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01:00Ladies and gentlemen, all right, I know why you're happy today.
01:06The Supreme Court has finally said no to Donald Trump on Sunday.
01:11It's true.
01:13The Supreme Court, you know, said they struck down his request to have emergency powers to impose tariffs.
01:21They've said yes to pretty much everything he wanted to do, but here they finally said, you know what, don't
01:26fuck with the money.
01:30Uh, Trump took it very well.
01:35I'm joking, of course.
01:38He went batshit about it, of course, that it was a disgrace of these fucking courts.
01:45He's such a Karen.
01:46You know, I mean, everything he does.
01:54Everything is always, I want to speak to the manager.
01:57And the Supreme Court said, we're the manager.
02:02Uh, so, after, after this whole year of tariffs that we've been going through, have you been thinking to yourself,
02:11you know, why didn't other presidents think of doing this and not confiding in Congress when their constitution says they
02:18have to?
02:18They, they did think of it.
02:20They thought it was illegal.
02:21So they didn't do it.
02:24Uh.
02:28Now, the president says there are other ways he can get what he wants with the tariffs.
02:32I don't know what they are.
02:33But.
02:35If you've ever been to Washington, D.C. and you've seen that majestic Supreme Court building, it's going to make
02:41a lovely ballroom.
02:42That's all I can tell you.
02:45Uh, or, or maybe when he says that it was just a joke.
02:52We don't know.
02:52See, no, that's the thing.
02:54I found this out last week.
02:55Oh, boy, did I find it out.
02:58You have to know when he's joking.
02:59And it's not that easy.
03:01Uh, this week, for example, he was talking about Melania's movie, which actually did better than people thought.
03:07And he said, you know, she's going to be a big movie star.
03:09And there's not room in one family for two stars.
03:13Joke.
03:14Joke.
03:14Okay, that's a joke.
03:15I think that's, okay.
03:16Because now.
03:19See, now, because now it's our job to tell which are the jokes and which are the things that are
03:25just part of his sometimes batshit agenda.
03:27Okay?
03:29We have to know this.
03:30And I didn't know.
03:31See, like, I woke up Saturday morning to a blistering social media text from him.
03:38Went on and on.
03:39Valentine's Day, by the way.
03:43He was very mad at me because I didn't get his joke about how China is going to make Canada
03:49give up hockey.
03:53I didn't.
03:54You know, I think we're going to have to workshop that one for a while.
03:58So he went off on me and said, you know, the dinner we had was a waste of time.
04:02Well, I didn't think it was.
04:05And then I'm a jerk and I'm a low ratings lightweight and all this shit.
04:10Because I never stopped criticizing him.
04:12I never said I would.
04:13And I know how women feel now.
04:15A guy buys you dinner and then expects you to put out.
04:18Okay?
04:19And I'm not that guy.
04:25And, of course, he accused me of having Trump derangement syndrome.
04:29Okay, we're off next week.
04:31The next week, our show, I think March 6th, we come back.
04:34I'm going to address this at the end.
04:36His whole long screed.
04:37Yes.
04:37And prove that I don't have Trump derangement syndrome.
04:42And a lot of other stuff.
04:44He said that that wasn't really true.
04:46That, you know, I immediately asked for a drink.
04:48Okay.
04:50He immediately wanted a vodka.
04:51Okay.
04:52It was a margarita.
04:53It was not a vodka.
04:55And it wasn't immediately.
04:56I had a drink before dinner, as people do.
04:59He said I was nervous and scared.
05:01No confidence.
05:02Bullshit.
05:02It's so funny because, you know, I got so much shit from the left for reporting honestly
05:06that in person he was very different, very nice, very gracious.
05:10And then he says, no, he was scared.
05:13I can't.
05:14I'm like the Democrats with an election.
05:16I just can't win.
05:17You know, I...
05:23But...
05:25The president has bigger things on his mind.
05:27All the ships are in place now around Iran.
05:30Do you know this?
05:30For this, what looks like an imminent attack on Iran.
05:34Interestingly, right where we're doing this, he had the first meeting of his, you know,
05:37he has this new board of peace.
05:42He had a meeting of the board of peace and he told them, make this snappy.
05:46I got a war in the oven.
05:50Which I'm not against.
05:51See?
05:52I don't have Trump or England syndrome.
05:54We'll see how it goes.
05:56And boy, this war, though, this Iran thing has people very nervous.
06:01The price of gold, you know, this always happens when people went through the roof.
06:04It's over $5,000 for an ounce of gold.
06:07The other day, Sidney Sweeney was wearing gold earrings and she had to tell somebody,
06:12my tits are down here.
06:20The other big story, I'm sure you saw this, the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew
06:27was arrested and held for a few hours, then let go, unlike the girls on Epstein Island.
06:37And this is so interesting.
06:45They got Prince Andrew for giving trade secrets away.
06:49Child sex ring?
06:51Well, whatever.
06:52But you crossed the line with trade secrets.
07:02Apparently, Prince Andrew tipped off Epstein, that there were lucrative mining deals to
07:08be had in Afghanistan.
07:10Oh, funny mix-up.
07:11There was a party on Epstein Island and Prince Andrew asked if he could bring a bunch of miners.
07:16All right, we've got a great show.
07:18We have Representative Lauren Boebert and Texas State Representative James Tallarico.
07:23But first up, he is a legend, pure and simple.
07:27If you don't believe me, watch the Paul Anka His Way Dock on HBO Max.
07:31And his new album is Inspirations of Life and Love.
07:33Paul Anka!
07:43Good to meet you.
07:44Again, I'm seeing you.
07:46Yes.
07:46How you doing?
07:50All right.
07:52That never gets old, does it?
07:54Never.
07:55Yeah.
07:55We do, but not that.
07:57You do.
07:59Yeah.
07:59Well, that's true.
08:00I mean, people half your age are half as busy.
08:04I mean, you have a new album out.
08:05You have a tour.
08:07A tour you're going to go on.
08:08You're doing a Broadway show about your life.
