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title: 01-26 Project Execution, Organizational Strategy, and Technical Discussions
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Speaker 1 00:01:13
Okay.
Speaker 1 00:05:17
Hey. How are you doing?
Speaker 2 00:05:47
How was your colonoscopy? Are you good?
Speaker 3 00:05:52
I I don't have the results back yet, so. Okay. They uh Chat G P T says it's normal, so you know, but So they found like two polyps. So they sent those off and I actually woke up while they were inspecting, like one of them. Really? Oh my god, that's interesting. You know Uh okay All right, You good? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:06:46
Afternoon, I had to go see your brother first.
Speaker 1 00:07:00
So. So.
Speaker 3 00:07:07
I pull one over there, I think we should have these. You know whenever we're at a house, right? So, when we plug into the house, each person, right? Yeah. Right. So it doesn't break it. So it doesn't um. yeah. So it doesn't trip at the house or trip here. Right? So but just I mean if we have a spider box, no big deal. But you know Rocky Point. 
Speaker 3 00:07:45
I haven't I haven't seen one. I checked. We don't have a connection for it. Right, so we had like four plugs, right? So I think we can one plug. Yeah, so I bought two.
Speaker 3 00:08:16
If I need to buy more, I can. But I know you have one and Brandon has one. If I gave it to Brandon, he says no, I have one. Um, but it's they're twenty dollars. You know, but how much time do we spend? Yeah, yeah, you know. So I think it is better. You went yeah okay small okay huh. 
Speaker 3 00:08:51
Yeah. So, CSP one. CSP three. It's for membrane seams, the texture called CSP three or greater. Right? So four. 
Speaker 3 00:09:19
So I brought it just for you to. So like we can look at it. Give me here. Right? It's master key, right?
Speaker 3 00:09:52
So, I just oh yeah you know for like here. Like this, this for the cup grinder right? This must be so three? Three okay. Not pass but uh three what it's the texture it's a. 
Speaker 3 00:10:21
So I asked my wife, say, hey, can I have these? She said no. Okay. But let me show them to my guys because this is two hundred dollars. Oh, two hundred? Yeah. So three or or better is good for memorandums. So three four How do you say rough?
Speaker 3 00:11:20
So, this is this is the the surface that profile that we want for you feel that top one. That's that what we want for membrane C. Okay, Um so that's why we have to go down and shave all of this right. Um and why we don't like I mean like this. That's so smooth. That's too smooth right So Right so this. 
Speaker 3 00:11:52
You made those? No, my wife bought them. She went to World of. that's like this. Well, that's the thing. So this is too smooth. So we should. We should make that. You know. Last one was. Yeah. Right? It was But but okay It's uh, Who, are you leaving in your chat with you? Sure. 
Speaker 3 00:12:52
The membrane C won't. It says it won't. The membrane C won't stick to one or two. Only only three or more. So when I kill this, let's go this one, right? Oh no, I was.
Speaker 3 00:13:26
So. You know, so that's. Okay, okay. They go with this?
Speaker 1 00:14:10
Yeah. Yeah. 15 inches of flow,
Speaker 3 00:14:15
You know? Hm? So should we more or less happen? Because it's two inches here, so one and a half. And then half inch flow. Maximum. Yeah. Right. 15 inches of flow, you know? Yeah. Right.
Speaker 3 00:14:41
So yeah, I just. Oh. Okay. So. It's only this one port that we're gonna tighten it for the best, make it settled. Because if you leave it like this and he floats it, he's gonna float all the way up. Yeah Right? Yeah So you want to cut. Cut it before he floats. More. What is that? More, Mostra? Uh-huh. No, or only float. Or you know I think I think you can float it like this, right? It doesn't need to be perfect here does it? No Because you can do that later. 
Speaker 3 00:15:41
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 00:16:10
Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:16:40
Right. So that's. That's two and three quarters, right? Yeah. Left. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:16:53
Here. So if I go. But. 
Speaker 3 00:17:05
In the lines, you can see? Right?
Speaker 1 00:17:13
Yes.
Speaker 3 00:19:52
Perfect.
Speaker 3 00:20:22
Well before, it was, it was a thirty second difference. Right here. Now that you, right. If we go Look at the laser is the line. Right, but I don't know that the laser But I don't know Did the laser meet the line, or did the line meet the laser? You know what I mean? So I look at it and I need to see You know, which one is is Which. One is the.
Speaker 3 00:20:53
The gear, all right. See, because with the laser it's thirty second off, right? So let me use yours just to make sure.
Speaker 1 00:21:25
So yours is,
Speaker 3 00:21:27
I think. Mine uh, 64. Different, but it's cool. 64? No, it's. It's that. It's fine.
Speaker 4 00:21:45
Like the laser?
Speaker 3 00:21:47
The laser? Ah.
Speaker 1 00:22:08
I'm okay. So. Okay.
Speaker 3 00:22:40
Okay, so I think it's better. So if you want to do both, those those? That's that's that's fine. But I would do it at the same time. Right? Maybe do three or four. Right? This one is dry, You can do the top because we want him to be able to to do it, to start coating. While you're moving. Do you trust him? You can walk. So, it's mejor de dos personas, right? So, ellos necesito practicar con uno. Right? So, if you want, you can make four maybe you stop.
Speaker 3 00:23:39
Right. Okay. No more float trip. Hey, Renee, you float that one? I float this one. Watch him. Right? Okay When you can get him to float while you're doing other things, it's not hard It's the only way they they do the uh Michael Right? Take two go right So okay. 
Speaker 3 00:24:10
Okay, I'm gonna go talk to Rick. Huh? That is my. I asked my wife, I said, can I have it? She says no. So okay, can I have one day? Okay one day. But it's good for you to see it because I never. I never saw it so.
Speaker 1 00:24:45
The Car is moving.
Speaker 1 00:25:58
There he is.
Speaker 1 00:26:50
Sure.
Speaker 2 00:28:01
How Much do you have involved with where the. I know the locations of the scripts.
Speaker 2 00:28:48
G Lad that you're uh on the face, it looks like you're or the butt looks like you're pulling off some tubes right now. Yeah, I mean it was didn't bang pick me up little problem. Oh really? Oh wow. Um, I think I know what he's talking about. The last one I got, I think I told you, was late in the day. And the last time in the morning, I have like maybe that much coffee out of my mug. Go home in the afternoon and no one's there. And I put a little more coffee in there and read it. Not a coffee kind of person. And then take myself a break and I enjoy that twenty minutes of solid reading, right? Um. how much does that love my wife? Sometimes if I come home.
Speaker 2 00:29:47
I know I'm not going to get that 20 minutes back. I'll always. 'cause she'll go, "I know you need your 20 minutes." "Yeah, I know, I know." But you know what? So that day she picked me up. She stopped by uh Starbucks and and I got my regular coffee. Like my usual stuff. Regular coffee. And every now, and then she left me alone with a cup of coffee in the best bagel from the NE in 44 hours.
Speaker 2 00:30:17
I told you. And it was like, So I came home. And. 
Speaker 3 00:30:32
We didn't go right home. We went and went to pick up my boys, because so my in- laws live down the street from uh the hospital. Oh, and so they said," Hey, go get the boys."
Speaker 3 00:30:49
Well, she picked you up from, yeah. Yeah. Picked me up and went and grabbed the boys and then came home. Yeah. Um, I'm pretty sure it means that the boys are not interacting with it. Yeah, how you feeling? Do you remember anything? Yeah. And uh. And then by the time I got home, I wasn't tired enough to go to sleep at all.
