Ep. #720: Paul Anka, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), TX State Rep. James Talarico

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“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming.”

All right. What is that? Okay. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

All right. I know why you're happy today. The Supreme Court has finally said no to Donald Trump.

[Applause] It's a Supreme Court. They struck down the request to have emergency powers to impose tire. They said yes to pretty much everything he wanted to do. But here they were. Finally said, you know what? Don't fuck with the money. [Applause]

“Trump took a very well. I'm joking of course.”

He went bad shit about it of course that it was a disgrace of these fucking courts. [Laughter] He's such a Karen. You know, I mean, everything he does. [Applause]

Everything is always, I want to speak to the manager and the Supreme Court said we're in the manager.

[Applause] After this whole year of tariffs that we've been going to have been thinking to yourself, you know, why didn't other presidents think of doing this and not confiding in Congress when their constitution says they have to, they did think of it. They thought it was illegal, so they didn't do it. [Applause]

Now, the president says there are other ways he can get what he wants with the tariffs. I don't know what they are. [Laughter] If you've ever been to Washington, D.C. and you've seen that majestic Supreme Court building, it's going to make a lovely ballroom. [Applause] Or maybe when he says that it was just a joke, we don't know.

[Laughter] This week, for example, he was talking about Moani's movie, which actually did better than people thought. And he said, you know, she's going to be a big movie star, and there's not room in one family for two stars. [Applause] So now, because now it's our job to tell which of the jokes and which of the things that are just part of this sometimes bad shit agenda.

We have to know this, and I didn't know, so you like, I woke up Saturday morning to a blistering social media text from him went on and on Valentine's Day. [Laughter] He was very mad at me, because I didn't get his joke about how China is going to make Canada give up hockey. [Laughter]

“I think we're going to have to workshop that one for a while.”

So he went off on me and said, you know, the dinner we had was a waste of time, but I didn't think it was.

I'm going to have a jerk and a low-redtings lightweight and all this shit, because I never stopped criticizing.

I never said I would. I know, and I know how women feel now. Guy buys you dinner and then expects you to put out. Okay, and I'm not that guy. [Applause] And, of course, he accused me of having Trump, derangements, and drunk.

I'm going to dress this at the end. His whole long-screen, yes. And, and prove that I don't have Trump derangements in Rome. And a lot of other stuff, he said that wasn't really true that, you know, I immediately asked for a drink. Okay, we immediately wanted a vodka. Okay, it was a Margarita. It was not a vodka, and it wasn't immediately. I had a drink before dinner as people do.

He said I was nervous and scared, no confidence bullshit. It's so funny, because, you know, I got so much shit from the left,

“for reporting honestly that in person he was very different, very nice, very gracious.”

And then he says, "No, be scared. I can't. I'm like the Democrats with an election. I just can't win." [Applause] President has bigger things on his mind. All the ships are in place now around Iran. You know, this and for this, what looks like an imminent attack on Iran. Interestingly, right where we're doing this, he had the first meeting of his, you know, he has this new board of peace.

[Laughter] He hadn't meeting him with the board of peace, and he told him, "Make this, make this snappy. I got a war in the oven." [Applause] [Applause] And boy, this war, though, this aran thing has people very nervous, the price of gold.

You know, this always happens when people went through the roof. It's over $5,000 for an ounce of gold.

The other day, a Sydney Swiny was wearing gold earrings, and yet to tell somebody, "My tits are down here." [Applause] [Applause]

“The other big story, I'm sure you saw this the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew.”

[Laughter] It was arrested and held for a few hours, then let go, unlike the girls on Epstein Island. [Laughter] Unlike the girls on Epstein Island, and this is so interesting, they got Prince Andrew for giving trade secrets away. Child sex ring, well, whatever, but you crossed the line with trade secrets.

[Applause] Apparently, Prince Andrew tipped off Epstein, that there were lucrative mining deals to be had in Afghanistan. Oh, funny mix-up. It was a party on Epstein Island, and Prince Andrew asked if he could bring a bunch of minors. [Laughter] All right, we got a great show. We have brothers and have Lauren Bobergen.

Texas State brothers and have James Tolerico, but first up, he is a legend. If you're in simple, if you don't believe me, watch the poll like it is way dark on HBO Max, and his new album is Inspirations of Life and Love, poll like us. [Applause] Ladies and gentlemen, again, I'm seeing you.

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All right. That never gets old, does it?

Never. Yeah, we do, but not that. You do. Well, that's true. I mean, people half your age are half as busy. I mean, you have a new album out. You have a tour, a tour you're going to go on. You're doing a Broadway show about your life.

“You've meddled in the Olympics, I believe, last week.”

[Laughter] Your dating dose of cat is that correct? That's all. But you did put out your song on TikTok, did she not? She did. And she had my shoulder.

