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[00:02:04] What does that mean? It means the good doctor's in the house, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:02:07] Dr. Scott Bradley's with me, founder and chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation,
[00:02:12] also the author of the book and DVD lecture series,
[00:02:16] To Preserve the Nation. Yeah, we want to restore the republic and the traditions of the founding fathers.
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[00:02:24] Doctor, welcome, sir.
[00:02:26] Well, thank you very much. It sounds like you had a big band era kind of...
[00:02:30] Yeah, man.
[00:02:31] ...is frightful. I mean, you know, really, some of the songs, it's very interesting.
[00:02:37] I mean, you look at the origins and, you know, the silent night.
[00:02:40] I mean, you know, origin that, you know, that the organ wouldn't work, they needed a simple song.
[00:02:45] I mean, some of those, I think, simple, straightforward kind of message things are pleasant to listen to.
[00:02:52] So, yeah, that was a pretty good song.
[00:02:55] What year was that done? Do you know?
[00:02:56] I don't know, but it was in like the 40s, I think.
[00:02:59] Yeah, a big band era, you know.
[00:03:01] Yeah.
[00:03:01] I mean, it was, you know, we love that kind of stuff.
[00:03:03] And I pull music from all kinds of genres.
[00:03:06] I really believe that music can touch the soul and the heart in ways that almost nothing else can.
[00:03:12] And if you use music right, boy, is it a game changer?
[00:03:16] It can change hearts.
[00:03:17] It can change minds.
[00:03:18] It can bring tears of happiness and joy.
[00:03:20] And it can bring reminders of Christ.
[00:03:22] And, man, it can do so much good if used right.
[00:03:25] You're absolutely correct.
[00:03:27] In fact, when we were doing our pageant to preserve the nation, you might have wondered what I was about.
[00:03:32] We're trying to restore the republic, you know.
[00:03:36] And go back to the founding principles.
[00:03:38] We found that, number one, it was pretty hard to find appropriate music as kind of a backdrop to some of the scenes that we had.
[00:03:48] And it was very interesting that the music did set a tone, a mood.
[00:03:55] It had a message in the music.
[00:03:57] Even though it didn't maybe have words, music carried the message, if you will, that was being presented on stage.
[00:04:06] And it was interesting to me, too, that, you know, we were very, very, very, very definitely a nonprofit.
[00:04:12] I mean, our family paid for everything, basically.
[00:04:15] We accepted donations.
[00:04:16] But we wanted it to be free to the whole public, whoever came.
[00:04:22] And we had...
[00:04:23] And you also wanted to make sure that nobody put too much money in to control the content.
[00:04:29] Well, there was never any danger of that, I guarantee.
[00:04:34] I'm just saying that's what happens with big money, though.
[00:04:36] And that's why this radio network stays as independent as it does.
[00:04:38] We could grow a thousand times over if we'd take money from the wrong people and everything.
[00:04:42] But the problem is you get compromised and you get...
[00:04:45] Anyway, I don't mean to go down a wrong road here with this.
[00:04:48] I'm just saying that you've got to be really careful of those kind of things.
[00:04:51] And if things need to, you know, remain true to the mission, you better watch the money.
[00:04:56] Oh, follow the money, baby.
[00:04:57] I mean, it really is true.
[00:04:59] And if you have, very definitely, and I could point out, I mean, maybe not countless,
[00:05:05] but numerous examples where money swayed movements even.
[00:05:10] I mean...
[00:05:10] Amen.
[00:05:11] I'm just warning people about that.
[00:05:13] But stick with the point, though.
[00:05:14] You were saying, I don't want to lose track here.
[00:05:16] Well, you know, we made this available to community, anybody.
[00:05:21] And we had people that attended every year from international locations.
[00:05:25] Some said they'd never miss it.
[00:05:26] It was just something that stirred the heart.
[00:05:29] But we had a hard time kind of finding music.
[00:05:33] And I engaged a couple of different composers.
[00:05:36] That's because you didn't have me involved, buddy.
[00:05:38] That's the problem.
[00:05:38] Well, maybe so, but...
[00:05:41] That's probably so.
[00:05:42] But the fact of the matter is that I engaged a couple of composers,
[00:05:46] and they came up with stuff like...
[00:05:49] It sounded like big sky country music.
[00:05:51] I mean, it was, you know, something you'd have as a theme music for, you know,
[00:05:56] some kind of Gregory Peck or John Wayne movie, you know?
[00:06:01] There was a cowboy movie.
[00:06:03] And that isn't America.
[00:06:04] It's just not a cowboy country.
[00:06:06] Although, you know, cowboys certainly fit in the country.
[00:06:09] But the issue was that the theme...
[00:06:12] The patriotism side of the discussion didn't go redneck in modern times
[00:06:17] and wasn't necessarily a cowboy country style of old tear in your beard, neither.
[00:06:23] It was more of a dedicated, committed understanding of God, family, and country,
[00:06:29] and our role in that reality as we understood,
[00:06:34] hey, run a grand old experiment under Almighty God.
[00:06:36] We are creating history here.
[00:06:39] And the founders understood a lot of that.
[00:06:42] They really, truly did.
[00:06:44] And it wasn't some kind of, you know, just, you know, that swelling, you know,
[00:06:49] kind of background music for a, you know, a movie.
[00:06:54] It really was a theme for humanity, you know?
[00:06:58] And so it was kind of hard to find that kind of stuff.
[00:07:01] And when we found something like that, I would approach the original composer
[00:07:05] and, you know, trying to obtain permission.
[00:07:08] You know, I didn't want to steal anybody's work or anything like that.
[00:07:12] And it was really interesting to me.
[00:07:14] And they'd want a bunch of cash.
