Mike Smith: You're not gonna pick up the president. What you're going to do is you're going to go
Nathan Brady: Who
Mike Smith: get
Nathan Brady: are
Mike Smith: Marco
Nathan Brady: you going to go
Mike Smith: Rubio
Nathan Brady: get? Pam
Mike Smith: or
Nathan Brady: Bondi,
Mike Smith: somebody. You're
Nathan Brady: Marco
Mike Smith: gonna go get
Nathan Brady: Rubio.
Mike Smith: Pam Bondi.
Nathan Brady: I mean it's um good luck. Good luck. Uh,
Mike Smith: I'd
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: love
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: when
Mike Smith: see it
Nathan Brady: people say we're almost in a constitutional crisis, it's because they think we're not at the point yet where we need to go pick up

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Mike Smith: because
Nathan Brady: these
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: guys.
Mike Smith: haven't deputized
Nathan Brady: But we are.
Mike Smith: anybody. If we
Nathan Brady: We
Mike Smith: deputize
Nathan Brady: are at that
Mike Smith: some people,
Nathan Brady: point.
Mike Smith: we might be in a constitutional crisis, but who could know?
Nathan Brady: Oh my god. Well, let's let's just transition right over to um what is what is basically the main story, right? Today
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: go.
Nathan Brady: uh Trump's 100th day in office and
Mike Smith: April
Nathan Brady: um
Mike Smith: 29th. Welcome.
Nathan Brady: welcome. Hey everybody, if you're listening, you've survived. You're one of the few uh there there's not a lot of us left,
Mike Smith: You have
Nathan Brady: at least
Mike Smith: You haven't been
Nathan Brady: mentally.
Mike Smith: detained and sent out of the country yet.
Nathan Brady: Right. Right.
Mike Smith: Well
Nathan Brady: Hey,
Mike Smith: done.
Nathan Brady: good for you. So, I
Mike Smith: Good
Nathan Brady: want to

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Mike Smith: for
Nathan Brady: run
Mike Smith: you.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: Way
Nathan Brady: want to run
Mike Smith: low.
Nathan Brady: a couple of numbers by you right now.
Mike Smith: Let's see
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: him.
Nathan Brady: and
Mike Smith: Let's do
Nathan Brady: let
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: me know what let me know what you think. Okay.
Mike Smith: All right.
Nathan Brady: Barack
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: Obama. Uh, let me let me uh
Mike Smith: I heard
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: of him.
Nathan Brady: you know, I don't want I don't want to put it up on the screen yet, okay?
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: So, let me run these numbers by you. Barack Obama 100 day approval
Mike Smith: Yep.
Nathan Brady: rating uh first term.
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Take a guess. What's his approval rating?
Mike Smith: 49
Nathan Brady: Go up. Way
Mike Smith: higher
Nathan Brady: up.
Mike Smith: 51
Nathan Brady: Yeah. 65%. One of the
Mike Smith: first
Nathan Brady: highest

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Mike Smith: 100 days of
Nathan Brady: one of
Mike Smith: his.
Nathan Brady: the highest uh I
Mike Smith: All
Nathan Brady: think
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: the highest
Mike Smith: But do
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: his
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: second term
Nathan Brady: 80
Mike Smith: now
Nathan Brady: years.
Mike Smith: because
Nathan Brady: I don't have second term but I want to go right to Joe Biden which
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: is basically as people as Republicans would say Barack Obama's third term right uh
Mike Smith: Shabbid.
Nathan Brady: so Joe Biden first 100 days
Mike Smith: I I feel like he had never had a popular position. I'm going back to 49.
Nathan Brady: 54% okay because you
Mike Smith: Wow.
Nathan Brady: have to remember we we had just come off
Mike Smith: I know.
Nathan Brady: COVID
Mike Smith: Honeymoon off
Nathan Brady: we
Mike Smith: of
Nathan Brady: were
Mike Smith: Trump one. I get it.
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: But
Nathan Brady: we were we were like thank God for anything other than what we were just dealing with.

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Nathan Brady: Um it did it did quickly drop
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um you know as it as it always does. You always have that this honeymoon phase. So Donald Trump uh first term. Now remember 100 days is the honeymoon phase. Donald Trump
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: first
Mike Smith: His
Nathan Brady: term
Mike Smith: his his first term wasn't very good in the first 100 days either. It was plagued by this kind of nonsense.
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: So, I'm going to say 44%.
Nathan Brady: Really good guy.
Mike Smith: All
Nathan Brady: 42%. 42%.
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: Which you just had an election. The
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: president just took over. You'd think that at least 50% of the country supports the guy because now he's president. But when in actuality, right, in his first term, he lost the popular vote, remember?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: And you
Nathan Brady: so,
Mike Smith: have to remember that only twothirds of Americans vote anyway. So it's like it's

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Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: not even 50%, it's going to
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: be closer to like 33 or 35 depending
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: on where you win it. And
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: so that means like even at 44% or what do you say 42% approval you're like well you have all of your base approve of you and then you have like James Carville and his ilk approving of you because you're doing economy
Nathan Brady: Right. Um,
Mike Smith: and not great
Nathan Brady: Bill
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: Bill
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: Mar
Mike Smith: know
Nathan Brady: is like he's he
Mike Smith: yeah
Nathan Brady: actually
Mike Smith: Bill
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: Maher's
Nathan Brady: really nice
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: he's
Nathan Brady: me.
Mike Smith: he's gonna run
Nathan Brady: He's
Mike Smith: it like a business
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: we got to
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: give him some time
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: 100 day mark you
Nathan Brady: Okay. Um final final question

00:21:37

Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: 100
Mike Smith: ready.
Nathan Brady: day approval rating Donald Trump second term where today
Mike Smith: I'm going to say
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: he's
Nathan Brady: do
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: we
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: got
Mike Smith: 30s. I'm going to say 39.
Nathan Brady: exactly exactly correct 30
Mike Smith: I have
Nathan Brady: 30
Mike Smith: not read these numbers. I'm
Nathan Brady: He
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: has
Mike Smith: guessing.
Nathan Brady: not he is not I I I pulled this one up 39% approval rating he has the lowest 100 day approval rating in 80 years any president so we're talking you know 80 years is basically 20 terms of presidents. Um, Donald Trump. Now, the problem is Donald, as we already know from previous episodes and just listening to the words that come out of his mouth, he doesn't understand percentages. So, he probably thinks
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: this is fant this is great.
Mike Smith: Yeah, though.
Nathan Brady: You
Mike Smith: This
Nathan Brady: know,
Mike Smith: is great for him.

00:22:19

Nathan Brady: 39, that's all of them. That's all that
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: that's all the numbers.
Mike Smith: Can I just
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: really quickly point out that
Nathan Brady: okay.
Mike Smith: like look at the two different images that ABC decides to use here? So, in their hero here, they've got this sleepy eyed looking adult old man.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: He just he looks he looks like the world has beaten him down.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: And then they they have this first hundred days subbanner here where he's doing his like punisher impersonation. He's like, "I'm gonna
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: stay
Nathan Brady: This
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: down
Nathan Brady: ridiculous
Mike Smith: boy.
Nathan Brady: thing. Yeah.
Mike Smith: I'm Clint Eastwood m***********."
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: just like just can you stop pretending he's an old sleepy f****** grandpa and nobody
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: cares.
Nathan Brady: Uh so let's take a look at some of the numbers here. Um so job approval rating as we just said 39% approval rating the economy since Trump took office people who feel that it is better only 21% of people feel that the economy is better 25% feel that it's the same um but man that 21% that's I mean this this includes his supporters this

00:23:22

Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: means that
Mike Smith: what
Nathan Brady: his
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: supporters
Mike Smith: ran on. I'm telling
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: you, I I don't care how maga pills you are.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: If you're like, he took office in the first 100 days, I didn't get a, you know, a new job or I didn't get a a pay boost and and nothing has changed for me. Like
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: that that's
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: what they're
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: thinking. They're like, "I support the guy completely, but I haven't seen anything yet.
Nathan Brady: yeah. At the at this point, the the people who are who are still the real magapilds are the fake are the fakers on on X, right? They're the uh they're
Mike Smith: The bots.
Nathan Brady: the people
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: who are who are trying to get likes and views. The cat turds, the Laura Loomers, the those types of of people on X who
Mike Smith: they're just