Put your hat on. [Applause] But she didn't say the original version the way I wrote it, which was put your legs on my shoulders. [Laughter]

That was 17. [Applause] You can relate to that, Bill. I think we can all relate to that. [Laughter]

That sounds like more of like a dosicat song. That's pretty funny. Did you ever think you'd be on TikTok?

I mean, I never thought I'd be on TikTok.

And I never thought it'd be sitting here talking to you. When I started out as a kid, all I wanted to do was write. And I worked at a local newspaper. I was in school for a great ten for a couple of years, unfortunately. And I started writing and when I hit for me, once I went to New York,

and I said, "This can't last." I mean, the dream just came true. And I was for four years wondering, "What do I do from here?" Because I really didn't believe that it was going to last for me.

And I realized that if you were the writer, you had a chance to last.

“And that's what I did. I focused on the writing.”

One thing you do not get credit for is there was a revolution in the music industry at some point. I mean, before they say Dylan and the Beatles, that's usually who they think the revolution started with. And the revolution I'm talking about is, back in the day, said, "Nobody ever thought a singer was the person who would write the songs for themselves.

It just wasn't done. There was songwriters and there were singers who did them."

That's a notch or never wrote a song.

I think he took credit on one. I don't think he wrote it. I'll leave that alone. Okay. When I said, "There's an old adage who we started." Right award, get a third.

Yeah. So all the young writers had started. Anybody that added a word or two, they ripped them off and took a third. But you were writing your own material before Dylan and the Beatles. Well, nobody would listen to me, so I was forced to writing.

Right. But I was writing and I realized early in the game bill that the writer was everything.

“In anything. Without the writer, there are no singers, there's no lawyers, there's no agents,”

there's no record companies, there's nothing. So I respect those that write and create because without them, there wouldn't be anything that we see. I mean, there's a few reasons why you're still out there doing it. And if people say, "Why have you lasted? Why book?"

I think I can answer that. One, you can still sing. Now, I'm not going to mention names. Please do. No, because it's not flattering.

But there are some of the heroes of my youth, musical heroes of my youth, who are, you know, seven in up. I'm sorry, they can't sing, which is unfortunate because they still sing. You can still sing.

To let us happen, it sounds just like you always did.

I saw in the documentary, you did the new version of my way. It was New Year's Eve. Yes, on Times Square. Times Square. We wrote it for the event.

You built it out just like you always have. You know, you take care of yourself. And it pays off later in life, and I've always lived a certain lifestyle. I did not, you know, hang it out with a rat pack and Vegas as I did. I learned things, what not to do, and what to do.

So between the drinking, the gambling, the women, everything else, I had a choice. And I realized those guys were the best. So not sure they were the best. I learned from them. You know, every night it was cigarettes, smoking and women. The women I liked, I hung in there.

[ Laughter ] That's not bad for you. I loved it. That's it. As a teenager, I got really short change. You know, I was on a track too.

I was shy. I couldn't get with girls. And as soon as I had my first hit record, the floodgates opened too. [ Laughter ] And when you were working Vegas,

there was an enormous amount of lumbering going on that manifested itself with girls that were just incredible. They were all show girls, and it was a -- it was a fun fest all the time.

“How did we get on to this from staying in good shape, all right?”

[ Laughter ] I'll tell you the one. Because I continued to do it and it keeps me in good shape. [ Laughter ] Listen, I don't want to get into ageism,

but folks don't live whatever your age is. Forget about it. Keep the old man out. If you feel good, you take care of yourself. Just live your life, live the moment. Time is your asset. Forget about age.

Do whatever you want. [ Laughter ] Yeah, you're single now, aren't you? You're single now. I am single now. Single and ready to mingle?

I'm -- [ Laughter ]

I've always been a mingleer.

[ Laughter ] I mean, you -- [ Laughter ] It's funny. You know, you've had so many lives when I watched this documentary. I mean, I knew all of them, but the documentary is so great

because it puts them all together. I mean, of course, I knew that you were the -- the teen idol guy. You were the put your head on my shoulder guy. And then my favorite period, because it was when I was in my 20 -- the 70s rat pack guy with, you know, all those great songs

good, morning, yesterday that -- How's your life? I have my baby. Oh, I have in my baby, which I could relate to, not at all.

But I still love the song. [ Laughter ]

And how about I'll never get married?

[ Laughter ] What a terrible way to be. [ Laughter ] But hold me till the morning. Yeah, it comes.

What? [ Laughter ] That guy's got it on his brain. [ Laughter ] I mean, 70 was great songs.

“But, you know, then you -- you were also the guy who wrote my way,”

you know, which is -- [ Applause ] Well, Snapchat was inspiring. You know, what happened there was -- I had dinner with him in Florida who was doing a film,

late 60s called "Ladian Sement." I remember it. And by that title, with the guys that we worked for, it could have been a documentary. [ Laughter ]

So, he took me to dinner. He said, he said, "I'm quitting shit with his head and a rat pack's over." Right. I'm tired, but I'm doing one more album with Don Costa.

He had never wrote me a song.

