¶ Governor's Call for Special Session
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right . Well , I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right . There's only an up or down . This is the no Doubt About it . Podcast .
No doubt about it , and now your hosts Christy and Mark Runcany .
Top of the morning to you , mark Christy and Mark Runcany . Wildfire , you can't get this out .
Top of the morning to you , Mark .
Oh , it has been a busy weekend here at the Old Homestead . Yes , it's been a busy weekend .
Our oldest daughter , ava , turned 17 , and we added a little birthday party for her celebration on Friday . And then prom was yesterday .
Yes .
We're filming this on Sunday night . This was on Saturday night . It's quite an event , as proms always are . Yes , and I was a chaperone , so it was a full weekend , but let's take a look . Yeah , ava , here's your dress .
Yeah , that dress , ava . Come on , that thing is unbelievable .
No , it's humongous . It is getting stepped on , yeah .
You're in a couple of different zip codes with that you . Yeah , that's very cool .
Yeah , this dance . Ava showed some of that video . Yeah , I shot some of this video . This is a very unique prom situation because a teacher , mrs Sowers , teaches these kids these dances from like the 1800s , and then she also teaches them the waltz , which is what you're looking at now , ava doing the waltz with that big old dress , and then she puts modern .
And what I love about this is the guys . I filmed some of the guys . This is a line dance they all love to do , called the church clap . Is that what it's called , eve ? Yeah , that's right , and so I love that the guys not only get into the church clap .
These are a couple of guys that I hope it's okay , I showed them , but it's Isaac and Gray and Nico's on there and they are just having the time of their lives . The girls are too . And then what I loved as a parent watching was since this is so unique , they're given a dance card .
The guys are given a dance card when they walk in the door and it's a list of all the girls they are going to dance with , and then they have to go up and ask a girl to dance and they're taught all these great dances and I loved watching that these guys got so fired up as much as the girls , because girls always like to dance .
It's usually the guys are like over getting a drink resting . Yeah , I mean , as you're as a guy , in those situations you're pulling a hammy three times out of four . I mean you're just like oh my gosh , I can't do it , it seizes up , I gotta sit this one out . And then , in this case , no way , those guys are going at it .
I like it yeah , they fully commit to it and I , I loved watching it , so it was a lot of fun . But , uh , and then we hosted an after prom party here at the house with , I think , the entire junior class and most of the seniors . So we're a little tired . I'm a little tired today , if I'm being honest . Well , they were great .
These kids were great , and so it was . It was very , very cool and it definitely is a good environment . I was , I was highly impressed . They're all such good kids , they really are .
So that was very cool , Other than Ava of course Ava's a troublemaker , but other than that we're pretty good .
Ava , you had a good time , I did .
I did have a good time .
It was really fun Okay .
Yeah , it was good .
I like it .
Yeah , fun , fun , fun .
But now we'll get down to some business yes , we will get down to business and to do that we have to bring in a special guest , of course we do .
Now we were gonna originally do a show on the medical system here in New Mexico but we're gonna push that back because we've got some stuff that's developed on that and we want to give it just a little more time for us to do a few things to put things into place so that that works . So we will have that in a coming show , I promise you .
But we decided to track down the log cabin man himself , mr Mike Garofalo from Victory News . Now usually you see Mike and he's in what looks like a log cabin . Well , mike is in the mountains today and it looks a lot like a hotel room .
But he's actually really in the mountains this time .
I'm in the front range , of course , which is the front range of the Rockies . Yes , I'm not too many miles from the mountains . I was skiing yesterday and the day before , and the day before that I got caught in a blizzard skiing yesterday , by the way .
It's you man . I didn't know it snowed in April anymore . Is that true ? It does , it does Okay .
It's legit .
I've been out of the game a little bit , uh weather-wise , but uh turns out it's true . Okay , I like it welcome back , yes well , hey , a good stuff . Hey , thanks for coming on with us . We got a bunch of different issues to talk about .
Some of them , uh , center on new mexico and some of them don't , but they all are applicable across the country , and crime is is the first one right um , the governor here in new mexico calling for a special session in July .
This is interesting because she's calling it for to discuss and maybe pass some legislature about keeping us safer .
Yeah , yeah , she's going to . They're going to try to address crime , mike , which I you know has been difficult in this state , simply because you have a legislature that doesn't seem interested in doing it . And so what was interesting is the governor now is pivoting in to jump into the I must fight crime mode , and the question is why ?
All right , so you know , during the campaign she had no interest in discussing crime at all , and finally now she's jumping on board and I give her credit for jumping on board to try to address it . So we'll see what happens .
But I want to play for you guys an interview she did with koat7 and john cardinale , and john asked her some questions about why she decided to call the special session . So I want to go through her clips of about three different clips of what she says here .
And one thing I think is really interesting is she is as much having to push voters and the people of this state to put pressure on the legislature of her own side , because she has a problem here and that is that her own legislators don't want to pass things . That's , who stops all the crime bills in the state ?
right , it is her own side and it's been doing that she's been doing . This has been the case for the last five years absolutely . This is interesting now because it's like she's taking a page out of your package that you will forth in your campaign . You know what , though ?
I'll take it if it gets passed . I would love it . If it gets passed At this point , I don't care . I want this place to be safer , right ? So let's listen to what John asked the governor , and then you listen to her first response , and we'll stop it after her first response .
What led to your decision to call a special session ?