Speaker 2 00:31:13
This is my first one? A guy gave it for.
Speaker 2 00:31:19
Thanksgiving. This is one thing that I got on Wednesday. Had a Wednesday night, uh, Shaw's steakhouse guy, fronted that with a real big party on Wednesday night. We came back, didn't eat anything. You know, I felt okay but not 100%. Just felt kind of groggy. Got up Thursday morning to serve for the early service on Thanksgiving morning. Halfway out, I was like uh-oh. This might be a mistake and I got it. I i just turned around with the white water.
Speaker 2 00:31:51
The second one, I wasn't dizzy at all. Now,
Speaker 3 00:31:56
I was the opposite. Now, granted, I was pretty drunk when I had the first one. There you go. Yeah, there's. I told you about my memory lapse? Yeah. But this one. like stumbling and you know. I felt like getting me. You know? But I wasn't. I didn't want to sleep until after we got home and then, I sat down on the couch and I'm like, I know this trick that I picked down, but it did a few things for my wife. Hey, how can I. And then I knew once I sat down, probably gonna be out of it. And I wasn't. So open my iPad if they're working on stuff over here. And then, I'm like. How come? This is pretty simple. How come?
Speaker 3 00:32:48
You know,
Speaker 2 00:32:48
When I have my my uh mustache, The effect they give you for that is I mean, it's out of the world. Yeah. It's four and a half hours just making you get to be out. And I got from that, That that's a part of my brain that was trying to like where am I? Am I doing? People are asking me questions and where am I? You know but that question like and then and where is Pat? And the the frustration. 
Speaker 2 00:33:19
Not being able to answer any of those questions, kind of like what you were just talking about. It really bothers me. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:33:26
Man, They were saying like I was catching up with the nurses on the way down. Why do you put pads on those uh beds? And like I don't have pads and the thirty two anyone under twenty one we put pads because they wake up first Oh! And then like if you know your cop, We'll put that on there because the cops wake up right at five. Okay, that's funny. And they're like, certain people just come out of it weird. Yeah, you get done where you been? Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:33:59
So I don't live in the valley. I live in Orange County. Oh oh wait, you live in Orange County? I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 00:34:06
Yeah, okay, oh wow. Um So I got it done at St Jude's. And uh so they're kind of like this to go to okay in Orange County. Um. Yeah, so. I'm glad you're okay. Yeah, me too. I'm I mean there's a little bit of uh what is this? You know when you're choked up yeah right? Hello! Hey! How are you? Hi, thank you. You look good today. Good to see you sir um but uh two months. 
Speaker 2 00:35:53
Like in this instance, I wanted to start, I wanted them to finish down the basement. And I wanted to get that a little further before we started on this. As this goes into the powder room, there's plumbing that needs to be done for tile work. So that tile work can't get completed until it's just fine. We're just gonna double cover it once it's in. Before the end of the day today, I'll be putting these ram boards down.
Speaker 2 00:36:23
You know that you know, like you can see the path here and I feel like I'm walking here.
Speaker 2 00:37:25
I want to get going on it.
Speaker 2 00:37:55
So that it's nice and finished looking. Great. That's going to look like Murcielago. All right, thank you, sir. Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 3 00:39:04
You Have a question?
Speaker 3 00:39:23
Started, right? So for me it's two weeks now. I've done two weeks.
Speaker 3 00:41:19
Are they fine? Taking out. Oh shit. Um. I'll just I'll bring more tomorrow.
Speaker 5 00:41:29
Okay. Alright, Manny Manny, I'll just finish those, and that's it because I don't have the time to do this thing. What?
Speaker 3 00:41:41
Um. Can you explain to me everything about this?
Speaker 5 00:41:48
Are you taking this thing?
Speaker 5 00:41:50
I don't know what that one. Oh, he says like plastic. Are. 
Speaker 1 00:41:55
You gonna take this to the church? Um. So. 
Speaker 3 00:42:08
I mean, I can. Um, There I think that there needs to beum You guys have stuff that you want me to take away,'cause you won't ever use it? Fine. If you want to make a box for that, that's fine. Um, But I mean, ultimately, what we need to have like this is not working for us. What, we need to have is we have a mixing one and a mixing right? I don't care if you want to combine them right? Oh well we have like this much stuff for mixing. We don't need to take a whole box because we can combine with. 
Speaker 3 00:42:49
Oh, this is our. I'm just making this up. This is our mixing and waterproofing one. Okay, fine. Right? But we don't need to go so detailed on like here's the tile spacers, here's the you know here here's our wedges, here's our we don't need to put everything in there. This is still big concept right? Right because like whatever it's here can be here. Here tile install right And. So we don't have to put every little item in there just put like, but we shouldn't. I have to go. Like, I shouldn't find rags in more than one. Mhm. Right? One can be coverings, right? Coverings or whatnot. So that's blankets, plastic, right? Things that you use to cover with. Right? Um, waterproofing stuff, Uh cleaning s-, you know whatever, but large umbrellas can be, but we should be able to look at. And go, you know, like a vacuum attachment. Oh, okay, get out the desktop. It goes into the vacuum. It's probably in there right I think I think maybe.
Speaker 3 00:43:48
Yeah, yeah. So, we don't need to be so detailed that way we can keep it clean. You know. Um. Like you said, sometimes less is better. Right, Right. And then And that way we can start like actually finding everything we need when we need it. Um That's where I'm going. 
Speaker 5 00:44:14
With that Yeah I got I got the Idea. 
Speaker 3 00:44:19
Honestly, It's extremely frustrating for me when I come and I see things in the wrong spots. So, you know, Especially when I go and I can find rags in three different bins and I'm like, are you even trying? But ultimately the whole point of it all is. It's like uh you've heard me say that the Navy SEAL expression : slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Oh yes. Right?
Speaker 3 00:44:49
We want to be able, the idea behind that is like, hey no we do everything right the first time. Alright? We clean our weapons. We double check everything. So now when I go to fire, there's an enemy on me, it doesn't jam. Right? And you guys get down over here, right? Everything goes boom. You need this? Boom boom boom. Where is the sand? It's right here. Right every time. Yes right. And so you know, we we it shouldn't be a matter of like, oh. You know, I mean, we should have enough to split up to go to two sites. Right? We should not be leaving if we don't. For when we're getting the extra, right? I mean, materials should be over there. The sand should be over there and not here. This is this to me this is this is our cool right? Those are our installation materials so sand should be over. Well, I don't know. Yeah Then you got M one and stuff like that but um. 
Speaker 3 00:45:49
I don't know. I'll figure that one out. But you know what I mean? Like, it should everything should be. We should never be pulling the last. If we're pulling the last one, it should at least get us through today. The same day, right? And so you're never going oh we don't have it. You can go, hey, I'm pulling the last one, and you know, get a message out to Braden. We don't have this or we're using the last one that he can bring it tomorrow. You know, it should never be like morning up. 
Speaker 5 00:46:14
April's morning stuff Yeah, cause you told me it's hard to get uh some pills. 
Speaker 3 00:46:19
Yeah, Like if you hit me in the morning for anything coming out of Miracast or PC Pro Memory C Mortimer two thousand, I'm probably going to tell you it's not a chance. Right? Um and depending on where I mean, it's very possible that I already set up my morning. Right? And I'm like over there. Like he hit me up last week or two weeks ago and he's like, hey man, I need this and I'm like dude, I'm not going to be here until like one o'clock. You know so we just have to be. 