Now, Costa was a guy that found me. I gave him all the credit. And I introduced him to Sinatra. And I said, "Really? So, I've quit." He never wrote me a song.

You know, when I hung with him, I wasn't going to give him puppy love or lonely boy. He would have thrown me on a window, you know. [ Laughter ] And I went back to New York.

I mean, my apartment midnight, and I started writing metaphorically. And now, the end is near. And it wrote itself. It wrote itself five hours later.

I called him a Caesar's palace.

“I said, "Sir, I've got something for you."”

He said, "Bring it out." I flew out. The next night I sang a tune. He said, "Kid was my nickname. Kid."

He said, "I love it. I'm going to do it." Two months later, he called me from a studio in Los Angeles. He said, "Kid, listen to this. He took a phone."

And he put it next to his speaker. And I heard my way for the first time. And it was such a hit for him. He stayed 10 more years. [ Applause ]

It always struck me. I mean, you're Canadian. Yes, sir. It struck me on that a Canadian would write that lyric, though. Why is that?

I did it my way. It's so Trumpy. [ Laughter ] You know, I did, I did do a my way of version for Trump, at Merrillog, I used to work for him.

And I wrote it for him, as probably, it was his birthday, but there was something going on. He announced back then he was thinking of becoming president. So I rewrote this lyric of my way for him, which I've done all over the world from Putin,

the White House, and there's something that I do with my way. So it's a song that I have fun when I rewrite it. And I'll do it for you when you get married. [ Laughter ] Wow.

[ Applause ] Which means I don't have to write anything. No, you're safe on that. But I also love this stuff you did with Michael Jackson.

“You know, I remember when that song came out.”

Yeah. Love never felt so good. Well, this is it was the first one.

Okay, before love never felt so good.

But love never felt so good. If I was the one that I, when I said, "Why didn't they release that?" Michael must have, and it's high on the profile that day. Because I'll shut the fuck up. [ Laughter ]

Because it's such a great record. Yeah. But it's because you and he wrote it together, and then they put it in the vault, right? Well, what happened was I wrote it with him prior.

And we were supposed to finish it together. But he chose to not finish the project because Thriller took off. And I don't want to say still. And he borrowed the tapes out of the studio.

And I couldn't get my music back. Till finally we got it together. It was in a drawer for many, many years. When he passed, they went into his house and found all of these songs.

One of which was, this is it from his special, which was the first one. Then they called me up and said, "We found another song called Love Never felt so good." So good.

I said, "Well, I wrote that also." It's all. Then Drake heard, I had another one called It Don't Matter to Me, which was Michael's last record. And he came to my house,

and he said, "I like to finish it with you." And we finished it. It don't matter to me. And that was the last record we did with Michael. So on the new album, I noticed you do three simple songs.

Yes. You do when I was 17. Correct. And you do what was the other one? Let me try again.

Let me try again, which I didn't realize until I read it. You wrote that. Yes. Also from a French song.

Like my way. And then you redo.

I mean, one of Frank's big hit.

That's life. But you changed the last line. It's my last question. I'll let you go. No, I don't want to go yet.

[ Laughter ] Good. But... Did you not remember the single? You know, one of Frank's big hit.

“I've been a puppet, a pirate, a pirate, a pirate.”

That's right. That's right. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do.

That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do.

That's what I don't want to do.

That's what I don't want to do.

That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do. That's what I don't want to do.

I don't want to do anything about life and love. I listen to a bunch of songs that I could put in this very special mood with a large orchestra. The lyric of that's life when you strip it from the rhythm and blues vibe that it had. It really played well and we did it with the symphony in Budapest. And it's one of my favorite tracks because it's so off the wall of the chance that I took with it.

That's the last line. Yes. I connect that last night. If things aren't shaking this July, I'm going to roll myself up in a big ball and die. Correct. And what did you change it to? I didn't do anything.

Yes, you did. I left it out. No use. I said, I'm going to get on a big bird and fly. Yes, I'm going to get on a big bird and fly.

Well, that's different than die. And not the best.

But I didn't want to end it on that night of a note.

Okay. You really listen to that out? I love it. Thank you, sir. You know what I'm saying here?

Let's see you again. I hope so. All right. All right. Let's lead our panel.

Okay. Hey. How you doing? All right. Here's our panel.

He is a Texas state representative who's currently running in the 2026 Democratic primary for U.S. And a James Teller Ricard. Thank you. Congratulations.

And she is a Republican Congresswoman who represents Colorado's footsteps. Lauren Bobert is here with us. How you doing? Okay.

Let's get to this was a big story today. Trump, I said a few weeks ago. I said, we're going to find out about this Supreme Court when the tariff issue. If they go along with this, then we really do not have three branches

of government.

“Well, I think it's good news for America, but I want to get your opinion”

on that. You know, both sides change definition of words all the time. I mean, the left change violence to anything we don't like. They change woman to, I'm not sure what, but they change that one. No one's been able to answer that.