Two things really . I'm continuing to see an escalation of risk in our communities . I certainly spoke directly to legislators . My side gig is to be just a mom and grandma and wife and I go to the grocery store and I go to the pharmacies and I don't think I've been once in a year and a half where a theft is not in progress .
Okay , hold on right there . Okay , that is , that is that is craziness , I mean well , I mean it . Just it's over the top , right , I mean it's . It's not clearly . I mean everywhere she goes she's got three or four state police officers whether if that was happening every time it would be a news story every but .
But the point is at least somewhat well taken right , mike , so she does seem to understand it , even if she's dropping something in there that's a little , maybe a little disconnected with the truth yeah , I would say a big exaggeration , but bottom line is what you're saying you want the state to be safer , you want new mexico to be safer , you want to be able
to go to the store , you want to go to school , you want your kids to be at school and everybody to feel safe . I mean . So in that respect , yes , what she's doing , big picture wise , good move . Should you have done it a long time ago , obviously ?
Obviously . So let's keep this going . Let's , let's see what we got next here .
¶ Crime and Politics in New Mexico
Outrageous . Was there anything related ?
to crime . That came up last legislative session that you hope passes during this special session .
Well , one in particular . Look , I think , felons in possession . If you just got out and now you are possessing illegally a firearm , you are not rehabilitated . You are a risk and a threat to my public safety . If I can hold you in there five more years , maybe you don't get rehabilitated , but I'm safer for those five years .
Oh my gosh , who are you ? Michelle Luwak , grisham . Welcome to the Republican Party .
I know , welcome to being a conservative . Exactly what Mark was saying . The entire campaign , I know Forget the campaign .
I'm loving this new governor . I tell you what , Mike , I am on board with Team MLG after this . Guess what ? If you don't get criminals under control , you're not getting crime under control .
I would say that if she ripped her shirt a little bit , you'd see Superwoman underneath there , because it's unbelievable .
I think it's fantastic .
It's such a flip , though I'm sorry , I just I'm curious . Is she really going to come after the guns for , you know , normal everyday citizens , legal citizens , is that going to come up ?
I don't know and time will tell . Time will tell , but so far in this interview I am loving what we got . Ok , all right , all right . So here we go . So let's keep , let's keep going here . One more question , I think . Also saying she would like to see changes in how the state decides if a defendant is released from jail between their arrest and the trial .
That change would require the legislature to pass rebuttable presumption . It would require people to prove they're not a danger of release .
It works in the federal system . It mitigates risk in the community . I don't know why we're not replicating it here . It's risk in the community , I don't know why we're not replicating it here .
Governor , you're calling OK . The reason we're not replicating it here is because , a you've never pushed for it and , b we don't have a legislature that will do it on your own side . So that's where she's going to have to move against her own side on this and start to move them toward doing it . I mean , so many times these bills have been killed .
We had Reeve Swainston on here a couple of months ago and he's a federal prosecutor and he's been calling for this for years , saying look , we can really do things that can help your keep people behind bars , dangerous people behind bars . And now the governor's like I don't know why we're not doing this .
I don't know what's happening Because we've been having a revolving door for the five years you've been in office , like it door for the five years you've been in office . Like it's unbelievable , but I mean I a wake up call . I'm not really sure what happened .
Mike , I don't know , but again she's making sense and there's something wrong with that . I mean what ? Michelle Lujan Grisham M M L G , right , right , it's more like S L R , sounds like a Republican , I would say .
Yes , s L R , m L G S L R . I like it , mike . I like what you're bringing to the table with this . So we'll see what happens with this . And now there are people who are definitely ascribing more of a Machiavellian motive to this , and Brian Sandroff , who's the pollster for Channel 7 and is a political guy .
He thinks that a lot of this could be really centered around the fact that you have some seats here in the state that could get pretty competitive as crime continues to spin out of control , and so this is what Brian Sanderoff had to say . I believe it's clip two . This is what Brian Sanderoff had to say about potentially what the governor's motives are .
Ultimately , the governor is thinking of the general election . She wants to make sure that the Democratic candidates can run on their accomplishments when it comes to crime fighting .
What are those ? What are those accomplishments ?
You've shot down every single crime bill that's been presented . I bet Bill Rehm the legislator that's been pushing for crime bills that he just gets knocked off constantly .
Oh , and he's retiring , and now he's like wait a minute , this is my territory , what ?
happened . I'm the guy that's been pushing all these .
So yeah , mike , I do think it's interesting . Yes , she may get that collateral benefit out of it , but again , if she gets that benefit and it actually works , that's fine .
But one thing I wonder , mike , is yes , she can say these things , and I get it and I would say them too , but can she actually move her own side to do this , or or is she going to end up in one of these messes in a special session ? Because the worst thing that can happen in a special session is you get there and you fail , right right .
That's a good point . I would imagine she's going to be able to push her side and I think her thought process of this is , as Sanderoff said , I'm looking at the big picture , I'm looking at the general election .
I'm not sitting very good , my party's not sitting very good in the state , and it's better late than never and I do think she's going to be able to move some of her people . Hopefully they wise up and say we got to do this . Otherwise we're not looking very good when it comes for November 5th .
Yeah , yeah , it should be interesting . I still think obviously the democrats are in a very strong position in the state , but you know , again they're , they're a near super , they're at a super majority , I think , right at the threshold of a super majority .
so right , and I'm also like they're not in good shape and I'm sorry that I'm a little cynical here , but cynical christy's showing up on scene and I'm just I'm kind of doubting the fact that I'm . I'll be interested to see . Does anything actually change ? Does anything get passed ? Does anything get come through ?