Speaker 5 00:46:48
Strategic about all that. Yeah, I'll I'll do what you said because I think it's a good idea for like label it by like by boxes.
Speaker 3 00:46:58
So the more so just do what he needs. Um, I mean, i i told Alex like, hey man, I'm not trying to get you to like stop everything and organize this. But, but i want to i don't want to go backwards, but i just want to go forward if it's just a foot a day, one step a day forward. That's fine, right? We still got a job to do. Right, but let's keep on organizing. Keep on organizing. But like today, I told him, "I was like, hey, Set up the float strip and then have Renee come behind you and float with you." Oh yeah. So that way you can learn how to float the way that he floats. And now we're raising you up. Right? So, if you guys spend all your time like, oh, I'm going to spend my I've got extra time organizing right now. You go to him, and he says, I got You know, I got nothing for you Okay Yeah Does that help That stuff Time out.
Speaker 3 00:47:47
You've been here, you know, a short amount of time. Are you perfect at this? I see. It's like, yeah, okay. You need more practices and more help. But if you're not working with him, you're not learning. If you're not learning, can't you can't get a promotion?
Speaker 6 00:47:58
I like I like I like yapping at his ear. There you go.
Speaker 3 00:48:02
Um butOpen bag should always be. You know yeah, I'm up. Towe need to get it to buckets. If we need more buckets. Let me know. No I think those are three one actually. SoBut let's get it back into a bucket, Now, If it's like thirty seven, oh one where you know we're going to use seven bags today, okay. I don't care. You know. But you're not going to use all that today. No. You know what I mean? So let's get it into a bag into a bucket. That way, we can put the top back on, and we don't have to worry about it falling over. And spilling or getting wet because it's kind of close to the water Getting wet or right, right.
Speaker 3 00:51:60
I can't even get it.
Speaker 1 00:53:07
Yes.
Speaker 1 01:01:09
Thank you.
Speaker 3 01:04:08
You there? No. All right. I'm looking at the picture.
Speaker 3 01:04:26
Right, So what do you I just want to make sure we're clear, um, what area are are we are we talking about because it's indented?
Speaker 1 01:04:49
I s it all, is it cut everywhere so far? Okay.
Speaker 3 01:05:05
And you guys it looks like you guys have already wire wheeled, is that right?
Speaker 1 01:05:21
Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 3 01:05:34
I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna head over there and take a look. Um, So my initial thought is that there's so right in the middle of your circle. You you've got like on the top of that hole where it starts indenting, you've got like I don't know what how big that is a quarter inch. You know of membrane C. Um. You know, but it also it also looks like below that. Is that exposed concrete just to the bottom left of that. So, that hole that you've got right, that indention.
Speaker 3 01:06:20
It almost goes to like anarrow at the top, right? It's like right in the middle of your red circle. And then if you follow thatarrow off to the left, it looks looks a little.
Speaker 3 01:06:48
In The middle of the circle where where that. Areas recessed, what you're asking me about. You're going, hey, how do I do this? Cause it's kind of a hole. Right? And. So it looks like, so if you go to the top of the the hole, if you will. Right? It's almost like there's an arrow pointing up. Okay? And, then if you follow that the tip of the arrow pointing up to the left. Right down down that line, it almost looks like that's exposed concrete. Is that the case?
Speaker 3 01:07:46
Okay. Um, I mean, if you can, can you get in there at all or do we need to? Because here's the deal: we've got kind of two choices. We can maybe three, but to do it right, we've got two choices. We, can you know bring that down a little bit more? So we can maybe get an inch exposure and fill that hole.
Speaker 3 01:08:11
Then, you have to we have to do a tie in around the entire holes, Which means that we have to expose that entire area around the on the outside of the hole. You know what I mean. Are you guys done? Um, sanding for grinding for most part.
Speaker 1 01:08:52
Okay. I. 
Speaker 3 01:08:59
Mean, if you think you can expose an inch of it, I'm okay with just an inch of overlap. Okay. So and then what why don't we do this? Why, don't we? Why don't you guys try that? And I'm gonna head over to you and I can be there in about.
Speaker 3 01:09:19
You guys need anything from here? Um, I'm gonna bring you some more M1. Other than that.
Speaker 3 01:10:07
I'm gonna go down. Rock the place. You don't need me, right? You can teach him how to float good. You can move real fast. So okay, I've been fixing them once.
Speaker 1 01:10:42
Okay.
Speaker 3 01:11:30
Is it okay to walk? Yeah. Oh. I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 5 01:13:15
Never loved me.
Speaker 5 01:14:05
You.
Speaker 3 01:15:09
This just popped up in my feed. Period. Time passes so fast.
Speaker 1 01:16:03
I'm Jack, your son. Brian said, "Whoa, how do you have that picture? Crazy."
Speaker 3 01:16:41
Comma. No offense taken. I mean this in a good way. Why was you bothered question mark. 
Speaker 3 01:17:46
Then we'll be there. Period.
Speaker 1 01:18:22
From Brian, I was so embarrassed. Brian said," A couple times I almost walked onto the field and pulled him." Believe. 
Speaker 3 01:18:47
Me, comma I've been there.
Speaker 1 01:18:57
Period.
Speaker 3 01:19:33
Sorry it went down that way though.
Speaker 1 01:20:20
Skipping one minute of intro.
Speaker 7 01:20:22
Good pod today, great pod if I may say so myself. Prompted in part by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's banker's address at the Bankers'Ball, I discussed the same innovation that extended innovation dollars Mark Carney did. I don't know what's happening in Canada. Right, Stephen Harper was a great Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney a great partner with Ronald Reagan and facing down the Soviet Union. They had a clown Trudeau for a long time now they've turned to Mister Dobson himself Mark Carney. I want you to make time to listen to us on my way out, probably up From Brian: I appreciate that Fifteen minutes speech on the C D A. Obviously, fifteen minutes speech on Mark Carney fifteen minutes speech. We talk about it with my guest today. John Ellis uh lobby often got kind of and Ben Domnitz Ben U Y L A.
Speaker 7 01:21:19
It promises that it's going to get to two percent, two percent by twenty thirty. It just doesn't really know how it's going to get there. It should have no power, which would begin with consistent spending between three and five percent of GDP. Currently says he stands in the course of this speech for Greenland and Denmark. He didn't say he was standing against because it's uniquely hard for the first already, like I said, that name the president of the US. Nobody has any particular question or answer because an off-ramp on this subject, Uh currently says he's hopeful about this whole discussion having catalyzed in an unusual way. In other words, Trump can't be done because we need we'll know. Currently talks about the need for Europe and the T rans - P aci fi c Partnership getting together to expand trade and counteract what they have in mind personally. I still don't agree with a T rans - P aci fi c Partnership at a treaty. Secondly, Japan China and United States are at the biggest superpower I. Guess we're the same United. States is too ahead of Japan. So no powers have been standing up to Japan. Not us Canada itself no difference at all between China and United States. You have to mention the sixty two billion dollar trade surplus that Canada has with the US. In fact, this speech is free of our fact. You don't mention I should say you don't mention that Canada has a submarine. They've got four submarines. The newest one was commissioned in twenty fifteen. They had a three year commission in two thousand and three, two thousand and they got twenty six nuclear submarines like a Beatles song. Canada has a standing military of about sixty eight thousand, unlike Poland and Finland, who have frontline states with Russia. They do as much as they can with what they have. Canada doesn't really actually have the ability to repulse conventional incursion from Russia without US backup quickly. You know, feeling got reserve forces now I'd say army at twenty three twenty four thousand, but their reserve forces are at twenty eight thousand and can mobilize immediately kept uh putting up capacity up north and Poland spends close to five percent of GDP on defense.