00:24:03

Nathan Brady: are
Mike Smith: trying to
Nathan Brady: trying
Mike Smith: get rich.
Nathan Brady: to make you
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: believe,
Mike Smith: don't I don't
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: even mind them going after that bag, man. You know, cuz got to make a living somehow. Why not grifting?
Nathan Brady: Well, I mean, that's that's the entire Republican party.
Mike Smith: That's the
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: game
Nathan Brady: full of
Mike Smith: plan.
Nathan Brady: grifters.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: And if you So these people are literally telling you what did what did we say last week on the show, right? Trump was trying to tell you that eggs are like 98% some some ridiculous the eggs are like 13 cents a dozen now. He's looking
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you right in the eyes and he's saying, "No, they're
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: not.
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: lying
Nathan Brady: they're
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: not.
Mike Smith: you.
Nathan Brady: Fake news.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Fake news." You're

00:24:37

Nathan Brady: you're standing at the grocery store. You're watching him speak. You're fli you're flipping through your Tik Toks and you're watching him speak and you're going to buy eggs and you're you can't it doesn't make any sense, right? So prices for the things that you want or need trump at 100 days. 62% of people believe that the price for things that you want or need is going up. Well,
Mike Smith: And I'll point
Nathan Brady: only
Mike Smith: out I'll point out that this is paused tariffs. People think 62% of the polling think that things are going up in price and the tariffs haven't even been put in play yet. By and large, you we haven't seen the tariff prices impact things like the automotive industry like buying a car, buying, you know, anything that requires steel or overseas, you know, manufacturing materials. None of that stuff has made its way to the price tag yet. That's
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: going to
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: take
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: a

00:25:34

Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: couple of months.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: is with
Mike Smith: we
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: already think that everything is going up
Nathan Brady: right
Mike Smith: too fast.
Nathan Brady: and to be fair just the just the threat of them has caused massive panic right and and
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: cause
Mike Smith: yeah,
Nathan Brady: prices to go up and that is going to be used as an excuse to gouge if tariffs actually do go into place. There's
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: there's already talk of like madness at um shipping, you know, shipping containering uh container centers like the the the docks
Mike Smith: Port
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: of
Nathan Brady: LA.
Mike Smith: LA. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um you know, the port of LA. Yeah. I mean, it's just it's madness. Um so, finally, the the the last poll question it goes over here is likelihood of Trump's policies to cause a recession. And 72% of people

00:26:17

Mike Smith: Oh my god,
Nathan Brady: pulled.
Mike Smith: it's so much worse. It should be 100%. And I And
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: the problem is that I don't think that I don't think your average voter has a proper appreciation for what a recession is and what
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: would cause one. I think that we just think bad economy, people losing jobs and we just assume that that's all the recession is. But all of his policies tariffs like chief amongst them. But also him trying to pressure the Fed into lowering interest rates are only going to exacerbate that. It's going to make inflation worse. It's going to therefore make a recession more likely because people are going to be losing their jobs and inflation's going to be crazy. So
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: you're
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: like, "Oh, okay. I lost my job and everything costs way too much. Perfect
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: storm for the worst recession we'll ever see.
Nathan Brady: right I remember one of the main uh talking points of the Trump first term was basic basically like if I had made some comment on you know X when I was on X somebody would say yeah but your 401k and it's like oh okay great So, authoritarianism threats, but at least my 401k is doing fine, right?

00:27:24

Nathan Brady: But but they weren't wrong.
Mike Smith: I don't think he can make that claim this time around. I've been
Nathan Brady: But
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: no,
Mike Smith: mean, you
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: know that
Nathan Brady: can't make
Mike Smith: I watch
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: the stock markets like you do. It's it's the volatility that he has caused in the last three months. I have it right here. For one, they're down, you know, the Dow's down like 4,000 points, 4,355 as of right now since since he took office. But I mean week over week it's plus a thousand minus a thousand and then when he starts talking about tariffs it's two to three thousand a day and you're going no markets can handle this kind of volatility. It's going to cause real problems.
Nathan Brady: It's it's hilarious because well it's not hilarious at all. Right. Then you have the secretary
Mike Smith: Gallows humor.
Nathan Brady: uh the press secretary Caroline Levit just going in front of media and literally lying right to your I mean we are living we're living in that post-truth society where

00:28:16

Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: we're just looking people in the eyes and we're saying even though unemployment has increased and you know we're looking people in the eyes and saying we have the best unemployment numbers that we've ever seen. Uh the economy is doing better than it's ever done. Um, you know, Liberation Day was a a great success even though we've, you know, basically reverted all of those uh tariffs,
Mike Smith: Yeah, those
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: those
Nathan Brady: know, I
Mike Smith: stances
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: on tariff. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um, we're not attacking democratic in institutions. Uh, you know, like they're just they're just literally lying right to our face. And there are still people who believe it. Clearly, this poll, you know, only one in 10 people believe that the price for the things that they want have gone down. How How can you that's an that's an objective it's an
Mike Smith: Right? That's
Nathan Brady: objective
Mike Smith: a that's
Nathan Brady: truth
Mike Smith: a fact that you
Nathan Brady: that

00:29:06

Mike Smith: live through in your life.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: Unless you're like not the person in the family, like say say you're an adult living with your your parents, right? You're one of these college kids who couldn't find a job because the economyy's bad. You move back in with your parents and they still buy the groceries and things. Maybe you don't know that that
Nathan Brady: Maybe
Mike Smith: the prices of
Nathan Brady: maybe
Mike Smith: things are changing. Maybe you're just like, I don't know. He said they're going down, so I believe him. Like maybe, right? Maybe.
Nathan Brady: Maybe,
Mike Smith: But
Nathan Brady: maybe.
Mike Smith: that's that's giving a lot of credence to this hypothetical that I just came up with. Like that that seems that that 11% still seems high to me. Who would actually
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: believe that? Who goes to the supermarket every week and is like, "Yeah, prices are going down." Who would say that? Sick of fans.

00:29:49

Mike Smith: Maybe. Maybe you're just a
Nathan Brady: exactly.
Mike Smith: Trump loyalist
Nathan Brady: I mean, we're
Mike Smith: and you're like, "I'm gonna vote the way that makes him look good in this poll because I love him." Sure.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Yeah. But you don't actually believe that.
Nathan Brady: No.
Mike Smith: You can't go to the grocery store and say that you're paying less this year than you were last year every week. Get out of here.
Nathan Brady: So, let's let let's go over some of the highlights, right?
Mike Smith: Give
Nathan Brady: So far,
Mike Smith: me the
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: Give me the highlights here. I
Nathan Brady: let's
Mike Smith: want to
Nathan Brady: go
Mike Smith: hear
Nathan Brady: over some of the highlights, right? So, we have Liberation Day, which we just talked about. I mean, that's just fantastic. By the way, we didn't get to celebrate. I think it was April 25th or was like the the Italian Liberation Day. Um, so if people don't know about that, you should look

00:30:24

Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: don't.
Nathan Brady: should look that up. You should look that up in the past, but it was the day that that basically uh you know was a call to Italians to stand up and rise up against Nazis, right? And it's just that that's the word that they use. That's what they labeled it as, day of liberation.
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: okay.
Nathan Brady: so Trump using Liberation Day to impose higher tariffs in April is just it's just so stupid. Um so, okay, so we have that. We have the executive orders that attack law firms. Um we have pressuring
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I mean and a lot of those law
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: firms
Mike Smith: and and
Nathan Brady: caving
Mike Smith: law firms caving in and
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Kooie and and the others. But
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: Jesus
Nathan Brady: we have Trump pressuring major universities. Many of them caving like Colombia.