And if she does , does she not sneak in some sort of gun ban of some sort in this , in this special session ?
I think she would not gun ban , meaning on on law abiding guns yeah .
I'm not saying I just think it sounds too good to be true and from our past history I will be shocked if there's this much of a change .
Well , you are seeing other people . Like you know , the DA , raul Torres , has come out , the Bernalillo County Sheriff , all Democrats saying we have to do something here .
This is completely out of control .
No , it's , it really is , it really is . It's hard not to be really frustrated with this and angry to say where have all of you been ? There's no doubt , and it's win an election over doing what's right , and I think that's what's happened in the state for too long .
The people that have a chance to make change in this state too often are more concerned about winning elections than making life better for the people of the state . Now , this indication of getting more involved in actually fighting crime and keeping violent people behind bars if they're more serious about it and they're willing to do it well then I'm on board .
Okay and I got to say then if you're really serious about fighting crime in Albuquerque , specifically in our state of New Mexico , she better shut down that border , she better get more people down on the border , because I think if you're really serious about this , like what she's saying , then that's a huge cause of some of the crime and the drugs and the and
the traffic that's coming through here . So to me that's another , another sign that she's really taking crime seriously , if she takes our border problem with the border seriously .
Well agreed . But then you but that's a federal issue , Mike too , and that's one of these are pushing it off where , where Greg Abbott's had to step in where Joe Biden wouldn't .
Yeah , you know , you got to look . I mean , look at her track record . Look at her track record and she's coming out and saying these things that seem to make so much sense right now . She's up to something . I don't know what it is , but she's up to something .
Well , hopefully she's up to doing the right thing . I don't know . I hope so . You're trying to find the silver lining . I know , I know I'm trying to find the ounce of gold .
I'm not trying to be negative Nellie here , I just I'm caution I have your caution on this .
I'm also exhausted , so sorry I'm making . Mike , we're going to need you to step in and finish Christie's comments .
This has been a lot I've been up for why didn't the governor do this a year ago ?
Why now ?
Or why didn't she talk about doing this during the campaign , or even Well , because she would be fighting on territory where she didn't do the job Right . So she she had to pivot away from an issue that was very damaging to her , and she did , and we definitely .
We ran a million ads on it , right , and so she wanted to get away from that ad as quickly as she could , and we all know what she ran on .
But now this is an issue , mike , of they could have happened last session , you're right , because the session a year ago was a 60 day session , so in the one that we just had was a 30 day , so they alternate every other year , so she's called her .
I think this is going to be her fifth special session , so there's no doubt they regularly call special sessions , so we'll see what ends up happening with it . I'm glad that this special session isn't something like let's legalize marijuana , because that's a big priority , right ?
I mean that to me is what's so disappointing is that so many missed opportunities have fallen away over the years and now we're here where it's gotten this bad , and so I yeah , I agree .
I mean , we'll see what happens with this . But yeah , like I said and like you said before , you know where has she been and why now .
Yeah , well , we'll see
¶ Biden's Energy Policy and Global Impact
. Ok , so next up I want to get into natural gas for a second . Here there's a huge issue in New Mexico , and Paul Guessing wrote a editorial today from the editorial today . Yes , he's from the Rio Grande Foundation . He said Biden administration should recall Tom Udall's or recall Tom Udall's support for LNG plants . Liquefied natural gas is what this is .
Okay , and just a couple of quick quotes from the story . Said LNG isn't just an issue for America's allies in Europe . A recent story from the Nikkei in Asia highlights how completely off base Biden's policy is . According to the article , massive volumes of coal must be displaced through the 2030s and beyond across emerging portions of Asia .
Ok , that's interesting in just a second and I'll explain why .
But India , vietnam , the Philippines are among the fastest growing Asian nations and they are very reliant right now on coal obviously much dirtier than natural gases , especially the coal they're using where they are and New Mexico fits perfectly into this we are the eighth largest producer of natural gas and we're the second largest producer of oil in the country , right
, and so I want to show you something here before I get your comment , mike and Christy , this is the CO2 output of the United States of America since the mid seventies . Here Now , what you'll notice is it's steadily climbed as we headed , you know , worked our way through the nineties and then , once we got into around 2005, . It drops off precipitously , right ?
So we see this massive drop off in CO2 . Why ? Because natural gas . We developed natural gas resources to a level we had not developed them before , and coal was cleaned up , and then natural gas , especially , though , took over here . So this is a huge deal .
Well , let's talk about some of those countries that have not seen American liquefied natural gas into their markets in a big way . One of them would be India , right , it was mentioned in the article . What is India's CO2 output looked like over the past say , 20 or 30 years ? And what you'll notice is that it skyrockets .
If you're looking at our graph here , what you'll see is this thing since the 1960s , india their per capita CO2 emissions have been off the charts here , steadily climbing and climbing . They dipped a little bit during COVID and then they've gone right back up again . So these are the kind of countries that could benefit in a huge way .
And just one other quick thing on this If you look and we'll just use India as this example what are their main sources of energy ? So why are they seeing that skyrocket ? It's very simple they're using a dirtier form of coal .
So , as you look at this last graphic here , in the blue line is coal in India , and you can see the number and the amount of coal and the emissions caused by it continue to skyrocket here . Natural gas much , much lower on the scale .