08:11You medaled in the Olympics, I believe, last week.
08:14Yeah.
08:17You're dating Doja Cat, is that correct?
08:19That's over.
08:20That's over.
08:22But she did put out your song on TikTok, did she not?
08:25She did.
08:25Put your head on my shoulder.
08:27Put your head on.
08:28That's unbelievable.
08:32But she didn't sing the original version the way I wrote it, which was put your legs on my shoulders.
08:41I was 17.
08:45You can relate to that, Bill.
08:47Yeah, I think we can all relate to that.
08:51That sounds like more of like a Doja Cat song.
08:54That's pretty funny.
08:54But did you ever think you'd be on TikTok?
08:57I mean, can you have me?
08:58I never thought I'd be on TikTok, and I never thought I'd be sitting here talking to you.
09:03When I started out as a kid, all I wanted to do was write.
09:07And I worked at a local newspaper.
09:10I was in school for grade 10 for a couple of years, unfortunately.
09:15And I started writing.
09:17And when it hit for me, once I went to New York, and I said, this can't last.
09:23I mean, the dream just came true.
09:24And I was for four years wondering, what do I do from here?
09:27Because I really didn't believe that it was going to last for me.
09:30But the gravitas of being the writer kicked in for me.
09:34And I realized that if you were the writer, you had a chance to last.
09:39And that's what I did.
09:40I focused on the writing.
09:41Yeah, I think one thing you do not get credit for is, you know, there was a revolution in the
09:46music industry at some point.
09:48I mean, before they say Dylan and the Beatles.
09:50That's usually who they think the revolution started with.
09:53And the revolution I'm talking about is, back in the day, nobody ever thought a singer was the person who
10:00would write the songs for themselves.
10:01It just wasn't done.
10:03There was songwriters, and there were singers who did them.
10:06Frank Sinatra never wrote a song.
10:08Elvis never wrote a song.
10:09I think he took credit on one.
10:10I don't think he wrote it.
10:13I'll leave that alone.
10:14Okay.
10:17Well, there's an old adage when we started.
10:20Write a word, get a third.
10:22Word.
10:22Yeah.
10:23So all of the young writers that started, anybody that added a word or two, they ripped them off and
10:28took a third of the song.
10:28But you were writing your own material before Dylan and the Beatles.
10:32Well, nobody would listen to me, so I was forced to writing.
10:35Right.
10:35And I was writing, and I realized early in the game, Bill, that the writer was everything, in anything.
10:43Without the writer, there are no singers, there's no lawyers, there's no agents, there's no record companies, there's nothing.
10:50So I respect those that write and create, because without them, there wouldn't be anything that we see.
11:02I mean, there's a few reasons why you're still out there doing it.
11:06And if people say to you, you know, why have you lasted?
11:08Why have you...
11:08I think I can answer that.
11:10One, you can still sing.
11:14Now, I'm not going to mention names.
11:16Please do.
11:20No, because it's not flattering.
11:22I understand.
11:22You know, I understand.
11:23But there are some of the heroes of my youth, musical heroes of my youth, who are, you know, 70
11:28and up.
11:29Yeah.
11:29I'm sorry, they can't sing, which is unfortunate, because they still sing.
11:33Yeah.
11:35You can still sing.
11:37The latest album, it sounds just like you always did.
11:39I saw in the documentary, you did the new version of My Way at the, it was New Year's Eve.
11:47Yes, on Times Square.
11:49Times Square.
11:50We wrote it for the event that night.
11:53You belt it out just like you always have.
11:55You know, you take care of yourself.
11:57And it pays off later in life.
12:00And I've always lived a certain lifestyle.
12:03I did not, you know, hanging out with the Rat Pack in Vegas, as I did,
12:08I learned things, what not to do and what to do.
12:13So between the drinking, the gambling, the women, and everything else, I had a choice.
12:18And I realized those guys who were the best.
12:20Sinatra, they were the best.
12:21I learned from them.
12:23You know, every night it was cigarettes and smoking and women and everything.
12:26The women I liked, I hung in there.
12:31That's not bad for you.
12:32I loved it because as a teenager, I got really shortchanged.
12:38You know, I was unattractive.
12:40I was shy.
12:41I couldn't get with girls.
12:42And as soon as I had my first hit record, the floodgates opened.
12:47And when you work in Vegas, there was an enormous amount of lumbering going on
12:53that manifested itself with girls that were just incredible.
12:58They were all showgirls.
12:59And it was a fun fest all the time.
13:03How did we get onto this from staying in good shape?
13:10I'll tell you what, because I continue to do it and it keeps me in good shape.
13:17Right.
13:22Listen, I don't want to get into ageism, but folks, don't live whatever your age is.
13:29Forget about it.
13:30Keep the old man out.
13:31If you feel good, you take care of yourself, just live your life.
13:35Live the moment.
13:36Time is your asset.
13:38Forget about age.
13:39Do whatever you want.
13:42Yeah, you're single now, right?
13:44Pardon?
13:45You're single now.
13:47I am single now.
13:49Single and ready to mingle?
13:50I'm...
13:51Are you...
13:53I've always been a mingler.
13:58I mean, you...
14:01It's funny, you know, you've had so many lives when I watched this documentary.
14:06I mean, I knew all of them, but the documentary is so great because it puts them all together.
14:10I mean, of course I knew that you were the teen idol guy.
14:13You were the put-your-head-on-my-shoulder guy.
14:15And then my favorite period, because it was when I was in my 20s,
14:19the 70s Rat Pack guy with, you know, all those great songs.
14:24Good morning, yesterday, that morning.
14:26How's your life?
14:27Having my baby.
14:28Oh, having my baby, which I could relate to not at all.
14:32But I still love the song.
14:37And how about I'll never get married?
14:40Right.
14:41What a terrible way to say.
14:43What a thought.
14:44But hold me till the morning?
14:46Yeah, it comes.
14:47What?
14:51This guy's got it on his brain today.
14:55But, I mean, so many...
