Leavin' on a bribe plane. Don't know when I'll be back again.

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Mike Smith: Get loud.
Nathan Brady: Okay. And give me the give me the loud one, too.
Mike Smith: I'm going to give you the ones and the twos coming straight at you from my desk.
Nathan Brady: From my desk to yours. All right, we are good. Let's rock. Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of the Blue Sedition Podcast. I don't know what Mike's laughing about. I'm Nate Brady. Uh, he's my laughing co-host.
Mike Smith: I'm Mike Smith. Welcome back everyone.
Nathan Brady: Why are you laughing? What's going
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: on?
Mike Smith: don't know. I I think our intros have been kind of silly lately and it just made me laugh.
Nathan Brady: You were
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: thinking about
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: really
Nathan Brady: previous
Mike Smith: I was like
Nathan Brady: intro.
Mike Smith: really serious face and I just got a got a tickle. I don't know why.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, they've been they've been a little silly.

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Nathan Brady: Uh, the shows have been a little silly, too, because the news has been a little silly.
Mike Smith: Why has the news
Nathan Brady: Uh
Mike Smith: been silly?
Nathan Brady: well, we have
Mike Smith: All
Nathan Brady: a whole bunch of items today and we can talk about why the news is silly. I mean, we
Mike Smith: right,
Nathan Brady: have uh well well let let's just dive right in. I wanted
Mike Smith: let's
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: get
Nathan Brady: first
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: uh what do we want to do? I'll I'll let Dealer's choice. You want to go woke Pope or pharmacy price cuts? What do you want to do? Dealer's choice.
Mike Smith: I want to get back to the woke poke. Talk to me about the pharmacy first, though.
Nathan Brady: Okay. All right.
Mike Smith: It'll put
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: me in It'll put me in a properly demoralized mood, I'm sure.
Nathan Brady: oh maybe I don't know. So, uh Trump signs an uh executive order um to reduce drug prices, but like everything that he does.

00:01:33

Nathan Brady: Really not sure how it's going to work. I mean, there's there's no clear like law. Obviously,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: executive orders
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: aren't laws, right? Um,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: so that nobody nobody has to do anything here, but the executive this executive order basically directs these big pharma companies to lower the drug prices to match those in other developed countries. Um,
Mike Smith: Okay. So, does that mean like Europe or does that mean like get them as low as as like India which we know has like ridiculously low prices by comparison to American standards?
Nathan Brady: no. Nobody
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: knows.
Mike Smith: Nobody
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: does. Sure.
Nathan Brady: literally
Mike Smith: Fine.
Nathan Brady: nobody knows. But But they've been given 30 days to do what nobody knows they need to do.
Mike Smith: until Yeah. until he on that 30th day gives them a pause and then some other things happen. And so
Nathan Brady: Well,

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Mike Smith: yeah,
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: it's it's interesting like you said, you know, obviously he's not part of Congress, so he doesn't actually make laws. He signs them into effect and that's his the only way he can do this is executive orders. really are only supposed to affect the executive branch of the government and and like related, you know, institutions that are either ancillary or whatever. But so if I'm if I'm a private company
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: um or even publicly traded I'm say I'm like what's the what's the one the Lily something or other
Nathan Brady: Eli
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: Liy.
Mike Smith: know
Nathan Brady: Sure.
Mike Smith: Eli Liy I'm Eli Liy and I see this executive order saying you have to reduce your drug prices by 30%. I don't know what the numbers are actually going to be, but but
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: somehow
Nathan Brady: to match whatever you you can't you can't sell your drug in Canada for less than you sell it in the United States if you're
Mike Smith: right
Nathan Brady: a US company, right?

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Mike Smith: okay make me like I'm
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: not breaking any laws. What are you going to do when I ignore
Nathan Brady: well,
Mike Smith: you?
Nathan Brady: that's the problem, right? So, actually,
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: Bernie
Mike Smith: I did see that they they claimed that they were going to impose fines, right, on on people on companies that didn't uh that didn't listen or just ignore
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: them. But I'm like, but those fines are not backed by any law either. So, I can ignore them, too. And what are you going to do about it? I mean, I It would
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: be an interesting legal attempt to just be like, I don't uh go ahead. I'm not going to do it, though.
Nathan Brady: so, uh, Bernie Sanders, uh, had something to say about this. Of course, you know, Bernie has been a a huge proponent of Medicare for all,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: of lowering prescription drug

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Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: prices, and he's like, "Well, this is great." No, well, while this is good, right, it it's un it's unclear like there there's no clear guidance. Nobody knows how it's going to work. So, he is going to introduce um legislation this week, I believe, uh that basically takes Trump's executive order and makes it law. But
Mike Smith: Wow.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Yeah. But,
Mike Smith: I mean,
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: know,
Mike Smith: always been I He's always been a staunch advocate of like, you know, reducing costs and medical uh pharmaceutical uh treatments and things like that. So, I'm not surprised to hear that. I guess
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I'm not also surprised to hear that he's doing doing it via politics and saying like, "Let's do what the president said. Let's do the thing.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Make
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: it a law.
Nathan Brady: obviously people hate him for that because, you know, well, at least the the the centrist liberals that always claim to hate progressives, they're always like, "Don't say you agree with Trump. You

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Nathan Brady: can never agree with Trump." Well, listen, a a broken clock is right twice a day. And Trump is right on this. He's certainly wrong about the way he's going about it, about how he's implementing it, all of that stuff.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: So Bernie Sand
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Sanders
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: basically is calling his bluff because
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: it seems like that's what this is.
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: It's
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: something
Mike Smith: agree.
Nathan Brady: so that his supporters can be like, "Oh, look what Trump did. Oh, he lowered drug prices." And then Trump in like four weeks is going to be like, "You're paying 90% less for drugs than you ever were before. Meanwhile, you're probably paying more, you know?" Uh, and it's just going to be something that he says. So Sanders is going, "All right, bet. B bet.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Let's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: let's, you know, um I want to say though, I think a really good angle to take to unite both Republicans and Democratic, at least the constituents behind this,

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Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: is to say, isn't it anti-patriotic to have Fizer sell us the drug that they're selling Canadians for 10 times what they're selling Canadians?" What? Do they hate Americans?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Isn't
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: know.
Nathan Brady: a good angle to take
Mike Smith: I guess. I mean, I don't I I don't think that your average Well, maybe they do. I'm sure that they do. I take that back. But I was just going to say I don't know what the visibility on that is for your average American. But then I remembered like people were taking, you know, drug vacations where they would go to Canada and buy up their years supply of whatever drug they need to take to stay alive and then come back to the United States. Um, so there there's at least visibility from that perspective. But yeah, I mean, if you're a company, why are you why are you gouging Americans so much? Maybe that's the angle you're talking about.

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Mike Smith: Like, why why do you price gouge Americans? Do you think
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: we're stupid?
Nathan Brady: Yeah. So, you think we're stupid or something? But I think yes, we are stupid
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: are
Nathan Brady: some.
Mike Smith: stupid.
Nathan Brady: Uh but now here's the flip side of this which is why are we taking the angle of you can't sell us a drug for more than what you're selling it to a neighboring country or developed country or whatever because then doesn't the doesn't the pharmaceutical company turn around and go I guess we're gonna have to make it $500 in uh Canada
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: as well
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know
Mike Smith: That I mean that's if I'm if I'm Eli Liy or whoever and I'm like, you know, the diabetes medicine is uh $14 a thing over in Canada and it's $86 here. I guess it's $86 everywhere.
Nathan Brady: Okay. So now the obvious the
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: obvious um response to that is they simply can't do that.

