Some good old any money, give me some water would have been seventy five. Today rest is soul news Rady eight forty Whas I got to tell you, Facebook memories pop up, some of them good, something bad. Right now, I'm going through all of the lockdown memories and boy, it was brutal. Makes me sick to my stomach just looking. I want to bring in our guest, Senator Ran Paul. First of all, Hey, good morning, Senator Paul. How are you? Good morning? I can't believe
I can understand you. Guys. You have your masks on right, of course, Yes, I actually like masks because it helps me if I see someone driving in a car with a mask, it helps me identify someone not to let out in traffic. But I want to ask you about something yesterday. You announced yesterday a bipartisan bio defense and life science research investigation, and going through what I just talked about COVID, I think it's important to get
behind this. Can you talk about yesterday's press conference? What's going on? Well, we've been pushing forever to investigate the origins of COVID, to try to make sure this never happens again. One that we're not funding dangerous research in China, but really that we shouldn't be funding this dangerous research in our
country either. So for the first time we've gotten a bipartisan investigation. This has taken a while, but the Democrat chairman of the party, not chairman of the party, the Democrat chairman of the Committee Homeland Security, the i'm on, has agreed to do an investigation. We're going to have scientists come in and talk about the evidence for this leaking from the lab and Wuhan. We're going to talk about the funding. We're going to talk about the cover
up, the fact that the government will not release these records. Yesterday we had a hearing on the idea of the executive branch the president hiding records from us, and we talked about one of Fauci's assistants. His name is David Morenz. Through Freedom of Information we found an email where he was dumb enough in an email to say, Hey, don't send anything to my government email
that keeps looking at that. Through Freedom of Information Act, send it to my Gmail, which only goes to my phone and the government won't know. And then I can delete anything I don't want The New York Times to see and so this is a guy clearly breaking the law because the law says you have to preserve your documents and they have to become public ultimately if you work in the executive branch. But we found a guy clearly lying, cheating,
stealing, you know, breaking the law. And we still don't know if he's been suspended or fired. There's a rumor he may have been suspended. But we're going to We're trying to get the Chairman now to co sign a letter to the administration to say, look, this is a guy who needs to be made an example of. If you're going to let employees do this, then you're never going to get any kind of compliance for people of banging the law. But it's a big deal to have a bipartisan investigation going on.
It will it will see where it leads. The House is concluded one they brought in a lot of people for testimony. Ours may be a higher level look at this, But our hope is in the end to have legislation to regulate gain of function research. Most of you you pay for the tax payers are paying for this, so we want to have it an independent agency appointed by the President, approved by the Senate that actually has the ability to look at all research, judge it for its dangerousness, and frankly shut it
down. You know, if you've got people that want to take ebola, which is fifty percent lethal, and try to make it more infectious, I think that's a death wish and I think that we shouldn't fund that, and we should try to do everything we can, not only domestically but internationally to discourage people from doing it. See, we have the knowledge now to create viruses. You can actually order off the internet the RNA to make the poliovirus
wow wow. Or you can order up the bits and pieces and if you know, if you have the technical skill, which they estimate about sixty thousand people worldwide have it. So this is something that is coming and we need to be prepared for. But we should try to do every bit we can to not be funding it in the United States. So this is a big goal for us, and we're hoping to get that legislation out before the election
and try to get a bipartisan support for it. As long as we're talking about COVID, Capitol Hill's also looking into whether or not the Biden administration conspired with Facebook and those outfits to keep COVID information that didn't agree with the narrative from the public. Yeah, there's a big Supreme Court case going on, and I'm hoping it's going to be decided correctly. Eric Schmidt is the Senator
from Missouri and he was the attorney general that brought this lawsuit. And the lawsuit is based on the idea that the First Amendment protects you from the government. The government shall pass no law. And so the question is is whether the government, in the form of the FBI or the form of Homeland Security agents meeting with Twitter or with Facebook, with all these companies and telling them we want you to take down information, whether that's a form of government censorship.