00:31:14

Nathan Brady: many of them stepping up like Harvard um over campus speech and anti-semitism
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: and you know
Mike Smith: we didn't even
Nathan Brady: academic
Mike Smith: get to talk about
Nathan Brady: freedom.
Mike Smith: Harvard.
Nathan Brady: We did we did talk we
Mike Smith: Did
Nathan Brady: talked
Mike Smith: we talk
Nathan Brady: about
Mike Smith: about
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: it?
Nathan Brady: last week.
Mike Smith: Okay,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: there's
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. Because I got I got to
Mike Smith: All right.
Nathan Brady: pull out a little Boston accent and say get out of here guy.
Mike Smith: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Remember
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: remember
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: we we did that. Um uh he's he so he's threatening judges with impeachment hitting at I mean the one of the biggest things which is now he he's insisting now is no longer a joke is pursuing a third presidential term. And I wanted to talk about this one a little bit because it now seems like news outlets are legitimizing this

00:31:57

Mike Smith: They
Nathan Brady: without
Mike Smith: uh
Nathan Brady: really like
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: digging
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: into the
Mike Smith: asked
Nathan Brady: fact
Mike Smith: him
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: or they asked maybe they asked the press secretary, I don't recall, but they had they they they asked the question in a way that sort of presupposed the outcome. They're like, "Is there a plan to run JD Vance for president with Trump as his vice and then have him resign?"
Nathan Brady: And yeah, no, that was I think that was in his 100 days interview with Time magazine.
Mike Smith: Was it him?
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: right. That's right. Time
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: asked him that as as like a a little gimme pitch. And you're you're like, "Why are you laying this groundwork? What's wrong with you?
Nathan Brady: It's It's unbelievable. And yeah, so I saw I don't know if it was CNN or NBC. I mean, it was a major news outlet that that basically said Trump's pursuit of a third term um disrupts the Republican primary field.

00:32:46

Nathan Brady: And you're like,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: "No,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: that's not the headline." Like,
Mike Smith: That's not the headline. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: why
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: are we
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: legitimizing
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: this?
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know. Uh it's disturbing how much the news the legacy media in this country is capitulating to his his just adult brains whims. He's like, "I'm
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: going to run for a third term even though it's clearly unconstitutional." And then the newspapers are like, "If you know the OJ thing, right? If I were to do it, I'm not saying I did it, but if I were to do it, here's how I'd do it." And
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: then
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: you're like, "f******,
Nathan Brady: I'd
Mike Smith: why are you
Nathan Brady: use
Mike Smith: rolling
Nathan Brady: gloves
Mike Smith: a red
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: carpet
Nathan Brady: fit.
Mike Smith: for this guy?

00:33:25

Nathan Brady: Uh he It's the same thing that happened in 2016. Actually, specifically 2015. Um, it's this same it's sanewashing. It's taking his crazy s*** and spinning it like like remember when he was at the World Economic Forum and he's asked some question about trade and by the end of it he's talking about like daycare in the United States and people and and I mean he just goes on this rant and people are like what the f*** is he talking about? like, you know, clearly the audience is confused, the commentators confused, everybody's confused. And then like the Wall Street Journal is like Trump Trump takes bold stand on, you know, economy during the and you're like no, like
Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: everyone thinks
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: batshit
Mike Smith: like, can you just
Nathan Brady: crazy.
Mike Smith: talk about the thing that's important? like
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: stop stop whitewashing it for us. Just
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: tell us
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: tell us what it is.

00:34:17

Mike Smith: What
Nathan Brady: he
Mike Smith: I'd like to see is I'd like to see somebody make the argument that he can't even be on the ticket again. I think that's an interesting argument for for the interpretation of the 22nd amendment. Just saying he's ineligible to be elected president. That means that if you're the vice president and the president dies, you have been elected president because you were elected as vice president and now you're president. You
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: were
Nathan Brady: but
Mike Smith: elected.
Nathan Brady: you were but were you elected president? So
Mike Smith: You
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: were
Nathan Brady: I I'm
Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: worried
Mike Smith: on the
Nathan Brady: about
Mike Smith: ticket.
Nathan Brady: that. I'm I
Mike Smith: I want to see some I want
Nathan Brady: So
Mike Smith: to see a
Nathan Brady: does that
Mike Smith: legal
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: scholar
Nathan Brady: he can't be
Mike Smith: make
Nathan Brady: speaker
Mike Smith: the argument
Nathan Brady: of the
Mike Smith: that

00:34:48

Nathan Brady: house?
Mike Smith: that you can't be on the ticket.
Nathan Brady: Does that mean he can't be speaker of the house?
Mike Smith: See, I want to hear a legal scholar.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: I I
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: want because
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I don't know. I'm not a constitutional
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: lawyer. I want a constitutional lawyer to explain to me the the limitations imposed by the 22nd. I think personally from a naive point of view that it means you're ineligible in a position to be the president of the United States for a third term. So I don't think you can be the vice. I don't think you can be the speaker. I don't think you can be anybody who's in the line of succession.
Nathan Brady: No, I a I agree with you. I mean unfortunately um these things are just worded so poorly and the the process to update this to more modern language um is beyond our capability because we don't have a functioning government anymore. Uh

00:35:39

Mike Smith: Well, there's that,
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: too.
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: um
Mike Smith: maybe we should list that under one of his first accomplishments as a son of JS.
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: He's
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: he's
Nathan Brady: we no
Mike Smith: rendered
Nathan Brady: longer have
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: federal government largely uh not
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: useful.
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: Like,
Nathan Brady: to be fair we've been heading in that direction for a while not just under Trump but yeah I think he's helping just show the real uh dysfunction in in our government right um
Mike Smith: yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: but so let's continue we have we have a
Mike Smith: Okay,
Nathan Brady: lot more we
Mike Smith: get keep
Nathan Brady: have a
Mike Smith: it going
Nathan Brady: lot
Mike Smith: though.
Nathan Brady: more
Mike Smith: I want to hear
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: more. I
Nathan Brady: cover
Mike Smith: want to hear
Nathan Brady: let's
Mike Smith: more.

00:36:09

Nathan Brady: Keep going. He invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 19 of 1798 to expedite deport deportations. Right. Um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: Now, admittedly, that one is is currently on hold under TTRO in
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: in the courts. So, I don't think that he can actually use that as a as a legal justification for deporting uh anyone. doesn't mean that they're not going to keep deporting people. And in fact, their game plan to date has been we're just going to deport them so fast that the courts can't do anything about it and then we're going to claim no legal jurisdiction. And what are you going to do about it? So, we need to solve
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: that problem. But
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I'd
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: say at least the courts are citing on the correct side of history saying you cannot use this legally to deport people. And I think that the other thing is is that certain in thinking about like um uh Mahm Khalil and and some of these other protesters who basically are being deported for their their thought crimes against the

00:37:07

Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: state. Um we they they had legal injunctions in place before they could make it past the country's lines. And so they're going to sort of be forced to play this out to its logical conclusion because they they couldn't get away with their fly by night scheme to, you know, exile people to to the goologs. So with
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: any luck, they'll obey the law and stop doing it. We'll see. We'll put a pin in that for now.
Nathan Brady: he has threatened Greenland with milit basically military takeover of the country. Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah, military occupation, annexation, and I guess ultimately making a state out of it.
Nathan Brady: also I I don't know. Uh,
Mike Smith: I I I think that um I mean I I used this in in one of our blog posts about the the Canada thing, which I'm sure we're going to get to in a second, but it's like the the game plan is we're going to make it the 51st state and then we're going to forget about that that 51st state bit after we

00:38:10

Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: have control
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: because
Nathan Brady: gonna
Mike Smith: it's going to be it's going to be Puerto Rico all over again. It's going to
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: be we just occupy you and we rape your your resources and we promise you're going to get a vote eventually, but we can't do it right now.
Nathan Brady: Um, man, I hated you using that word there. Just you completely threw me off. I did I did not enjoy that.
Mike Smith: I'm sorry.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: But call it for what it is because that's all he
Nathan Brady: no,
Mike Smith: cares about.
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: doesn't
Nathan Brady: You're
Mike Smith: care.
Nathan Brady: right. It
Mike Smith: The Trump
Nathan Brady: just you
Mike Smith: admin
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: doesn't care about Greenland
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: for anything at
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: all
Nathan Brady: no,
Mike Smith: except
Nathan Brady: they don't.
Mike Smith: its natural resources. And