Speaker 7 01:22:17
Now, I think about it. It's not like they can't do it. They're a free rider. Canada is a free rider. They're a nice free rider, but like Australia and Montreal people like to visit there, are they or a free rider? And when he compares us with China and just got back from China, so he had a good great meeting there. He has an alliance with China twice in this speech at the end of this, he mentioned human rights: 50 million genocide leaders, the crushing of Hong Kong's freedoms, the ongoing threat to Taiwan's genuine imprisonment. None of that distinguishes the hegemon from our PRC hegemon. So, if the truth is our truth, Canada lives under the umbrella of United States for 80 years and has its excellent standard of living because of freedom of seas guaranteed by United, States, Navy and by our trade with them. When you hear Karney declare, we will Canada be an energy superpower? Ask yourself which country has the tallest oil to produce gas. And in which country, I guess, countries they could sell you oil. So freedom of the sea becomes just as true as a cloud, right? Mark Carney appears to be the main banker from the bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe, The Master of the Universe in an imaginary world. Of course, you got to stay on your nation at Davos, where real power chess is not played. What in the world has happened to Canada that today is a parable and ironic? I know that's on my mind today. My topic for today with Ben Domenech and we're going to cover Jack Smith. We're going to cover everyone. We're going to cover everything that happened during the week, especially but not President Trump, showing up most striking Iran this month and four nations of the world about, by way of mention him probably mentioned him back for President Trump, every single other program will be related it.
Speaker 7 01:23:11
To the benefit of the entire world. Something that no other power, The other agenda wasn't willing to do because the other agenda was backed only by oil. Iran's allowed to run a mill with fifteen thousand people. Mark Carney doesn't know that. You think I'm a little bit upset at Mark Carney? Yeah, he's a banker. It's like uh uh Mayor Fry had submarines of oil. He's just basically a blue state mayor, the blue state mayor Canada, Mark Carney. What a schmarmy speech! Uh but that just leads us in to the big weekend vibe, enjoy.Welcome back America I'm Hugh Hewitt. I'm joined by M att康K enne dy, who is, of course, head of domestic policy studies at the Canadian Enterprise Institute.He's also The Wall Street Journal columnist and he's just back from Canada. I was going to call him Kim Philby of Canada, but they've gone McLean or Guy Burgess sounds more Canadian.What were you doing up north in the land of hockey and Amanda Orms? Flanders on my character comparing me to those Cambridge spies. No, I was in Canada engaged in high stakes diplomacy. Went to Toronto Wednesday evening, spent a whole twenty four hours there, met with our northern neighbor, Touched down in Ottawa, briefly on my way back to D, C and I can report the following :. Canada is not happy with President Trump, and his rhetoric on Greenland or the fifty first state. And. So my job there was to explain what Trump is up to in reshaping the world in order to create a kind of a sinews, restore the sinews of Western civilization in preparation for competition with China. I think I convinced a few of my Canadian friends, but it was tough going. You need to sit down with Mark Carney Have you listened to Mark Carney at Project Davos yet? Oh, yes. You know that speech was the talk of the Chattering Class here in D C almost as soon as it was delivered. And so out of curiosity, I went and looked it up, watched his speech.
Speaker 7 01:24:10
I said, I don't know what else to ask about you. But I think it's one of the reasons we have anti - A merican speeches because it's commonly he never mentions America or Donald Trump, but he talks about the hegemon, meaning that China and us are like. And then he runs through, I'll just give you some of the highlights. Cut number four: We place the sign in the window. We participate in rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This argument no longer works. Let me be direct :. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. All right now, a rupture, they are not protected from the world without us. They depend upon our nuclear umbrella. Our military, they have four submarines, sixty eight thousand soldiers. They spend less than two percent of their GDP. On national defense and the oil they send abroad is only because we maintain freedom of their seas. If we didn't they'd have to sell it all to us. It was the most arrogant, Two - faced thing, I've heard from a world leader who depends upon America to the extent that Canada does. It really enraged me. So tell me why I'm wrong. No, I don't think you're wrong. Uh, I think there are two main problems with this speech that Prime Minister Carney gave. The first one is there was no action item. It was all rhetoric. It was all quotations from Thucydides and yes, But he never said what he was going to do, except have this liberal pluralistic society that the OECD governs in Canada. But what does it mean? The action items were more on my defense is even correct? Reckish that Justin Trudeau paused Canada from socialism through green new deal, They became an economy weak of America's open for tremendous capital GDP and productivity with Canada? Canada has real domestic issues that the United States did not cause them, but he needs to address those. And a second thing about his speech was it sounded really rich giving deliverance speech.
Speaker 7 01:25:07
Obviously directed toward President Trump. Less than a week after he met with Xi Jinping, yes, who does not does not believe in freedom, Wants to set the rules of this new world order in a way that would disadvantage any country not named China. And Carney there was extremely solicitous even slavish towards Xi Jinping. And so if you're going to quote Vaclav Havel about speaking truth to power, Why do you do it to the Chinese communist dictator? And instead of going up to the applause of bureaucrats, and god knows what? Thank you because at that meeting where Xi Jinping, he said, we're entering into an alliance I thought, oh, the Uyghurs will love that and I got Jimmy Lai's in a prison cell and I thought Taiwan is being threatened every day, and that Hong Kong has been crushed. And, he talks in this speech about the hegemon. It's clearly China enough, but I don't really, really know how to absorb this other than he. He's on the uh, it's like Jacob from his summaries. He's on the banking class and the banking class likes China because they do a lot of business with China. Am I too hard on Trump? You're you're right about the banking class and the financial elite, but I think there's another thing at work here too, and that is domestic Canadian politics. Not true. The thing about nationalism is every nation has it. And so you could have American nationalism to President Trump, something he's awakened nationalism in India and in China traditionally allies of ours. And so Karney was playing to domestic audiences as well, and I can report. It didn't make him like it when we come back talking with Matt during break up in a superstar of American. Um. Disaster strike: fires, hurricanes, Earthquakes When, they do Greg O'Leary delivers medicines, medical supplies, everything doctors nurses need to save lives. But you were out.
Speaker 7 01:26:03
Every day about the US and around the world. Scott Bessett talking about, yeah, a new seven dollars on Tuesday, cut number eleven. I think it's very, very ironic that you know energy solutions frankly is Patrick Bateman makes for Palm Beach County. Maybe the only California enough for that good enough. And then cut number eight, We've seen lack of energy security from this net push for a net zero, which I think we've seen in some recent scientific challenges of interest back, even though case the same one degree to two degrees, three degrees. I'm not sure it matters. If you look at what he's doing with his own money, I think it looks like he believes we're going to innovate our way out of any perceived climate problems. So do I think that's on one side. And then again, I think this. Almost reached the center of my life two years ago, but it was you're not going to own anything, you're going to eat insects. Maybe it was just the inmates were running this asylum. I'm not going to eat the bugs. Well, I can tell you after a few days of Swiss German food, I may switch the books. Coming back on day who knew that Scott Bessick was going to be up there with Marco Rubio for verbal dexterity? Yes, You know, Q. As soon as we finished last week's interview, where we were talking about some of the great communicators in Donald Trump's cabinet, I slapped my forehead and said I left out Scott Bessick. And sure enough, he showed why he's one of the more effective communicators in this cabinet. The other thing about Bessick is he established a profile in financial markets long before the Trump campaign began. And like Donald Trump, he was a completely independent character right, but he has I think seen light through.