If they're basically using or threatening the social media companies and they become basically agents for cen nsorship at the government's behest, I think it's without question a violation of the First Amendment. I hope they decide that way. The arguments were interpreted various ways, and some people interpreted the judge's statements to mean that it's not going to you know, we're not going to win. The First Amendment advocates won't win, but we'll wait and see what happens coming out of
this, because I think it really is chilling to imagine. Imagine we're doing this interview right now. You're part of the media, We do the interview, and when it's over, the FBI has a meeting with you this afternoon at one o'clock and you sit down and they say, well, we don't like this part of the interview. Can you imagine how horrified people would be in radio or television if that happened. But really, it is somewhat the
same with the Internet. The FBI shouldn't be sitting down with anybody telling them that they should remove certain parts of an interview. All right, So you know we've said this many a couple of times in the last decade, which is I think morale politically is as low as it's ever been. But I think we're there, and I want you to explain to me how we got
here. As I've seen surveys as high as seventy percent of Democrats and Republicans didn't want Joe Biden or Donald Trump to be the representative of their party for the president of the United States. That's a high number for people to buy partisan with. How did we end up with these two guys back in the race, and is there a path to fix that at some point or are we just a slave to these parties and what they what they do. Well, you know, I have a solution to this. It's very simple.
I can't believe you guys have not thought of this. We put an extra box on the ballot and it's for none of the above. Ye Oh, I'm in millions. If none of the above wins, then we start over and they have to go back to the process. You know, it's difficult. Like in the Republican side, you have a former president. It's very hard to be a former president. Everybody in the world knows who Donald Trump is. There's many good attributes that he has as well, and some maybe
not so great, but there really wasn't. It's just hard to beat somebody. Same with the president. So you have a former president and an incumbent president. It's just virtually impossible to beat them in the primary process. On the Democrat side, they just sort of rigged it and said they didn't even hold some of the primaries. On the Republican side, it was less rigged,
but it's still just difficult to beat a former president. And so that's kind of how we got here, and I don't you know, people can wish for something different, but now it really is a comparison, you know, between basically the two main candidates. But then there'll be some others as well. You know, the Libertarians will put somebody up Bobby Kennedy's running, so there will be other choices. But people are going to just have to
figure that out over time. And you know, sometimes it is choosing the lesser of two evils. My dad used to always say, well, if you choose the lesser two evils, that's still evil, right, But you know, we wish there were better choices. But the bottom line is we have this problem throughout government. Look, the Republicans control the House, and we think Republicans are more conservative than Democrats. Republicans have four forty nine votes
in the Senate. That's enough to withhold a filibuster. So if the Republican minority in the Senate worked with a House, shouldn't we have some kind of say in how much money is spent the power of the purse. Shouldn't we exert the power of the purse to reduce spending because the debt is so enormous. We're doing none of that. You know, we have a speaker who
came forward. He came from the conservative ranks. People were excited about him at first, and yet he's going along with the same old Shenanigans we've always had. So's the Senate, and probably ten or fifteen Republicans will vote with all the Democrats to pass the spending bill. But we didn't force them to compromise. We didn't force them to reduce spending. Basically, they're getting everything they want and we're gonna have a one point five trillion dollar deficit this year
on top of the thirty four trillion we've already got. So I don't see that we're really working hard enough. We're not fighting hard enough. We give in too much. Everybody says, oh, the government will close, and I'm like, instead of whining about the government clothing and why don't you complain that the government's going to stay open, It's going to stay open and borrow
one point five trillion dollars, which is worse. I'm not for the government shutting down, but I'm also not for keeping it open and spending this much money. Well, that's kind of where I was going I said that on the air last week. I said, let it shut down. And by the way, when the government shuts down, the employees of the government is not like they're not going to get that money gets repaid to them retroactively, so it's not like right there, you know, they're getting free days off.