00:38:42

Nathan Brady: They
Mike Smith: he sees
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: it as
Nathan Brady: You
Mike Smith: a as lowhanging fruit for, you know, a takeover that he can
Nathan Brady: listen,
Mike Smith: then use to further
Nathan Brady: they could
Mike Smith: his
Nathan Brady: get
Mike Smith: own wealth.
Nathan Brady: they could get bounty paper towels out of the deal, which I think is a huge win. Uh, you know, so hey, you know, um, we're we're going to get to Canada, but I wanna I want to maybe actually end on that because there's some big news related to Canada that I think we should cover uh before we end the
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: show. So, we'll put that towards the bottom of his 100 days because actually he has something that he can put on this list
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: um that we actually are
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: really
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: thankful
Mike Smith: positive.
Nathan Brady: for.
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: love it.
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: so,

00:39:20

Mike Smith: actually,
Nathan Brady: let's
Mike Smith: there's a couple. So, let me just since we're
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: talking about Greenland,
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: this whole thing, the this this threat, thinly
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: veiled threat that he's presented to Greenland has reinvigorated the people of Greenland in their diplomatic relationships with their with with Denmark,
Nathan Brady: With Denmark.
Mike Smith: right, with
Nathan Brady: Yep.
Mike Smith: the Danes. And and basically, they they're agreeing more than they ever have in the entire history of their country.
Nathan Brady: It's amazing,
Mike Smith: They're like
Nathan Brady: right? It's
Mike Smith: they're
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: like,
Nathan Brady: 911
Mike Smith: you know what?
Nathan Brady: of, you know, where, you know, Americans on the left and the right, the people
Mike Smith: What's
Nathan Brady: were
Mike Smith: that?
Nathan Brady: flying flags, everybody, you
Mike Smith: Uh,
Nathan Brady: know, whatever.
Mike Smith: a second Trump
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: term has just hit the towers.
Nathan Brady: Whoa. Oh my god, you're landing them today.

00:39:58

Nathan Brady: Pardon the pun. Um, so, so yeah, no, you're right. Uh, so yeah, that's another uh positive in his first 100 days. So,
Mike Smith: I mean,
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: he's he's so he's so abjectly repellent to other countries, ally and enemy alike, that everything he does is like the touch of death. Like anything he wants in foreign uh relations doesn't happen because he specifically wants it. Greenland's
Nathan Brady: um
Mike Smith: just bad pun, but the tip of the iceberg.
Nathan Brady: this list here that I'm that I'm kind of uh reading a lot of these off of
Mike Smith: Let's go.
Nathan Brady: has has another it has as an achievement or a list of things that he's done during his first 100 days what we just talked about record low approval rating lowest in 80
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: years but
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: it gives one of the ones that I missed which I want to see if you can guess um for for honeymoon approval ratings uh Richard Nixon let's see if you can let's see if you can get Nixon's uh approval rating first 100 He didn't I don't think he made first 100 days in his second second term, right?

00:41:10

Nathan Brady: Where he resigned shortly after winning. Am I
Mike Smith: uh
Nathan Brady: remember that correctly? But anyway, first term 100 days.
Mike Smith: I don't know. I don't I also the problem is is I also don't recall when our uh uh getting into the Vietnam War really happened. Was that I don't remember if that was at the start of his his presidency or that was something he inherited. But either way, I'm going to say low. I'm going to say 45% for for Mr. Richard Nixon who is
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: a
Nathan Brady: mean the Vietnam War was uh technically 1955 to 1975. Um and but our involvement in it
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: uh happened in 65. Um,
Mike Smith: Okay. Okay.
Nathan Brady: so I
Mike Smith: I have to work
Nathan Brady: am
Mike Smith: backwards to figure out where Nixon is.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, I I guys, we're this history stuff is hard. Okay, my my brain's been my brain's
Mike Smith: If it if

00:42:10

Nathan Brady: been
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: pummeled
Mike Smith: didn't live
Nathan Brady: with
Mike Smith: through
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: it,
Nathan Brady: stuff.
Mike Smith: I'm not going to remember it. That's
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: the problem
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: hard.
Mike Smith: I have.
Nathan Brady: It's hard. Um, however, you are you are very far off in your guess
Mike Smith: very
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: far
Nathan Brady: Nixon.
Mike Smith: off.
Nathan Brady: Very far
Mike Smith: Ah,
Nathan Brady: off
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: must be
Nathan Brady: your guess
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: must
Nathan Brady: Nixon.
Mike Smith: be wildly successful then.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. 62%
Mike Smith: He's in his 60s.
Nathan Brady: approval rate. 62%.
Mike Smith: Wow.
Nathan Brady: So 3% under under Obama in his first 100 days. So people were really happy. Uh yeah,
Mike Smith: How
Nathan Brady: I don't I don't know. We didn't live I didn't I wasn't alive.

00:42:38

Nathan Brady: Um that he's like now this is something I got to look into. Um, so yeah, among the among the 100 days among the 100 day approval ratings, let's see if we can get a full list approval ratings full list here since this is a
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: I'm sure you can.
Nathan Brady: yeah, there has to be, right? Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I would think Wikipedia would be a great source of this, but I don't see it. Uh, which makes me sad. Let me try Wikipedia.
Mike Smith: Come on, internet. You can't
Nathan Brady: Here
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: we
Mike Smith: can't let
Nathan Brady: go.
Mike Smith: me
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: down like
Nathan Brady: it's not
Mike Smith: this.
Nathan Brady: it's not it's not it's not doing it. It's
Mike Smith: Wow.
Nathan Brady: not helping
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: us.
Mike Smith: man. Nixon Nixon won California. That's unbelievable. I mean, he's from here, so I I get it.

00:43:23

Mike Smith: But all the same,
Nathan Brady: Oh, here we go. Here's a
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: Wikipedia list. Here we go.
Mike Smith: disappointed.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Give us give us Are you going to give us So, this list doesn't have 100
Mike Smith: His
Nathan Brady: days
Mike Smith: lowest
Nathan Brady: in it.
Mike Smith: approval,
Nathan Brady: I don't
Mike Smith: highest approval, but yeah, nothing. Nothing
Nathan Brady: what's
Mike Smith: for the first 100 days. That's a shame.
Nathan Brady: Okay, here's sorting by highest approval. Look at W. Bush right after 911.
Mike Smith: Oh, I know. How can you not, right?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean, and kind of the same things here, right?
Mike Smith: Not
Nathan Brady: Truman,
Mike Smith: only that, but
Nathan Brady: Roosevelt.
Mike Smith: but yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Boy, I'm Yeah, there's a lot of Democrats up here on this list. Uh, but then there's Reagan and Nixon, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um and then so
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: this

00:44:05

Mike Smith: I mean,
Nathan Brady: looks
Mike Smith: there
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: are deeply polarizing presidents in their
Nathan Brady: Yeah, for sure.
Mike Smith: in in their uh I mean, if you ignore all the Trump presidencies, they're probably the most radical right-wing presidents that we've seen. So, I'm not surprised that their approval ratings are quite a bit lower than the rest because
Nathan Brady: So
Mike Smith: anybody
Nathan Brady: here's the
Mike Smith: can be a populist president.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, here's initial approval rating. So we I I I assume we can basically count this as first 100 daysish. Um and I mean Truman 87, Johnson 78, Kennedy 72, Ford 71, Obama, Eisenhower, Carter, all in the high 60s. It has Nixon at 59 here, Clinton at 58, which is shocking. That one's a little shocking to me. I thought he was more widely liked uh than that. He was definitely one, at least in my lifetime, the last like bipartisan president, if you will. Uh,
Mike Smith: right? He was
Nathan Brady: you

00:45:02

Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: know,
Mike Smith: last president who like I mean aside from wartime Bush, but
Nathan Brady: yeah,
Mike Smith: he was the president who could actually get people to agree on things and pass you know sensible gun
Nathan Brady: at least
Mike Smith: legislation
Nathan Brady: get Congress
Mike Smith: for example.
Nathan Brady: to agree on things. Not like not that not that uh the constituents actually agreed, but yeah.
Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: And this is all about the the voters so it doesn't really matter
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: that much.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Interesting. Okay. So, I wanted to I want to transition here. So, well, do you have anything to add? I mean, Trump, we we have a a a whole list. We could continue on on a hundred
Mike Smith: Trump Trump
Nathan Brady: 100
Mike Smith: bad
Nathan Brady: things.
Mike Smith: and and
Nathan Brady: Trump
Mike Smith: people
Nathan Brady: Trump
Mike Smith: think so.
Nathan Brady: first 100 days very very bad.