00:07:51

Nathan Brady: The reason why they can do that here is because they're manipulating our system of health insurance. Right? So, health insurance, which is already a multi-billion dollar industry, is covering the drug prices for most Americans, right? And so, when I go, "Oh, I need my insulin shot." They're going, "Okay, well, it's$8 billion." And then Blue Cross Blue Shield is like, "All right, I'm covering, you know, your your 8 billion whatever, you know, uh shot here." But in Canada, they can't do that. in in you know uh in Britain they can't do that because they'll say you know that the government will be like you're not overcharging us you're
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: not going
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: to do
Mike Smith: was going
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: to say that
Nathan Brady: we're
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: paying
Mike Smith: they
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: have
Nathan Brady: it
Mike Smith: more of a stance because of the the socialized aspect there. So that
Nathan Brady: Right,
Mike Smith: the government is arguing for lower prices and they don't

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Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: have to they they're not driven by market forces of competition in
Nathan Brady: right,
Mike Smith: the way that it is in America. And if you're driven by market price and competition and you're the only drug company allowed to sell this medicine
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: because of patent laws for the next seven years, you can charge whatever the f*** you want for it.
Nathan Brady: Exactly. Um, so yeah, so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Bernie has called his bluff once before um on I think it was
Mike Smith: Trump
Nathan Brady: the Yeah, on the um uh capping credit card interest rates to 10%.
Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: Oh my god.
Nathan Brady: how's that working out? I have one credit card which thankfully has a zero balance on that one that is like 28.9% APR. What the f***?
Mike Smith: No. And
Nathan Brady: And
Mike Smith: that's and and it's a huge huge the debt market is gigantic. I mean
Nathan Brady: yeah,

00:09:33

Mike Smith: there everybody's in debt. Everybody has thousands of dollars in credit card bills.
Nathan Brady: way more now because everybody's putting their groceries on credit cards now. I
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: mean, things are getting out of control. And I I you know, I saw I mean, I don't remember what the exact number was, but it definitely um it's definitely going to get worse. Uh and we're headed for really bad time.
Mike Smith: Well, it's unsustainable is at certain point I think that this this is the the idea that gets lost a lot when people talk about like the national debt versus actual like held debt and things.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: It's
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: at some point people won't be able to make enough money to get out of debt. And when you hit a certain level of that across the entire country, the whole system collapses because you're just like, well, why the f*** am I going to work? I'm never going to pay this off. I'm just going to go bankrupt anyhow.

00:10:23

Mike Smith: But f*** it. And now you've got trillions and trillions of dollars in personally held debt that no one's going to get repaid on. And the whole economy collapses and you're in the depression again.
Nathan Brady: So in 20 in early 2024 um it looks like the uh household debt reached 18 trillion in the United
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: States with the average household um or the average American uh owing about $104,000 including mortgage age, auto loans, student loans, credit cards, and other debts,
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: uh, including health debts, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: $104,000. So, the breakdown
Mike Smith: But
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: that,
Mike Smith: but like you were saying before, if we take that and and and just you know dig in a little bit. Americans have always had mortgages and car debts and like
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: that's that's that's sort of expected now. But now you're telling you're also talking about student loan debts obviously, but also credit card payments that that are that are not getting completely paid off.

00:11:21

Mike Smith: They're buying their groceries. They're buying their gasoline. They're buying everything with credit cards and they're not they're making the minimum every month. And that debt is exploding for
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: families.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: And so
Nathan Brady: It's it's
Mike Smith: you might live in
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: a nice house and you can afford it for now. And you might drive a nice car and you can afford it for now. But eventually that debt will pile up over the top of you and you won't be able to do anything.
Nathan Brady: the average debt for an a single person in the United States average is $45,000 between credit card and student loan. So that's not counting mortgage. You know, if you have some
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: home equity line of credit, that doesn't count as a credit
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: card. Auto loan doesn't count as a credit card. So, just student loan and credit card debt is $45,000 on average.

00:12:04

Nathan Brady: That is insane.
Mike Smith: That's a problem
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: for me.
Nathan Brady: saw you getting a little uncomfortable there.
Mike Smith: That That makes
Nathan Brady: Saw
Mike Smith: me uncomfortable,
Nathan Brady: you shifting.
Mike Smith: man.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Um,
Mike Smith: That's not That's not good.
Nathan Brady: it's not sustainable. Um
Mike Smith: It's not sustainable. That's That was the point I was trying to make before is that it's there's there's a collapse coming and I don't know how they're going to figure it out. remember when Biden tried to clear out the like the student loan debts
Nathan Brady: we
Mike Smith: and
Nathan Brady: he tried to do some stuff. He tried to do some things
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: and that's
Mike Smith: did I mean he was trying to do loan forgiveness for a certain
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: you know percentage of like if you if you had this much and you were in the workforce or something I don't remember but um so he's just because he's I think that he and his adviserss all saw the same problem where they're like no one's ever going to get out from this debt we need to erase it to have an economy in 30 years because these people need to pro, you know, produce and be part of it and they can't do that if they're just going to have to declare bankruptcy and restart their life somewhere.

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Mike Smith: Um, and it's they didn't really fix it and there's this this new problem now. So, it's I don't know, scares me.
Nathan Brady: Yeah, a little worrisome. Um, okay. Let's go over to our next story. Uh, I think one of our last episodes we tal about we talked about JD Vance stabbing the Pope
Mike Smith: JD
Nathan Brady: or
Mike Smith: Vance allegedly stabbing
Nathan Brady: Pope.
Mike Smith: the Pope to death. Yes,
Nathan Brady: Pope. Just pop. You
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: don't put
Mike Smith: pope.
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: Sorry.
Nathan Brady: in front of it. You
Mike Smith: J.
Nathan Brady: just JD
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: Van stabbed Pope. Um there's a new Pope.
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: Uh
Mike Smith: Steve Bannon.
Nathan Brady: and it's Steve. No, it's not Steve Bannon. Is this guy from Chicago? Uh
Mike Smith: This guy's
Nathan Brady: now,
Mike Smith: from Chicago.
Nathan Brady: yeah. Now, I was rooting for Pope Pizza.

00:13:48

Nathan Brady: Um
Mike Smith: It's an
Nathan Brady: that's
Mike Smith: awesome name.
Nathan Brady: a real name. I I actually don't know what his stances are, so don't quote me on
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: uh
Mike Smith: we we
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: have
Nathan Brady: know,
Mike Smith: not dug deeper than pizza
Nathan Brady: no
Mike Smith: ball.
Nathan Brady: research
Mike Smith: We saw that
Nathan Brady: on
Mike Smith: and we
Nathan Brady: book
Mike Smith: were like, "Wow."
Nathan Brady: pizza. It's got to be pizza. Um, but no, instead we've got uh uh Pope I'm sorry, what's uh Robert's uh Roberts? Somebody help me. Post Card Cardinal
Mike Smith: Provost.
Nathan Brady: Robert Post.
Mike Smith: Yeah. Robert
Nathan Brady: Who?
Mike Smith: Provost.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: Was
Nathan Brady: Who
Mike Smith: it Provost
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: or Provost?
Nathan Brady: it? Could be PO. I've known I've known somebody who spelled that as PO the same way. So, I
Mike Smith: Really?
Nathan Brady: don't know.