Speaker 7 01:26:58
The Biden Harris years and the Obama years about the dangers of government regulation, high taxes, spending, all the different energy regulations that limit growth. And so he became a warrior for markets under the Trump agenda. And you see it in his chain. I mean that line about Newsom was extremely cutting to the point where I think it left Governor Newsom speechless for a moment, which is a rare occurrence indeed. It's going to leave on mark. Marco Kent is going to leave on mark. Um that kind of we talked about just having wit in written work. How how do you know when you when you have wit wrote? The more effective communicator is this kind of music? It looks like he believes we're going to innovate our way out. There's Scott Bessent take dollars if he manages it. First of all, here's Scott Bessent talking about Gavin Newsom and others on Tuesday October 1 1t h I think it's very, very uh ironic that. Newsom strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Marco Beach Ken, maybe the only California enough. And then cut number eight. Come back with Matt Connolly to play for Matt two pieces of Scott Bessant's take on this, if you may have missed it. First of all, here's Scott Bessant talking about Gavin Newsom and Davos on Tuesday. Cut number eleven. It's very, Very ironic that you know Governor Newsom who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Marco Beach Ken, Uh maybe the only California enough, good enough and then cut number eight, helping seen the lack of energy security from this next push for.
Speaker 7 01:27:55
Net zero, which I think we've seen in some recent scientific journals has been pushed back. Even Bill Gates is saying one degree, two degrees, three degrees. I'm not sure it matters. If you look at what he's doing with his own money, It looks like he believes we're going to innovate our way out of any perceived climate problem. So I think that's on one side. And then again, I think this I think we almost reached the 199 5 moment a few years ago when it was you're not going to own anything, You're going to eat insects, and it was just the inmates were running this asylum down there.- Can you find the bugs?- Well, I can tell you after a few days of swiss German food, let me switch the bugs. - Who knew that Scott Bessant was going to be up there with Marco Rubio for verbal dexterity? Yes, you know, Q. As soon as we finished last week's interview, where we were talking about some of the great communicators in Donald Trump's cabinet, I slapped my forehead and said I left out Scott Bessett. And sure enough, he showed why he's one of the more effective communicators in this cabinet. You know the thing about Bessett is he established a profile in financial markets long before the Trump era began. And like Donald Trump, he was a politically independent character right? But, he has I think seen a light through the Biden Harris years and the Obama years of the dangers of government regulation, high taxes spending all the different energy regulations that limit growth. And, so he's become a warrior for markets under the Trump agenda, and he's entertaining. I mean that line about Newsom was extremely cutting to the point where I think it left Governor Newsom speechless for a moment, which is.
Speaker 7 01:28:49
Rare occurrence indeed. It's going to leave on Mark. Sparkle Ken is going to leave on Mark. Matt Kondak, we've talked about Joseph Epstein before, uh the soul of wit in written word. How how do you know when you when you have wit? Because obviously Scott Bessick has wit. We got we got a minute. What is wit? It's uh quickness. It's the comeback. It's being able to turn a phrase on a dime in response to something somebody has said or or something that occurs. Joseph Epstein had it and Scott Bessick does of course, in my view, The founder of American conservatism William F Buckley Jr was the exemplar of wit because he was able to come up with a one - liner, really just at the drop of a hat. It's a superpower uh Trump. By the way, recognizes it as maybe doesn't practice it very often. He can't get off a good one - liner once in a while, but he recognizes it always as an entertainer next Jack Smith after the break stay tuned. And I'm here with Matt K. Costello, who is with me, of course. Matt is with The Wall Street Journal. He writes a column. He's also head of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and our special envoy to Canada. Uh, Matt, Last night, you know, Brett uh, Brett Bear is so good at what he does with the panel. He realizes when he has to stretch the moment because smoke is coming out someone's ears. I had a Democrat on who said Jack, Smith did great yesterday, and it was wonderful, and he showed him up. And then Brett turned to me and said, "You cut number three." Do you find worth? Oh oh I think Jack Smith effectively killed the appointment of special prosecutors today. I think Eileen Cannon's decision that she ruled his appointment unconstitutional invalidated it. He did not give answers. ;, he gave evasions and I believe that, that will go down as one of the worst appearances before congressional history that I can actually remember in real time So. There was a difference of opinion on the panel. What. Did you think of Jack Smith before the House Judiciary Committee?
Speaker 7 01:29:48
I think he showed that he was the wrong man for the job. He wasn't prepared for these questions, and they're real questions. They're questions about his approach to the First Amendment and whether Trump's actions surrounding January sixth are exercises of free speech, which I think they were. He showed a lack of judgment on immunity, taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court and losing it. They're questions about the Speech and Debate Clause, Which I think Representative Gillum really got into in describing the way in which they pursued under Article Cross with communications of senior congressional leaders, including describing former Speaker Kevin McCarthy as a potential flight risk. Now there's one thing I know about Kevin McCarthy: not a flight risk. No, you're not a flight risk. And, then you know, if you look at him about Smith's resume and his case against Bob McDonnell, which was then thrown out by the Supreme Court. So you have here kind of pattern on part Jack Smith that he needs to be relentless prosecutor, but I think one who is so determined. To indict, That he is ready to kind of walk all over the Constitution in the process. I keep referencing Jawahir from Lainey's and I wonder, my question is, did Merrick Garland know that and want that or did he make a mistake? I know the Ellen Cannon's opinion needs to be revisited by everyone. She held his appointment is unconstitutional because he had never been confirmed as a prosecutor. For example, the U.S. Attorney would be. And the prosecutorial power Robert Jackson wrote a very great essay, A great speech actually at Department of Justice about how dangerous it is to be a special prosecutor. You got to be careful. Do you think Garland knew what he was getting or just screwed up? He must have known. Merrick Garland has been around Washington D.C for very long time. He knows about Jack Smith, and he knows about his relationships with Comey and Fitzgerald and that whole crew. So I think he had a sense of what was going to happen.
Speaker 7 01:30:44
And it backfired. And we know that the primary reason Donald Trump is president today, not just the total collapse of Biden administration, not just Donald Trump's own extraordinary resilience and talent, but it's because of the lawfare. It's because of the lawfare that was spearheaded by Jack Smith. I think this is a moment where we need to look in the mirror. But you know what? I was hoping you'd ask me about the Oscar picks. I've been asking people about their Oscar nominations. I asked everyone what my chance to win is. Well, there are ten of them. Did you see any of them? No, no, I've only seen one of the ten and that's F1 Me too! And not seen in a theater but and I thoroughly enjoyed. So as soon as you said that earlier this week, I said, okay, i'm rooting for f one to win picture of the year. No, but i want to ask you about the most important question in the world. It really is. Should donald trump hit iran harder than it's ever been hit as he pledged, he would if they would kill people. And do you think he will he needs to take action? You know, he drew a red line there. He has called for new leadership. He has sent this uh signal of force by sending the aircraft carrier group back into the region. And he's told the Iranian people that help is on the way. So action needs to be taken. You know, they've stepped up sanctions, they've stepped up the maximum pressure. But I do think that a strike directed at kind of the pillars of the regime's security state in particular, Like ICG militias and the IRGC, which has caused so much havoc in the region and killed Americans would be completely justified. And it would back up President Trump's credibility, and it would extend America's deterrence, and it would help Iranian people who clearly believe that this government is illegitimate and should fall. Now, here's a question, which requires a little bit of prophecy : Barack. Obama will never escape erasing Iran's red line ; Joe. Biden will never escape collapse in Afghanistan.