00:45:41

Mike Smith: I will say that he's lost a lot in the polling because of disenfranchised Latino voters. I I've seen so many articles with interviews from from Latino community, Latino voters who basically all have the same version of the following quote. I knew we was going to import Latinos, but
Nathan Brady: deport.
Mike Smith: I thought it was just going to be the criminals,
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: not, you know, person going to school or person working
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: at the
Nathan Brady: happened
Mike Smith: lunch
Nathan Brady: in his
Mike Smith: counter.
Nathan Brady: first term, too. You know, like MAGA husbands, their wife gets deported and they're
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: like, I didn't
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: think it was going to happen to me. And you're like I and these people and I'm surprised there are even disenfranchised voters who this isn't directly happening to because it feels like
Mike Smith: There
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: there
Nathan Brady: I'm seeing
Mike Smith: are
Nathan Brady: is it has to happen to them in order for

00:46:25

Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: them to finally realize it. It's just like
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: the co the COVID vaccine, right? It's like how many people were anti-COVID vaccine until their last breath on their, you know,
Mike Smith: Right. On
Nathan Brady: taking
Mike Smith: the ventilator.
Nathan Brady: their oxygen
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: mask off saying, "I wish I had gotten the vaccine." you know.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: It's it you're right though. I mean, and there's also we have to understand about like culture and the way that we consume the news. Obviously, you and I and all of our listeners probably very online. We get a lot of this stuff from firsthand accounts from from reporters on the ground and things like that. A lot of people in a lot of different cultures in America go by like word of mouth pretty much and
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: they're not going to watch the news. I mean, a lot of Latinos uh uh people in America don't speak English.

00:47:08

Mike Smith: They just don't.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: So, they follow, you know,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: either their local news sources or they they have community where they they get their news from. And so, a lot of this stuff was driven by word of mouth. Trump's going to help. Trump's going to fix everything. it's going to get better and he's only going to deport, you know, the the violent, illegal, whatever. And you just believe it because it's your what your community says. As soon as that community started seeing the real the reality of what these deportations
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: were going to look like and how it was going to impact their communities specifically,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: word of mouth changed dramatically.
Nathan Brady: Yes. It is funny that you say that though. I mean I like you said we are really entrenched in this stuff. We're talking
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: about it every day. We're watching the news every day.

00:47:49

Nathan Brady: We're listening to different uh podcasts, whatever they there there are a lot of people that don't do this. And I play like I play poker for instance with some friends
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: and I like go out and do other things. And you hear people talk about politics and you have to sit here and like dude that's that's not even close to correct. like you
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: are so far
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: off of your understanding of what's going on right now. It's wild. And and
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: when
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: people hear some things, they're like, "Wait, really? He's doing
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: that?" Uh so yeah,
Mike Smith: Yeah. No. And a lot of people in in those spheres of influence will say fall into the sensationalism. So things that sound more sensational than they actually will be or are in
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: reality. And that's
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: the only thing they hear.

00:48:30

Mike Smith: So
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: Trump's going to fix everything with the illegal immigrants who are causing all this trouble in this country.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: Doesn't apply to us. That's what
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: they think.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: mean, how
Mike Smith: then
Nathan Brady: many times
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: have
Mike Smith: now
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: they're
Nathan Brady: heard
Mike Smith: like, "Well,
Nathan Brady: Have you
Mike Smith: they deported him. They deported him and
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: my
Nathan Brady: How many
Mike Smith: block's
Nathan Brady: times have
Mike Smith: thinning
Nathan Brady: you heard
Mike Smith: out
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: a little
Nathan Brady: though,
Mike Smith: bit here. That's a problem.
Nathan Brady: right? That like, "Oh, Nate, I don't care because he's just deporting criminals." And you're like, "No, no, actually that's not true." And by the way, you
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: cannot
Mike Smith: can
Nathan Brady: call
Mike Smith: I can name

00:48:56

Nathan Brady: somebody
Mike Smith: people.
Nathan Brady: I mean how do how do you call I always you know I think a great retort to anybody who says they are just deporting criminals is you cannot call somebody a criminal until they've had their due process.
Mike Smith: Until they've had a day
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: in court. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. So
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: have immigration
Nathan Brady: not a criminal.
Mike Smith: courts for exactly this reason. You
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: can win this argument by holding a court case and proving that they're here illegally and then deporting them. Take
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: a little extra time. Do it the right way. No, we're just we're bye-byeing people on Blackbirds in the middle of the night.
Nathan Brady: And we're by people that have been here that have come here legally, whether it's through uh asylum, whether it's through green cards, student visas. I mean, we are just
Mike Smith: H1B workers. I mean,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: it

00:49:43

Nathan Brady: They're
Mike Smith: runs
Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: kicking
Mike Smith: gamut.
Nathan Brady: out
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: anybody.
Mike Smith: want immigrants to do certain jobs in this country, and now we're like, you're here illegally. You're gone.
Nathan Brady: The combination of the we talk about this all the time. The combination of these mass deportations plus the unrest and the um the uh what unpredictability of
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Trump and his his economic policies
Mike Smith: Policy.
Nathan Brady: is leading to it's going to lead to an absolute disaster.
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: There's
Mike Smith: they've
Nathan Brady: no
Mike Smith: already shown it. I mean, we we spend all of our time talking about it, but that they're the the the way that the administration moves is sort of fast and loose, and they just get everything wrong.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And so you're like
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: in the best case scenario, this is like a chaos admin, but they're they're really they're doing so many things incorrectly whether
Nathan Brady: Right.

00:50:34

Mike Smith: or not you object to it morally, which we both do, but you're just it's it's such a s*** show that nobody has any confidence in you. And the polls are now showing that
Nathan Brady: Yes. And I mean, they're only going to get worse, right? Because
Mike Smith: they're only
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: going to
Nathan Brady: feel
Mike Smith: get
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: worse.
Nathan Brady: the the the one in eight people that still think that the prices are going down, uh, eventually, uh, you're you're going to realize because it's going to get a lot worse. Um,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: if you
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: don't have
Mike Smith: what'll
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: be
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: interesting, horrible, but interesting, is that the only way that we've seen these bumps in numbers of getting the American people to support you is by way of war, right? But the
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: only way that we actually have seen that play out is when a different country, you know, engages

00:51:18

Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: us in war and we respond to that. You can't just go to war. If Trump's like, "We're going to war with Iran." His numbers are going to sink like a stone
Nathan Brady: Right. Uh this is the going back to the economic insecurity and instability. Uh I shared this this morning. More Americans are financing groceries with buy now pay later loans and then paying those bills late or not at all.
Mike Smith: or
Nathan Brady: This
Mike Smith: not at
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: all.
Nathan Brady: kind of thing doesn't uh it it's not a thing that that people are going to see overnight. It's a thing that you're going to see in a year. you're going to see
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: in two years when the debt starts piling up. Um, this is a direct result of Trump's economic policies and where we went from as much as we were not happy with Biden for many reasons at least we were in going in the right direction with the economy in such a way that inflation was um coming down.

00:52:23

Nathan Brady: That doesn't mean prices come down. It just means f you know future inflation is coming down. Uh things were looking better or at least more stable for the economy. Now that doesn't address the things that you and I always talk about like the
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: the wage
Mike Smith: Hispanic
Nathan Brady: gap and
Mike Smith: problems,
Nathan Brady: things like that, but but it wasn't getting it wasn't getting dramatically worse like it is now.
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: These things are this is going to bite us in the ass um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: really soon.
Mike Smith: Especially and and this is to say nothing of some of the ideas that Trump and his ilk had floated during the campaign. Imagine he actually goes through with his idea of a tax overhaul. Well, he does away with income tax and replaces it with um a
Nathan Brady: flat
Mike Smith: purchasing
Nathan Brady: tax or
Mike Smith: tax,
Nathan Brady: what?
Mike Smith: a flat
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: tax
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: on some on goods purchased.