00:14:24

Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Uh he's from Chicago.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um, and he's your new woke Marxist pope according to Laura Loomer and other other uh MAGA folk. So, I'm at this point though I don't really know what an anti-woke pope would even mean because if if a pope is Christlike,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: it sounds like they're they don't have a hardline stance on immigration. They don't have a hardline stance on like cleaning out those poor encampments, you know, like what what what are what's the right looking for in a pope?
Mike Smith: Well, I remember what the right was looking for in a pope a few popes ago, and that was a pope who would sort of shuffle under the rug many of the uh uh Catholic Church's uh indiscretions with the the
Nathan Brady: Sure.
Mike Smith: young youngsters
Nathan Brady: Sure.
Mike Smith: in their masses, we'll say. uh and when I they said they have woke then but they said the same thing you know liberal pope
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: is not he's he's ousting these cardinals and and clergy members who were parts of these things and trying to get them out of the church because they obviously committed these horrible atrocities uh and that so I guess they stand for abusing children I I don't know it seems like that.

00:15:48

Nathan Brady: It's a really interesting dynamic in the United States, right? Because, you know, white Christian nationalism has um exploded in,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know, the past couple of decades. And it's seeming more and more even though the several several pastors and reverends
Mike Smith: Mhm.
Nathan Brady: and priests and whatever have come out um and said, "Hey, we you know, this hate is unacceptable. all this whatever. But it
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: feels to me, and I don't have numbers in front of me on this, but it feels to me like the Catholic Church in the United States is becoming increasingly more rightle leaning. At least its uh its patrons are becoming more rightle leaning. But I I don't know if that's true.
Mike Smith: Frankly, I'm I'm pretty, you know, uh, out of Catholicism and Christianity sort of on the whole, so it's hard for me to say for certain. I will say that I've known Catholics and obviously I went to a Jesuit school and I you know taught a lot about religion and uh theology in particular and I've always found those more um strict adherences to those uh like the Catholics and the Jesuits particular

00:16:59

Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: be more conservative in nature just because
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: it aligns sort of thematically with their worldview and their philosophical and and theological
Nathan Brady: Yeah, I'm not I'm not I don't know. Um, and this is why I'd love to get my friend uh on the podcast one day. He's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: he's an author that writes about um religious studies and things like that. But one thing that I'm I'm really interested in, I I think conservatives, at least these new age conservatives, these MAGA Republicans, flock to Catholicism more because of the power structure than the message, right? like like this patriarchy power structure where you know the the man is closer to God, the you know the the the the females are nuns and they're they're more um
Mike Smith: subservient.
Nathan Brady: subservient,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: you know. Um that that's like the feel because it's it's certainly not the the message of Christ. Um and
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: No.

00:18:01

Nathan Brady: I was I was raised Catholic. I went to church, you know, regularly as as a as a as a kid. I listened to those sermons and those messages.
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: And I gotta tell you, man, does not seem to align with what I'm hearing today uh from like your regular you go look at somebody's bio who claims that they're MAGA, guns, guns, God, and family, right?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: which already that message right there does not seem to align with the message of the Catholic Church and and and
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: a Christlike message. So
Mike Smith: What I would say though is that I think that from my experience there are two different types of Christian that I run into on a regular basis. And this new one that we're talking about here, this more conservative, more authoritarian in nature, tend to be in the more of the school of like Old Testament Christians where they're like the, you know, spare the stick, spoil the child sort of ideologies that are backed up by a lot of these Old Testament verses and chapters and things.

00:19:07

Mike Smith: And the New Testament where Jesus exists and and pray, you know, does his his stuff is
Nathan Brady: That's his
Mike Smith: largely
Nathan Brady: stuff.
Mike Smith: ignored by the, you know, these folks. They don't they don't talk about, you know, his uh his miracles that he performed or his, you know, public services and things like that because they're not interested in that. It's like you said, they're more interested in the power dynamic and, you know, uh using the cross as a cudel is another one that I've heard before. Um, so I there's definitely a type, but I also know a lot of uh Christians who are much more New Testament focused and much more in the spirit of love and and and like, you know, love thy neighbor and and honor thy father and mother and all that stuff that comes out of the New Testament. I
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: here's
Mike Smith: know who's
Nathan Brady: something.
Mike Smith: winning, but I
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: do think that those are the flavors.
Nathan Brady: So, here's some really interesting numbers that I just looked up here.

00:20:01

Nathan Brady: Um, the differences between the Republican and the Democratic Party. And then it ends with a really interesting note.
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Um, so the Republican party is more Protestant and evangelical. Um, the Democratic Party, Protestant and Christian to a lesser degree. Um, so the Republican party has, you know, a higher level of uh, a higher percentage of its base is religious versus the Democratic party. So it's saying around 8% of the Republican party doesn't believe in God, whether atheist or agnostic or whatever. And
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: while around 21% so like one in five Democrats identify as agnostic or atheist. Right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: What's really interesting in these numbers is when you look at the congressional representation, which for both
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: is almost 100% Christian
Mike Smith: yeah. And for for the longest time to be an elected official in in you know either the House or or the Senate you had to be a good Christian and you had to be at church you know documentedly so that the news can look at it and be like wow he's a Christian he's in church because it it's synonymous with being getting the rubber stamp for a good person.

00:21:14

Mike Smith: I mean, we're seeing
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: that that's not the case anymore,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: obviously, because I
Nathan Brady: No,
Mike Smith: know a bunch of
Nathan Brady: I mean
Mike Smith: Christians who are very, very s***** people, but
Nathan Brady: I mean we remember Trump holding Bibles upside down and you know I mean
Mike Smith: selling them, selling Bibles,
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: for instance.
Nathan Brady: sure with his gold gold pen you know over the cover. I mean come on. Um
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: so so yeah uh anyway supposedly we have a new woke pope.
Mike Smith: he's woke.
Nathan Brady: Um supposedly I have seen he's take he's taking the name Leo the 14th. I have seen some great stuff from him like I think it's quoting in this article here. Uh he he he made a tweet about JD Vance being wrong. Jesus doesn't rank uh doesn't ask us to rank our love for others where JD Vance was basically talking about how he prior prioritized
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: love for certain people over other people whatever.

00:22:06

Nathan Brady: Um but what what's also interesting is that I have heard I haven't looked into this yet. I have heard that um this pope has maybe had some issue with the LGBTQ community. So I'm not all in on him yet. I haven't
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: I haven't I haven't done my research, but I I at least from what I can tell so far, uh I at least seems like he is uh more left-leaning socially than Pope's pre uh Francis. Right.
Mike Smith: Here's how I'll I'll phrase it. He's doing the right things right now.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: He's staying out of the news, so I'm not hearing anything about him. Except when I do hear things about him, he's upsetting the right people. So,
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: he gets he gets a pass for a little while.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Uh he's a liberal piece of s***. Like imagine Joey Manorino. Oh, I don't even want to talk about that guy. I
Mike Smith: Good.
Nathan Brady: can't stand

00:23:10

Mike Smith: I don't know
Nathan Brady: that
Mike Smith: who
Nathan Brady: guy.
Mike Smith: that is.
Nathan Brady: Good. Don't I'm surprised, but good. Uh all right, let's
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: move on from Woke Pope. Uh this is this is exciting. Uh, we're getting a new Air Force One. Probably maybe, but probably not. Uh, so, so how do you say Listen, I've always said Qatar. Okay.
Mike Smith: I've said guitar. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Okay. But
Mike Smith: How's
Nathan Brady: I've
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: heard
Mike Smith: actually pronounced?
Nathan Brady: I've heard cutter recently.
Mike Smith: Cutter. Cutter.
Nathan Brady: Cutter. And I'm going, "Oh, wow. Am I have I been saying it wrong all this time?" Um, so I don't know. Uh,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: let
Mike Smith: got
Nathan Brady: us
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: find
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: out.
Nathan Brady: the comments if it's cutter or Qar. I'm gonna go with Qatar just because that's what I've always uh that's how I've always said it in my in my mind when I read stories, but I get could I'm probably wrong.