14:56It could be worse.
14:57...great songs.
14:58But, you know, then you were also the guy who wrote My Way,
15:02you know, which is...
15:09Well, Sinatra was inspiring.
15:11You know, what happened there was I had dinner with him in Florida.
15:15He was doing a film, late 60s, called Lady in Cement.
15:20I remember it.
15:21And by that title, with the guys that we worked for,
15:25it could have been a documentary.
15:27But...
15:30So, he took me to dinner, and he said,
15:33he said, I'm quitting show business.
15:34Had enough.
15:35Rat Pack's over.
15:36Right.
15:37I'm tired, but I'm doing one more album with Don Costa.
15:40And he never wrote me a song.
15:42Now, Costa was the guy that found me.
15:44I gave him all the credit.
15:46And I introduced him to Sinatra.
15:49And I said, really?
15:50He said, I'm quitting.
15:51He never wrote me a song.
15:52You know, when I hung with him,
15:53I wasn't going to give him Puppy Love or Lonely Boy.
15:55He would have thrown me out a window, you know.
15:58And I went back to New York, and I'm in my apartment, midnight,
16:02and I start writing metaphorically.
16:05And now, the end is near.
16:07And it wrote itself.
16:08It wrote itself.
16:10Five hours later, I called him at Caesar's Palace.
16:13I said, sir, I've got something for you.
16:15He said, bring it out.
16:17I flew out.
16:18The next night, I sang it to him.
16:20He said, kid.
16:21It was my nickname, kid.
16:23He said, I love it.
16:24I'm going to do it.
16:25Two months later, he called me from a studio in Los Angeles.
16:29He said, kid, listen to this.
16:31He took a phone, and he put it next to a speaker.
16:35And I heard my way for the first time.
16:38And it was such a hit for him, he stayed 10 more years.
16:47It always struck me, I mean, you're Canadian.
16:51Yes, sir.
16:52It struck me odd that a Canadian would write that lyric, though.
16:55Why is that?
16:56I did it my way.
16:57It's so Trumpy.
17:04You know, I did do a my way version for Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
17:09I used to work for him, and I wrote it for him as part.
17:14I think it was his birthday, but there was something going on.
17:17And he announced back then he was thinking of becoming president.
17:21So I rewrote this lyric of my way for him, which I've done all over the world,
17:25from Putin, the White House.
17:27And it's something that I do with my way.
17:30So it's a song that I have fun when I rewrite it.
17:33And I'll do it for you when you get married.
17:41Which means I don't have to write anything.
17:43No, you're safe on that.
17:46But I also love the stuff you did with Michael Jackson.
17:49You know, I remember when that song came out.
17:51Yeah.
17:51Love Never Felt So Good.
17:53Well, This Is It was the first one.
17:55Okay.
17:56Before Love Never Felt So Good.
17:57But Love Never Felt So Good is the one that I said,
18:01why didn't they release that?
18:02But Michael must have been as high on the propofol that day.
18:06Because, oh, shut the fuck up.
18:13Because it's such a great record.
18:15Yeah.
18:16But it's because you and he wrote it together and then they put it in the vault, right?
18:20Well, what happened was I wrote it with him prior and we were supposed to finish it together.
18:26But he chose to not finish the project because Thriller took off and he, I don't want to say stolen,
18:34he borrowed the tapes out of the studio and I couldn't get my music back till finally we got it
18:39together.
18:40It was in a drawer for many, many years.
18:43When he passed, they went into his house and found all of these songs, one of which was This Is
18:50It from his special,
18:51which was the first one.
18:53Then they called me up and said, we found another song called Love Never Felt So Good.
18:58So great.
18:58I said, well, I wrote that also.
19:01I said, oh.
19:01Then Drake heard, I had another one called It Don't Matter To Me, which was Michael's last record.
19:06And he came to my house and he said, I'd like to finish it with you.
19:10And we finished It Don't Matter To Me.
19:12And that was the last record we did with Michael.
19:14So on the new album, I noticed you do three Sinatra songs.
19:17Yes.
19:18You do When I Was 17.
19:19Correct.
19:20Right.
19:20And you do, what was the other one?
19:23Oh.
19:24Let Me Try Again.
19:24Let Me Try Again, which I didn't realize until I read it.
19:27You wrote that with Sammy Kahn.
19:30Yes.
19:30Also from a French song.
19:32That's correct.
19:32Right?
19:32Like my way.
19:33Correct.
19:33And then you redo, I mean, one of Frank's big hits, That's Life.
19:37But you change the last line.
19:39This is my last question.
19:40I'll let you go.
19:41No, I don't want to go yet.
19:46Good.
19:49But if you don't remember the single, you know, one of Frank's big hits, I've been a puppet,
19:53a pirate, a poet.
19:55I saw a pawn and a king.
19:56I've been up and down, over and around.
19:57I know one thing.
19:58That's my sex life.
19:59Right.
20:01That's right.
20:07So what I did, Bill, what I did, Bill, this album is about life and love.
20:14I listened to a bunch of songs that I could put in this very special mood with a large orchestra.
20:20The lyric of That's Life, when you strip it from the rhythm and blues vibe that it had,
20:26it really played well.
20:27And we did it with the symphony in Budapest.
20:30And it's one of my favorite tracks because it's so off the wall of the chance that I took with
20:35it.
20:36And I really like that track a lot.
20:38But you changed the last line.
20:40Yes.
20:41It's iconic, that last line.
20:42If things aren't shaking this July, I'm going to roll myself up in a big ball and die.
20:47Correct.
20:47And what did you change it to?
20:49I didn't do anything.
20:50Yes, you did.
20:50I left it out.
20:51No, you...
20:52I said...
20:53I'm going to get on a big bird and fly.
20:56Yes, I'm going to get on a big bird and fly.
20:58Well, that's different than die.
21:00And not the...
21:02But I didn't want to end it on that kind of a note.
21:04Okay, good.
21:05You really listened to that album?
21:06I love it.
21:07Love all your stuff.