00:53:09

Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: You can't afford the groceries now
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: and then he's going to put
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: a 25% tax on it to boot.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Half of that payment that you put into this thing, you're going to end up having to pay later as this huge debt because of these taxes he's he's ideally
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: putting into place.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And that doesn't also include the tariffs that are going to make anything that you buy that isn't grown in America, which is a
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: lot of food, cost more
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: because
Nathan Brady: and and
Mike Smith: of tariffs.
Nathan Brady: I just want to explain to people right now. I I love that you brought that up because I used to be Okay. So, I am definitely for simplifying the tax code. I am definitely for no income tax would be a thing that I think we'd all be happy with. But I want people to just be before you jump on board with an idea like that.

00:53:53

Nathan Brady: Remember that if if there was no income tax and then there's a flat tax on purchases like grocery items and it's something like 30%. like you know dairy, like farm products, like all of these other things that
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: again is going to be attacks on you on the working class and
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: things like jet purchases or whatever these types of things. They're going to be end up being exempt and all that this is going to do is look like a victory for the working class and it's you're going to be paying more in taxes than you than you are right now. So that's
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: just something
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: to think about.
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: I know. And and not to mention that you would have to you you'd have to sell the idea of, you know, the minimum alternative tax usually gets people a federal refund that people a lot of people rely on. And
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: if you get rid of taxes in that fashion, there's no more refund.

00:54:45

Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: paying your taxes at the grocery store. You're paying your
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: taxes at at Target and Walmart and everywhere else,
Nathan Brady: Which you can't even afford right now,
Mike Smith: which you
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: can't even
Nathan Brady: know?
Mike Smith: afford right now in
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: a lot of cases.
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: going to pay that
Mike Smith: guess
Nathan Brady: 30%
Mike Smith: what?
Nathan Brady: tax and then you're going to go put it on your credit card and then you're going to be paying
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: interest on that. You're going to be paying interest on your taxes.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Uh it's it No, that's
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: not good.
Mike Smith: and and even if they don't exempt the the the luxury items you're talking about, private jets, yachts, etc., so that the billionaires and millionaire class has to actually pay taxes on things. That's a drop in the bucket.

00:55:22

Mike Smith: On
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: an individual level, everyone will be paying roughly the same amount of money in taxes in this way because we all buy groceries, we all buy
Nathan Brady: Right,
Mike Smith: gasoline for our cars, we
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: all buy the same things.
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: And it doesn't matter if you're a billionaire or not. You eat food. So, you're gonna
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: pay the same tax as I do. I'm not a billionaire.
Nathan Brady: right. But it's a
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: much
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: much much
Mike Smith: okay. Oh, you're right. You're right. You paid the the cap of $10,000 on a single purchase when you bought your 48 billion yacht. You're
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: you're absolutely
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: right. You paid that 10 grand, but on averages, everyone's going to pay the same amount.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And that that's how is that fair? How are you gonna have a billionaire buying yachts and jets and things paying the same amount of taxes as you and me?

00:56:02

Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: ridiculous.
Nathan Brady: It's not
Mike Smith: I'm
Nathan Brady: sustainable.
Mike Smith: for tax reform, but that's not the right answer.
Nathan Brady: That's not That's not it. Uh I would love to work out to somehow work out a way to not pay income taxes where it saves the working class and the elite class has to pay just a just a little bit more. A little bit more. But it's never gonna it's never gonna happen because they're
Mike Smith: They'll
Nathan Brady: not going
Mike Smith: never
Nathan Brady: to allow
Mike Smith: allow
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: to happen.
Mike Smith: for one,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: but for
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: two, I don't think the American consumer can stomach a change in taxes that would be so shocking as this.
Nathan Brady: Oh yeah. It would have to be an incremental change. That's a change that just But if there is a change and you're looking at it, it probably doesn't benefit you. Just just bottom line.
Mike Smith: Yeah.

00:56:43

Mike Smith: No, I mean this we should make it the argument this way because I think that a lot of people un now because of the spotlight it's been given. They understand what tariffs are and how that'll affect prices. It's a tax that we pay on goods that come into the country that we buy
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: and we pay for
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: it. Imagine that. But instead of goods coming into the country, it's literally everything you buy at the store. It's a tariff we impose on oursel. Those are the taxes the federal government would collect. That's what we're talking about here.
Nathan Brady: Yep.
Mike Smith: If you don't like it when you can't buy your cheap timu crap, what are you going to think when your can of beans costs 25% more?
Nathan Brady: Yeah, I mean it it just really adds up. You'd be like, "Oh, I'm okay with paying like a $1.75 instead of a$140." But no, it adds up. Um and we're we're
Mike Smith: And

00:57:29

Nathan Brady: all
Mike Smith: these
Nathan Brady: seeing
Mike Smith: are
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: things you
Nathan Brady: right
Mike Smith: buy
Nathan Brady: now.
Mike Smith: every week for for to sustain, you know, you and your
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: family. Your your
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: your price of eggs goes up every single week. It's like
Nathan Brady: My
Mike Smith: simple.
Nathan Brady: my my grocery bill is insane. And we're a threeperson
Mike Smith: Oh, I know.
Nathan Brady: family and I know you are
Mike Smith: Oh, I
Nathan Brady: too. And
Mike Smith: know.
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: just I I I can't even believe it. Um I mean I've
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: never been like a hardcore value shopper and I am now,
Mike Smith: know. I
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: know.
Mike Smith: thinking that, too. was like when I was like a teenager, I would be like laughing at like the old folks in the at at the supermarket being like, "Wow, why is this so expensive?"

00:58:00

Mike Smith: And they're like, "Put
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: things back at the end." And I'm now I'm like with the family. I'm like, "Oh s***, I'm that old man. I'm the
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: guy who's screaming about the price of eggs here." I'm like, "Go put that. We can't afford to go put that back.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, "No, we can't. We're not buying Froot Loops. I'm buying Fruity O's. You're
Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: getting
Mike Smith: getting
Nathan Brady: the Fruity
Mike Smith: fruity
Nathan Brady: O's on
Mike Smith: from
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: bottom
Mike Smith: bottom
Nathan Brady: shelf
Mike Smith: down there."
Nathan Brady: in the back without the box in the
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: clear plastic bag.
Mike Smith: See if you can find
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: one that's torn a little bit so that we can get a
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: little discount
Nathan Brady: Yeah.

00:58:24

Mike Smith: there.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. See if See, is that expired? Okay. Grab that one. That one's
Mike Smith: Put
Nathan Brady: expired.
Mike Smith: that one before somebody
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: else does
Nathan Brady: Oh, man. Okay. Let's move on to I mean, we don't have a lot of time left. We're h we're about to hit that hour mark, but I wanted to um share some congratulations. Um thank you, Donald
Mike Smith: raw.
Nathan Brady: Trump. for helping the Liberal Party in Canada uh led by Mark Carney. Um
Mike Smith: Amazing
Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: story.
Nathan Brady: just a couple
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: of months
Mike Smith: amazing
Nathan Brady: ago uh the Liberal Party was down big time in the polls uh in Canada and
Mike Smith: on the
Nathan Brady: basically
Mike Smith: heels of the Trudeau scandal and all that
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: stuff. So,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: It
Mike Smith: understandable.
Nathan Brady: was
Mike Smith: We're like, "Oh, okay. They're

00:59:04

Mike Smith: going to win big political points because of this whole Trudeau thing. The Conservatives will probably take power." I think the polling had the odds at basically like two to one that the Conservatives take power two months ago. Like, it was it was a sure thing.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: yeah.
Mike Smith: then
Nathan Brady: I don't know.
Mike Smith: Donald Trump gets on his truth social and he's going, "Oh, you got to elect the the Conservative Party of the North and maybe they'll be the 51st state." And and they want that. They want that so bad. Elect the Conservative. I'm like, "You just ran the best propaganda against the Conservative Party." And in fact, I think one of them like got on Truth Social was like, "Shut the f******, man.
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: ruining
Nathan Brady: enough,
Mike Smith: this for
Nathan Brady: dude.
Mike Smith: us.
Nathan Brady: Uh the the Liberal Party were was uh 20 percentage points behind in um in January.