00:24:00

Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah, Google
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: says it's Qatar.
Nathan Brady: like that's
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: uh,
Nathan Brady: pronun the the the it gives the phonetic pronunciation.
Mike Smith: no, it it hits a you hit a button and it says it out loud and you can hear it
Nathan Brady: Oh,
Mike Smith: in your speakers.
Nathan Brady: and it says Qatara. Okay.
Mike Smith: This is
Nathan Brady: All
Mike Smith: guitar
Nathan Brady: right. Okay. Well, anyway, um
Mike Smith: new
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: plane. Who this?
Nathan Brady: the new plane who the government of Qatar um has offered to replace Air Force One with a what is it? 300 million $400 million plane um used by Boeing uh or or sorry a Boeing plane similar to the one used uh by Ronald Reagan that was decommissioned and put on display as a museum piece. So, couple problems with this as you may imagine.
Mike Smith: Is is this just a bribe? What is this?
Nathan Brady: This is a bribe.

00:25:00

Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: This is just this is just a straight up bribe. So, here's here's the problem. Okay. So, first you
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: I'll put it. If you come to me
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: and you're
Nathan Brady: All
Mike Smith: like,
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: I want to give you a $400 million gift.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: My
Nathan Brady: Sure.
Mike Smith: the very first word out of my mouth would be why.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: I wouldn't say thank you yet, but you
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: know some people have fewer scruples than I do.
Nathan Brady: Okay. So, uh it's they're offering uh Trump what I think they called it I think it's being dubbed like the castle in the sky or a palace
Mike Smith: Castle
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: in
Nathan Brady: the sky.
Mike Smith: this. Yeah. Something
Nathan Brady: Pal
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: palace in the sky. Um
Mike Smith: palace
Nathan Brady: it's
Mike Smith: here.

00:25:38

Nathan Brady: a it's a Boeing 7478 jet. Um, here's here's here's Trump is saying this is not a gift to me. It's a gift to the government. It's a gift to uh the United States government. That is that's actually not true. What's actually happening, as it turns out, is this is going to be a like a donation to the Trump presidential library. if this is what I'm this is how I'm understanding it such that even if it's ready to be used as Air Force One during Trump's presidency which it's very likely will not be and
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: we can talk about why in a in a moment um it will be his to use after his presidency is over. So basically it's a gift to him. Okay. So,
Mike Smith: What what what's the distinction there? Like is it is it does it belong to the people because it's a gift to the government and and Trump can't keep it after he's no longer president because he's no longer president and it belongs to the people or is

00:26:46

Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: it a
Nathan Brady: that's
Mike Smith: gift
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: to him and he promises to give it to a library after he's gone?
Nathan Brady: No, no, no. They're the the workaround is they're donate technically donating it to the to the Trump presidential library which mean like it may they're making it seem like it's a donation to the government. It's actually not. So
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: here's
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: what's
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: going
Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: to happen. This is
Mike Smith: okay.
Nathan Brady: this is the last I read on it. Okay? We could be somewhere else today right now. But the last I've read on it is we're going to pay for the upgrades on this because here's what here's what needs to happen. If you just accept a plane from a foreign government, who by the way, everybody on the right has said has ties to Hamas and and
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: terrorist organizations, that plane is going to go into the sky and then it's going to come down in a way that you don't want it to come down, right?

00:27:35

Nathan Brady: So, what you have to do, um, if
Mike Smith: Guitar
Nathan Brady: you're
Mike Smith: has
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: the chance to do the funniest thing ever here.
Nathan Brady: if
Mike Smith: It
Nathan Brady: if
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: you're if you're not a complete fool, um, is you have to take this plane in and you have to do several upgrades on it, including all the security precautions necessary
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: to upgrade a plane to Air Force to an air to be usable as Air Force One.
Mike Smith: Well, that's the
Nathan Brady: So,
Mike Smith: other thing just right there.
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: Even if I'm getting this from an alley, let's say that England wants to give us
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: this plane.
Nathan Brady: Mhm.
Mike Smith: Do you think the NSA is like, "Yeah, just just go up in that plane and talk national secrets at 35,000 feet. No problem. They're
Nathan Brady: No.
Mike Smith: not going to take a sweep of that plane and,
Nathan Brady: No.
Mike Smith: you know, strip it down

00:28:17

Nathan Brady: Of
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: course
Mike Smith: its
Nathan Brady: not.
Mike Smith: nuts and bolts and make sure that
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: there's no
Nathan Brady: Exactly.
Mike Smith: audio equipment or anything like that spying
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: on us.
Nathan Brady: So part of the reason why Trump has has been giving Boeing such a hard time because he wanted his a new Air Force One, he instructed Boeing to, you know, to make this big the big beautiful plane, right? Um,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: is that every single person and every single parts maker, if you're making a screw for the plane for
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: Air Force One, you have to go through a, you know, national security background check, right? And so now you're just going to take a plane from Qatar. That's just what that this doesn't make any sense. This is so obviously a bribe. Um,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: course, you know, uh, Trump Trump routinely misrepresents the plane's value and luxuriousness in the media, claiming that it costs 100 million.

00:29:10

Nathan Brady: Um, not true. Um, I mean, the I like this article is calling it the bribejet. Uh,
Mike Smith: The
Nathan Brady: used
Mike Smith: bribe
Nathan Brady: infrequently
Mike Smith: shot.
Nathan Brady: by the royal family, the bribejet has so far only accumulated about 1,000 hours, meaning it was flown only two hours per week on average, according to Bloomberg. Um, its interior was outfitted in creamy white and tan furnishings. Well, that will all be gold. Um uh it's not clear how many of the features uh Air Force One will add to the Brijet or what security clearance those working on it will need. Yeah. I mean so much work has to go into this and you we will pay for all of that work.
Mike Smith: Right. Right.
Nathan Brady: Um and then Trump will be able to use that personally uh after he leaves office if he ever leaves office. if this isn't hell. Um, and
Mike Smith: and and it's unclear,
Nathan Brady: and right
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: now

00:30:13

Mike Smith: it's
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: feeling
Nathan Brady: jury
Mike Smith: like
Nathan Brady: is
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: still
Mike Smith: might
Nathan Brady: out.
Mike Smith: be.
Nathan Brady: It's still out. Um,
Mike Smith: You know,
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: I I I wanted I I want obviously because of my biases, I want this to be, you know, the worst news ever. So, I looked up how many Air Force Ones there have ever been. It looks like the answer might be seven.
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: And, you know, in fairness, uh, the first one of the jet age really ran from 1962 to 1990, and it
Nathan Brady: Wow.
Mike Smith: was remain it it had repairs and it remained back up until 1998 technically. And so, that's that's, you know, that's 40 years almost. Um, and then the current one has been running since 1990. I mean, that's that's 35 years. So, I mean, maybe maybe they are due for a new Air Force One, but
Nathan Brady: but not a bribe not a

00:31:10

Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: bribe
Mike Smith: not a
Nathan Brady: jet
Mike Smith: private jet.
Nathan Brady: not bribe force one
Mike Smith: Maybe not
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: a private jet.
Nathan Brady: um I mean we're we're we're at the point where even staunch Republicans are saying whoa wait a minute
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: uh you know the people that we would never agree with on anything are like m hey maybe we shouldn't maybe we shouldn't be doing this I mean this is so obviously a bribe
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: um the current
Mike Smith: And the
Nathan Brady: air
Mike Smith: other
Nathan Brady: force
Mike Smith: thing is that it still has that that air of Trump uh or the smell of Trump on it with the deal, the art of the deal. So like you said, you know, he he's going to use it for his library. So, you're going to decommission an Air Force One and then you're going to have this new bribe jet for, let's be, you know, nice and say two years, the the last two years of your presidency.