So the Biden administration saying no , no , no , no , no , we don't want liquefied natural gas going overseas , mike , I think , is terribly short-sighted , because we can be a huge help to these countries that are 20 or 30 years behind us .
Yeah , and the bottom line is this natural gas is if you want to get away from coal , you got to go with liquid natural gas . At least for right now that's the option . Nuclear maybe whatever , but you know . But I interviewed somebody the other day from the CO2 Coalition .
He's the professor emeritus of Princeton University in the physics department and we talked about CO2 . And he is so of the thinking that Joe Biden and the Green Coalition are just out to lunch . They're missing the boat on this whole thing and it's not what it appears to be . You really should . His name is Will Happer .
At some point you should have him on . What is his point , Mike ?
His point is that this is not really . The CO2 situation around the world is not as bad as it seems to be . The warming of the planet is minimal compared to what people are really saying . You know , you see those films from like Antarctica or whatever you know one of the polar ice caps melting away and it's all going to be gone soon .
He's like that's ridiculous , is his point , and you need to look closely and it's not really what people are saying . It's not the doomsday scenario that people are saying . And this is a brilliant guy .
Right , no-transcript . And if you limit energy , you limit prosperity . I mean , that's just , it's that simple . I mean you have to have access to energy . But even if you do say , okay , I'm concerned about CO2 and where we are with with CO2 emissions here , and if you see that point , you can't have an incoherent strategy .
And the problem is in the series of stories that I'm bringing to you guys not only this one , but Christy , there's also issues in Alaska , too , where Biden has come out and said wait a minute , there's , they're trying to get approval in Alaska for a 210 mile road to offer access to mine .
Right , and he's saying no , I mean he's saying no like , so it doesn't make any sense . I don't think whatsoever and there's a little quote that's coming no like uh , so it doesn't make any sense . I don't think whatsoever and there's a little quote that's coming out of this and it says the administration's policy contradictions are dizzying .
Critical minerals are critical . Minerals are key to its climate agenda and national defense . The inflation reduction act subsidizes critical mineral development to reduce us reliance on the chinese .
Last year , amid escalating tensions , china cut off exports to the us of gallium , which is critical to computer chip making and obviously the whole the ev battery market as well . Right , so sorry you can't . We can't use natural gas . Right , we're going to start eliminating that . And now , sorry , you can't mine here in america for these critical minerals .
You need to be able to make the batteries for all the ev uses and the chip batteries . So it's like where do you expect us to get energy ?
it is crazy and I want to show you guys a couple of graphs here which are interesting . Ava , let's go with graph 12 , and what's interesting about graph 12 is it goes through . It basically details the ev supply chain and where do those materials come from ? And for those of you that are that are listening , I'll kind of describe this to you .
But for those of you that are watching , I know you're probably looking at this still going what in the world am I looking at here ? Well , you're looking at rare earth minerals for the most part here , and who dominates either the production or the mining of those rare earth minerals and then eventually the production of batteries and evs ?
Okay , so the whole supply chain , right from the mining of the minerals themselves , that is dominated by mainly dominated by China . Okay , the mineral processing clearly dominated by China . The cell components that are involved in this dominated by China . The battery cells dominated by China . And EV production largely dominated by China .
So this is the sort of thing that if we're going to be serious long term about EVs in any way , shape or form , we cannot continue to be beholden to the Chinese , and these series of decisions make us really completely and totally dominated by Chinese interests .
Which is what Trump kind of worked against when he was in office . So it's kind of interesting to see what is Joe Biden's point here . Like let's make America just completely not . We can't handle ourselves anymore , we're just going to give it all to the Chinese market .
Well , I'd argue , Mike , that he's completely captured by his far left and it's an incoherent strategy that they don't understand .
It's a pathetic strategy that's taking us down the slippery slope , and I mean . One thing you kind of passed over a little bit is the fact that China opens a coal-fired power plant every couple of months , if not more than that . It's ridiculous . What's going on in China ? We don't care .
Meanwhile , joe Biden is tying our hands behind our backs when it comes to liquid natural gas and what it can do for , not only for the United States and for our industries from an energy standpoint , but what it can do for the rest of the world when it comes to CO2 . Why is he doing that ? It makes no sense .
No , and then the no mining for batteries . So then that gets into all that as well . One more quick thing here , just to give you an idea . If we are going , to , say , shift over half of our daily drivers in the United States to EVs , what it would take for mining is staggering . Okay , what it would take for mining is staggering .
So here's a look at those numbers . And to get half of the US motor vehicles to be EV by 2050 , which is a ways out there clearly we'd need twice as much copper to be mined . We'd need three times as much lithium Neodymium we would need four times as much and cobalt nine times as much . So get ready , you're going to be digging .
There's no way around it and all we .
I won't bore everybody with the details on the digging process , but I it's very interesting that people are like we're doing this for the environment , we're doing this for the environment and digging is so bad for the environment as well , and so it's interesting .
Hey , let's , we're going to just have China do that and some Central America countries take care of that for us , and we're not going to do it .
Well , it can be . If someone's going to do it right , though , we in this country would do it better than everybody else . That's the thing that's . I mean . We would be better . There's no question . We'll be cleaner at digging for cobalt than China's going to be .
Well , that's for sure , and I would argue this point too . We talked about this offline , but , going back to energy sources and what we need here in the country to run what we are working off of right Right now , as Mike said and as we've talked about , natural gas is the best choice right now .