[00:07:15] Well, some of them really did, but I found one that was just...
[00:07:19] Oh, he was so gracious.
[00:07:21] I mean, he absolutely...
[00:07:23] He got the message and he said,
[00:07:25] I would be honored if you would use my composition.
[00:07:29] And I said, wow, thank you very much.
[00:07:31] But then he pointed me in the direction of a...
[00:07:35] I don't know what you'd call it, an orchestra, I guess.
[00:07:37] I mean, they were an orchestra, yes.
[00:07:39] But they did the recording of it.
[00:07:41] And he said, you got to get permission from them because, you know,
[00:07:45] it was their instruments that played this stuff.
[00:07:49] And, you know, he was so gracious about it, I thought, sure, they'll do it.
[00:07:52] But you know what?
[00:07:53] They were absolutely toads about it.
[00:07:56] And when you said that first thing about wants a bunch of money,
[00:08:00] well, that's kind of how it went down that road, you know?
[00:08:03] And we were small potatoes.
[00:08:05] We were, you know, we were in northern Utah in a little community that,
[00:08:10] yeah, we'd have, you know, I'd get together sometimes 10,000 or 12,000 people
[00:08:14] in one gathering.
[00:08:16] But it wasn't like it was going to be a worldwide premiere
[00:08:18] that was going to go all over the world and they were going to have this big...
[00:08:22] Well, and when you offer the event for free,
[00:08:24] how much money do you expect to have in the whole production, right?
[00:08:27] Well, absolutely.
[00:08:29] And, in fact, that's what actually put us out of business.
[00:08:32] We were renting university facilities, you know, for our events.
[00:08:36] And whether it was a concert hall or an assembly hall, you know,
[00:08:41] we used to rent, depending on who we had coming in to speak,
[00:08:45] it was a week-long set of events.
[00:08:48] And, you know, we started off on a Sunday with a kind of a more of a spiritual kind of,
[00:08:54] you know, fireside chat, if you will, to try and, you know, set the tone for them.
[00:08:58] Then through the week we had, you know, kids' speech contests and gatherings.
[00:09:05] We had to have 16 flyovers, you know, to commemorate certain aspects of it.
[00:09:10] And at the end of the week, Friday and Saturday, we did the pageant.
[00:09:14] And so there was a whole spectrum of events that we had to rent.
[00:09:20] You know, and it's funny, you know, you get into some kind of, oh, I don't know,
[00:09:26] an event center or something, and they want, you know,
[00:09:29] a million dollars of insurance for a two-hour event, you know.
[00:09:32] And, yeah, you can get that stuff, but it comes with a cost too.
[00:09:35] So, anyway, but what happened one year to the next year?
[00:09:41] The university, it seems, decided they wanted to shut us down.
[00:09:45] And there's a whole long reason, a bunch of reasons I could give for my presumption that that's the case.
[00:09:51] Yeah, but it's just the tip of the spear.
[00:09:53] You were on it from the beginning.
[00:09:54] Now you see it everywhere.
[00:09:55] It's basically the DEI agenda.
[00:09:57] And it's the hostility towards Christ and Christianity
[00:09:59] and the celebration of Christmas is what we're talking about.
[00:10:02] Well, on the Christmas aspect, we're absolutely certain.
[00:10:05] But the university raised their prices ten times.
[00:10:08] It was a 10x kind of thing.
[00:10:10] If one thing, for example, cost me $1,500 one year, the next year it was $15,000.
[00:10:16] And they just priced us right out of being able to produce it,
[00:10:20] particularly since our family largely was covering the expenses out of our own.
[00:10:25] You know, I had a good job then, and I really wanted, well,
[00:10:30] these principles are worth, you know, sacrificing for.
[00:10:34] And so, but they just...
[00:10:36] Yeah, what do you think of this music, Dr. Bradley?
[00:10:38] Let me hear it.
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[00:12:58] By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground.
[00:13:09] And out in California, the sunshine's falling down.
[00:15:14] Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Scott Bradley with me.
[00:15:17] We're having a music fest for Christmas.
[00:15:19] Welcome to the Merry Christmas broadcasts of Liberty Roundtable Live.
[00:15:24] You know, there's so much going on in the country, folks, and turmoil is everywhere.
[00:15:29] Typical for bureaucrats and politicians.
[00:15:31] The rest of us want to just take a break and enjoy the freedoms that we have in America
[00:15:35] and be appreciative and focus on Christ.
[00:15:38] No, they're going to battle it out budget-wise and everything else and have just a fiasco,
[00:15:42] as they did back in 1913 when they completely destroyed the financial system in the United States of America.
[00:15:47] Now they're battling about issues that don't really in the end matter.
[00:15:51] As long as you keep a communist failed fiat money system in place, you cannot get ahead of it.
[00:15:57] You can make progress and, you know, you can temporarily make things a little better,
[00:16:02] but not for real, not for true change.
[00:16:05] That's why the Founding Fathers understood honest money.
[00:16:08] That's why the Constitution calls for constitutional currency, gold and silver, and nothing else.
[00:16:14] And we betrayed that.
[00:16:15] No one's even talking about that but me.
[00:16:17] So we'll get to that in just a minute.
[00:16:19] But, Dr. Bradley, there you go, Christmas and Dixie.
[00:16:23] And, you know, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
[00:16:25] It's kind of fascinating.
[00:16:26] I don't have any snow on the ground, but it's cold.
[00:16:28] But it's in the day, near 50.
[00:16:30] It's pretty warm during the days.
[00:16:32] But a little north of me, though, a little north of you, though, they got a bunch of snowmen.
[00:16:36] They got a couple of feet on the ground, and it's been snowing there quite a bit and stuff.
[00:16:40] And, hey, we need the water in the mountains, sir.