21:08Thank you, sir.
21:09You know, I appreciate you being here.
21:11I appreciate you being here.
21:12We'll see you again, I hope, soon.
21:13All right, Paul Anker, ladies and gentlemen, let's read our panel.
21:22Okay.
21:23Hey.
21:23How you doing?
21:25All right, here's our panel.
21:27He is a Texas state representative who's currently running in the 2026 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, James Tolerico.
21:34James, causing a lot of consternation.
21:40And she is a Republican congresswoman who represents Colorado's fourth district.
21:44Lauren Boebert is here with us.
21:46How you doing?
21:49Okay, let's get to...
21:50This was a big story today.
21:52Trump, I said a few weeks ago, I said, we're going to find out about the Supreme Court with the
21:57tariff issue.
21:57If they go along with this, then we really do not have three branches of government.
22:01Well, I think it's good news for America, but I want to get your opinion on that.
22:05You know, both sides change definition of words all the time.
22:09I mean, the left changed violence to anything we don't like.
22:13They changed woman to I'm not sure what, but they changed that one.
22:18No one's been able to answer that yet on the left.
22:20Yeah, that's been a tough one.
22:21Trump changed emergency to anything I want to do and not have to get Congress involved.
22:27And the Supreme Court said, no, that is not how it works in this country, including two people who he
22:32appointed.
22:33Good day for America?
22:36I think absolutely.
22:39So, I don't really agree with the Supreme Court's ultimate decision here.
22:45I don't think that comes as too much of a surprise.
22:47But the three branches of government are not supposed to work symmetrically.
22:51I don't believe that they have equal powers.
22:55They are separate and not equal.
22:57There are different functions and different roles.
22:59Congress is first.
23:00You are right.
23:02Article one is Congress.
23:03And I do think that we have a role in this.
23:05But President Trump is stopped by the judicial branch, the judiciary branch very often.
23:11And I think this could harm America.
23:14We were seeing great results from the tariffs.
23:17But if we're going to just change the names and the terms, well, let's do what the leftist politicians do,
23:23what Democrats do, especially in my home state of Colorado, and call it something else like a fee.
23:28We have taxes that these citizens vote on.
23:31However, on top of that is fee after fee after fee that no one ever takes a vote on.
23:37Yet we are forced to pay whatever that fee is.
23:40So, maybe instead of tariffs, President...
23:41Yeah, we live in California.
23:42You don't have to tell us.
23:43Yes.
23:44So, maybe President Trump just needs to start imposing these fees.
23:48Okay.
23:49If you can unilaterally, you know, stop any trade that he wants and prevent anything from coming in,
23:54I think that he should be able to dictate the terms and not allow America to get taken advantage of.
24:00And now for an opposing view.
24:01Well, I'm really glad that we're starting to see checks and balances in our government again.
24:07And the only thing I...
24:10The only thing I'll disagree with is, at least in Texas, these tariffs have been driving up prices.
24:16A lot of people in our state voted for President Trump for one reason and one reason only.
24:21They thought he would lower costs.
24:23And people took a chance on him because they thought he would get the economy back on track.
24:28And a year later, he's done the exact opposite.
24:30And I think in large part because of these crazy tariffs, we have seen the price of food going up
24:35in our state,
24:36the price of groceries.
24:37And you add that on top of the rising cost of child care and prescription drugs and higher education and
24:43housing,
24:44it is locking people out of the American dream.
24:46And so I don't think this tariff regime has been productive.
24:51I don't think it's been useful.
24:52And I think it's hurt a lot of people, including a lot of people who voted for the president in
24:562024.
24:58I mean, I could just add to that.
25:01Under the Biden administration, certainly prices went through the roof.
25:05And inflation was unbearable.
25:07And President Trump has done a great job of getting the economy back to a more stable place.
25:12It's not where it needs to be by any means.
25:14And you talk about child care going up.
25:16Well, maybe that's, you know, due to some leering centers here and there.
25:19But, you know, we've got to get this under control in a reasonable way.
25:24And gas prices are down.
25:25Food prices are going down.
25:27It was so much higher under the Biden administration.
25:30I mean, the studies have shown, maybe it's fake news, you know, that they did cost the average American $1
25:39,000, the tariffs, which would make sense.
25:43And certainly there were goods that were more expensive because of that, because there are tariffs involved.
25:48We're charging people more money.
25:50But look at the tariff on China.
25:52President Trump said, well, one of them,
25:54I'm going to charge you 20% tariffs on your goods because you are making money sending fentanyl into our
26:00country and killing American citizens.
26:02So I'm going to tariff you more than what you are making on the fentanyl that is killing Americans.
26:07And we have seen a huge decrease in the fentanyl poisoning that was taking place.
26:12Colorado was number two in the nation for a long time.
26:15Well, like many of the things he does, I mean, the idea behind it is not always bad.
26:20But you can't do it without consulting the Constitution.
26:26Now, I just want to say one more thing, and then we'll move on to something else.
26:30But this idea, because a lot of people stop me all the time, Bill, the world is so insane now.
26:35Well, it always has been.
26:36And, yes, there is that.
26:38There's a lot of insanity going on.
26:39But just to calm yourself down a little about the checks and balances thing.
26:44This is from the New York Times.
26:46Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that Donald Trump's administration is
26:54detaining immigrants unlawfully.
26:574,400 times.
27:00Then this is from the New York Times.
27:01Lawmakers have systematically brushed off many of Trump's most severe cuts.
27:05The result is a set of annual government expenses that do not appear radically different than what he inherited a
27:12year ago.
27:13EPA, they wanted to cut it 54%.
27:16It's cut 4%.
27:18HUD, they wanted to cut it 44%.
27:21It's plus 9%.
27:23CDC, they wanted to cut it 41%.
27:26Minus 1%.
27:27Education, they wanted to get rid of it altogether.
27:30It has a 1% increase.
27:32So things are not quite as crazy as you think they are.
27:37And apparently our system is still somewhat still working.
27:40The boat is leaky, but it ain't sunk.