Turn off everything that runs with power in your house , everything from your computer to your electricity , to your oven , to your curling air and your blow dryer , everything . Turn it off and ask yourself I can live like this , because that's what's going to happen if we basically eliminate every option but solar and wind .
I'm sorry , but they can't power the grid system for North America . Like . It's not going to happen , not right now .
I'm telling you right now what they're thinking of . In terms of EV . From that standpoint , it's a lose-lose of . In terms of EV from that standpoint , it's a lose-lose . From the mining standpoint elsewhere . You can't survive on an electric vehicle around the mountain west of the United States . Many states , many large states .
I'm telling you right now , hybrids are the wave of the future and you're going to see some of these companies . They're going to shift from just EVs to hybrids and you're going to see all hybrids because Elon Musk is even lowering his prices because he realized is what's happening with the EV market right now ?
I mean , it's not working out , it's just a bad move and the right move is , in my opinion , anyhow , going forward is hybrids .
Well , I agree with you on that front and Toyota is looking more and more smart about this , because what hybrids do is hybrids reduce the range , anxiety problems , right , and they eliminate them .
Where you have people who say wait a minute , I don't know I'm getting in this car , I don't have the infrastructure across the Mountain West is a good example , New Mexico is a great example If you don't have those charging stations but you do have a hybrid where you could plug it in . Jeep's got a hybrid product that works pretty well .
Toyota has hybrid products that work pretty well , so we'll see how they shake out . All right , Mike , we got to ask you about Title IX First and foremost . Do you want to explain to people the Biden administration has now it's interesting on this .
We'll get into some detail on it , but they announced last week that they are basically going to shred Title IX here . Can you explain what this is and I can get into some of the reaction from it ?
Well , title IX is athletic programs . It doesn't matter what . It's not just college , by the way . It's athletic programs across the board that receive federal money , and what they're allowed to do and what they're not allowed to do , and what they're moving toward and what they want to move toward is you know everything from the trans .
If you call somebody that is a guy that thinks he's a woman , and you call them by the wrong pronoun , you could be penalized immediately . There's no warning . You could be penalized right away .
¶ Proposed Title IX Changes and Bias
So this I don't know all the details about what they're proposing , but I know that's a lot of it .
Well , a big portion of it is basically taking the distinction from . Title IX was obviously implemented to give women equal access to not only sports , equal access to college and all sorts of different things right .
Scholarships yeah .
And so . So what you end up with here is it says , basically , they're changing the language to say that it isn't for women , it is for people who , who say that they're women , so so it would be all women , and then people who say that they're women .
Right , and that's the real concern . And it would open up the doors for men to take women's scholarships , men to be in dorms with women because they say I'm a woman , so you have to respect that right go into bathrooms at campuses . It also in this goes from K .
Like Mike said , if you're federally funded , this is can be as low down as pre-k establishments all the way up through high school and into colleges so well let's hear .
Riley Gaines has been one of the people who's been out in front on this . We've had her on the show a couple of different times talking about this issue . Here's what she said in reaction to what's happened with Title IX .
This is the most asinine , really I would say the most anti-woman , anti-reality pursuit we have seen from this administration thus far . It is something that not only abolishes women's sports as we know it .
This would allow men in women's locker rooms , bathrooms , changing spaces , this would potentially allow men to be housed in dorm rooms with women , and this would compel our speech . Students and faculty would be forced , required to use preferred pronouns .
And if we don't , or if you , a 17-year-old girl who's randomly housed with a male in your dorm room , if this is something you go to your administration and express your discomfort with . Under these new Title IX , this new proposal , this new rewrite , you would be guilty and charged with sexual harassment . Not the man parading around your locker room .
No to President Biden . That's considered brave , that's considered inspiring and stunning and whatever other virtuous word he wants to use , but you calling a spade a spade is grounds for sexual harassment . Yeah .
And Mark explain a little bit more about how this is not . This has not been passed into law . This is just like hey , I'm making this happen .
No , this is rules making , right , this is the bureaucracy saying this is what you're going to do . So so the way they do that is if you receive federal funds , they tie the federal funds to certain things you have to do to receive those funds .
So if you're found to be in violation of doing those things and now it would be using perverted pronouns , you know , whatever it is , all the sports implications that can come with this that would be tied to your federal money . So that's how they do it and they'll threaten to pull the federal money if you don't do what you want .
You know what they want you to do . So that's definitely . And again , the more and more this happens behind the scenes , the less say you have , because your elected representatives are no part of it at all .
And so this is coming from the administration . That's all about women's rights . Women's rights we hear it constantly about women's rights . We're here to protect the women's rights . The Republicans in the conservative market are not after women's rights . They don't protect them and then they absolutely strip away women's rights with this . I don't understand it .
It makes zero sense . Well , and Mike , let me get you to comment on this . That's a great point , chrissy . So the question is maybe it's a voting thing , maybe they're doing it for a constituency ? Well , look at the numbers here . A majority of Americans believe gender determined at birth against , and they're against biological males in sports .
In fact , this is a poll that was done last year , and the poll found that the vast majority of Americans support laws against discriminating against transgender people . They don't believe you should be discriminated against .
But at the same time , what they are also bringing up is that 66% of American adults do not believe biological males should be allowed to compete in women's sports competitions at the high school level , with 34% saying they should , which is , you know , crazy in and of itself . But , mike , this doesn't appear to be backed up by the numbers .