Man. My favorite is what they do. Here's what happens during a shutdown, because I've been through one of these that lasted a couple of weeks, So you're right, they all eventually get paid. They send them home, and they don't pay them for a while, but they all get back paid. But when they send them home, the government wide edict is to list your essential and non essential employees. And so like the EPA and the IRS and all these agencies, they want to list a bunch of unessential because
those people get to go home. The essential people have to come here and they don't get paid, although they will eventually be paid. So when the IRS and the EPA turned in their list, this is from a few years ago, they listed ninety five percent of their people as unessential. And I'm like, well, damn if ninety five percent of uneventual, why don't we fire the lot of them and be done with it. Yeah, but you could probably just you know, through attrition, if you just quit hiring people
and said nobody else gets hired in the federal government. Over one presidential term, you can probably get rid of a million federal employees that are just dead weight, you know. Yeah, at what point? Look, we left England because of taxation with that representation, and the American taxpayers were sick of it. Man, I'm telling you a center, pair them off for forty percent of my checks, cut right off the top. I pay sales tax. I pay taxes every year on my car. They already paid tax on
house, on and on. We're trillions of dollars in debt, but yet all we do is send billions and billions to other countries. When will that get rained in? When is the American people will say, you know what, enough is enough because it seems to me like you don't need my federal tax dollars. When enough is enough is when inflation is so extreme that you know you're losing twenty five percent of your purchasing power every year and prices are
going up. That now, some of that has occurred, and just in Biden's term, we have about a twenty percent increase in your grocery bill. I think it's a thirty seven percent increase in your gas bill. And so a lot of times wages don't keep up with this, and so eventually there is a crunch and people hopefully get unhappy and know who to blame in the crunch and vote for different people. The thing that makes it messy is both parties are guilty of this. You know, the Democrats have never met a
spending bill they wouldn't vote for. Really, literally, you could send money to Mars. If there was a nation on Mars that was fighting against another nation on Mars, Democrats would be sending money over there. But the thing is is it's all borrowed and it just can't go on forever. So you get the inflation penalty, and maybe that gets bad enough that it causes even
instability. I mean, you look at South America. They'll have one hundred percent a month sometimes Venezuela, and so you get chaos, you know, but when they get chaos, they flee to America. Where do we fleeve when we get chaos? So that's coming, that's around the corner. It's
a predictable crisis. The only thing that's kind of unknown is whether it will be gradual and you'll gradually get a little bit more inflation until it becomes intolerable, or whether one day we wake up and people quit buying the US debt. You know, one day maybe China and all the other countries say, oh my god, these people are so profligate, you know, and even Europe may say this. You know, Sweden, balance is their budget,
Germany, balance is their annual budget. There's going to be the day people in Europe say why they hold we buy US dollars when they can't even balance their budget and they keep borrowing. You know, We're not borrowing like capital
improvement for roads or something. We're borrowing and sending it to Ukraine, right, and then when it gets to Ukraine, they blow each other up with it and they leave big holes in the ground, their buildings are gone, and then we're already going to pledging to go back and rebuild Ukraine after it
gets blown up. It's the same thing in Gaza. And look, and I have a great deal of sympathy for Israel, but at the same time, I don't think I want the responsibility for rebuilding Gaza after it's destroyed. Well, they have balanced budget, I'm sorry, And they have balanced budgets because they don't spend fifty percent of their budget on the military. They spend two percent and they build roads and schools and everything else, and then we
cover them and then we cover them. That's exactly right. So they spend a lot less. Another reason, not just another reason not to stick them in NATO because they'll just be more dead weight for NATO. Tell me again, it's one of those. Explain it to me like I'm a five year old and usually think like a five year old, So this will work. Tell me how a senator that makes one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a year acquires twenty million dollars dollars over his career his or her career? How
do how does that explain to me? In like in a minute or less? You can as simple concepts of how does that happen? You know, the easiest way. And I can't believe your parents didn't teach us you marry a rich girls the easiest way to get rid right, I'm in no. Yeah, Now I don't know a lot about you know, whether or not individual people how individual people came into wealth, but I would just be careful that, you know, always assuming that they look. We assume the worst
of people in political office, and sometimes that's true. But like, I don't know, everybody talks about how wealthy Nancy Blosi is or Diane Feinstein was and things like that, and I just really don't know if that is somehow gained in an inappropriate way. I can tell you I've never had any knowledge up here that I thought that was worth you know, that could have traded on, And we are under the insider trading rules and things like that.