00:59:48

Mike Smith: 20 points.
Nathan Brady: 20
Mike Smith: 20
Nathan Brady: points behind
Mike Smith: points.
Nathan Brady: in January. 20
Mike Smith: That's
Nathan Brady: points
Mike Smith: a that's
Nathan Brady: behind.
Mike Smith: in in in our general election. That's a state that we don't visit. We're just like, you we're not going there. We're 20
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: points behind. We're not visiting that.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I mean, that's that's Alabama, right? like
Mike Smith: We're
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: not
Nathan Brady: okay,
Mike Smith: going
Nathan Brady: forget
Mike Smith: to Alabama.
Nathan Brady: it.
Mike Smith: We're 20
Nathan Brady: Forget
Mike Smith: points behind.
Nathan Brady: it. Yeah, we obviously we're not going to Alabama. We're never going to win Alabama, right?
Mike Smith: Oh my
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: god.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And and then stage now now I will say that they didn't win um they didn't win enough seats uh to form
Mike Smith: They
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: don't have

01:00:17

Nathan Brady: government.
Mike Smith: the clear
Nathan Brady: So they
Mike Smith: majority, right?
Nathan Brady: they
Mike Smith: So
Nathan Brady: don't
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: have
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: the clear
Mike Smith: had to
Nathan Brady: majority.
Mike Smith: form,
Nathan Brady: So they have to go and and do that uh negotiating whatever those
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: crazy
Mike Smith: there
Nathan Brady: other
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: countries
Mike Smith: have a
Nathan Brady: do.
Mike Smith: they have a
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: parliamentary system, so they have more
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: than two political parties. Can you believe
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: it? They have
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: they have seats at the table. And so there's I think it's the New Democrats are what they're called up there. And they're basically like our progressives, I think. and they hold enough seats to get a a simple majority. Uh so I
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: think that that the Liberal Party should basically be in control for the next what four years

01:00:50

Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I think.
Nathan Brady: So, this is their fourth straight, so their fourth consecutive victory. Um, and I was, you know, I remember in 2016,
Mike Smith: behind
Nathan Brady: um, I guess closer closer to 2018, my wife and I were considering a change, right? like we're like I mean things things are just not right in the United States and they don't seem like they're going to be getting any better and looking to the north I was going man I feel like they are just a few years behind doing exactly
Mike Smith: you.
Nathan Brady: what we're doing here right like this crazy right-wing uprising um and s***'s going to get bad uh and I'm wondering if they thanks to Donald Trump and what he's doing right now and what they saw here they get to skip all of that and learn from our mistake.
Mike Smith: that would be really really good for them obviously.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Smith: Um I like it because it hands Donald Trump a loss in our country which is nice. Just like hey

01:01:48

Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: you still have the touch of death. Well done. Well done.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I mean this
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: was not loable. If he just shuts his fat mouth for a few months, the Conservative Party wins in Canada and then he can do whatever he want with them. I I
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: But
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: he just
Nathan Brady: mean
Mike Smith: has to talk. He has to talk and he he put tariffs on Canada and Canada's immediate response was don't buy American. And they put that
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: in every store in Canada. Like their biggest
Nathan Brady: I know.
Mike Smith: and even you're like even the conservative voters in Canada were like I'm a conservative. f*** the US. And they
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: were very clear about that. And
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: so they're like, I'm not voting for this guy because this guy's getting the Trump endorsement. I'm going to vote for the other guy just to piss him off.

01:02:26

Nathan Brady: Right. Um, so this is to me a very hopeful sign for the midterms that we have coming up. Um, not soon enough, unfortunately.
Mike Smith: Not soon enough.
Nathan Brady: Not soon enough. Uh, but there's
Mike Smith: About
Nathan Brady: still
Mike Smith: a year. About a year.
Nathan Brady: about a year, but we still have some serious concerns with the perception of the Democratic party right now. They are polling obviously unsurprisingly very very low low. Some you know some of the worst numbers that the the party has seen in a long time especially when the Republican party is performing as poorly as they are. Um, and Republicans, I see this, at least those Republican shyers that I was talking about early, the
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Candace Owens and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: those
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: type of people are showing this as obviously nobody likes the Democratic party. This is a huge victory for Republicans. But the reason why the numbers are so low is because people are upset with the Democratic Party for not responding appropriately to what the Republican party is doing.

01:03:35

Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um, and it's as simple as that. So, I'm hoping we we see a lot of uh great new blood coming up. Um I'm very excited about quite a few races. I think this is a great chance for progressive Democrats to come out and score some very easy victories. Um so, I'm hoping all of this is a positive sign for midterm elections if we get to midterm election
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: midterm elections.
Mike Smith: And the most annoying thing as a Democrat right now is that our elected leaders continually play the same hits where they're like, "We're not in power. We can't do anything. Uh what what do you want us to do?" And and and then they just continue with business as normal. Uh they had a a vote today to confirm Trump's ambassador to China and 16 Democrats voted to confirm him, including Cy Booker. So you're like, you can't keep telling me over and over again, what can I do? And then just blanket yes vote on all of his his assignments for these things.

01:04:46

Nathan Brady: I mean this is I made that
Mike Smith: Like
Nathan Brady: point about
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: Corey
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: Booker.
Mike Smith: just telling their vote your voter base that you think that they're stupid
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: because
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: these are public votes and you're like, I can't do anything. And then you're like, I vote with him. And so
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: I'm like, I need people to go out and actually campaign with this messaging of this guy, the incumbent, for us, does nothing for us. He doesn't fight. He goes along with the show. Get him out of there. I want people to fight. I want progressives in there who are going to fight this this horrible administration tooth and nail.
Nathan Brady: I posted exactly that about Cy Booker a couple of days ago where it's like don't don't tell me that Cy Booker is one of those people fighting for us. What did he actually do? He spent he did his cool 24-hour

01:05:35

Mike Smith: Super
Nathan Brady: speech,
Mike Smith: fun.
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: know,
Mike Smith: broke a record. He broke a record.
Nathan Brady: cool. He broke a record
Mike Smith: Need
Nathan Brady: and then it was immediately immediately
Mike Smith: business as
Nathan Brady: back
Mike Smith: usual.
Nathan Brady: to business as usual. Exactly. Um,
Mike Smith: And And to be fair, they're going to jam these these appointments down your throat no matter what. They'll
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: pass on party lines. There is no reason for you to just vote yes on these things. Vote present and then and then move on if that's all you can do. Like make that statement of I cannot in good faith or good conscious approve of this appointment. This is like
Nathan Brady: What is the
Mike Smith: the headset
Nathan Brady: reason for
Mike Smith: thing.
Nathan Brady: it? Seriously, what? I don't You have to help me. I'm missing something. What is the Because you're not You're never getting anything in return.

01:06:18

Mike Smith: You're
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: never going to get anything in return.
Nathan Brady: And Republicans are generally very good about just standing
Mike Smith: I'll
Nathan Brady: ground.
Mike Smith: tell you I'll tell you the reason that I suspect and
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: we we'll have to argue this at some later date, I'm sure, but I suspect it's optics. I think that Cy Booker fancies himself a run for the president at some point and he wants to do the same nonsense that Biden did where he lean he leans back and he's like, "Look at my record of working with my Republican allies across the aisle. here I am voting for their, you know, and it's
Nathan Brady: Nobody
Mike Smith: just it's it's posturing
Nathan Brady: wants this.
Mike Smith: and optics and actual Democrats are like
Nathan Brady: If I mean I I I would not listen to a single strategist that tells me that one of my talking points needs to be that I'm willing to reach across the aisle. You
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: can you can literally go f*** yourself.