Yeah, that's been a tough one. Trump changed emergency to anything I want to do. And not have to get Congress involved. And the Supreme Court said, no. That is not how it works in this country,

including two people who he appointed. Good day for America. I think that's really good. I don't really agree with the Supreme Court's ultimate decision here. I don't think that comes as too much of a surprise.

But the three branches of government are not supposed to work symmetrically. I don't believe that they have equal powers. They are separate and not equal. There are different functions and different roles.

I do think we have a role in this. But President Trump has stopped by the judicial branch. The judiciary branch very often. And I think this could harm America. We were seeing great results from the tariffs.

But if we're going to just change the names and the terms, well, let's do what the leftist politicians do, what Democrats do, especially at my home state of Colorado, and call it something else, like a fee. We have taxes that the citizens vote on.

However, on top of that is fee after fee, after fee that no one ever takes a vote on, yet we are forced to pay whatever that fee is. So maybe instead of paying attention. Yeah, we live in California.

You're not to tell us. Yes. [Applause] I don't know. If any president will succeed to start imposing these fees.

Okay. You can really literally stop any trade that he wants and prevent anything from coming in. I think that he should be able to dictate the terms and not allow America to take an answer.

No, we're proposing to. [Laughter] I'm really glad that we're starting to see checks and balances in our government again. And the only thing I -- [Applause]

“The only thing I'll disagree with is at least in Texas,”

these tariffs have been driving up prices. A lot of people in our state voted for President Trump for one reason and one reason only. They thought he would lower costs. And people took a chance on him because they thought he would

get the economy back on track. And a year later, he's done the exact opposite. And I think in large part because of these crazy tariffs,

the price of groceries.

And you add that on top of the rising cost of childcare

and prescription drugs and higher education and housing. It is locking people out of the American dream. And so I don't think this tariff regime has been productive.

“I don't think it's been useful, and I think it's heard a lot of people,”

including a lot of people who voted for the President in 2024. [Applause] And I just answered that. I'm very glad that the Biden administration certainly prices went through the roof.

And the inflation was unbearable. And President Trump has done a great job of getting the economy back to a more stable place. It's not where it needs to be by any means. And you talk about childcare going up.

Well, maybe that's due to some learing centers here and there. But we've got to get the center control in a reasonable way. And gas prices are down. Food prices are going down. It was so much higher under the Biden administration.

I mean, the studies have shown maybe fake news. [Laughter] But they did cost the average American $1,000. The tariffs, which would make sense. And certainly there were goods that were more expensive because of that

because there are tariffs involved. We're charging people more money. But look at the tariff on China. President Trump said, "One of them.

“I'm going to charge you 20% tariffs on your goods because you are making money”

sending fit and all into our country and killing American citizens." So I'm going to tear a few more than what you are making on the fit and all that is killing Americans. And we have seen a huge decrease in the fentanyl poisoning that was taking place. Colorado was number two in the nation for a long time.

Well, like many things he does, I mean, the idea behind it is not always bad.

But you can't do it without consulting the constitution. I just want to say one more thing. No more more going to send me those. But this idea is a lot of people stop me all the time. Bill, the world is so insane now.

Well, it always has been. And yes, there is. That is, there is a lot of insanity going on. But just to calm yourself down a little about the checks and balances thing. This is from the New York Times.

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that Donald Trump's administration is detaining immigration immigrants unlawfully. 4,500 times. Then this is from the New York Times. Lawmakers have systematically brushed off many of Trump's most severe cuts.

The result is a set of annual government expenses that do not appear radically different than what he inherited a year ago. EPA, they wanted to cut it 54%. It's cut 4%. HUD, they wanted to cut it 44%.

It's plus 9%. CDC, they wanted to cut it 41%. Minus 1%. Education. They wanted to get rid of it all together.

It has a 1% increase. So, banks are not quite as crazy as you think they are. And apparently our system is still somewhat still working. The boat is leaky but it ain't sunk. We're going to ask about it.

You're still at this school. You're just at the middle of the night. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so.

Do you think so? Yes, exactly. I don't think so. I just don't understand. I don't think so.

"Job or Unzug." "Castard." "Castard." "For I don't know how to do it." "Stoy and Elite."

"Self." "With Visa Steuja." "So-called fresh music." "And so-called fresh by Aldi." "Amma good."

"Amma günstig." "Amma vielfältig." "Curts" says fresh for Aldi. "So all the price." "This week, Mini-Cherry Rysbentomaten 300g for 0.2€. 0.70€."

"Or table-burned, the kilo for 0.1€. 0.40€."

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"And that's much more important for Aldi." We said we are part of one civilization, western civilization.

Now I want to first of all say something about western civilization.

Kids, you don't know what the fuck it is. And I'm not really, they think western means white and white means bad. Kids, first of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it too. The Japanese, before World War II and during World War II and Genghis Khan

and I could go on and on. You know, the left is very down on America, very down on the west. And it's ironic because the west has also given us everything that makes your life good here.