What's happening here ?
That's a great question . It's not at all the polls . As you're just indicating right there , the polls show the American public is not on board . You know , with going against what somebody is considered at birth , it's just not so . What are they trying to do ? I don't quite know , but clearly they're catering to the left .
They're catering to , I would imagine , a bunch of people that are in the Biden administration . You know , it's just like when we're coming , what we're doing with Iran , you got like why are they doing that ? Well , there's a bunch of people in the Biden administration that actually support the country of Iran , the mullahs in Iran .
Well , with this , there's a bunch of people in the Biden administration that are way left . Same with green energy , way left when it comes to this way left . And why are they doing it ? I don't know , but I don't think it's going to help them at the ballot box .
And what does this mean for the states that have already passed laws that say men cannot compete in women's sports ? What happens there ?
So now we need to point this out . Now they specifically did not mention sports in this ruling because they know they don't have the American people on this , and so they're going to leave it till after the election and then they're going to implement sports and part of this too .
But there's a real case to be made by plenty of attorneys who have said this counts sports too , like it doesn't ? There's no distinction , right ? So if someone says I'm a woman and that's who I am now , you don't have the ability to be able to say you can't compete . That's discrimination . So that's an issue now .
So that's why just because they didn't mention sports in here doesn't mean it does not , it's a slippery slope , yeah well , it's not even a slippery slope . It appears right now that that would knock you , in violation of their rules .
So , but how does that compete against a state law ? That's what I'm asking . Well , no , no , no , no , no , no .
But you have to understand that really it's not about that . What it's about is then you would lose your federal funding . So what they do is it's not necessarily in conflict with the law , it's that we're going to pull your funding . So there's no law going on here . This is just absolutely bureaucracy .
This is bullying Right .
This has nothing to do with that and , by the way , I decided , as I was looking up stuff for this , I just decided to put in on Google how is this being received by the mainstream media ? Here's the first page of results on Google . Okay , check this out .
So you go from the Washington Post all the way down to ABC 27 and some affiliate across the country , but with the exception of Fox News , everything . And I went through page after page after page , Mike , and this is just Biden expands Title nine protections finalized Biden Title nine regulations add protections .
So they make it sound like this is just a thing where more people are being protected . This is just a thing where more people are being protected . And this is why we wonder . And as you look at pages like this from Google , you wonder why doesn't everyone know what's going on ?
And then you see results like this , where there's no understanding of what's really happening with this . And then you look at the Google results and you see why so many people maybe don't have the full story .
Well , the mainstream media . Clearly they're right . They're not picking it up and they're not breaking it down and they're not explaining the way they would have done 25 years ago . They're just not doing it because they don't care about doing it , I hate to say it .
They're just kind of they're going along with what the administration is doing and that's what's going on in so many facets of our life . They're just kind of letting things slide and they're not just explaining to the American people so they can make good decisions . And you got to wonder why are they doing this ? And the answer .
I don't really know the answer to that , but as a journalist , it's very sad .
It feels like to me that the White House issues a press release and all of these media just print it verbatim like they don't ask any questions . Right , they're just . Let's sing the praises of Joe Biden he's out there protecting the transgender movement and blah , blah , blah , blah , blah .
Let's not ask any questions about what this means for our kids , our kids' safety , our educators , the people that don't want to enforce this , our coaches . You know when ? You know we've talked about fines that have been given and punishments been given . When coaches are saying , hey , no , I'm not going to put my kids at risk .
When I see grown boys that are much stronger than my girl team they could get hurt they decide to pull out . They did this in Vermont . We did a story on this a couple episodes ago . They pull out and that coach is punished by his school .
And you guys ? It doesn't end there , so we stumbled upon a flyer on Twitter . This is unbelievable , from SUNY Cortland , which is a state school of New York .
I would rip this thing down if I saw it .
It is staggering to watch and basically they have a flyer up telling women how to act in a bathroom . It says do you feel like someone is using the wrong bathroom ? This is what the flyer says . And it says here's what you shouldn't do . Don't stare at them , Don't challenge them , Don't insult them , Don't purposely make them feel uncomfortable .
Here's what you should do . You should shut your mouth . That's not on there , but this is what they said . Respect their privacy , respect their identity , carry on with your day . Transgender and non-binary individuals you have every right to be here .
In binary individuals you have every right to be here in this facility , in this community , in this university , in this world . No one's saying they don't Right , but in a bat I mean , that's now Mike . What it's turned into is you shut your mouth If you're in a bathroom and you , you just accept that anyone can go in there and do what they want .
It's , it's beyond crazy , because 10 years ago , five years ago , what what the you know psychiatric industry would have called trans , you know , now it's considered , oh it's , it's almost normal . 10 years ago no , no , no , no , no it was not normal at all and there was an issue that needed to be dealt with . And that's not the case anymore .
And they're putting flyers up like this . And if , if my little one was going to school at a place like that , I'd have huge issue .
Well , and I just think that when I see things like this , what I draw on is this is just a slow fade in the culture here in America . It is a opportunity for these guys to start to brainwash our younger folks into thinking , no , this is normal and my parents are just .
You know they're being critical or racist or whatever that they want to say about it , that we're not open-minded about it , and the reality is there's some real sickness going on . I'm sorry , but not every guy that puts on , you know , a women's bathing suit deserves or should be in a women's locker room Like that . They're not even necessarily trans themselves .