01:07:11

Mike Smith: You
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: can reach
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: around my aisle.
Nathan Brady: Right. Right. I've got an aisle for you. Uh and yeah, I would absolutely not do that. That would not be my talking point. And I think some of the most successful um upandcomers and some of the most successful people in Congress, specifically progressives, do not have that stance.
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: They
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: are,
Mike Smith: don't.
Nathan Brady: I'm going
Mike Smith: They
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: don't.
Nathan Brady: fight for you. I'm going to fight for the working class. I'm going to fight for the American people. I don't need to say that I'm going to reach across the aisle. No, I'm going to slap the hand away of anyone who is trying to hurt you and line their own pockets. What?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: How hard is that?
Mike Smith: I'm like, I'm here to do the work. Here's how I propose we do it.

01:07:53

Mike Smith: You're either working with me or you're not.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: And I don't really care to reach across the aisle. You come reach over here. You want to work with me and help people.
Nathan Brady: I think a winning message these days, I think there are a lot of people that are tired of team politics. And I'll give another
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: example of this. Uh yesterday, unfortunately, I came across a cat s*** post, a cat turd post.
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: Um that was that was cat turd too, whatever. The guy that ran
Mike Smith: yeah,
Nathan Brady: over his dog, the guy that killed his dog by running it over.
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: Um he said something like, "Uh, I can't believe that Chelsea Clinton got, you know, got to buy a mansion on our tax dollars." And it was something like I don't and I don't know where it came from. I don't know what it was, but it was something like spent $10 million on this property and whatever.

01:08:44

Nathan Brady: And my response was like, okay, well, first of all, really, really glad, really happy, smart choice, choosing property, uh, buying property with our money instead of spending millions of dollars every week on a golf trip, right? But I don't want
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: this to be about team politics. My point was I I want to find anybody who is anybody in government abusing our tax dollars and and put a stop to it. But you're so one-sided that you're pulling up this Chelsea Clinton nonsense and then let me look through your post over the last eight years. No, I see nothing about Donald Trump spending literally every weekend at the golf course winning his own senior golf tournament while he's f****** shanking balls behind him and and you know, literally spending $3.5 million a day while he's golfing
Mike Smith: taxpayer on
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: on
Nathan Brady: taxpayer
Mike Smith: security.
Nathan Brady: money. And
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you had to go back to, you know, whatever 2009 when you found this line item and you're turning it into be this thing.

01:09:51

Nathan Brady: My dude, Trump has already spent nearly a hundred million dollars on vacation of taxpayer money. So what do
Mike Smith: But
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: that's what I
Nathan Brady: like?
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: What
Mike Smith: saying earlier about
Nathan Brady: what are
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: we doing?
Mike Smith: sensationalism. It's people
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: they get this the sensational titles like that, the headline, and then they
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: don't do the digging and they just assume that that's the thing. But I'm like, but the news media and the left in particular, well, I should say, you know, corporate Democrats in particular, aren't doing a good enough job of calling out the hypocrisy or
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: getting in front of it and just saying, "Why are you wasting so much money playing golf? You
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: were elected president." Should the president have a memecoin that he stands to make billions of dollars from? Does that seem like it's a case of impropriy here? Maybe that's not good.

01:10:33

Mike Smith: I did a lot of questions that they could just molly and it would presumably go unanswered, but you could be asking them. You could be doing your news hits every day like they do anyway and
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: just call
Nathan Brady: mean,
Mike Smith: out the other side for the ridiculousness.
Nathan Brady: the the precedent that he set with that memecoin. I mean, holy crap. I I
Mike Smith: They made Jimmy sell his goddamn peanut farm.
Nathan Brady: the poor the freaking peanut farm. And we're
Mike Smith: This
Nathan Brady: over
Mike Smith: guy's
Nathan Brady: here.
Mike Smith: got a meme coin that he has most of the stock in and
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: he's going
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: to sell
Nathan Brady: not.
Mike Smith: it and he's going to sell it for billions.
Nathan Brady: And by the way, he's not he is not divested from anything this time around. It's like there's no forget it. Let's stop the pretending that
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: even

01:11:11

Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: divesting.
Mike Smith: was like the first time around he's like I put it in Jared and Ivanka's hands. It's
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: not in
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: my hands.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: No,
Nathan Brady: Not
Mike Smith: it's mine. Nobody cares. None of this matters.
Nathan Brady: now. Now
Mike Smith: I'm gonna
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: get
Nathan Brady: literal
Mike Smith: rich.
Nathan Brady: president of the United States is like, "Now's a good time to buy DJT stock. Get your DJT
Mike Smith: Yeah, prices
Nathan Brady: here."
Mike Smith: are nice and low. I think it's
Nathan Brady: I mean,
Mike Smith: gonna
Nathan Brady: get
Mike Smith: get
Nathan Brady: them.
Mike Smith: a pump.
Nathan Brady: Hint hint. Yeah,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it's Yeah. I
Mike Smith: And
Nathan Brady: mean, what
Mike Smith: then the next
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: day he's like, "Oh, I'm pausing the tariffs, everybody." And then the stock markets go crazy and all the insider trading, all his buddies make a billion dollars.

01:11:38

Mike Smith: It's It's ridiculous.
Nathan Brady: All right.
Mike Smith: Is that where
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: we're ending? Are we ending on that?
Nathan Brady: yeah, let's end on that. Um, all right.
Mike Smith: Who the what? What am I
Nathan Brady: This
Mike Smith: looking
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: at here?
Nathan Brady: this is this is uh the the new uh prime minister in Canada.
Mike Smith: Oh, that's uh I had not seen his face. This looks
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: like a caricature to me.
Nathan Brady: I mean, I'm sure this isn't a real uh time
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: cover.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: This
Nathan Brady: it's it's
Mike Smith: is This is you know an
Nathan Brady: hilarious.
Mike Smith: AI or
Nathan Brady: For
Mike Smith: something.
Nathan Brady: those listening, we're just showing a picture of the the winner of uh last
Mike Smith: Says
Nathan Brady: night's
Mike Smith: Carney,
Nathan Brady: election.
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And he's it's a it's a fake Time Time magazine cover photo with him flipping off Donald Trump with a Canadian ring on his middle finger.

01:12:18

Nathan Brady: It's actually
Mike Smith: Is
Nathan Brady: great.
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: I I wish this were a real f photo. It's It's pretty
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: good, actually. Um Okay. Thank you everybody. Uh, as usual, please uh like, subscribe, share, all that fun stuff. We have a a lot of great stuff coming up. A lot of uh content in the works. A lot of stuff in the works as we continue
Mike Smith: Yep.
Nathan Brady: to grow our tiny little podcast into basically the biggest media empire uh progressive
Mike Smith: That's the
Nathan Brady: media
Mike Smith: goal.
Nathan Brady: empire in the country. That's obviously the goal. We're clearly not doing this for fun every week as like a a side hobby project. Um,
Mike Smith: Oh, wait. Are we not? Hold on.
Nathan Brady: wait, wait a minute. I I think we're we're misaligned on
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: this.
Mike Smith: got our
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: wires
Nathan Brady: let's

01:13:01

Mike Smith: passed. We'll have a meeting
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: offline. It's fine.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Yeah. Let's let's let's let's
Mike Smith: In the meantime, they'll
Nathan Brady: circle
Mike Smith: argue
Nathan Brady: back.
Mike Smith: with us in the comments
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Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Check us
Nathan Brady: Um,
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Nathan Brady: please please keep saying that guy's bald. I really I really enjoy those comments. I'm definitely not deleting 30 of those a day. Uh, like
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: people
Mike Smith: rude.
Nathan Brady: are hilarious.
Mike Smith: Why would they be so mean to me?
Nathan Brady: No, I love it. Well, I know. I'm like, come on, man. That's that's Don't Don't do that to Mike. Um, okay. Yeah. So, we'll see everybody next time for episode 42. Thanks again. Bye.
Mike Smith: Bye everybody.
Nathan Brady: Good show, old chap.
Mike Smith: Yeah, good show. We didn't cover half of the content, we had there. I'll see if there's anything
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: dude.
Mike Smith: I want to push forward.