Don't ask Billie Eilish or a chapel-grown about what the western dyes are.

But it's not about oppression. It's about rule of law. It's about respect for minorities. It's about democracy. It's about scientific inquiry.

These are all good things that came from the western world. I wish the schools would teach that again. But Mr. Rubio said, we are part of one civilization, western civilization, bound to another by the deepest bonds. And he mentions shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage,

language, common civilization. I want to ask about the Christian faith part, because you two are going to line up against Mina. You ready for Smauly Go? I am.

I know you two are very devout Christians. But I think we're going to find it.

That doesn't always mean the same thing.

I don't think Christian faith belongs in this list as much. Now, to certainly the western cat and comes through because countries that had Christian faith. But it's not what brings us together. It's enlightenment values.

The ones I just mentioned. I mean, I know you disagree with this vehemently, because you think this should be a Christian nation. And Christian nationalism is now a big thing. We have a part of it. They've done surveys on this.

And most Republicans say, we should declare a Christian nation. This should be declared a Christian nation.

“I think this is absolutely not what the Constitution says.”

Law is based on Christian values. Being a Christian is an important part of being truly American. I vehemently disagree with that. So with all of this. Interesting.

I do believe that we were founded on Judeo-Christian values. And certainly we don't need a religion as a whole to govern our country.

Are you reading a quote for me?

I mean, rope. Yeah. You say the church is supposed to direct the government. I do believe that. I do believe that.

I don't believe that. I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk. Let's go there. That is not in the Constitution. As so many people think this separation of church and state.

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are our country being founded on Judeo-Christian values. Give us a sense of agreement of these are the values of moral standards that we will be governed by and govern ourselves by in this new country. And I think it had a great run.

And then there's so many different flavors put on Christianity and so many different viewpoints that it's certainly has been diluted. And then you get a mix of other religions in,

“which is amazing. - So the Christian is an important part”

of being truly American, you would also disagree with it. - I do believe that that goes to the roots of our foundation, absolutely. Our founding fathers, work Christians, and things. - You can be truly American without being Christian.

- You certainly can, and I do think that is... (audience laughs) - That was a question, Bill. - We're raised and on all, though. - My granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas.

My faith is very important to me. He told me when I was real little that as Christians were supposed to follow Jesus' two commandments to love God and love neighbor. And there was no exception to that second commandment.

Love that neighbor, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or immigration status or religious affiliation. And so in Texas, I'm constantly battling Christian nationalism, a bill that forces every public school teacher

to put up a poster of the 10 commandments. A bill that replaces school counselors with untrained chaplains, a bill that would have taught Christian Bible stories as historical fact to our youngest students.

And I always speak up on behalf of my Jewish Muslim

“Buddha's Sikh, agnostic atheist neighbors,”

because I, as a Christian, we as Christians, are called to love them as ourselves. And forcing my religion down their throats is not love. (audience applauds) And the other thing I have, America is not a Christian nation,

is a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Or any of those other faiths or no faith at all. (audience applauds) And I recognize that the phrase separation of church and state isn't in the constitution,

but the establishment clause and the free exercise clause in our first and then clearly create a separation between church and state. And I would, the many of our founders were deists,

the religious right in this country would probably call

them not real Christians, given their beliefs. And yes, they blended enlightenment thinking with a Christian background into something

“that I think a lot of far right Christian leaders”

would not recognize in this day and age. So I think it's just important that we, we remember our true history and we try to honor that that promise of America of a, of a nulting pot of e-plora bassoon on out of many one

to promise we obviously haven't ever fulfilled, but it is one that we're just still trying to fulfill. (audience applauds) (audience applauds) - Thank you very much.

I just wanted to have this in command, then, since school and certain biblical stories taught as fact. Well, when I went to school, there was Greek mythology that we were required to, you know, learn and study about. Now in Colorado, we have comprehensive sex ed,

whereas as young as kindergarten, I mean, children are taught all of these things. You can be whatever gender you want to be and that is being forced down their throats, the sexualization of our children.

I would much rather my children see the 10 commandments

that basically just gives a moral standard

rather than saying, you can pleasure yourself and hear as how to an elementary. Here's just what I would disagree, because I don't want indoctrination of any form, whether it comes from the left or the right in our schools.

I want education not indoctrination. - Yes, I do. - I do now. And my problem is seeing politicians in Texas, forced everybody to put up a post to the 10 commandments, when they don't even follow the 10 commandments themselves.

- Not in the past. - Yeah, that's right. - Yeah, obviously, as people have faith, like, at least you're being, we should be trying to follow those 10 commandments. Rather than trying to force people to put up a poster, because to me, that indicates a dead religion.

“If you have to force people to put up a poster”

to prove your legitimacy, that means we don't have a living faith anymore. And so I think this is not just a threat to democracy. I think it's a threat to the church, because that separation doesn't just protect the state.