[00:16:43] Yeah, we really do.
[00:16:44] It's unseasonably worn, number one.
[00:16:46] But I think there's a high-pressure zone that's from our south that kind of, you know, bleeds to the north in our area and is kind of preventing storms from swooping down.
[00:16:59] You talk about north of us, there's some pretty heavy snow coming in.
[00:17:03] And I think it's because of that protective high-pressure zone that we have that's kind of bumping the airflow to the north and around us a little bit.
[00:17:12] But you know what?
[00:17:14] We do need moisture.
[00:17:16] We can pray for that and expect an answer, I believe.
[00:17:22] And, you know, we just kind of takes what we get.
[00:17:27] Yeah, we can pray for that.
[00:17:28] We can expect an answer.
[00:17:30] But we better act accordingly, though.
[00:17:31] You know, if we really want to petition the Lord, though, it's got to be genuine.
[00:17:34] It can't be throw up a prayer while we sin.
[00:17:37] It's got to be genuinely, Lord, we're going to do what you ask us to do, and we're asking for help.
[00:17:42] And we're asking for, you know, some of our needs.
[00:17:45] But we're willing to look to you for guidance, and we're willing to take our covenant with thee seriously.
[00:17:50] And until we get that done, it's going to be an empty promise, doctor.
[00:17:54] Wasn't it, you know, Mark Twain, he had Huck Finn say something like, you can't pray a sin or something like that.
[00:18:02] Yeah, that's right.
[00:18:04] You know, don't lie to the Lord.
[00:18:06] Amen.
[00:18:06] He already knows, okay.
[00:18:08] So let's kind of, let's get it on.
[00:18:10] We talked at the first of the week about that Tennessee legislative thing.
[00:18:15] Yes, and I've called on Donald Trump and stuff like that to really, and I did a video about it too, by the way.
[00:18:21] It's coming out soon.
[00:18:23] Really to highlight and say, listen, when will Donald Trump follow the Tennessee lead and make this nationwide, baby?
[00:18:28] I mean, look, instead of battling about the budget, let's spend our time on that.
[00:18:32] Well, that was so good.
[00:18:33] You shut the government down and spend time on that for the next couple of weeks.
[00:18:36] What do you say?
[00:18:36] It came up in my webinar last night about that very concept, well, maybe not exactly that motif of things about shutting the government down and praying,
[00:18:50] but it was something that our nation needed to turn its heart to prayer because a lot of the things are just, I mean, people think that, oh, baby, Trump's engaged again.
[00:19:02] Now we're all saved.
[00:19:03] Well, he's picking some really crappy, and that's the nicest thing I can say, people that are nominating into things.
[00:19:10] Did you see who he put in for Surgeon General?
[00:19:13] I didn't.
[00:19:14] Who is it?
[00:19:16] Janet Neshiwat.
[00:19:18] Yeah, just nuts on parade.
[00:19:20] It truly is.
[00:19:22] She is the warp speed mama.
[00:19:25] She's back where Trump was back in 2020.
[00:19:31] She's a, it sounds like a kind of a crude reference, but I would call her the jab prick.
[00:19:39] She is a monger about getting the jab.
[00:19:42] And the latest.
[00:19:43] Well, hopefully RFKJR can get nominated and stop her from that.
[00:19:47] But you're right.
[00:19:48] Right.
[00:19:48] And this brings up the real battle that we've got about this, you know, budget scenario, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:19:56] Look, Trump finally says if the government has to be shut down, let it begin while Biden's in office.
[00:20:02] Now, I've been saying that for a week.
[00:20:03] So, Donald, thanks for listening.
[00:20:05] Speaker Mike Johnson's pork-filled spending bill, which he tried to literally ram through Congress before the Christmas recess, is now dead in the House.
[00:20:16] My comment, with any luck, the government may shut down tonight.
[00:20:19] We can only pray for that, too.
[00:20:22] Johnson lied.
[00:20:23] He said in September that he has no intention of going back to the terrible tradition of Christmas omnibus.
[00:20:31] But Johnson lied on so many fronts.
[00:20:34] He promised several things.
[00:20:36] One, an open process.
[00:20:40] They literally planned the whole thing in secret, folks.
[00:20:43] No one saw the bill ahead of time.
[00:20:44] It was all behind closed doors.
[00:20:46] Shame on Mike for that.
[00:20:47] He's supposed to be a Christian and tell the truth.
[00:20:50] Number two, led by committee chairman.
[00:20:52] That didn't happen.
[00:20:54] Three, they produced no giant omnibus spending bill.
[00:20:57] They were going to pass piecemeal legislation so people could know up and down votes what they were voting for.
[00:21:01] He lied.
[00:21:02] That didn't happen.
[00:21:03] Four, that congressmen would have time to read the thing.
[00:21:07] That didn't happen either.
[00:21:08] So, shame on Johnson for so many things.
[00:21:12] House Republicans have flat out lost trust in Johnson.
[00:21:16] The bottom line is it'll be hard to recover from.
[00:21:19] It's so bad that Mike Lee on the 1,500-plus page belligerent omnibus continuing resolution, he says this.
[00:21:31] Quote, Christmastime legislative distortion.
[00:21:34] That's Mike Lee.
[00:21:36] Christmastime legislative distortion.
[00:21:38] Or extortion, I'm sorry.
[00:21:40] Think about that.
[00:21:42] Could Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy end up taking Mike Johnson's speakership?
[00:21:49] Believe it or not, Senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee are calling for, quote, Elon Musk, who led the charge against Johnson's spending bill, to take over as House Speaker during the upcoming Congress.
[00:22:03] I don't really support, I don't support Musk doing that.