00:32:03

Mike Smith: Let's pretend that it's done by then and he can use it for two years. Then a new president comes into place and he just keeps Air Force One while the old one is decommissioned. Does that
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: mean that we have to make a new Air Force One?
Nathan Brady: Another one. Yeah, we
Mike Smith: Another
Nathan Brady: would basically
Mike Smith: one? Yeah.
Nathan Brady: we would basically need another one, right?
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: Unless I mean, you know, if it was a normal president, you'd be like, well, he's going to donate that to the to, you know, the administration or whatever.
Nathan Brady: so
Mike Smith: Make
Nathan Brady: here's
Mike Smith: it the People's
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: Air Force One,
Nathan Brady: here's apparently some of the the huge differences between the current Air Force One and this Qatari jet um bribe force one. Okay.
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: Um, obviously heav he heavily modified for security. It includes anti-missile systems, right? Can't be
Mike Smith: Okay.

00:32:51

Nathan Brady: shooting at Can't
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: be shooting at Air Force One, nuclear blast protection, secure communications, and the ability to refuel in midair. These are all features that this current Qatari jet does not have according according
Mike Smith: Oh.
Nathan Brady: to
Mike Smith: Oh, yeah.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: No, you're like, "These are these are the must haves for Air Force One, and
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: your uh your bribe jet doesn't have them.
Nathan Brady: Your bribe jet doesn't have that. Um,
Mike Smith: just seems like a really bad deal for Americans.
Nathan Brady: seems like a pretty bad deal for us and a pretty great deal for Trump. So, I I mean, art of the deal again where it helps
Mike Smith: It always
Nathan Brady: Trump
Mike Smith: works
Nathan Brady: out and
Mike Smith: out for Trump. Yeah, I
Nathan Brady: always
Mike Smith: was going to
Nathan Brady: works
Mike Smith: say
Nathan Brady: out for Trump and screws everybody else. Um,
Mike Smith: sounds
Nathan Brady: okay.
Mike Smith: about
Nathan Brady: Yeah.

00:33:39

Nathan Brady: Yeah. Okay. Let's move on. Um, I think this one's this one's funny. So, we can move on here. You can talk to me about this.
Mike Smith: I'm going to talk
Nathan Brady: Trump
Mike Smith: to you about
Nathan Brady: says
Mike Smith: this.
Nathan Brady: activist judges, some he appointed, aren't letting him do the job. What does this mean?
Mike Smith: So, you're going to have to give me a little context here, but I have my suspicions as to what this is in in reference to. I think that Trump has been getting upset about the push back from the court systems from judges
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: that he's appointed in
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: cases who like, I want to deport this guy. What do you mean I have to give him due process? Just get out of my way so I can do my job.
Nathan Brady: Right. That that's basically it. He thinks that because he was elected, he doesn't need to follow laws anymore,

00:34:26

Mike Smith: He he he no, I think that he, you know, seems to be laboring under the false assumption that he is the law and makes the law. He he
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: continually spout espouses that, but also his uh executive orders by and large are ones like you will do this. This is the law now. And judges
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: are
Nathan Brady: mean, we
Mike Smith: like no, it's not. Executive
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: orders
Nathan Brady: remember the
Mike Smith: are not law.
Nathan Brady: you remember the uh um I don't remember what it was. was some presser or something where he had a bunch of mayors or governors um and the
Mike Smith: Yes.
Nathan Brady: mayor the mayor
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: of
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: uh sorry
Mike Smith: Vermont
Nathan Brady: I keep saying mayor
Mike Smith: or something.
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: the governor governor of Maine
Mike Smith: M.
Nathan Brady: um yeah uh had a had a comment about his anti-trans you know agenda and she was like well you know we're following the law and he said we are the law

00:35:18

Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: and that that's
Mike Smith: No.
Nathan Brady: that just
Mike Smith: He
Nathan Brady: like
Mike Smith: said, "Are you going to comply with the executive order?"
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: And she
Nathan Brady: And she
Mike Smith: she
Nathan Brady: said, "I'll
Mike Smith: retorted
Nathan Brady: follow the law."
Mike Smith: sort of hotly, "Yeah, I
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: will follow the law." And
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: he's like, "We are the law." And she goes, "You're not the law.
Nathan Brady: I'll
Mike Smith: The law
Nathan Brady: see you
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: the
Nathan Brady: court.
Mike Smith: law.
Nathan Brady: I'll see you
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: in
Mike Smith: I'll
Nathan Brady: court.
Mike Smith: see you in court." I mean, that's the way you push back against a pulley.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. And And I mean, that's that's what he that's truly what he thinks. I mean, recently in that in that interview, I think it was with ABC, um, you know, he was asked, you know, are you going to are you going to follow the Constitution and and due process rights?

00:35:52

Nathan Brady: And he was like, I'm I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. I I don't know. I
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: I don't think I don't think so. I mean, we I would have to do we would have to have millions of of uh you know, so if you have to have
Mike Smith: trials.
Nathan Brady: millions of
Mike Smith: Yeah. He was upset about the number of trials he'd have to do to deport the number of people he wants to deport.
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: He's
Nathan Brady: Do you
Mike Smith: like, "Follow
Nathan Brady: think maybe
Mike Smith: the law. Do you know how long that's going to take?"
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: Like,
Nathan Brady: can't
Mike Smith: "What
Nathan Brady: follow
Mike Smith: the f***
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: is
Nathan Brady: law?
Mike Smith: wrong with you?" Of course, we know how long it's going to take. So that everybody gets a fair shake of it. It's the whole part and premise of this country
Nathan Brady: Yeah.

00:36:21

Nathan Brady: Um, so anyway, I just wanted he's still I just wanted to bring up he's still going on about activist judges about you
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: know
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: all
Mike Smith: plays
Nathan Brady: all right right that a lot of them are Trump appointed federal judges that are now like uh hey thanks for the seat pal but no you can't you can't do you can't do that um oh I just remember did the Diddy trial start today that's going to be interesting we have no news on the Diddy trial but I believe it started today you're gonna have to go to some other
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: podcast
Mike Smith: don't I
Nathan Brady: for that.
Mike Smith: don't know, man.
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: Let's
Nathan Brady: gonna I'm gonna uh I'm going to stay away from that one for now.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um Janine Pyro.
Mike Smith: Is that how
Nathan Brady: Now
Mike Smith: you pronounce it?
Nathan Brady: I believe it's Janine Pyro.
Mike Smith: Huh? All right.
Nathan Brady: Piro. Is it Piro?