It protects the church. 'Cause when the church gets too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice. It's ability to speak truth to power. And that's what that separation is.

It's what it protects and it's why Christians, including many Protestant Christians, fought for that separation, because they believed it, benefited them. We gotta get back to that in this manner.

(audience applauds) - So, there was a very important development. This last week that I have to mention, Robert Kennedy went on a podcast, and he said, "I'm not scared of..."

(audience laughs) He said, "I'm not scared of a germ. "You know, I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." (audience laughs)

“Did I mention he is the Secretary of Health and Human Services?”

(audience laughs) - He's getting a meal, though, getting a meal. (audience applauds) Even the warm in his brain went, that's due, that's gross due. So, it's just pointing to this river.

I think, "Report in fact," which is that this is the way politicians act nowadays. I don't know about YouTube, but it's like you have to get ahead. People like emo these days.

They like you to be confessional. They like to know about your personal life. You used to be good to be buttoned down and deny and be this separate person. No, they don't like that.

They like it, just like we do in show business. Tell them everything. So, we have found out that a lot of other people have been going on podcasts, and giving their confessions,

which you'll like to see some of them going on. These are all people getting ahead of the game, boy. Like Chris Christie took a page out of Robert Kennedy's book, and he said, "I once ate half a jelly donut. "I found on a porta potty floor."

He said, "It's way ahead of this." The pope said, "I find communion wafer's dry, "but there's still better than Chicago-style pizza." (audience laughing and applauding) My daddy, the mayor of New York,

said, "I always cry at the end of red dawn."

(audience laughing and applauding) Oh, Hillary Clinton said, "During the Benghazi attack, "I turned my phone off to watch dance moms." That's... (audience applauding)

Oh, I got one here, Gavin Newsam said, "Anyone can be a sex addict in LA, "talk to me after you've been a sex addict in Sacramento." (audience laughing and applauding) He texted and said, "I'll vote for AOC,

"just because she used to be a bartender." (audience laughing and applauding) Lindsey Graham, I dressed up like Muggle Robby's character to see what they're in Heights. Well then, I've put it into any reason.

We don't know what that means. We don't know. (audience applauding) Oh, the president Donald Trump said, "Sometimes I truth out long, take downs

"of my friends if they don't text me back quickly enough." (audience laughing and applauding) Travis Kelsey said, "I'm sick of finding cat hair,

(audience laughing and applauding)

“Kanye, this whole time I've had Jews confused”

with Italian. (audience laughing and applauding) And bad bunny, to be honest, I can't even understand what I'm saying. (audience laughing)

All right, so... (audience cheering and applauding) On this one more thing about religion. And before I do, I want to say, "People know you now.

"They are getting to know you. "I'm just getting to know you." And you're just running in the primary. You're just running in the primary in Texas. Not even the main battle.

Why did you catch fire so much? And why are you not Beto 2.0? (audience laughing) Because people are already saying Texas is gonna we're gonna turn Texas blue,

and now you're the newest guy to do that. What is it, what do you think that has got everybody so interested in you? - Well, I'm an eighth generation Texan, so my family's been in the States since it was Mexico.

And we are seeing a growing backlash to the extremism in the corruption in our government, all over the state. I have been traveling every corner of Texas. So many people have been coming out to these events,

particularly a lot of young people. And I can't tell you how many people come up to me afterwards in whisper, "I'm not a Democrat." Like it's some kind of secret.

“And so we are, I think, trying to build a movement”

that includes Democrats and opinions and Republicans to try to take back our state and take back our country. And there are a lot of people across our state that really want someone who's gonna focus on them for once.

Because right now you've got people in high elected office who seem more concerned with patting their bank accounts or accumulating more power. And no one seems to be trying to make life easier and better for people.

(audience applauding) And I, I, I, I, I've seen four, four terms in the state house in Texas as a Democrat, which is not an easy place to work in the Texas legislature.

And I've stood up to my Republican colleagues when I feel like they're doing harmful things. But I also know how to work across the aisle. That actually gets stuff done. So if you get elected, you'll be working together.

Can you work together?

Yeah, first I want to ask you ever stand up

to your Democrat party. Because sometimes that is the most difficult thing to do. And I have stood up to my own party on issues more than I may have I. Democrats, right?

And you know, and I do want to congratulate you on, you know, the success so far in your campaign. I maybe I should endorse Jasmine Crocket. So you could do a little better. (audience laughing)

(audience laughing) So endorse that. Yeah, that's when you're running again. That is when correct. Right, and I do think that is why he

in the Democrat portion of this primary is doing so well because his opponent is so radical, so extreme. Just a false identity came from one place, it pretends to be from another, and it's just so radical in extreme.

Now I want John Cornan out. I do not want him and he's not conservative enough for you. No, no, not all. No, me neither. And I'm just gonna get him out.