[00:22:08] But Lee also floated Vivek Ramaswamy's name, you know, the guy involved with Elon Musk in Doge.
[00:22:17] For the speakership role, remember the Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress.
[00:22:22] Nothing would disrupt the swamp, they say, more than putting Musk or Ramaswamy, Mr. Paul wrote on X.
[00:22:33] So they're really pushing for this thing.
[00:22:36] I just have a problem with this whole deal, Dr. Bradley.
[00:22:39] I mean, you've got these multi-billionaires in charge of everything.
[00:22:42] I mean, Musk and all these people.
[00:22:44] I'm not downing Musk.
[00:22:45] He's done a lot of good in many ways.
[00:22:46] But somebody who's not Native American, you know, he's not really from the United States, coming to this country, multi-billionaire, instantly because of his money, he gets to the top of the list.
[00:23:00] And can, you know, with a single tweet or with a this or that, you know, kind of control the outcomes and spank people into submission.
[00:23:06] And it sounds really good when the guy's on your side.
[00:23:09] But I'm not sure he has fundamental Christian and or fundamental constitutional beliefs.
[00:23:14] And that double-edged sword is very scary.
[00:23:17] And the fact that somebody can launch to such prominence so quickly coming out of nowhere is very dangerous, sir.
[00:23:23] This whole thing smacks of danger, doctor.
[00:23:27] Well, there are very high risks in this thing.
[00:23:29] I'll remind you, though, that the Constitution allows people that were not Native-born Americans to be, you know, in the House and the Senate.
[00:23:40] And so, you know, there are people in the House and the Senate currently that have similar historical backgrounds being born elsewhere and coming here and so on and so forth that are serving.
[00:23:52] So that does not violate the Constitution.
[00:23:55] No, it doesn't.
[00:23:56] But Americans should still be cautious when someone rises to the top of the heap that quickly without being vetted, without knowing where they stand,
[00:24:03] without finding how well-tested they are in battles or negotiations, where they stand on fundamental principles.
[00:24:09] And I don't believe in a litmus test, but, you know, where do they stand in relation to God and family and country?
[00:24:14] See, we don't know all those things.
[00:24:17] What we do know is Elon Musk is a very rich man with some crazy morals.
[00:24:20] I'll tell you that right now.
[00:24:22] Most of his money he's made is on government subsidies from the get-go.
[00:24:26] This is going to be the guy to reduce all the spending?
[00:24:28] He'll reduce spending everywhere but his own pocket probably, right?
[00:24:32] Anyway, hang tight.
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[00:30:59] We're talking about this huge deal.
[00:31:01] Trump now says if there needs to be a government shutdown, let it happen while Biden's in office.
[00:31:05] Amen.
[00:31:06] I've been saying that for weeks.
[00:31:07] Hopefully, President Trump will listen to what I have to say more.
[00:31:10] Shut down the government tonight.
[00:31:11] You know, we say hallelujah.
[00:31:13] I'm saying hallelujah on shutting the government down.
[00:31:16] Just let Joe Biden's presidency end an absolute shut-the-government-down failure.
[00:31:21] Let's then turn to God Almighty and follow the great state of Tennessee's example.
[00:31:25] And let's have prayer and fasting for our nation for the next couple of weeks.
[00:31:29] And then let's open Congress and say, hey, there's a debt ceiling coming up in a couple of days.
[00:31:33] As far as I understand, the debt ceiling is supposed to kind of, you know, we're supposed to hit that debt ceiling in January,
[00:31:43] which I find kind of interesting.
[00:31:44] And so we need to really realize we don't want to increase the debt ceiling.
[00:31:48] Now, shame on Donald Trump.
[00:31:50] Here's what happened.
[00:31:51] So Johnson failed at his first 1,500-page spending bill.
[00:31:54] Well, disaster, total meltdown.
[00:31:56] What a disgrace Johnson has been on this whole thing.
[00:31:59] But then Trump backs Johnson's new.
[00:32:02] They're calling it a skinny, skinny CR is what they're calling it.
[00:32:07] It's only 116 pages this time.
[00:32:09] But the problem is Trump backed it and it failed too.
[00:32:13] Yeah, shame on the Donald because here's the big change they put in it.
[00:32:17] Donald insisted that they added to the thing a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling.
[00:32:24] It's a demand that Donald pushed for on Wednesday.
[00:32:27] Shame on Donald Trump.
[00:32:29] The debt limit is expected to be reached sometime in January.
[00:32:32] Some are saying it could be increased or, you know, extended to the spring or whatever else.
[00:32:37] But it's disaster.
[00:32:40] They say that a fail to increase it would cause a default on the nation's debt.
[00:32:43] No, it wouldn't.
[00:32:46] No, it wouldn't.
[00:32:46] Not if you don't hit that ceiling, it wouldn't.
[00:32:49] Oh, yeah, that's something nobody's talking about with me, huh?
[00:32:52] Don't hit the ceiling and then you won't default on your debts, right?
[00:32:56] 38 Republicans, thank the heavens for these people, they voted to reject Trump's backed Mike Johnson's 116-page skinny bill.
[00:33:06] Look, folks, I know that, you know, you hear 116 pages down from 1,500 and you feel like that's awesome, right?
[00:33:12] But not if they increase the debt ceiling to give Donald Trump carte blanche to spend for two years.
[00:33:17] That's insanity.
[00:33:18] Wise people are saying you're off your rock crazy.
[00:33:21] Look, I can write one sentence that says let Donald spend into oblivion and we give the purse strings to Donald.
[00:33:27] Unconstitutional, criminal, but yet one line could do it.
[00:33:30] So don't think moving from 1,500 pages to 116 pages is, you know, that awesome.
[00:33:36] I mean, it sounds good, but look, we've got to reject this.