It just opens the flood gates for things , and we've reported on stories where women are attacked by men in women's bathrooms . That you know . The guys go in there acting like they're , they're just . It's an open door for them .
Well , yeah , and the reason you have laws and rules is not for the law abiding people that would never break them . That's not what you're talking about , the people who would and and that , and that's what this starts to invite , and so what does this really look like when it happens ?
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So we found out at the university of tampa where a woman was in the bathroom and then she discovers a man in there with her .
So a man with a really bad wig .
Okay , so this is what it is right . So she , she starts recording this guy walking out of the bathroom and you're right , Uh , he's got a wig in a in a halter . Is that a halter top ?
It's like a sports bra type thing , and let me just point this out .
This is a cut off t-shirt .
Yeah , whatever I don't even know , let's just take a look . If you're looking at this video , I would like to point out how old this guy looks , and this is a college campus in Florida .
Yeah , so the university of Tampa . So let's just , let's just listen to this as she confronts this person that was in the bathroom with her .
Excuse me , what are you doing in the woman's bathroom ? I'm sorry . What are you doing in the women's bathroom ? Okay , but you're a man . Yes , you are . You are clearly a man , and you were just in the women's bathroom . Do you know how much money I pay for this school ? And now there's a man in my bathroom .
Well , you should talk to the administration .
Oh , I definitely will Look at the guy's face I you feel the need to go into women's spaces as a man . No comment on that . Do you think women don't deserve their own private spaces ? Pink high tops short shorts , nothing .
Guy is at least in his late 50s , I'm guessing . Do you support ?
women's rights .
Okay , I mean . So there you go on this .
That guy , I'm sorry , a grown man . I would question why a grown man ? Even if you don't have a wig on or whatever , what are you doing on a college campus ?
I know I well , you know me . I don't know . I mean yeah .
I really not a student , well , I don't .
I don't know what . Yeah , I don't know , but even even , even so , you can go on a college campus , but that is that . That just gets to it right there , though it's just incredibly uncomfortable . It is something that just gets to it right there , though it's just incredibly uncomfortable . It is something that we talk about getting rid of women's spaces .
That's exactly what it is .
It's disrespectful of women and their spaces , and I'm sorry if you need to wear a wig and you're super short shorts and try to get attention that way . I don't know what's going on there , but I don't even want girls to dress like that . Quite honestly , Then find a bathroom that's unisex or find a single unit .
If that's what you have to do to prove yourself that you're somehow some woman , when it's very clear to anybody that's looking at you that you're not a woman , you're not even close to being a woman .
That's the perfect example of somebody that needs . If that's the perfect example of somebody that needs help , it's okay . It's not okay for them to be there . They actually need some you know some psychiatric help . Okay , and just let's just make it as simple as that . There's nothing normal about it .
Yeah , it's wild , all right .
Especially not that age .
I'm sorry .
I'm . That gives me the creeps so badly .
Yeah , no , I understand , I get it . I get it , I agree .
All right , we got to have some fun oh this story is unbelievable mark has talked about this story non-stop . I love this story 72 hours oh my gosh , all right .
So uh , joe biden's given a speech uh late last week and he decides that he wants to talk about his uncle bozzy , which uncle bozzy and uncle bozzy flew for uh in in the military in world war II . Okay , and unfortunately , uncle Bozy gave his life doing that , and so Joe explained how it all went down .
He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones . He got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body , because there used to be a lot of cannibals for real in that part of New Guinea .
For real .
Yeah , there are a lot of cannibals . So Uncle Bozy was eaten by cannibals , is what .
President .
Biden was inferring and I just this is unreal . I mean , he gets up there and says his uncle was eaten by cannibals and then the White House has to respond .
Oh , this is some spin , some serious spin .
So Peter Doocy asked Karine Jean-Pierre was Uncle Bozy eaten by cannibals ? Here's what he says .
The president had an emotional and , I think , a symbolic moment . Hold on , hold on right there . Hold on , hold on Hold on .
Oh my gosh , he had a symbolic moment .
Is that a way of saying no , no , no , uncle Bozy was not . The symbolism is that cannibals are a serious issue .
He didn't have a symbolic movement , he had a senior moment . I mean , I'm telling you that guy , maybe he was told this as a child or something , I don't know , I think he was .
When she said he had an emotional , the next word I was expecting her to say was breakdown an emotional breakdown .
Well , I mean honestly , she could have come up with a better answer than that . Well , no , I don't think she could see .
I , I , I'm giving her not aware that he had said this .
No , I'm giving her a tip of the cap . She's like look he had an emotional moment . I mean , that was it . I mean , what else are you gonna say ?
literally the president of the united states , oh my god makes up a story about how his uncle was eaten by poplar new guinea residents wait , are we playing the pr game again , like what she should , cause we've played this before in this game . It's not that difficult to say . Listen , he was told this as a kid .
It's a , it's an old family legend of what possibly could have happened to him . He was told this at an early age and he's kind of believed it his whole life and so it's just kind of part of his , of his vernacular , something .
Not , he had an emotional moment and it was uh well , your response does sound better than kareem , I swear I mean , let me give you that I can't believe she's been in this position this long .
I know I know .
But , mike , this is , this is a classic story , though I mean , you know I , I think you know when you have I . Just I can't believe . She's got to be thinking sometimes when she goes home at night , like am I really , am I really doing this ?
oh , I think she's got to write a book when this is all done .