00:37:06

Mike Smith: I think Puro.
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: think it's
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: Piro.
Mike Smith: I don't know. I don't watch your show. I never hear it said. So, I don't know.
Nathan Brady: Well, she does set things on fire.
Mike Smith: Well,
Nathan Brady: Uh
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: Cesaly Strong from SNL used to do a really good uh impression of her uh often in cold opens where she's just drunk and like yelling at the camera on Fox. Uh which is really close allegedly. I don't know if uh Janine has a drinking problem. Uh maybe she does allegedly have a drinking problem, but it seems to me, help me help me out here, that Trump is putting uh people from his favorite TV shows
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: in top uh positions in the federal government. Am I right on that or am I wrong?
Mike Smith: Nailed it. Nailed it.
Nathan Brady: Oh
Mike Smith: No, you're right. You're spot
Nathan Brady: my
Mike Smith: on.

00:37:56

Nathan Brady: god. What do you What do you make of this?
Mike Smith: Well, uh, the last, uh, mainstream DUI hire he made has been dropping the ball a lot, uh,
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: in national security matters and I think is catching
Nathan Brady: Okay.
Mike Smith: a lot of rightful flak on news organizations
Nathan Brady: That's that
Mike Smith: about
Nathan Brady: Hegs Seth guy. You're
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: talking
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: about the
Mike Smith: HG
Nathan Brady: HEGs,
Mike Smith: Seth
Nathan Brady: too.
Mike Smith: guy. Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Okay. That's the other the last DUI hire.
Mike Smith: And so maybe,
Nathan Brady: Uh
Mike Smith: you know, Trump's just like, you know what he needs? He needs a drinking buddy. That's what Hexet needs. He needs a drinking buddy on
Nathan Brady: oh.
Mike Smith: the job. They'll
Nathan Brady: Oh.
Mike Smith: they'll straighten it all out. I'll get another one up there and it'll be it'll be great.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Um, she's been on she's been on Fox for the last 20 years.

00:38:43

Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: Um, so I she had some experience as a judge, a county judge. Um, where she was elected in New York in 1990 and then became a district attorney. Um and then um spent the last 20 years yelling and screaming at us about every conspiracy theory um every caravan marching towards the border,
Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: caravans.
Nathan Brady: know, every every you know everything for the last for the last 20 years. She was suspended um if you remember by by Fox in 2019 from making remarks about uh Elana Omaha Omar um saying that her Muslim beliefs are you know probably conflict with the US Constitution. Um, is
Mike Smith: Why
Nathan Brady: she
Mike Smith: would
Nathan Brady: going to
Mike Smith: why
Nathan Brady: be
Mike Smith: would why would Fox why would Fox uh uh put her on the bench for that? That
Nathan Brady: Can
Mike Smith: seems
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: like right in line with Fox's main message.
Nathan Brady: True. Um, but can I ask you a question?

00:39:49

Mike Smith: Yes, sir.
Nathan Brady: What's your overunder for how many Senate Democrats approve her nomination? She hasn't been approved yet. So, we can we can revisit this next week after she's almost definitely approved. Are we going all of them? You know, are we? Cuz we're fighting, right? We're we're fighting against this kind of crap.
Mike Smith: God damn it. I I without having thought about it for one second, I would say zero Democrats will will vote to confirm her. However, you just pointed out, oh, well, she was a judge and she did become a a DA and uh well, she's got a background in law. Maybe this is an okay nomination, even though she's clearly a conspiracy theorist who was on a talk news show for 20 years.
Nathan Brady: right
Mike Smith: And you're right, we're probably going to get some Democrats who are going to think that way and and vote to uh to confirm her.
Nathan Brady: now. Remember, um, confirmation only needs a simple majority. Um, but like the last couple of nominees that that Trump has had go through, you can we just go back to Marco Rubio.

00:41:08

Nathan Brady: You remember how Marco Rubio is is basically the worst human being we ever we could have imagined like we we thought possible. Um, he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. I just want to remind people
Mike Smith: One
Nathan Brady: unanimously.
Mike Smith: absent vote, right?
Nathan Brady: Uh,
Mike Smith: Was 99,
Nathan Brady: was it one?
Mike Smith: wasn't it?
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: I think
Nathan Brady: might
Mike Smith: there
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: was
Nathan Brady: think it
Mike Smith: one
Nathan Brady: was one. Yeah. Um and I don't even remember who that one was. Um is this what it So here's what I expect will happen. Maybe maybe an hour before, you know, her her floor vote, you know, on the Senate for confirmation after the the uh judiciary committee advances her uh to to Senate vote. Maybe Corey Booker will have a nice little speech. Um,
Mike Smith: on the floor of the house.
Nathan Brady: and then and then vote to to confirm her. I mean,
Mike Smith: Ah,

00:41:59

Nathan Brady: what are
Mike Smith: kill
Nathan Brady: we doing,
Mike Smith: me,
Nathan Brady: man?
Mike Smith: please.
Nathan Brady: What are we doing?
Mike Smith: I don't know, man. It's it's clear that um that they're just going through the motions and they're trying to make enough noise to continue the camp the campaign contributions, but not enough noise to actually change anything.
Nathan Brady: Right.
Mike Smith: The the person Trump had had picked for this job before was like the husband of somebody in his cabinet, right? Do do I have that right? Like I I I don't remember it. But um
Nathan Brady: I don't remember.
Mike Smith: but it was it was interesting hearing that he he had him he had his name pulled out at the end of it because he was so widely despised it seemed that that no one would ever like vote for him and he was an obvious like power grab for Trump because he was like an always Trumper. I'm going to get him whatever he needs. If I have to bring in the militia to to overthrow the whatever in DC then I'll do it.

00:42:59

Nathan Brady: No, that
Mike Smith: Wow.
Nathan Brady: sounds that sounds like something I I vaguely remember.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: Um, yeah. So, I mean, this is just another, you know, this is another um uh heg Seth. This is another DUI hire allegedly. Uh, I don't want to get sued or whatever. Um, there you know what? There's a story that happened that we don't have on our list that I'm gonna I want to just talk about uh right now because I we we should talk about it
Mike Smith: Okay,
Nathan Brady: because
Mike Smith: let's
Nathan Brady: he's
Mike Smith: do
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: it.
Nathan Brady: he's a popular figure. Um and hold on. Let let me let me bring up a good let me bring up a good story or a good page on it. Um
Mike Smith: Sir.
Nathan Brady: and then we'll put it in the show notes as well. So I'm going to throw this at you live. Hassan Piker uh Hassan Piker was detained uh recently.

00:43:54

Nathan Brady: Here we go. Here's the story. Let me share this from the Washington Post. Uh Twitch star Hassan. Okay. I don't want any Wait, do I have to No, I'm not giving WPO any money. I'm I refuse to do it. I refuse to do it. I'm blocked here. Let's go to a different Let's go to a different site. Um maybe the New York Times won't make me pay to see this p Oh god. Hey, can I ask you a question? How do I look at news? Do I have to pay
Mike Smith: uh
Nathan Brady: for all the news?
Mike Smith: you type AP after it uh when you search for it. I'll just shoot you the a link you can use here.
Nathan Brady: I got one. I got one.
Mike Smith: All
Nathan Brady: We'll
Mike Smith: right.
Nathan Brady: just have to use some
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: local We'll use some We'll
Mike Smith: Sure.
Nathan Brady: use
Mike Smith: Sure.