[00:33:39] We've got to shut down government.
[00:33:40] We've got to fast and pray.
[00:33:41] And then we've got to come out of the gate saying how are we going to not hit that debt ceiling in two weeks or whenever it is for when Congress gets back in session.
[00:33:49] And the first thing you do is shut down foreign aid, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:33:52] Let me just give you a little bit of guidance on how to get this done.
[00:33:55] First thing you do is shut down foreign aid.
[00:33:56] The second thing you do is you back off military spending so that we're not a military industrial complex.
[00:34:01] We're all about defending the homeland and defending America, and that's it.
[00:34:04] You could take the 800-plus billion dollar deal on that thing and reduce that thing way, way, way, way, way down.
[00:34:12] Okay?
[00:34:13] There's two ways that you could cut spending, and it wouldn't even hardly affect the American people.
[00:34:16] In fact, it might bless us as we bring troops home to protect America, and we wouldn't be the hegemonist nation around the world.
[00:34:23] I mean, I've literally in less than 30 seconds articulated the way forward in a meaningful way.
[00:34:27] Then just start auditing and looking through every single line item of every single department and get rid of complete fraud and waste at every turn.
[00:34:35] You do those three things, ladies and gentlemen, and you're off to the races with success.
[00:34:39] You wouldn't hit the debt ceiling.
[00:34:42] Dr. Bradley, your thoughts?
[00:34:44] Well, obviously, you're speaking of a good start.
[00:34:48] And that's basically all it is because we have strayed so far into the unconstitutional spending arena that people don't even understand all these entitlements, they call them.
[00:35:00] These are things, untouchables, these redistribution of wealth kind of things that over 60% of the budget is earmarked for that.
[00:35:11] And, oh, don't you dare touch that.
[00:35:13] That's the third rail.
[00:35:14] But the fact of the matter is that all we do is we grow a bigger Leviathan government every year.
[00:35:20] And Trump presided over the largest debt during a single presidency that has ever occurred.
[00:35:28] And so we're going to be hypervigilant.
[00:35:31] That doesn't happen this time.
[00:35:33] You're right.
[00:35:33] You're absolutely right.
[00:35:34] But, you know, you mentioned earlier, well, could, you know, Vivek or Elon come in and shake things up?
[00:35:43] I think they would shake things up.
[00:35:44] But it's a big but.
[00:35:46] Everybody has a big but, right?
[00:35:48] Remember this line in the movie?
[00:35:49] But at any rate, the problem is people look for efficiency when no principal is involved.
[00:35:59] You know, you could lower spending on, let's say, I mean, pick any subject you wanted, any one of the.
[00:36:07] Set down the IRS and the education department for starters and save a lot of money.
[00:36:11] Well, okay.
[00:36:12] So if you're taking away unconstitutional expenditures, fine.
[00:36:16] But most people, including, I think, Elon and Vivek, will probably look to make any operation operate on less money,
[00:36:27] even though the operation is fully, completely and totally unconstitutional.
[00:36:33] And so, you know, you can say, oh, we cut a lot of efficiency deals when we were in there.
[00:36:38] But we still have a Leviathan, tyrannical government that is lording over us.
[00:36:45] And people need to understand that what the real cuts, the real cuts need to happen where we have stepped over the line constitutionally.
[00:36:55] Yeah, whenever a government is judged, jury, and executioner, whenever agencies make policy and law, that's where you need to shut them all down.
[00:37:02] Well, that's basically all of the alphabet soup organizations.
[00:37:07] Good.
[00:37:08] Shut them down.
[00:37:09] End them.
[00:37:09] Sunset them.
[00:37:10] Get rid of them.
[00:37:11] They need to look at the constitution as the job description for their particular role, whether you're legislative, executive, or judicial.
[00:37:20] And that's what needs to happen rather than saying, oh, we're going to streamline the operation of all these unconstitutional, you know,
[00:37:29] Leviathans that are there that are causing tyranny to descend on us.
[00:37:33] Well, and that's my point about Elon Musk.
[00:37:34] He's a nice guy, but I don't know that he understands the constitutionality of things.
[00:37:39] Where do we have anywhere that he's demonstrated an understanding of the constitution and a willingness to have a fidelity to that supreme law of our land?
[00:37:48] Do we have any such evidence?
[00:37:51] I'm at a loss as to what to say that I might be able to defend him on that thing.
[00:37:56] But, you know, you mentioned earlier about, oh, you know, what's his view on God and so on?
[00:38:01] I'm pretty sure it differs from yours.
[00:38:04] And he has a very low moral standard and everything like that.
[00:38:08] But for crying out loud, you just we thought we knew that with Mike Johnson.
[00:38:13] Well, I didn't think that.
[00:38:15] But everybody's always a great Christian.
[00:38:17] He's a good pro-life guy.
[00:38:18] He's this and that and the other.
[00:38:20] And he lied to you.
[00:38:21] He lied to you through his teeth about his budgetary stuff.
[00:38:26] So, you know, you say, oh, we can put these on.
[00:38:29] He's also probably completely devoted to funding an Israeli military expense constantly across the board.
[00:38:39] So I say it's unconstitutional.
[00:38:41] Shut it down.
[00:38:42] That's why I say chop off foreign aid for starters.
[00:38:44] How much money do we spend on foreign aid every year?
[00:38:47] It's not that big in comparison to our problems.
[00:38:49] I mean, it is.
[00:38:50] It's a big chunk.
[00:38:51] Yeah.
[00:38:51] I'm just saying you got to start somewhere.
[00:38:54] Yeah, you do.
[00:38:55] Yeah, you do.
[00:38:55] And where would you start, doctor?
[00:38:56] I would start with foreign aid.