That's not to say there aren't people, because you can imagine it this way. Let's say you're the chairman of Armed Services and you know there's a big army contract going to some company to make tanks. But you're pretty sure it's gonna happen. You know, it's not been written down anywhere. Could somebody trade on knowledge like that? Maybe I don't know. I guess I'm just not personally aware of that. That people have gotten rich off the system.
The ones that are very wealthy, most of them either earned it before that or married into it. He is Senator rand Paul Listen, Senator Paul, Thank you so much for the time, and we look forward to you coming back on. Okay, thanks guys, there you go. All right, we are rolling through the show today. And you know how they stay rich as they sell their property and don't give all their money to a real estate age Eedland real estate broke or it's been around for forty six years. They'll
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eight forty w a trance for everyone except for the podcasters. Yeah. I love that sound because it makes me feel sexy. One of these days we'll get music back on these podcasts. I hope will we Yeah, probably will. This is click it or skip it. I'll give you gossip headlines. Tell me to click at or skip it headline. This is why we do this. Get the Google machine out. Josh Peck bashed for silence after Drake Bell spoke out about abuse. I know this, Click on it. This
is the Nickelodeon story towards you. Oh gotcha where they bashed Peck. They were both on Jake or Josh and Drake whatever show. Those those are the two guys. So he he hasn't said anything since the documentary came out. Oh, click on it, go ahead. The Peck family had actually had a male and a female. There was Peck and Peck her. Oh that's
true. Out about that, thank you. Many Hollywood insiders are speaking out in the wake of Drake Bell's accusations of mistreatment of child actors in kids' television that includes the studio that produced the former series Drake and Josh Go. Fans and followers have noticed one person has stayed strangely quiet in the aftermath of this, and that's Bell's co star, Josh Peck, and they're not happy about it. While Peck hasn't spoken out on Bell's allegations, he has released an
odd TikTok video, and fans have flown into the comment section. Your silence speaks volumes. Bro, It's really sad, wrote one follower, Brah. Another one said it's too quiet on this set for us speak up. Peck's TikTok showed him lip syncing to a video that included the words if I haven't talked to you since twenty twenty three, that's an effing sign that you don't exist to me anymore. Oo what whoa there? You go? Oh, I'm telling you quite that. I watched it because my kids grew up with
Nickelodeon, So that's why I watched it because I had to. You know, they're watching it and I'm watching it, so it interests me and you don't have to watch it. But it's it's pretty it's some sick stuff. Headline. Megan Fox confirms engagement to MG k is off. Megan Fox is one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she was dating this skinny machine Gun keliy tattooed up? Yes, say machine gun? What what is it? What the stupid abbreviations? Is it tattooed up? Okay?
Oh MG, that's the story, isn't it? Though? Click on I want to find it. Fans who've been shipping celebrity couple of Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly shipping might be disappointed by this news. The Transformer star recently confirmed that the one time engagement between the pair is no longer a thing, but she says the rapper slash rocker continues to be her twin soul. I think what we've learned from being in this relationship is that it's not for public
consumption, fuck said on the show Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper. I don't have a comment on the status of the relationship per se, she said. However, she confirmed there will always be a tether to him no matter what. Okay, So there was a TV show and this older guy our age was dating a younger girl and they were hiking in the California Hills or
whatever. And that machine gun. Kelly was like at the top of the whether he get coffee or whatever, and he's he's he's like a six foot four albino, super skinny, wearing pants that are falling off him, so his butt crack is showing and two's all over his body, and he and the guys and the girl goes crazy. She's like, oh my god, he's so hot. And the old you guys like, are you serious? Yeah? Like what so I'll stay out of the sun and stop eating and
get tatted up. Yeah? Yeah, go dead, look dead like a zombie, get tatted up, and wear jeans that are falling off your You don't even have a butt because you're so skinny. I don't get it these girls today the hell headline Kyle Richards Marizio Yumanski apparently have no chance of reconciliation. I have no idea the words you just said, so skip it. Headline. Love is Blind Star asks Taylor Swift not to watch her show after Travis Kelcey roasted it. Click on it, Let's find out what's going on
with this drama. Travis Kelcey is a big fan of Love Is Blind. It turns out, during a recent episode of his podcast New Heights, The Chiefs tight End begged his brother Jason to give the show a shot. He also took time to give his best impression of one of the contestants, Chelsea Blackwell clingy. You think I'm clingy, he asked his brother, pitching his
voice to mimic her. Jason didn't seem interested in watching reality TV, however, even if, as Travis promised, it's worse than his own reality dating show Catching Kelsey, I just looked it up. Love is Blind is a reality show. The reality show where they experiment with single men and women. They look for love and even get engaged before actually meeting in person. Taking to social media, Chelsea begged his girlfriend Taylor Swift not to watch her show.