00:44:36

Nathan Brady: Delm Marva's news leader. Okay. Shout out to Delm Marva. Wherever the hell Del Marva is. Uh, popular Turkish American online political commentator detained questioned at Chicago airport. Um, so Hassan has already come out. So those of you that don't know, Hassan is a popular Twitch streamer. I think he's probably the most popular, most followed, most viewed um, political Twitch
Mike Smith: political
Nathan Brady: streamer.
Mike Smith: touch streamer
Nathan Brady: Um, he is very, very left-leaning. Um he is related to Chenkuger. Uh though I believe they differ um in in a lot of ways. Chenkuger
Mike Smith: they're related.
Nathan Brady: from
Mike Smith: I didn't know
Nathan Brady: Yeah,
Mike Smith: that.
Nathan Brady: he's his he's his nephew. Um
Mike Smith: Wow,
Nathan Brady: I'm surprised you didn't know that.
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: I'm
Mike Smith: didn't
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: know
Nathan Brady: surprised
Mike Smith: that.
Nathan Brady: you didn't know that. I'm you know I need to stop saying I'm surprised you didn't know that.

00:45:32

Nathan Brady: Uh because I'm never surprised that you didn't know
Mike Smith: Okay.
Nathan Brady: something. All right. Anyway, um so despite being even being a US citizen, he was still detained by US Custom and Border uh protection at at and he and he said they were asking me about my um my politics. They were asking me about Hamas and about Hezbollah and the Houthies. Um, they were trying to get him to make statements that would basically lead to a longer or more permanent detention.
Mike Smith: right?
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: Anything to sort of uh trump up some some plausible deniability for we're detaining you because you're sympathetic to the Hamas or Houthy people, whatever.
Nathan Brady: right.
Mike Smith: Um,
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: kind
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: of a
Nathan Brady: mean this
Mike Smith: silly attempt, but all the
Nathan Brady: this
Mike Smith: same.
Nathan Brady: but but this is getting closer to what we've been warning about which a lot of people have been warning about.
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: They're going to come for immigrants first.

00:46:38

Nathan Brady: They're going to come for green heart card holders next. They're going to come for student visas. Then they're just going to start coming for American citizens. And we're
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: pretty much there. If you're an American citizen that is uh critical of this administration, you have to now be worried about flying, going out of the country, you know, crossing
Mike Smith: And not
Nathan Brady: a
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: border.
Mike Smith: because the planes are falling off uh falling out of the sky.
Nathan Brady: Not just because of that, but because of being detained um and and having this happen. Now, Piker is a very high What's really interesting to me is that Piker is such a highprofile um
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: individual
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: that I'm surprised that they would do this, especially with he's so high-profile, has such a young um following. These are the type of people that are are going to go out there and uh make some noise. you know, if you grabbed Nam Chsky, who, you know, can't can't talk anymore, can't write anymore,

00:47:37

Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: um, I would hope that people would would go out and scream about it, but, um, I'm I'm not sure as much as grabbing somebody like Hassan. So, you know, if you run a podcast called the Blue Sedition Podcast, I mean, you have to worry. Even though I am a white American, I am I am now I'm in that line. It's that first they came for poem,
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: Right.
Nathan Brady: You know,
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: and and if you don't if you don't speak up now and you keep telling them that this stuff is okay, it's eventually going to get to you. Um, no matter what side you're on, because if you allow this if you allow some crazy Republican to do this, who's to say some crazy Democrat isn't going to come in and do the same thing, you know? Oh, you're still MAGA. You're still MAGA. All right, we're going to come after you. We're going to detain you. Um, you're you're you're a little now.

00:48:31

Nathan Brady: See, it's got you nervous. You don't even want to talk politics anymore. See, it's working. It's working.
Mike Smith: One thing I will say on this story that I think is probably important is that we follow a lot of um law folks, obviously Legal Eagle and Popad and all these others who are um very vocal vocally against this administration in particular, but just vocal about your rights as an American citizen as well. And they were like, "Hassan did this very poorly. He should have shut his mouth after I want my lawyer and then not spoken at all." Um and they recommend that if you are an American citizen and being questioned in this way, you you say that and then shut up. Um so there's a bit of free advice for everybody from actual lawyers. Uh
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I don't I I think what you just did is aiding and abetting criminals, though, as far as I understand it.
Mike Smith: oh. Okay.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. I don't think you're supposed to give any advice whatsoever or um they're going to look at that being terrorism.

00:49:33

Mike Smith: Is
Nathan Brady: Illegal.
Mike Smith: Is Elon gonna post a comment on this video and he says, "What you have done is a crime,
Nathan Brady: Illegal. Yeah,
Mike Smith: idiots."
Nathan Brady: he might just do that. Um,
Mike Smith: Uh Elon, if you're listening, thanks for being a supporter, guys. That's always nice. Leave us
Nathan Brady: love
Mike Smith: a like.
Nathan Brady: it, man. Thank you. He gave me a blue check mark before. Um, so thanks so much. I'm not using your Nazi site, though. Uh, okay. I guess we'll we got one last thing to say. We got to scurry out of here. Mike and I have to have to uh go on about our day um because we have a lot of food debt to pay off. So, one more sorry uh one more item to go over today. Uh Republican conceds long unsettled North Carolina court election to Democrat incumbent. You know, I didn't think that this was going to happen.

00:50:23

Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: didn't either. I mean, we've been covering this sort of topic for the last two months, three months. Oh, Jesus Christ. Six months. Six months. Okay. Um, and this guy, this the the GOP candidate had shown such want and disregard for political norms and political processes in obviously trying to get legal workarounds to win this election that he lost. I never thought I I we would see a concession. I I just figured he would do the Trump thing and keep claiming he was the winner for the rest of time. And
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: at
Mike Smith: well
Nathan Brady: some
Mike Smith: he
Nathan Brady: point,
Mike Smith: can see it. So
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: there you
Nathan Brady: Well,
Mike Smith: go.
Nathan Brady: I mean, so the reason he conceded was that uh the district court um handed handed down a ruling um and he said that I don't while I don't agree with this, I'm done appealing. Um so I he says quote just as I have respected every judicial tribunal that has heard this case um he respects the courts the court's holding.

00:51:25

Nathan Brady: So she uh uh Riggs is um expected to get the certificate of election today May 13th.
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: So
Mike Smith: wow. I didn't know
Nathan Brady: yeah
Mike Smith: that
Nathan Brady: so so exciting. Um, and that was the last undecided 2024 race. And there it is, settled.
Mike Smith: it's May 13th
Nathan Brady: Um,
Mike Smith: in 2025. Why did it take this long?
Nathan Brady: I mean, I think Carrie Lake is still trying to be governor of Arizona
Mike Smith: f****** carry
Nathan Brady: if
Mike Smith: leg. Yeah. No,
Nathan Brady: um,
Mike Smith: this was this was a big one and and it it showed the hand the GOP is going to be playing for the next several election cycles. And
Nathan Brady: oh
Mike Smith: that's
Nathan Brady: my god,
Mike Smith: one of when we lose, we're going to keep suing until we actually won because
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: facts don't matter to them and they have no scruples.
Nathan Brady: the midterms are going to be something incredible. They really are

00:52:20

Mike Smith: I mean, it incredible is the worst possible word. It's it unless there's well, even now, unless there's a landslide, you're not going to see concessions. And if there's a landslide, you're not going to see concessions for even longer because they're going to claim fraud and this, that, and the other.
Nathan Brady: except for on the opposite side where the Democrats will go quietly into that sweet night, you know. Um, what do you want the Democrats to do? Do you want do you want them to um when they when they go low, Democrats go high? Like what do they do in this situation?
Mike Smith: you can't anymore. I mean, there was a time when Republicans would go low and it was tongue andcheek and it was, you know, veiled and masked, but
Nathan Brady: Low
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: blows
Mike Smith: was there.
Nathan Brady: and Yeah. And dog whistles
Mike Smith: And the
Nathan Brady: and things
Mike Smith: Democrats
Nathan Brady: like that.
Mike Smith: would were were political high ground like we see what you're doing.