[00:38:58] Well, foreign aid absolutely could be.
[00:39:00] And the reason I would is because it would possibly keep us out of war and it would also bring our troops home.
[00:39:04] And it would also then prevent us from picking favorites around the world, creating this hatred that we've got going on, this blowback or whatever.
[00:39:10] I would start with foreign aid personally.
[00:39:12] Well, and absolutely.
[00:39:13] And the sad side note to that is that we have the best enemies money can buy because so much of what we have put money into militarily and buying goodwill has been blown back on us.
[00:39:28] These people are not our friends.
[00:39:30] These people will cut our throats.
[00:39:32] I mean, I mentioned the Israeli thing.
[00:39:35] They probably have the biggest, most highly honed espionage effort against the United States.
[00:39:44] And they buy politicians by the handful, you know, with their donations and their control factor.
[00:39:51] There's very few in the House or the Senate that aren't completely owned by the Jewish lobby, Israeli lobby, I should say.
[00:39:57] I don't care if somebody's heritage or anything like that.
[00:40:00] But when you have somebody that's a Zionist that is dedicated to the, you know, movement of Zionism and the modern state of Israel, well, it's a freak relationship.
[00:40:14] We have no justification in any of the things we're doing.
[00:40:18] You can do the same thing for Ukraine.
[00:40:20] Whatever.
[00:40:21] Joe Biden is protecting his backside, I guess I should say, in the Ukraine thing because of the stuff that started happening during the Obama administration, the 2014 things.
[00:40:35] Everybody.
[00:40:36] All right.
[00:40:36] Go ahead and skip the break.
[00:40:38] Yeah.
[00:40:38] So the reason I'd start with foreign aid, it's only about 50 plus billion dollars or something like that, 50 to 100 billion.
[00:40:43] So it's not, I agree it's not that big compared to a lot of things.
[00:40:46] But the reason I would start there is because it tests the mettle of everybody.
[00:40:50] Look, this wouldn't harm a single American if we didn't just send money around the world and steal it from our families and send it to people around the world.
[00:40:57] And so to me, it would be a test of the mettle of, hey, are we going to really get something done here?
[00:41:01] And how do we.
[00:41:02] OK.
[00:41:03] And you look at it and you say the top three expenditures in our budget, or I should say the top four.
[00:41:07] One is interest on the debt.
[00:41:08] Rand Paul says it's about a trillion bucks this time.
[00:41:11] Yeah.
[00:41:12] Wow.
[00:41:13] All right.
[00:41:13] The second one or, you know, is Social Security.
[00:41:16] We'll get into that in a minute.
[00:41:18] The next one is military spending and national defense and stuff like that.
[00:41:23] You look at that and you go, hey, they just approved a bill almost a trillion dollars on that right now.
[00:41:28] They already did that.
[00:41:29] That's not even part of this big old omnibus crazy thing.
[00:41:32] Why are we spending more than all other nations militarily speaking?
[00:41:35] Do we really have to do that to protect America?
[00:41:37] The answer is no.
[00:41:39] And so you start with those kind of things.
[00:41:41] If they reduced the budget but defended the homeland, it wouldn't affect me in America.
[00:41:46] It would actually bless my life and probably increase my safety and stability as an American.
[00:41:53] The Social Security, look, find a way to back out of that behemoth.
[00:41:56] I get that you can't solve that overnight because you've made promises, but you can create a wind-down plan.
[00:42:03] We're not going to crash the plane plan.
[00:42:06] Hey, if you're above 60, then this is the case.
[00:42:08] If you're 50 to 60, then that's the case.
[00:42:10] And 40 to 50, that's the case.
[00:42:12] And, you know, you can write checks to people and get them out of the system, give them partial refunds on their money.
[00:42:18] You can, you know, if you're under a certain age, you can say, hey, you don't have to be in it at all.
[00:42:23] There's ways to back out of these things, doctor.
[00:42:25] And we've got to intelligently.
[00:42:27] So far, I hear a lot of babble, but I don't hear any concrete plans from anybody, really.
[00:42:32] I've given you more concrete plans on the radio than anybody's talked about in the whole blogosphere to date that I can find.
[00:42:38] That I can find, right?
[00:42:40] Well, as you look at what Trump's policies are, they're long on promises and short on details.
[00:42:49] There's just almost nothing that's coming out that he can say, oh, yeah, well, this is a solid, substantive kind of thing.
[00:42:59] But he's the guy that was pushing for the lifting of the, you know, debt ceiling.
[00:43:05] Well, come on.
[00:43:07] I mean, come on.
[00:43:08] What are we going to do?
[00:43:10] So you give him a, you know, sky's the limit kind of attitude about this kind of thing.
[00:43:15] It's just absolutely absurd.
[00:43:17] You say, well, we want to have things go down.
[00:43:19] But you open it up for bigger.
[00:43:21] You talk about reducing taxes, but if you don't reduce the expenditures, all you do is blow the budget.
[00:43:32] And you go through the ceiling.
[00:43:34] And what do you do?
[00:43:35] You just tell it's a trillion dollars almost for interest.
[00:43:39] The larger the deficit, and it's a cumulative kind of thing.
[00:43:44] I mean, the interest comes off the top.
[00:43:49] If you have $5 trillion coming in and we spend $1 trillion on interest, okay.
[00:43:57] Yeah, amen.
[00:43:57] So you just make the pie a lot smaller.
[00:43:59] If you look at Social Security and the interest, between the two, it's like $2.3 trillion.
[00:44:04] That alone is over a third of the whole budget.
[00:44:08] Social Security and interest on the debt.
[00:44:11] So the only way to really solve this is to work our way out of Social Security and reduce military and defense budget.
[00:44:20] So we're not part of the military industrial complex.