27:45All right, I want to ask about Marco Rubio who's in Munich.
27:51This has become a big thing every year.
27:52They all go to Munich.
27:53Boy, it's like the new Iowa primary.
27:58And he said, we are part of one civilization, Western civilization.
28:02Now, I want to first of all say something about Western civilization.
28:05Kids, you don't know what the fuck it is.
28:07And I'm, you know, really, they think Western means white and white means bad.
28:12Kids, first of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it too.
28:17The Japanese before World War II and during World War II and Genghis Khan and I could go on and
28:22on.
28:22You know, it's, the left is very down on America, very down on the West.
28:28And it's ironic because the West has also given us everything that makes your life good here.
28:34Don't ask Billie Eilish or Chapel Roan about what the Western values are.
28:40Because they'll just say it's about oppression.
28:42But it's not about oppression.
28:46It's about rule of law.
28:48It's about respect for minorities.
28:50It's about democracy.
28:51It's about scientific inquiry.
28:53These are all good things that came from the Western world.
28:56I wish that schools would teach that again.
28:58But Mr. Rubio said, we are part of one civilization, Western civilization, bound to another by the deepest bonds.
29:05And he mentions shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, common civilization.
29:11I want to ask about the Christian faith part because you two are going to line up against me now.
29:17I know you're ready for some Holy Ghost.
29:20I know you two are very devout Christians.
29:24But I think we're going to find that that doesn't always mean the same thing.
29:28I don't think Christian faith belongs in this list as much.
29:32Now, certainly the Western canon comes through countries that had Christian faith.
29:37But it's not what brings us together.
29:39It's enlightenment values, the ones I just mentioned.
29:43I mean, I know you disagree with this vehemently because you think this should be a Christian nation.
29:47And Christian nationalism is now a big thing.
29:50And part of it, they've done surveys on this.
29:53And most Republicans say we should declare a Christian nation, that this should be declared a Christian nation.
29:59I think this is absolutely not what the Constitution says.
30:02Law is based on Christian values.
30:04Being a Christian is an important part of being truly American.
30:07And I vehemently disagree with that.
30:10So, with all...
30:13Interesting.
30:14I do believe that we were founded on Judeo-Christian values.
30:19And certainly we don't need a religion as a whole to govern our country.
30:27Are you reading a quote from me?
30:29I mean, well, yeah.
30:32You say the church is supposed to direct the government.
30:35Yes, I do believe that.
30:36I do believe that.
30:37I don't believe that...
30:38I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk.
30:41Yes, let's go there.
30:42So, that is not in the Constitution, as so many people think, this separation of church and state.
30:48No.
30:48This was Jefferson.
30:49No, this is in the Federalists.
30:51This is in letters that Jefferson had written.
30:54This is not in the Constitution.
30:56And I'm not talking about...
30:58Congress will make no law.
30:59No, I'm not talking about the First Amendment.
31:01It does not say separation of church and state there.
31:04Not in those words.
31:04And so, we don't want a church state and say, this is the religion you must follow.
31:10I absolutely believe in freedom of religion.
31:12But where are we going to, as a whole, get our morals from?
31:16And that's what our country, being founded on Judeo-Christian values,
31:20gave us a sense of agreement of these are the values, the moral standards,
31:23that we will be governed by and govern ourselves by in this new country.
31:29And I think it had a great run.
31:32And then there's so many different flavors put on Christianity
31:36and so many different viewpoints that it certainly has been diluted.
31:40And then you get a mix of other religions in, which is...
31:43So, being Christian is an important part of being truly American.
31:46You would also disagree with that.
31:48I do believe that that goes to the roots of our foundation.
31:51Absolutely.
31:52Our founding fathers were Christians and...
31:55But you can be truly American without being Christian.
31:57You certainly can.
31:59And I do think that it's...
32:03Where do you stand on all this?
32:07Well, you know, my granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas.
32:10My faith is very important to me.
32:12He told me when I was real little that, as Christians, we're supposed to follow Jesus' two commandments,
32:18to love God and love neighbor.
32:20And there was no exception to that second commandment.
32:22Love thy neighbor regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or immigration status or religious affiliation.
32:29And so, in Texas, I'm constantly battling Christian nationalism, a bill that forces every public school teacher to put up
32:38a poster of the Ten Commandments,
32:40a bill that replaces school counselors with untrained chaplains, a bill that would have taught Christian Bible stories as historical
32:48fact to our youngest students.
32:49And I always speak up on behalf of my Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, agnostic, atheist neighbors because I, as a
32:59Christian, we as Christians, are called to love them as ourselves.
33:02And forcing my religion down their throats is not love.
33:08And the only other thing I'll add, America is not a Christian nation.
33:15It is a nation where you are free to be a Christian or any of those other faiths or no
33:20faith at all.
33:21I do like that.
33:25And I recognize that the phrase separation of church and state isn't in the Constitution,
33:29but the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause in our First Amendment clearly create a separation between church and
33:36state.
33:37And many of our founders were deists, which I think a lot of the far-right, the religious right in
33:45this country would probably call them not real Christians, given their beliefs.
33:49And, yes, they blended Enlightenment thinking with a Christian background into something that I think a lot of far-right
33:57Christian leaders would not recognize.
33:59in this day and age.
34:00So I think it's just important that we remember our true history and we try to honor that promise of
34:07America, of a melting pot, of E Pluribus Unum, out of many one.
34:12It's a promise we obviously haven't ever fulfilled, but it is one that we're still trying to fulfill.
34:16I think we've done a good job of performing.
34:18I kind of make one point here.
34:20So you're battling legislation to have the Ten Commandments in school and certain biblical stories taught as fact.
34:27Well, when I went to school, there was Greek mythology that we were required to, you know, learn and study
34:33about.
34:33Now, in Colorado, we have comprehensive sex ed, where as young as kindergarten, I mean, children are taught all of
34:41these things.
34:41You can be whatever gender you want to be.
34:43And that is being forced down their throats, the sexualization of our children.