You know, I said suddenly I want him. Right, Hickie, I suddenly want a Republican to win that, you know, a chiproy to be AG. But thank you for doing your best to get rid of Jasmine Crockett for the rest of us.

Well, I mean, I am in a primary with Congresswoman Crockett. But she and I are friends, we've served together. We do have different approaches to campaigning in politics, but we are both trying to fight 30 years of one party rule in our state, which has led to the extremism

and the corruption. We're trying to do that here in California too. (audience laughing) And Bill, to your point, 141 party rule. And I said whether it's Democrats or Republicans

always leads to extremism, absolutely.

“Okay, last issue because I know this is important to you”

and it comes up every week. And by the way, again, talking about taking it on the chin, I do as much as I can here. I apologize to QAnon a couple of weeks ago. I said, you know, when it comes to this Epstein stuff,

you had it right or the mean. Now they also believe what a real batshit nonsense. But when it comes, they don't eat babies. Democrats don't eat babies. (audience laughing)

You think they eat babies? - There is a lot of consumption talk in the stuff. And now if there are other babies, I don't know, you can laugh all you want. But I mean, there is some sick stuff in here

that is implying. - But that's not eating babies. - I mean, I'm not saying they're eating babies. I'm saying there is talk of consumption and it ate pizza. And I'm not saying that I am QAnon by any means.

But this is deep, dark, satanic, awful, sacrificial, and this stuff is gross. - See, this is what I'm saying. I hear I am sacrificing myself saying, you know what?

You insist they might be eating babies.

(audience applauding) I didn't even understand it. - Okay, the question both of us. - There's what it is. QAnon said, this is vast elites around the world

conspiracy to traffic kids and pedophiles. And they were more right than I let on than I thought they were. Okay, so that's what I'm giving you. And it wasn't just Prince Andrew in the parlor with a dildo. Okay?

(audience laughing) QAnon was wrong about one big thing. They thought Donald Trump was the one to take down the secret pedophile ring. When he has mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files,

he flew repeatedly on Epstein's private jet and then lied about it. He sent Epstein a happy birthday card with a picture of a naked woman talking about their quote, wonderful secret.

So the fact that QAnon thought that guy was gonna take down

“the secret pedophile ring when he's right in the middle of it,”

I think was clearly wrong. - Who's president right now? President Trump. - Who signed the order to release the files? - President Trump did.

- Well, there's a lot of pressure from folks like you to make him do that. - I'm proud to have done so, but he also signed it the same day. - To be fair, to show I don't have Trump to range. Vincent Trump, this also came out

that the sheriff in Palm Beach testified that in 2006 Trump called and said, everybody knows what's going on there. When I saw, I got the hell out of there and you should stop doing this.

So like Trump, he's his own worst enemy. Instead of, he should have just said that.

Instead of saying, I never knew of him.

I have my picture taken with a lot of people. He could have just said that to begin with. It would have been a much better version

“because it was-- - I think I wasn't gonna agree.”

The rollout of this was awful, horrendous, damaging. And now we have what we have, you know, people when I go to the DOJ, they're still redactions underneath the redactions. I'm supposed to view completely unredactive files.

Now, do I want to see underage children images of that? No, but there are names that are still redacted. And we are still working to get that information. But, you know, I'm happy with the transparency so far. I hated the rollout of it.

Glad we're here and we're finally getting accountability. There's a rest happening, Prince Andrew to start. And I hope there's more to come. - Okay, thank you very much. You guys were a lot of fun time for the roll.

(audience cheering) All right. (audience cheering) Okay, I know the Pennsylvania Girl Scout, who shot at all records by selling over 81,000 boxes

of cookies, has to tell us her secret.

“Oh, my kidding, we already know what it is.”

Location, location, location, location. (audience laughing) Even Lauren Presser's six of them were thin men. Okay, neural the women who keep putting up billboards and buying ads on taxis and holding up signs

and public about how they want to find a husband have to try this. Hang out at a comic card convention for five minutes. (audience laughing) You want to meet a guy, I'll be happy to find a woman, I got you.

(audience laughing) Give these players a chance, 'cause that is a lightsaber in his pocket and he is happy to see you. (audience laughing)

A new old since NVIDIA CEO, Jason Wong, is one of the richest people on the planet,

he has to buy a second outfit.

(audience laughing) Look, I know what you're trying to say that I'm one of the cool tech titans, and it's true, this does make you look cool. In Milwaukee in the 1950s. (audience laughing)

You know, I know Olympic skating is an art form, but can we all admit this guy is also thinking, and after you're gonna do me, right? (audience laughing) Neuronovet Mehta has patented away for AI

to run a dead person's Facebook account so they can continue to post and chat from after their dead, it has to not do that. (audience laughing) You're dead, let someone else talk.

(audience laughing) Unless the innocent days when the phrase the internet is forever, just meant, don't send pictures of your dick. (audience laughing)

since the state of the union address is next Tuesday,

“let's get rid of the state of the union address”

before Tuesday. (audience laughing) And here's why, nothing has missed led the American people to the warped belief that the president can act like a king

more than this stupid boring, performant of after-dinner speech from hell, where the sergeant at arms announces the president like he's a king. - Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States.