[00:44:23] Work our way out of Social Security and find a way then to quit paying interest on that debt.
[00:44:27] Find a way to create United States notes.
[00:44:29] Find a way to back out of the Federal Reserve System.
[00:44:31] This is an unsustainable.
[00:44:33] Eventually, listen to me carefully, eventually the interest on the debt will eclipse everything and run us into the ground.
[00:44:38] It's only a matter of time, doctor.
[00:44:41] I mean, is this factual?
[00:44:42] If the interest, it is.
[00:44:44] If the interest rates climb, your expenditure on interest climbs, it takes the pie smaller every time.
[00:44:52] Every time the pie is smaller because of interest.
[00:44:55] And you talk about the military side.
[00:44:57] Just let's take a really simple example.
[00:45:00] You know, we have this Korean responsibility.
[00:45:03] We claim to protect their borders.
[00:45:06] We're more interested in protecting their border than we are in protecting our border.
[00:45:10] And the way we've got U.S. military forces on the DMZ, there's almost, not quite, about 190, 190 military personnel per mile along that border.
[00:45:24] Our military personnel.
[00:45:26] We're the tripwire.
[00:45:27] Okay.
[00:45:28] And so we have these people protecting their border much more efficiently, effectively, and arduously than what we're doing with our borders.
[00:45:39] And it's like, no, wait, wait, wait.
[00:45:41] This is all an expenditure.
[00:45:42] Well, we're committed to do this kind of stuff.
[00:45:45] Those communists would roll south any minute if we weren't there.
[00:45:48] Okay.
[00:45:49] Okay.
[00:45:49] Here we have, we are 70 years past the, well, the war never ended.
[00:45:57] The Korean War never ended.
[00:45:58] It's just basically they got a ceasefire.
[00:46:01] But the fact of the matter is, in 70 years, Korea can't figure out, South Korea can't figure out a way to protect their own nation.
[00:46:10] We ought to be protecting ours.
[00:46:12] And we're just not.
[00:46:13] When you have almost, well, it's about 190 U.S. personnel per mile.
[00:46:19] You know, we could figure it out, how many per foot or whatever you wanted.
[00:46:22] But the fact of the matter is, you know, you could, not exactly, but it's almost stretch arm to arm and touch hands along there.
[00:46:32] It's just amazing what we are expending around the world today to protect other people's interests at the expense of American taxpayers.
[00:46:42] All unconstitutionally.
[00:46:44] So, yeah, the military needs to be ramped down.
[00:46:47] And we need to quit being the, how shall we say, the exporter of death and destruction to all nations in the world.
[00:46:56] And, I mean, I can't, I'm positive.
[00:47:01] We cannot measure the amount of blood that's been shed by American weaponry.
[00:47:06] It's just appalling.
[00:47:08] Yeah, we spend several trillion dollars annually.
[00:47:13] When we think about total compensation for all these different employees that we have in the United States and everything else, if you just look at wage and salaries, I mean, you know, you can look at it and say it's over $8 trillion.
[00:47:24] And that's public and private sector people that are partially funded by the government and everything else.
[00:47:28] And, okay, these numbers are outrageous.
[00:47:31] And 90% of them, 80% of them, I don't know the exact number, work for unconstitutional agencies.
[00:47:36] This is what I mean.
[00:47:37] Shut these agencies down.
[00:47:39] Now, besides talking about shutting down the education department, which I believe all they'll do is move all the responsibilities to other agencies and pretend they shut it down.
[00:47:49] And you'll move it to more dangerous agencies, too.
[00:47:51] So you move it to, for example, Homeland Security, and now it becomes a terrorist issue or whatever, domestic threat issue or whatever.
[00:47:57] If you move it to health, then now you're talking about health of your children, which gives government more power than the education departments.
[00:48:05] If you're not very careful, most of these line items will become much more dangerous as they're taken out of the education department and placed elsewhere.
[00:48:11] So, yeah, you get rid of the education department, but you have a much more dangerous in-your-face, in-your-life, day-to-day government backed by money.
[00:48:19] And, okay, this is the problem that we face.
[00:48:22] I don't hear, besides the education department, I don't hear of anybody planning to shut down any government agency that I hear of.
[00:48:28] They're just like, yeah, we're going to put cash in charge of the FBI.
[00:48:31] Well, that's good.
[00:48:32] I think cash is better than most by far.
[00:48:34] But you know what?
[00:48:35] Shut down the criminal FBI.
[00:48:36] Oh, well, we're going to put so-and-so in charge of the IRS.
[00:48:38] We're going to make sure the IRS is a friendly IRS now.
[00:48:42] Uh-huh.
[00:48:42] Good luck with that.
[00:48:43] Okay?
[00:48:44] You've got to shut down that behemoth criminal organization.
[00:48:46] I mean, it's become the fear agency in the nation to be used by both parties at their whims and abuses and stuff like that.
[00:48:56] The king's, you know, band of hoodlums running around.
[00:49:00] Okay?
[00:49:00] But I don't hear them shutting down anything, clearly.
[00:49:03] I mean, do they have a single department that you know of clearly set for complete annihilation, doctor?
[00:49:10] I don't know of any, and I'm not so sure that the education department is.
[00:49:15] And like I said earlier, Vivek and Elon will probably make each one of their, seek to make each one of them more, quote-unquote, efficient in the tyranny they're implementing.
[00:49:24] But that doesn't solve the problem.
[00:49:30] We take our eye off the ball when we start looking for efficiency, government efficiency.
[00:49:36] Well, first of all, I would say that inherently government is not supposed to be efficient.
[00:49:42] It's supposed to do a certain number of things, and that's it.
[00:49:46] Anything else it touches is not only wrong, it does poorly.