34:47I would much rather my children see the Ten Commandments that basically just gives a moral standard, rather than saying,
34:57you can pleasure yourself and here's how to an elementary.
35:02Here's just what I would disagree, because I don't want indoctrination of any form, whether it comes from the left
35:07or the right, in our schools.
35:08I want education, not indoctrination.
35:10Yes, can we have reading, writing, math?
35:12And my problem is seeing politicians in Texas force everybody to put up a post of the Ten Commandments when
35:20they don't even follow the Ten Commandments themselves.
35:21And that is a problem.
35:23To me, I just think, as people of faith, like, we should be trying to follow those Ten Commandments rather
35:30than trying to force them to be able to do that.
35:31To me, that indicates a dead religion.
35:35If you have to force people to put up a poster to prove your legitimacy, that means we don't have
35:39a living faith anymore.
35:40And so I think this is not just a threat to democracy.
35:44I think it's a threat to the church, because that separation doesn't just protect the state.
35:49It protects the church, because when the church gets too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice, its
35:55ability to speak truth to power.
35:56And that's what that separation is, it's what it protects.
36:00And it's why Christians, including many Protestant Christians, fought for that separation, because they believed it benefited them.
36:07We've got to get back to that in this case.
36:11So, there was a very important development this last week that I have to mention.
36:17Robert Kennedy went on a podcast, and he said, I'm not scared of a germ.
36:25You know, I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
36:28Did I mention he is the Secretary of Health and Human Services?
36:33He didn't inhale.
36:35Bill, he didn't inhale.
36:37Even the worm in his brain went, that's dude.
36:40That's gross, dude.
36:41So, it's just pointing to this, I think, important fact, which is that this is the way politicians act nowadays.
36:47I don't know about you two, but it's like you have to get ahead.
36:50People like emo these days.
36:52They like you to be confessional.
36:54They like to know about your personal life.
36:56It used to be you had to be buttoned down and deny and be this separate person.
37:00No, they don't like that.
37:01They like it just like we do in show business.
37:03Tell them everything.
37:03So, we have found out that a lot of other people have been going on podcasts and giving their confessions.
37:09Would you like to see some of them?
37:11These are all people getting ahead of the game, boy.
37:14Like, Chris Christie took a page out of Robert Kennedy's book, and he said,
37:18I once ate half a jelly donut I found on a port-a-potty floor.
37:22You see, it's way ahead of this.
37:25Uh, the Pope said, I find communion wafers dry, but they're still better than Chicago-style pizza.
37:36Uh, Mondani, the mayor of New York, said, I always cry at the end of Red Dawn.
37:44Uh, oh, Hillary Clinton said, during the Benghazi attack, I turned my phone off to watch Dance Moms.
37:52That's...
37:54Uh, our governor, Gavin Newsom, said, anyone can be a sex addict in L.A.
37:58Talk to me after you've been a sex addict in Sacramento.
38:05Uh, Pete Hegseth said, I'll vote for AOC just because she used to be a bartender.
38:16Uh, Lindsey Graham, I dressed up like Margot Robbie's character to see Wuthering Heights.
38:21Well, that could have been for any reason.
38:24We don't know what that means.
38:25We don't know.
38:26Oh, the president, Donald Trump, said, sometimes I truth out long takedowns of my friends if
38:32they don't text me back quickly enough.
38:34Uh, Travis Kelsey said, I'm sick of finding cat hair all over every fucking thing.
38:47Kanye, this whole time I've had Jews confused with Italians.
38:51Oh, no.
38:57And Bad Bunny, to be honest, I can't even understand what I'm saying.
39:02All right, so...
39:11Well, there's one more thing about religion.
39:12And before I do, I want to say, you know, people know you now.
39:15They are getting to know you.
39:16I'm just getting to know you.
39:17And you're just running in the primary.
39:20Yeah, yeah.
39:20You're just running in the primary in Texas.
39:22Not even the main battle.
39:24Why did you catch fire so much?
39:27And why are you not Beto 2.0?
39:30I mean, because people are always saying, Texas is going to, we're going to turn Texas blue.
39:36And now you're the newest guy to do that.
39:38What is it, what do you think that has got everybody so interested in you?
39:43Well, I'm an eighth generation Texan.
39:45So my family's been in the state since it was Mexico.
39:47And we are seeing a growing backlash to the extremism and the corruption in our government
39:55all over the state.
39:56I have been traveling every corner of Texas.
39:58So many people have been coming out to these events, particularly a lot of young people.
40:02And I can't tell you how many people come up to me afterwards and whisper,
40:05I'm not a Democrat, like it's some kind of secret.
40:10And so we are, I think, trying to build a movement that includes Democrats,
40:14Democrats, independents, and Republicans to try to take back our state and take back our country.
40:19And there are a lot of people across our state that really want someone who's going to
40:26focus on them for once.
40:27Because right now you've got people in high elected office who seem more concerned with
40:31padding their bank accounts or accumulating more power.
40:35And no one seems to be trying to make life easier and better for people.
40:43And I've served for four terms in the statehouse in Texas as a Democrat,
40:47which is not an easy place to work in the Texas legislature.
40:49And I've stood up to my Republican colleagues when I feel like they're doing harmful things.
40:53But I also know how to work across the aisle to actually get stuff done.
40:56So if you get elected, you'll be working together.
40:58Can you work together?
40:59Yeah.
40:59First, I want to ask, do you ever stand up to your Democrat party?
41:02Because sometimes that is the most difficult thing to do.
41:05And I have stood up to my own party on issues more than I have Democrats.
41:09So have I.
41:10Right.
41:11And, you know, and I do want to congratulate you on, you know, the success so far in your
41:15campaign.
41:16Maybe I should endorse Jasmine Crockett so you could do a little better.
41:21But, I mean, just my special endorsement.
41:25Yeah, that's who you're running against, Jasmine Crockett.
41:27Right.
41:28And I do think that is why he, in the Democrat portion of this primary, is doing so well.