00:53:15

Mike Smith: We see what you're doing. we're not going to do that. But now they're just they're just out there fighting now. They're just they're deliberately ignoring laws and they're trying to win through weird court filings and lawsuits and all the other ways and claiming fraud, claiming election interference, claiming that illegals are voting and and the Democrats just they they're playing a different game. We've been saying it this every episode here. The Democrats need to get in there and start fighting with with these dogs. They just can't they can't let them do this un unopposed.
Nathan Brady: right? Uh yeah, I agree. I I don't know I don't know what the the response will be like if you're a Democrat and you lose an election. I mean, do you do you fight it? Do you do you do you drag it out so that the Republican can't get seated until May of 2025 and until May of 2028? I mean, is that what we need to do? You know,

00:54:15

Mike Smith: Yeah,
Nathan Brady: um I don't know. I
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: don't know
Mike Smith: hope
Nathan Brady: what
Mike Smith: it
Nathan Brady: the answer
Mike Smith: doesn't come
Nathan Brady: is.
Mike Smith: to that,
Nathan Brady: I
Mike Smith: but
Nathan Brady: I would like it to not, but
Mike Smith: you
Nathan Brady: I don't see
Mike Smith: might
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: have to
Nathan Brady: Republicans.
Mike Smith: make it come to that because think
Nathan Brady: Yeah.
Mike Smith: think about it for a second. Think about it for one second here. We have the the benefit of hindsight now, right? We
Nathan Brady: Sure.
Mike Smith: can look at like the 2000 election of Gore and know if he had just kept fighting it and even though the Supreme Court was stupid at the time and did these things, if he just kept suing and suing and suing like this did here, he actually would have won. But he
Nathan Brady: right?
Mike Smith: didn't because he wanted the political high road and it sent us to hell.

00:54:53

Mike Smith: But you know that. So that's what I'm saying is like if you honestly think that you're the winner, you have to fight this this way. Now, this is how you can't be like, "Okay, you got me on a technicality or oh, you yeah, okay, some ballots weren't 100%, you know, to standard, but they were filed and they should be counted and you're not going to. I'll just I'll accept this loss for some reason and walk away." It's unacceptable as a Democratic a a a a running Democrat uh campaigner.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Um, okay. I think this is a good place to end. I mean, we can talk about Stephen Miller. Um,
Mike Smith: No, we're not going to talk about
Nathan Brady: when
Mike Smith: Steven
Nathan Brady: you
Mike Smith: Miller.
Nathan Brady: Okay. All right.
Mike Smith: Alleged
Nathan Brady: We'll we'll
Mike Smith: Nazi Steven Miller can can f*** off for another episode.
Nathan Brady: Okay. Hopefully by next episode, um, we haven't suspended habius. So, uh, we'll we'll talk about it.

00:55:45

Nathan Brady: We'll talk about it next episode. Um, so I think that's it for today. So, first of all, I I you know, I forgot to do this at the top of the podcast, but I want to thank all of our followers on Blue Sky. We hit a milestone today.
Mike Smith: Oh
Nathan Brady: 10,000
Mike Smith: yeah.
Nathan Brady: 10,000 followers on Blue Sky. We did it. We have made
Mike Smith: Want
Nathan Brady: it.
Mike Smith: the balloons
Nathan Brady: I showed
Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: my
Mike Smith: drop
Nathan Brady: mom.
Mike Smith: down.
Nathan Brady: Uh, I printed it out. It's on the refrigerator. Uh, my mom is calling me. She said, "I don't know what you sent me. I don't understand what that means." Uh,
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: my
Mike Smith: have been
Nathan Brady: son
Mike Smith: showing my wife. I'm like every day I'm like, "Look, we're getting closer. We're getting closer. It's
Nathan Brady: 9.8
Mike Smith: happening. It's happening."

00:56:19

Nathan Brady: 9.9 We
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: were at
Mike Smith: So,
Nathan Brady: 9,999 um all night last night and
Mike Smith: just
Nathan Brady: then
Mike Smith: sitting
Nathan Brady: one
Mike Smith: there.
Nathan Brady: we got one one lucky person. Can we Can we see who it was? Yeah, we can still see who it was. Uh let me see. Maddie Maddie Shoreman. Uh Mattie Shoreman was our 10,000th follower. So, thanks Maddie. PhD
Mike Smith: Thanks,
Nathan Brady: student
Mike Smith: Patty.
Nathan Brady: at UT Austin uh studying religion and foreign policy in Cold War Latin America. Man, that is awesome.
Mike Smith: Sounds interesting. I dig it.
Nathan Brady: My latest article on the Vatican's quiet yet powerful in intelligence legacy. All right, I'm going to read that after.
Mike Smith: There you go.
Nathan Brady: All right. Um Okay. So, so once again, thank you everybody very much. Um, please like, subscribe, um, follow on Blue Sky if you're not already. Uh, what else, Mike?

00:57:12

Nathan Brady: We don't We don't want your money. We're
Mike Smith: We
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: don't
Nathan Brady: asking
Mike Smith: want your
Nathan Brady: for
Mike Smith: money.
Nathan Brady: your money. We just want your likes and your subs,
Mike Smith: We just want to
Nathan Brady: okay?
Mike Smith: farm those things.
Nathan Brady: We're
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: not
Mike Smith: Yeah.
Nathan Brady: We
Mike Smith: And
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Nathan Brady: just
Mike Smith: us
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Mike Smith: how
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Mike Smith: to
Nathan Brady: the
Mike Smith: actually
Nathan Brady: clicks.
Mike Smith: pronounce some of these things.
Nathan Brady: Yeah. Is it Qatar orQatar? Okay. Let us know. Maybe it's different for natives. uh you know or maybe natives that speak
Mike Smith: Oh,
Nathan Brady: English
Mike Smith: I
Nathan Brady: they pronounce you know I don't know
Mike Smith: Yeah, I don't know.
Nathan Brady: um who knows so
Mike Smith: Someone
Nathan Brady: okay
Mike Smith: in the comments will know.
Nathan Brady: somebody somebody will definitely know so please leave a comment um and we will catch everybody next Tuesday same time same place bye
Mike Smith: Thanks everyone.
Nathan Brady: all right we did it
Mike Smith: We did it.
Nathan Brady: we did it
Mike Smith: Steven f****** a******.
Nathan Brady: all right Stephen Miller Oh, Stephen Miller. Um,
Mike Smith: He can't sub sub s substand. He can't suspend habius. That's not what his job is.
Nathan Brady: he's just the chief of staff. What do we got here? Uh, yep. No. Let's see. Via test locally.
Mike Smith: so,
Nathan Brady: Stop this. Doc taking notes.