- And he walks into the room like Conner McGregor heading into the octagon. (audience laughing) - With members of Congress lining the aisle like medieval peasants hoping to touch the royal garments,

and then he proceeds to tell Congress what he wants them to do, making it look like the president is in charge of everything, and it's he who sets the agenda,

“but that's not what it says in the operating manual.”

You know, the Constitution, article one, section one, all legislative powers here in Granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. Not mostly, not unless the president has a really bitch in idea.

(audience laughing) Nearly half the words in our Constitution are in Article one, that's the one about Congress and all the stuff. They're supposed to be in charge of the exclusive power

to make laws to clear war, tax, tariff. (audience laughing) Even organized the other branches. (audience applauding) Congress creates the laws.

The president is just supposed to execute them, execute, like the executor of a will. He doesn't decide the deceit's wishes. He just makes sure they're carried out,

“but you'd never know that from the state of the Union speech,”

which has become the president's big Etsy wish list for America. (audience laughing) For example, in his 2023 address, Joe Biden proposed the junk fee prevention act, a proposal that would ban excessive fees

tax onto concert tickets, outlaw airlines, from charging families of fee to sit together and put an end to resort fees. These are all great ideas, and totally not the president's job to propose them.

Again, he's just the enforcer. If Congress passes that law and then we find out, Delta is still charging families to sit together. By all means, Pete Hedseth, send in the 101st Airborne to crack skulls.

(audience laughing) But don't get it mixed up. The star of this movie, we call American democracy is Congress. The president is at most up for best supporting actor. No wonder America.

(audience applauding) It's no wonder that Americans think the president controls the price of eggs.

Nearly a third think he controls gas prices

and the unemployment rate. One in four thinks he has control over interest rates and consumer prices and the host of Fox and Friends, think he can change the paths of hurricanes. (audience laughing)

(audience applauding) Well, what do you expect when we have this big ballie hood and you will event that looks like the president's royal wedding to himself? (audience laughing)

It's everything George Washington did not want because Washington knew the Constitution and nowhere does it say the president has to get up before Congress every year and blow the eight on and on like he's the slightly drunk best man at the rehearsal dinner.

(audience laughing) You don't? (audience applauding) It only says that he shall from time to time give to the Congress information on the state of the union.

In other words, an occasional status report, like a Facebook update. (audience laughing)

Washington's first state of the union was 833 words.

It was hardly worth throwing his wig on for. (audience laughing) They'd lasted all of 10 minutes. Chuck Grassley barely had time to get settled in his seat. (audience laughing)

Our third president Thomas Jefferson stopped doing it in person altogether.

they just wrote a brief report

“because even they understood nobody likes a meeting”

that could have been done by email. (audience laughing) Jefferson didn't want a speech to Congress because he thought it was too much like the King of England's speech from the throne

and that it sent the wrong message. It did, it still does. And I shutter to think where this trend will lead and hope it is not to a president so emboldened by our royal treatment of him

but he thinks he is the right to do whatever he wants.

Then I have an article too where I have the right

to do whatever I want. (audience laughing) Yes, Trump acts like a king but don't lay it all on him

“because we have been moving in this direction for a long time.”

For example, the Constitution explicitly says only Congress can declare war but we've effectively gone to war dozens of places in the last century and Congress only declared it twice. Otherwise, Congress treats presidents intent

to send troops to fight somewhere like a user agreement that pops up on your phone. Just click it. (audience laughing) Just click it.

You're not gonna read it and if you did,

you wouldn't understand it and if you did understand it, it's still be tricking you so just click it so you can get back to watching a TikTok of a toddler saying motherfucker. (audience laughing)

“Look, we are all collectively to blame here”

for allowing the very design of this country to slowly become inverted and we would be lucky in this age of imperial presidency of some president some day. Didn't come right out and say we need a dictator.

Sometimes you need a dictator. (audience laughing) All right, I give up. (audience cheering) I give up.

(audience applauding) Well then how about this for a reason to get rid of the state of the union? It's embarrassing. The stunt casting, the costumes,

the heckling, the dick sucking when he's making his way to the stage. (audience laughing) And worst of all, the advertising to the whole world, the state of our union actually is hopelessly divided.

That's the real state of our union. You can tell because neither party anymore could even clap for the other one no matter how benign this statement. Here's Biden in 2023 saying,

"Littical violence has absolutely no place, no place in America." And here are the Republicans sitting on their hands. That's where we are. They're politicians and they can't even give it up

for shooting us as bad. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. We're off next week and back on March 6th, I wanna thank State Representative James Tyler Ruckel, Representative Lauren Bobbert and Paul Lancashire.

Well, we're in them drops every Monday at YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. Now go watch the overtime on YouTube if you please. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. (audience cheering)

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