Speaker 7 01:31:41
Donald Trump has already done the world a great thing by obliterating the nuclear program and by driving Maduro. But we're walking back from the threat of force here. Um, be a lasting mark on his legacy as they historians assess the Trump presidency. I think Trump's goal should be that there are new governments in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba by the time he leaves office. And what a blow for freedom it would be if that was the case. He's removed Maduro from Venezuela and he is working with the regime now, But clearly, there'll be pressure as there should be to transition to democracy in Venezuela. He has made this pledge to the people of Iran. He has done more to weaken Iran in working with, of course Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel than any other American president. And. Now we have news that he's going to really ramp up the pressure on Cuba, which is you know, in kind of a final end state.
Speaker 7 01:32:38
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Speaker 7 01:33:37
You know, applications basically need to expand.
Speaker 1 01:34:30
I think it was. Half hour? Take them out.
Speaker 3 01:34:37
They lighten up. Okay. Could you tell they. 
Speaker 5 01:34:42
Lighten up from the.
Speaker 3 01:34:43
Yeah, I can. You try the PLR real quick? Okay. Let's try the PLR, um. From our. Or you could like.
Speaker 3 01:35:03
Um, number one. This is a side note, so not. You read the memory and see um or above. Right. My wife got these. She went to World of Concrete last week for she in the she's she did that. She sells epoxy flooring. Oh, okay. Um. I didn't mean to question like that. So I saw these on her desk and I was like, are those what I think they are? Um because I've been asking Corey's like, yeah, I got some, I got some. Don't worry, I'll i'll give them to you, and he never brings them right, because i don't know that he knows where they are That's a three Okay So it it. It gets caught in the system Yeah compare.
Speaker 3 01:36:01
Take a little about this one. My guess is this is a lot smoother. Oh, that concrete is there. Yeah, I thought we were talking about the membrane too, but yeah, I guess the membrane's no it's it's what the membrane goes on top of. Right? So we're going to want to you have your chipping hammer as well? No, I have mine. We have don't have mine but we have a. 
Speaker 4 01:36:27
Chipping hammer yeahum. 
Speaker 4 01:36:31
Dragging the blade. Or even the or this too, or no, this will make it smooth.
Speaker 3 01:36:36
That's what made us move. Um. 
Speaker 3 01:36:41
I think if we uh The bush hammer would would be a good tool for this. Um I think that the grinding bush hammer would not because it would ruin the tool because it's Yeah rightum. Do we have the bush hammer? I'll take my, take my chipping hammer along. You know, but you might be able to get there. Oh yeah. Um,
Speaker 4 01:37:10
We. Oh yeah shit, I completely forgot. No that's that was that's on me, that was on me. Yeah then we got the go ahead here we go over here. Okay we have the three ways here. Yeah like I think I saw this too. And I was like, oh, okay, what is this? Um so what so what are. What's our options for the for the and you're talking about the this right here or the yeah membrane C as well.
Speaker 3 01:37:39
So, the membrane C won't stick to to anything that's less. So, just so we're on the same page, thread three is that and then four gets more right. Um so. 
Speaker 3 01:38:04
So I think. Um, as far as this is concerned, this looks pretty good. Like going all the way through here. There's a couple of spots where we got to the concrete, but then we went a little further out with the VC Pro. Okay. And then, you know, even this I think is good.
Speaker 4 01:38:33
Get this off right here with the Dremel or with this uh multi master.
Speaker 3 01:38:38
Yeah, I'd say try to take care of that. This is good.
Speaker 4 01:38:46
Yeah, like those areas, I mean those areas, we we could probably get that with the Dremel. So or the multi master for sure. I think it's more of the ones that like kind of overhang a little bit more that really concerns us.
Speaker 3 01:38:56
So this guy, I'd probably get with a wire wheel. And then this you guys can get this. Probably a wire wheel in here. Whatever you guys want to do, where is the one that you showed me?
Speaker 4 01:39:08
Right over there in this area here.
Speaker 3 01:39:30
You might be able to get it, and without seeing, so I'm going to say wire wheel or whatever for now. If you guys can do it differently, but I mean I'm looking at the wire wheel right now. I could if you were to take it this way, right? Probably. Okay. But honestly this, You're doing a pretty good job. Okay, so I think if you can just get in there a little bit better, right? Yeah, where you're you're questioning, you know, I'd probably clean up a little bit of this. Yeah. Um. We can put some M1 in there.
Speaker 3 01:40:30
Right, and then put and go over that M one. Find it out. Yeah, okay, okay. The M one technically we've done this in the past, and Corey shies away from it now. Um, but I've done it successfully in the past; it's just not to detail. But for the sake of I'm not saying, Hey, I don't care what Corey says. I am saying, educationally speaking, in theory. We could go with M one just right on here, which would grab that exposed membrane C. And M one here, which would grab this one and then tie membrane C to membrane C or uh M one to M one with membrane C. Yeah.
Speaker 3 01:41:29
So what I'm saying is, in an area like this, if you're concerned, you can put some M1 there. And that would help. Like here we'd have to fix because we came down a little extra.
Speaker 3 01:42:13
So, but I think if we detail out these areas here, I mean it looks pretty good. Looks like you guys. This. 
Speaker 4 01:42:21
Will be difficult.
Speaker 3 01:42:26
That'd probably be an area for sure we'd have to put something on.
Speaker 3 01:42:30
I'd actually say let's expose this area here. Okay.
Speaker 2 01:42:41
Exposing you need, Take the DP Pro off. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 01:42:46
No, exposed to the like don't even try to get inside of this hole. Just go underneath the hole. Okay. Right? Yeah. And then we'll come over it. Yeah, So I think,
Speaker 4 01:43:06
You know I think and wherever you got this wheel from this this wheel right here is does. Yeah, this is so good for this. I think I went on to Amazon. Yeah, this one was really good. Like it, it doesn't like it barely takes off anything like. Yeah, I'm liking him. Yeah no no just that like it barely kicks off anything. So like once you go over a few times, like it's like, you know, yeah, there's a bit of uh.
Speaker 3 01:44:00
It's almost like it works better on the side of it. Yeah, yeah, no, sometimes I feel like it does too.
Speaker 4 01:44:12
I think I might even get the grinder and I might just try to, you know, shorten the bristles a little bit.
Speaker 1 01:44:37
Yeah.
Speaker 4 01:45:05
Some of these areas maybe we could this probably come in handy.
Speaker 3 01:45:10
They have to be super flat. That's why I like this because it'll you can, you know, Cause you're going to end up anything that's not I. I probably would stay away from anything that's super rigid. Okay. So those yeah those areas okay? Yeah like what you guys didum. 
Speaker 3 01:45:44
And I brought two things of M1 just in case, like wasn't sure what we were gonna, what I was gonna find. I have one tube, a full tube. But yeah. I was kind of detailing it with this, this and my multi-tool. This is a diamond blade on here. Yeah, The only issue with that is that what are you guys using for the multi - tool?
Speaker 3 01:46:15
A little worn out. Yeah, I have another one. But I mean and again, I think the only issue that I have, I think the multi tools are awesome. They're super helpful. Um, it's not going to let you get because once if it's flat, it's great. But, it's not going to let you get into those grooves You know. And that's why I almost like um.I almost like the uh.that wire brush better than, Even the knotted one because it's more flexible, it can kind of get in there. Yeah yeah, like it'll. Yeah, it'll get around like those little bumps and stuff. So let's talk C L R real quick.