41:33Because his opponent is so radical, so extreme, just a false identity, came from one place,
41:40pretends to be from another.
41:42And it's just so radical and extreme.
41:45Now, I want John Cornyn out.
41:48I do not want him in the Senate.
41:50He's not conservative enough for you.
41:51No.
41:52Wow.
41:53No, not at all.
41:54No, me neither.
41:54And, uh...
41:56I've got to get him out.
41:58You know, certainly, I want a Republican...
42:00What a hippie.
42:01I certainly want a Republican to win that.
42:04You know, Chip Roy to be AG.
42:06But thank you for doing your best to get rid of Jasmine Crockett for the rest of us.
42:11Well, I just, I mean, I am in a primary with Congresswoman Crockett.
42:16But she and I are friends.
42:18We've served together.
42:19We do have different approaches to campaigning and politics.
42:22But we are both trying to fight 30 years of one-party rule in our state, which has led
42:29to the extremism and the corruption I was just talking about.
42:30We're trying to do that here in California, too.
42:32Yeah.
42:33And Bill, to your point, one-party rule...
42:37Not good.
42:38...whether it's Democrats or Republicans, always leads to extremism and corruption.
42:41Absolutely.
42:42Okay.
42:43Last issue, because I know this is important to you, and it comes up every week.
42:46And I, by the way, again, talking about taking it on the chin, I do as much as I can
42:51here.
42:52I apologized to QAnon a couple of weeks ago.
42:54I said, you know, when it comes to this Epstein stuff, you had it brighter than me.
42:58Now, they also believe a lot of real batshit nonsense.
43:01But when it comes...
43:02For now, you think it's batshit, right?
43:03They don't eat babies.
43:05Democrats don't eat babies.
43:07You think they eat babies?
43:09There is a lot of consumption talk in the stuff that...
43:12No, are there babies?
43:13I don't know.
43:14No, you can laugh all you want.
43:15But, I mean, there is some sick stuff in here that is implying...
43:20But that's not eating babies.
43:22It's...
43:22Come on.
43:23I'm not saying they're eating babies.
43:25I'm saying there is talk of consumption, and it ain't pizza.
43:29And I'm not saying that I am QAnon by any means, but this is deep, dark, satanic, awful,
43:37sacrificial, and this stuff is gross.
43:39See, this is what I'm saying.
43:40Here I am, sacrificing myself, saying, you know what?
43:45I was wrong, QAnon, and then you don't meet me halfway.
43:49You insist they might be eating babies.
43:53I just think there are some questionable stuff.
43:56Okay, here's what it is.
43:58QAnon said there's this vast elites around the world conspiracy to, you know, traffic kids and pedophiles,
44:06and they were more right than I let on, than I thought they were.
44:10Okay, so that's what I'm giving you.
44:12And it wasn't just Prince Andrew in the parlor with the dildo.
44:15Okay?
44:24Look, QAnon was wrong about one big thing.
44:28And they thought Donald Trump was the one to take down this secret pedophile ring.
44:33When he is mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files, he flew repeatedly on Epstein's private jet and then
44:41lied about it.
44:42He sent Epstein a happy birthday card with a picture of a naked woman talking about their, quote, wonderful secret.
44:48So the fact that QAnon thought that guy was going to take down the secret pedophile ring when he's right
44:54in the middle of it, I think was clearly wrong.
44:57Who is the president right now?
44:58President Trump.
44:59Uh-huh.
45:00Who signed the order to release the files?
45:03President Trump did.
45:03Well, there was a lot of pressure from folks like you to make him do that.
45:07Yes, and I'm proud to have done so, but he also signed it the same day it was passed.
45:11To be fair, to show I don't have Trump derangement syndrome, this also came out that the sheriff in Palm
45:19Beach testified that in 2006, Trump called and said, everybody knows what's going on there.
45:27When I saw, I got the hell out of there and you should stop doing this.
45:30So, like, Trump, he's his own worst enemy.
45:33Instead of, he should have just said that.
45:35Instead of saying, I never knew him, I have my picture taken with a lot of people, he could have
45:39just said that to begin with.
45:40It would have been a much better version.
45:42I think everyone can agree the rollout of this was awful, horrendous, damaging, and now we have what we have.
45:49You know, even when I go to the DOJ, there's still redactions underneath the redactions that I'm supposed to view
45:55completely unredacted files.
45:57Now, do I want to see underage children, images of them?
46:00No, but there are names that are still redacted, and we are still working to get that information.
46:06But, you know, I am happy with the transparency so far.
46:09I hated the rollout of it.
46:11Glad we're here and we're finally getting accountability.
46:14There's arrests happening.
46:15Prince Andrew to start.
46:17And I hope there's more to come.
46:19Okay.
46:19Thank you very much.
46:20You guys were a lot of fun.
46:21Time for New Rule.
46:24All right.
46:28Okay.
46:30New Rule, the Pennsylvania Girl Scout who shattered all records by selling over 81,000 boxes of cookies has to
46:37tell us her secret.
46:39Oh, who am I kidding?
46:40We already know what it is.
46:41Location, location, location.
46:50Even more impressive, six of them were thin mints.
46:54Okay.
46:55New Rule, the women who keep putting up billboards and buying ads on taxis and holding up signs in public
47:01about how they want to find a husband have to try this.
47:04Hang out at a Comic-Con convention for five minutes.
47:15You want to meet a guy, I'll be happy to find a woman.
47:17I got you.
47:19Give these players a chance, because that is a lightsaber in his pocket, and he is happy to see you.
47:29Our new rule, since NVIDIA CEO Jason Wong is one of the richest people on the planet.
47:34He has to buy a second outfit.
47:41Look, I know what you're trying to say, that I'm one of the cool tech titans, and it's true.
47:48This does make you look cool.
47:50In Milwaukee in the 1950s.
47:59New Rule, I know Olympic skating is an art form, but can we all admit this guy is also thinking,
48:05and after, you're going to do me, right?