Quote, the only outlet that this man knows my name or not even knows my name, is from whinding like a baby. Oh shut up, sit down. I just don't even You're on a reality show where people getting gage without even meeting each other. What was wrong with you? She might be a scientist. Oh she could be a scientist. Okay, Tom Cruise is scientist. I don't look you. I don't look if you walk down the beach and you make fun of somebody that looks chunky in a bikini,
that's just wrong. But if you get into a bikini contest and people are criticizing you. You got into a bikini contest on stage and you're chunky, people are going to criticize you. Man. That's not a reality TV show with a dumb premise has a little racist against fat people headline I didn't say fat, you kind of did? You intimated that they look slow? Headline. Richard Simmons reveals click on it, click on it, He's dying cancer
diagnosis. He's dying, Yes, what is it? Just days after sending uneasy tremors through his fan base with his I Am dying Facebook post, Richard Simmons is alerting his fans and followers of a real health issue. Quote mirror, mirror on the wall, what's that blemish? Which is so small? He reveals he's been diagnosed with basil selk arsonoma, which is skin cancer. He explained after a couple of hours of treating the spot under his eye, as well as a full body exam, he was deemed free of cancer cells.
What basis cell car removed had a mole and he said, I'm dying. I know some of you reading this have had cancer or have known someone in your life who's had cancer. Promise me you'll see your doctor and get a complete checkup. He did one of those things. Yeah, I'm going to let me. Let me tell people I'm dying. He'll get them all a Twitter and then, oh, he's gonna be okay. Doctor wise, she's gonna do my skincare check out. I feel sorry for her at the
front tier dermatology. Doctor wise, anyway, doctor that has to scare, stare at every inch of that to see this naked and all of her its glory. Doctor wise, I'm sorry, but I'm a married man. What are the odds that she retires before this appointment? That's the reason she quits. I was at the end of my thing, and then it's one patient as a can ticket. No she can't. She came in. I said, saucer will remove all my clothes. No, no, no, you're
fine. No I could tell you. I was just talking to your probably fine headline. Tracy Morgan says he gained weight on ozempic. Oh wowtop, come on gat weight clicky Yeah. Slightly different take on diet drugs. While celebs like Oprah and Whoopie and others have come forward saying they've attacked their excess weight with drugs like ozempic and monjero, he says they're not always effective for
him. Talking to Jimmy fallon Tuesday Night Out of the Box, he admitted he had to use the ozempic as soon as he sat down, Fall and said, how are you staying in shape these days? Well, that's ozempic, he said, But I've learned to out eat ozempic. I gained forty pounds. No telling if that was a joke or not, but Morgan definitely looks thinner these days. I haven't seen him in a while. You okay? We in that car wreck? Yes, so, I'm saying, And
he bounced back though, But I haven't seen him in anything. He must have fell off the insinuating he's a fat about bouncing I think he would. He's got probably a little bit of a weight problem since the last statement he made. One more headline. Prolific actor m Emmett Walsh passes I want to find out who that is? Click on it. Walsh began his career in
the sixties with small often uncredited roles on TV and film. Worked steadily ever since, with appearances in movies like Cirproco, Slapshot, The Jerk, Blade Runner, Christmas with the Cranks, Knives Out, and many many more. Died of the hospital in Vermontic cardiac arrest. You just named every movie I've seen, every single movie. He eight m Emmett Walsh. Show me a picture already shut down spot nick m Emmett Walsh. Naked google that. No,
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