Speaker 3 01:47:09
What's Up landscaper hit, nicked our hose with hisum weed whacker. Okay. Okay, there's a schmuck.
Speaker 1 01:47:20
Oh, actually, there's been some more stone over here. And. 
Speaker 3 01:47:32
Then we can do like a little section like right over there. And I just will look for some look for discoloration, okay? Try that if it doesn't work if it doesn't discolor it, It doesn't discolor it, then be tried over there. Does discolor it, then we can kind of go, we can do another round on the existing rust with a cleaner. I was you, I would have asked me for the face shield. Yeah, Just so especially when it's end up having breathing issues for the next couple days. Just not they're doing shotcrete at Sixth Street today.
Speaker 3 01:48:12
So I'd like to go there tomorrow. We'll do the cleanup on the rebar and everything. Right. Um, both of you. Um So we can take the pressure washer, pressure washer and everything over there. Um We were saying uh is they're doing shotcrete over at Sixth Street today? That's the place that I think you. Over there for the water that accumulates in the floor Right. 
Speaker 1 01:49:57
Okay.
Speaker 2 01:50:52
I Said I would let you know.
Speaker 3 01:56:17
Hey Pedro, this is Braden. I work with Corey at Triune Pool. He was giving me your number and asked me to give you a call about a rendering that uh, a customer is asking us to uh provide for them and said you could help us with that. Uh, would you mind giving me a call back? Uh, if you have the chance? Um seven one four seven nine four nine two two three. Again, my name's Braden, I work with Corey at Triune Pool. Seven one four seven nine four nine two two three. Thank you for your time today.
Speaker 1 01:58:39
Yes. Pedro?
Speaker 3 01:58:43
I'm doing well, thank you. Good, good. Okay, so Corey asked me to give you a call. Um You know we we had a uh, a customer that's like, hey, we want to change everything last second, and we need a rendering like right now. Uh, please show us what it looks. Soum Corey asked me to. I wanted to touch base with you and see if you are still doing stuff on the side and be interested in something like that. Um, I've kind of done the initial to it to uh to adapt it to what their new request is, And then we were we were hoping that maybe we talk to you about doing a render for us. So they can see what it looks like or what it would look like. It's a fountain.
Speaker 3 01:59:53
So I've so I've got a three D model of it right now. I did it up in yeah, I did it all in SketchUp. Um, I've I've got to verify a couple uh dimensions um of it because I'm looking at the height and going, "Yeah, I think it's different." And then Corey wants to to make a couple changes. Um, Because what essentially what they have is one one fountain that's finished. And then they asked us to build a fountain behind it. And so, Right after we went and and uh, and built the structure, they said actually we want it to be one fountain that's connected together. Can, you can you make them can you know? And and so that's where we're at right now. So I I went drew everything up, so it's a three D model um that I didn't sketch up. I could send it to you in an S T L format or or whatever. And then I went and what I did is I uh just took a video. Kind of walked around the whole area um kind of get some. 
Speaker 3 02:00:51
Yeah, you know, just a visual for you to see what what it. Take a look at it and tell meum what you think of it. How long would it take and and what's your charge would be and. 
Speaker 1 02:01:06
Okay. Uh. 
Speaker 3 02:01:15
Yeah, I've used it. I've used it before. Yeah, I can do that.
Speaker 3 02:01:34
Okay. Yeah, And then I'll what I'll do also is I'll drop another. So I'll do a video that I took where it's like detailed just trying to make sure that I got all the angles. Um, i i actually looked at it today and said you know, I probably could have done a better job of getting the building that's surrounding it since they're looking for a rent set for you later. Um, And then Corey has a video that he uh that he sent me saying, hey, here's what the customer wants to change. He's kind of just, Walking through and describing it. So, I'll drop that in there, too. So you can kind of see what we're looking to do next. Um, because Corey wants to go over with me um so to make the adjustments. Um You you uh you've worked with Corey before, You know, it's always different than the first thing. The first thing that he tells you. So, um let me why don't I are are you pretty open?
Speaker 3 02:02:28
So they want to see, um, we're going to have a little gas show, you know, actually coming up and whatnot. So it's going to look like it has water in it even though currently. Yeah. That make sense?
Speaker 3 02:02:54
Okay. Okay. Um yeah.
Speaker 1 02:02:57
Let me uh, cause I'm gonna be probably. 
Speaker 1 02:05:46
Right here.
Speaker 3 02:06:35
You see here, we don't really have any tie into. So, because like right here, I've just. Um. You know, I might even suggest to do the same here. Okay. Depending on how you want to handle all that. Because like this is pretty good. That'd probably clear up that area so you have more to grab onto.
Speaker 3 02:07:06
We want to go around and go, you know, remember we really want more area to grab on to. Right.
Speaker 5 02:07:18
So I can bring this down because it's still flat right here. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 3 02:07:24
Even if it like it jumped over a little bit, have the stuff that BC Pro got. We can't get out. Yeah, well I mean I think what we can do is is, We're looking for a tie- in, So I don't mind going over the BC Pro right and creating a new layer essentially that ties into right here.
Speaker 1 02:07:52
You know,
Speaker 3 02:07:52
Here same thing here. Right.
Speaker 3 02:08:09
All we've got right here is this little whip. Yeah,
Speaker 1 02:08:16
Guess we got this still.
Speaker 3 02:08:33
Uh, the bush hammer would have been my go- to it would, but I I like this.
Speaker 3 02:08:43
So, but I mean, I'd like a good you know area to go. So if you got to go below, you know, yeah, there's nothing there kind of come like this.
Speaker 3 02:14:42
Together too right in between yeah. Right, right so that will go here. Separate thing but I can uh.
Speaker 1 02:20:24
Hello.
Speaker 1 02:21:42
Thank you.
Speaker 7 02:23:17
Some type of international law agreement. We're all sort of in the room together, kumbaya. There are two answers to that : the way you just said it or the way. And by the way, the reason we aren't is because China got into the WTO and cheated. They steal intellectual property, they do dumping, they don't care about the environment, they use dirty coal and imprison people. The reason I view China policy, just like the worst thing was like biggest mistake of my day is because I really wish I will say we because I was fully in on these things, but I was in favor of it. I thought this was a way to go. You know, bring it in, you know, have have uh, most favorite nations have have, you know, trade have that? You know be something that increases alliances with allies. Instead, it's about exporting their values and not importing ours. And that just yeah, here's what he says here, little boy, when they call Willie The Wimp not because every little boy wants to be opposite. Have, you seen it? It's a gorilla alley or chimpanzee And Willie is the lemming, and the chimpanzee is a giant chimpanzee, and the giant chimpanzee takes care of the little monkey. And that's what we are. We're the giant gorilla, and they are the little monkey. And I'm glad that they're nice little monkeys. I like them, but you don't go around with a bunch of bankers and. Look, I think one of the things that's so funny about Davos is it's just everything is posturing. And behind scenes they're all going to do the same things together in general. Down here's a meeting with Donald Trump here later on today. It's one of these things where you know it's just so deeply corrupt. And, one of the things I do appreciate about this particular moment in history during this situation is that. The president approached foreign policy, I think has been vindicated so many times, and now he thinks he can just like he can hit that number on roulette every single time. He gets it every single time. 