48:14New Rule, now that Meta has patented a way for AI to run a dead person's Facebook account,
48:20so they can continue to post and chat from after they're dead, it has to not do that.
48:35You're dead.
48:36Let someone else talk.
48:38I miss the innocent days when the phrase, the internet is forever, just meant, don't send pictures of your dick.
48:50And finally, New Rule, since the State of the Union Address is next Tuesday, let's get rid of the State
48:56of the Union Address before Tuesday.
49:05And here's why.
49:07Nothing has misled the American people to the warped belief that the president can act like a king more than
49:13this stupid, boring, performative, after-dinner speech from hell,
49:17where the sergeant-at-arms announces the president like he's a king.
49:22Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States.
49:29And he walks into the room like Conor McGregor heading into the octagon.
49:43With members of Congress lining the aisle like medieval peasants hoping to touch the royal garments,
49:49and then he proceeds to tell Congress what he wants them to do,
49:53making it look like the president is in charge of everything, and it's he who sets the agenda.
49:58But that's not what it says in the operating manual, you know, the Constitution.
50:04Article 1, Section 1, all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.
50:11Not mostly, not unless the president has a really bitchin' idea.
50:16Nearly half the words in our Constitution are in Article 1.
50:20That's the one about Congress and all the stuff they're supposed to be in charge of.
50:24The exclusive power to make laws, declare war, tax, tariff.
50:35Even organize the other branches.
50:39Congress creates the laws.
50:41The president is just supposed to execute them.
50:43Execute.
50:44Like the executor of a will.
50:47He doesn't decide the deceased's wishes.
50:49He just makes sure they're carried out.
50:51But you'd never know that from the State of the Union speech.
50:54Which has become the president's big Etsy wish list for America.
51:03For example, in his 2023 address, Joe Biden proposed the Junk Fee Prevention Act.
51:10A proposal that would ban excessive fees, tax onto concert tickets,
51:16outlaw airlines from charging families a fee to sit together,
51:20and put an end to resort fees.
51:22These are all great ideas.
51:23And totally not the president's job to propose them.
51:27Again, he's just the enforcer.
51:29If Congress passes that law, and then we find out Delta is still charging families to sit together,
51:35by all means, Pete Hegseth, send in the 101st Airborne to crack skulls.
51:45But don't get it mixed up.
51:48The star of this movie we call American Democracy is Congress.
51:52The president is at most up for best supporting actor.
52:02It's no wonder that Americans think the president controls the price of eggs.
52:07Nearly a third think he controls gas prices and the unemployment rate.
52:12One in four thinks he has control over interest rates and consumer prices.
52:17And the hosts of Fox and Friends think he can change the paths of hurricanes.
52:28Well, what do you expect when we have this big, ballyhooed annual event
52:33that looks like the president's royal wedding to himself?
52:38It's everything George Washington did not want,
52:43because Washington knew the Constitution,
52:45and nowhere does it say the president has to get up before Congress every year
52:49and bloviate on and on like he's the slightly drunk best man at the rehearsal dinner.
52:56It only says that he shall, from time to time,
53:05give to the Congress information on the State of the Union.
53:08In other words, an occasional status report, like a Facebook update.
53:21Washington's first State of the Union was 833 words.
53:25It was hardly worth throwing his wig on for.
53:29It lasted all of ten minutes.
53:32Chuck Grassley barely had time to get settled in his seat.
53:43Our third president, Thomas Jefferson, stopped doing it in person altogether,
53:48as did all the presidents for the next 112 years.
53:52They just wrote a brief report,
53:54because even they understood nobody likes a meeting that could have been done by email.
54:06Jefferson didn't want a speech to Congress,
54:09because he thought it was too much like the King of England's speech from the throne,
54:14and that it sent the wrong message.
54:16It did. It still does.
54:18And I shudder to think where this trend will lead,
54:21and hope it is not to a president so emboldened by our royal treatment of him
54:26that he thinks he has the right to do whatever he wants.
54:29Then I have an article, too, where I have the right to do whatever I want.
54:40Yes, Trump acts like a king, but don't lay it all on him,
54:43because we have been moving in this direction for a long time.
54:47For example, the Constitution explicitly says only Congress can declare war,
54:51but we've effectively gone to war dozens of places in the last century,
54:56and Congress only declared it twice.
54:59Otherwise, Congress treats presidents' intent to send troops to fight somewhere
55:03like a user agreement that pops up on your phone.
55:07Just click it.
55:10Just click it.
55:11You're not going to read it.
55:13And if you did, you wouldn't understand it.
55:15And if you did understand it, it'd still be tricking you,
55:18so just click it so you can get back to watching a TikTok
55:21of a toddler saying motherfucker.
55:32Look, we are all collectively to blame here
55:35for allowing the very design of this country
55:38to slowly become inverted,
55:39and we would be lucky in this age of imperial presidency
55:43if some president someday didn't come right out
55:46and say we need a dictator.
55:48Sometimes you need a dictator.
55:52All right, I give up.
55:57I give up.
55:59Well, then how about this for a reason to get rid of the State of the Union?
56:03It's embarrassing.
56:04The stunt casting, the costumes, the heckling,
56:09the dick-sucking when he's making his way to the stage,
56:13and worst of all, the advertising to the whole world.
56:17The State of our Union actually is hopelessly divided.
56:21That's the real State of our Union.
56:23You can tell because neither party anymore can even clap for the other one
56:27no matter how benign the statement.
56:30Here's Biden in 2023 saying...
56:32Political violence has absolutely no place, no place in America.
56:38And here are the Republicans sitting on their hands.
56:42That's where we are.
56:43They're politicians, and they can't even give it up for shooting us is bad.
56:50Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
56:52We're off next week and back on March 6th.
56:55I want to thank State Representative James Tallarico,
56:58Representative Lauren Boebert, and Paul Anker.
57:00Club Random drops every Monday on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
57:04Now go watch Overtime on YouTube, if you please.
57:07Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
57:09All right.
57:10Thank you, guys.
57:12Thank you, guys.
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