She thinks she should be . Yeah , I think she thinks she should be getting paid like five times the amount she does for what she does and for all the abuse she takes too . But but I mean she constantly is spinning things .
I mean you know , for as much slack or or or flack that Donald trump takes and the mainstream media is like , oh , donald trump is lying , donald trump is lying .
I'm sorry , you got to look at what joe biden says on a regular basis and the truth detector needs to be just going off left and right around the white house and it's not , but it should be well , no , he pulls experiences back from 50 years ago that didn't happen either didn't happen or he can't remember correctly .
It really is wild , it's wild .
Yeah , George Ryman . What did he say ? He drove an 18-wheeler at one point and he was part of the civil rights movement back in the South .
He went to an oh , come on . Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , he went to HSBCU or whatever . Yeah , he did all those things I mean it was .
I think she , the lady , needs to write a book , Cause it's gotta have some serious stories . Yeah , no .
And she's not . She's not real effective at the job , Clearly , Okay . Uh , one more thing for you guys . Uh , there's a . I don't know if you've seen the new product that's out , but I am loving this . It's Reese's pro plus .
Heard about this All .
All right , let's roll the video , because Reese's is getting into the protein game . Oh wow .
Okay let's take a look .
This is your favorite candy bar , oh I love it . I'm sure you've all heard the news by now , but if you haven't , Reese's now has protein peanut butter cups , so let's take a closer look , If you ask me . This is long overdue and these peanut butter cups check so many boxes . Reese's Pro Plus is the name .
They are all natural , gluten free , have no cholesterol and no trans fat , no artificial sweeteners . I mean this is unreal for a protein snack . And with 10 grams of protein , four grams of fiber , pretty impressive .
Now , these are higher in calories , but I mean , come on , and if you haven't spotted these in a store near you , it's probably because you've seen their other packaging . This is probably the version you've seen in stores . I am a jerk . I am so sorry , but Reese's Protein Peanut Butter Cups are not a real thing . Those are the same exact product as these .
This is to show you how powerful health food branding and marketing can be . Everything on that label is true of these right here . But I'm willing to bet you would buy Reese's Pro Plus before you bought Reese's king-size big cup okay , so letting the things that make me sound that's cheat day design on on Instagram .
He's really good and he's just a marketer so just take some marketing that's absolutely the same product and just repackages it , makes it look healthy and then throws it out to you .
So just one of those things where you can look at something and think , oh my gosh , this thing is really good for me , and then you would buy a case of those If you saw that on the shop .
That's your favorite candy bar Anyway .
I'm sorry . Three quarters of the way through that I was looking up where I was going to get my . Reese's pro plus Mike . But then figured out , turns out now .
You know I honestly , when I watched that earlier I was like you know I'm going to seven 11 . I got to find it .
Yeah , exactly , I know that 10 grams of protein .
You guys are suckers . Yeah , yeah , it's great . Oh no , it's a piece of candy , but it's fantastic . Had that much protein . Even if it was a protein bar , I'm sorry that thing is still not going to be healthy for you , so selling that as a as a healthy food .
All right guys . To finish up with this , mike . Since you live in the Dallas Fort worth area , I did want to bring this up . It's the second biggest week of the year , dallas Cowboys draft coming up on Thursday . The Cowboys haven't done much during free agency , but could they be looking at a running back ? I am loving it .
What are you hearing in Dallas , mike ? I need to know what's going on .
You don't want to know my answer to that . First of all , they need a lifeline and they need many lifelines to turn things around in Dallas . But come on , I grew up in Jersey . I'm a Giant fan . Don't talk to me about the Dallas Cowboys , you're the Cowboy guy .
The Giants stink . Should we talk about that ? Your best player left via free agency . You guys are horrible . You're an easy two wins every year for the Cowboys . So , believe me , I wanted you to continue on the path you're on , but don't talk big . Don't come in here and talk big to me , not to the Dallas Cowboys .
They've been 12 and 5 the last three seasons and cratered in the playoffs .
I am at some point going to learn more about the Cowboys , but right now I haven't gotten there yet .
I'll tell you what offensive lineman I'm just telling you right now .
Get ready , I'm going to tell a little story about Mark real quick on the draft . You calling it the second biggest weekend of the year is ridiculous . But when Mark and I were roommates completely platonic roommates , by the way no , no love loss between the two of us at the time .
None had .
None lost . I had a nice chair that matched my sofa . Mark took it out of the apartment and moved in this fraternity-size lazy boy yeah .
Right out of the SAE house it had a remote .
I think it shook or heated or something . It heated and there was a cooler in it for your beer , yep .
Correct and .
I said this thing's got to go . It's ugly as sin and he said no , no , no , this is my draft chair , and so when draft would come , I would leave town because Mark would sit in that chair . For what , like what ? Is it 72 hours or 48 hours ?
Oh , yeah , yeah , and then now it's 72 , but it was 48 at the time .
And you were like sitting there with your . I'm surprised the thing didn't cook for you when you were sitting in there on a little hot plate on .
Yeah , it was ridiculous .
So it's not the second biggest weekend of the year . Right , it could be the biggest I probably was underselling it anyway .
But we'll see what happens with the Cowboys . Mike , safe trip back to DFW and we will be in touch with you very soon . Always spicy points , and I like the hair today , by the way , my friend .
Sorry . Yeah , I know that . No , that's good .
I had on for three days , you know look like you just got out and literally climbed into that window . All right , we'll see you back here Thursday .
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