[00:49:50] It costs way more.
[00:49:51] And to some degree, the more efficient they're at doing wrong, the worse it gets.
[00:49:54] Well, they become, you know, if you say, well, the trains are running on time, like they used to say in Mussolini's day, but the guy was a tyrant, for crying out loud.
[00:50:05] I mean, if you have an efficient system that's based upon a tyrannical implementation of a form of government, it's the wrong approach.
[00:50:15] And so I just say, let's quit being efficient, and let's start doing just what we're supposed to do based on the job description.
[00:50:23] But see, nobody's discussing that that I can see.
[00:50:25] So you take, for example, this 1,500-page bill that failed, and then you say, we created the skinny, and it's only 116 pages.
[00:50:33] So we went from 1,500 pages to 116.
[00:50:36] But we spent so much money, we took the rails off spending limits if we passed that.
[00:50:42] And so, yeah, man, it's super efficient.
[00:50:44] It's only 116 pages.
[00:50:45] You could actually possibly read it.
[00:50:48] But it's still so dangerous, nobody in their right mind would pass it, doctor.
[00:50:54] Well, you can read 116 pages, but if everything's still in there, if they speak in total numbers of this.
[00:51:03] Okay, let's just take, for example, the farm bill.
[00:51:06] The thing that was in there for the farmers, I'm just in round numbers.
[00:51:11] It was supposed to be in this one, this 1,500-page one.
[00:51:14] It was like $150, $160 billion.
[00:51:18] $1,000,000.
[00:51:19] Yeah, and they kept it in in the 116-page version, too.
[00:51:22] Well, that's the thing.
[00:51:24] They rolled it into a sum.
[00:51:26] They added it up for all these different things, and there's a sum in there for this.
[00:51:31] And that's the problem is all it did is give you a summary of the 115-page bill.
[00:51:35] I'm almost positive.
[00:51:36] I haven't read either one.
[00:51:37] No, 1,500-page bill.
[00:51:39] Excuse me, 115.
[00:51:41] Okay.
[00:51:42] The little bill, the skinny bill, was just a summation or a synopsis, a cliff note.
[00:51:49] Yeah, they went to chat, GPT, and they put in the 1,500 pages, and they said,
[00:51:52] can you give me a summary of this?
[00:51:53] And it came back and said, sure.
[00:51:55] The five pages that I explained, the 25 subsidies in government for farming,
[00:51:59] we're going to make one line item.
[00:52:00] It's this, you know, 100 and whatever billion dollars, and there you go.
[00:52:03] And it just simply, you know, it didn't change much.
[00:52:06] In fact, it made things in some ways worse because Trump demanded this two-year,
[00:52:10] let's just get rid of the debt ceiling altogether plan.
[00:52:13] Because Donald Trump knows most of his plans are going to spend us into oblivion.
[00:52:18] It obfuscated what should be obvious.
[00:52:22] And let's just look at another thing, $100 billion for disaster relief.
[00:52:28] Okay?
[00:52:29] I mean, where do we come up with these?
[00:52:31] That's a mighty round number, folks.
[00:52:34] I mean, I could say, you know, what do you need this year?
[00:52:36] I don't know, $150,000.
[00:52:39] I mean, you know, let's just take a number.
[00:52:41] But it seems to be like everything's a swag.
[00:52:45] And they get these big, monstrous numbers.
[00:52:49] And that's what I think they did.
[00:52:51] Well, ask David Crockett about that $100 million for...
[00:52:56] $100 billion.
[00:52:57] Or $100 billion, I'm sorry, for disaster relief.
[00:52:59] Ask David Crockett about that.
[00:53:01] I mean, the number that he got beat up over was tiny compared to that.
[00:53:05] And he changed his whole life about it forever.
[00:53:08] He realized something he never understood before.
[00:53:10] That's absolutely correct.
[00:53:12] But again, if you're looking for efficiency,
[00:53:15] and that's all that, you know,
[00:53:18] Vivek and Elon are going to look for,
[00:53:21] we'll continue with all of the unconstitutional things that are weighing this down.
[00:53:28] And we'll continue to increase the debt based on what Trump is asking for.
[00:53:33] Take the debt ceiling off.
[00:53:35] Let's just give us free reign for the...
[00:53:37] And you can see that that doesn't come without cost either
[00:53:41] because we end up having to pay interest on that.
[00:53:44] And it's to whomever loaned us the money.
[00:53:47] And let's say the Federal Reserve came up with all that money.
[00:53:49] This private, well, they're not going to come up with all that.
[00:53:52] They're going to sell it on markets and stuff.
[00:53:55] But nonetheless, the Federal Reserve is going to be a beneficiary of that.
[00:54:00] It is private banking consortium.
[00:54:02] It's just appalling.
[00:54:04] All right, we come back.
[00:54:06] I just say shame on the Donald for trying to push for the debt ceiling to be taken off.
[00:54:10] That's a disgrace.
[00:54:11] That flies in the face of everything you put in Vivek
[00:54:16] and Musk to accomplish.
[00:54:18] It flies in the face of that.
[00:54:21] Typical Trump.
[00:54:21] You never really know where he stands or what his real intentions are 90% of the time.
[00:54:25] But then Trump takes aim at Representative Chip Roy.
[00:54:30] It's a disgrace.
[00:54:31] I'll explain it all next hour.
[00:54:34] But I'm telling you right now, we need to defend Chip Roy.
[00:54:37] Shame on you, Donald.
[00:54:38] But that's how, again, this is the...
[00:54:40] You know, you can celebrate Donald's...
[00:54:43] A hardcore man's strategy, but it doesn't work out well.
[00:54:47] We'll tell you why.
[00:54:48] Hang tight.