Speaker 7 02:24:13
And and I'm not sure he's going to get everything. When I follow Lucas on on special report last night, he's on Greenland. And I think we had a breakthrough this week because now everyone agrees Greenland is necessary for our goal in down, and it's at the details. That's the breakthrough we need to go. And the breakthrough too is as I've argued as my friend Dr. Eno has argued in multiple essays including Wall Street Journal, there there is a sovereignty solution here that is right in front of you. And, just you know, they were basically required that that type of move in our direction. It does not require an invasion, It does not require consent and nor does anyone really buying it, but it requires America to have a sovereign footprint there that is in our security interests of long term stands right now. And I think that that's something that everyone has come around to uh because it's just impossible to deny yeah, and you know, but that's something again, you know, dear point, Trump, sort of forces people into admitting the truth they don't want. I can go to a place in Potcher like Carney. I'm going to come right back with Ben during the break because we're going to talk about the Big Ben podcast this week and about his his expert from UVA on cell phones. If you haven't listened to it, uh Big Ben podcast on the Fox Podcast Network, he's got a really large readership there. His Substack is The Transom, but this is a great podcast with Trish McLaughlin. I think at the beginning with JD Vance did in the episode yesterday, But the expert from University of Virginia will talk with him. And if he can stick around after today, we'll have him back on Jack's List tomorrow. So we're going right around your view here. I'm back with Ben Domenech. Ben, I listened to the Big Ben podcast today and it was fabulous. I like Trish McLaughlin that that's basically what JD speaks yesterday. So I want to focus on your UVA professor and his guidance on phones because just simply no phones till high school and no phones in the bedroom. That's all parents need to know. Isn't it?
Speaker 7 02:25:10
People seem to be making it like there's been, you know, this whole public conversation around it. You know, the work that John Hank has done and everyone else who's who's trying to, you know. I don't even think there's a whole conversation within the space. I think it's that simple. It makes you. And I realize I may sound like completely out of touch on this or or as if I'm some, you know, a throwback silly. But, you know the question that I really have for him is why can't he just delete the apps? Why can't he just get rid of them? He went further when he said no cell phones at night in the bedroom because they lose sleep. And of course, the boys are looking for body pictures. And number two in school computers are overrated; that we learn by doing things. I said hallelujah! That that point is actually the more critical point from my perspective. So first off, there's no phones in the room. You need to have a certain amount of no TVs in the room. Yeah, you don't you shouldn't be allowed to have any TV on during the day. It's bad. And it's actually, by the way, an adult they would've thought it was bad. So, but my other my I actually think that TV should be you should have a central location or whatever for it, but but it should be something that you intentionally do. It should not be constant background noise or having this. But when it comes to the school part of this, We are in constant fights about this. And and I will say this as someone who sends uh, my kids to some pretty top flight, expensive schools. So put in no offense if they listen, but like for me, I think they're all surprisingly terrible schools, like anyway point is, uh that is a point of contention among everyone. Yeah, also with public schools or even private schools too. And these schools are constantly pushing you to do more screen time to say like, oh no, you need that mean, just this this nose work coming up.
Speaker 7 02:26:05
You know, here, uh, School sent out something about, you know, be sure to, you know, have your kid, take the iPad home. And they want they need to be able to zoom in for classes. No, we're not going to do that. We're just not going to do that because that's not the way that people learn. But, what I was glad to hear, you say is that it's become a source of programming. If you are at a restaurant and you give the kid the phone, because I always, i cast it as i cast it as like a thirty second span of how often do you get that look? Uh for me, uh, I have never looked at my phone and shown my kids a video. Never. Um I will say this : at tables where other people have done that. And my kids have watched, then I've not objected, but I've never done that with my phone and I don't ever intend to because I think that is an admission of failure. But I do believe that they're permissible on long car rides and airplanes. It's a long car ride and airplanes, maybe it's the same thing that everybody else is doing, you know. So I don't have a problem with that. You can bring a certain amount of games and entertainment, But eventually they're going to move from the play out to the, you know what we're going to be coming back with Ben on Jack Smith not going anywhere. I am back with Ben Domenech host of The Big Ben podcast on the Vox Podcast Network. You can read him in The Spectator, you can read his Substack at The Transom, and you can follow him on at @BenDomenechMan. And I want to give you four uninterrupted moments for your comments on Jack Smith and what we take away from this because I've already said, my piece three or four times. Well, first off all just say it: I don't. I'm not sure that I've seen a person who has occupied a role as important as Jack Smith be in any position in front of congressional hearings where he was more.
Speaker 7 02:26:58
Anyone that I know of was more dismissive, disrespectful, and you know, And quite frankly, full of hubris about everything that he did in his role ever in front of the Congress. And keep in mind we've seen Anthony Fauci just. this is uh this is quite you know one one to achieve. And so I think that Jackson came in and didn't help himself no favors because there was no humility on his part. Especially, when it came to the issues related to grabbing the phone records of members of Congress and the records of all these different citizens across the country. I hope that you have seen maybe played as a. The audio of Chip Roy. On Weekend Broadcast, Eli Lake joins us. He is, of course, the host of The Breaking History podcast, a contributor to The Free Press and expert on Iran. Eli, in the Davos uh lobby among bankers, Did anyone have the guts to stand up and say, Iran just mowed down fifteen thousand of their people? And imprisoned the same number and is the evilest regime on the planet? That's a really good question. I don't think anybody quite put it like that. I think that's exactly how we should think about it. But that said, um this is the end of the Obama delusion. I have not heard from European capitals that there is a sense or expectation that there will be new negotiations with Iran over, you know, whatever remains of its nuclear program. And eventually uh, we will knit Iran into the global order by uh investing in that country as long as that regime stays in power. I think at this point, I hope it, that the regime collapses tomorrow but. 
Speaker 7 02:27:53
Even if it doesn't, I just don't think that we're going to get back to uh what we lived through ten years ago, which was the idea that there would be major corporations investing in Iran, The sanctions were lifted as Iran built up this proxy network throughout the region and continued to have a nuclear option. They did not invite before they ended up, not disinviting, the foreign minister of Iran. That's actually a good move. But they have not designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization. I think EU is a bad move. The most important question in the world right now and I think by a lot, I haven't done my Canada rant already today, because of Mark Carney's disgusting address was so cowardly and two faced, but the most important question remains should Donald Trump hit Iran hard and willy? What do you think Eli? Um I think he absolutely should. I don't see how.I mean listen nobody can really predict what's going on with Donald Trump. His messaging has been pretty consistent And I think he tried to kind of create his own way out by saying that they had um they, they, they had cancelled. The execution of I think he has raised this, like number eight hundred and thirty seven people in hangings, which he's talked about. Uh, we saw today that one of the senior kind of um judges in Iran said that is not true and that they would be going forward with the executions. Of course, the death toll is uh horrific. Uh I think at the very least, it's four or five thousand, and it could be upwards of twenty five thousand or more. Um They turned off the internet precisely for this reason. So you know, I hope that this is a kind of final straw and then more importantly, The response from Iran's leaders up into including Ayatollah Khamenei has been effectively to taunt Trump. Yes, to question his his resolve. That does not that didn't go very well for Nicolas Maduro. It didn't go very well for Qasem. Soleimani.
Speaker 7 02:28:51
And I think that they, in some ways, in that respect, they're sealing their fate. My worry is though that um I would have liked to have seen something. Uh I understand military assets have to be in place. I also understand that, according to uh a lot of reporting and I've heard this, too, in my reporting, that Trump really does want a comprehensive military option and to go big. So that maybe takes time. But, it would have been good to have something two weeks ago or a week and a half ago when he knew the help was on the way, because I think the perception is, is that um there was at least a chance. A Trump would back off and would seek some kind of deal. I don't think that's going to happen. Let me go philosophically on you. You cannot know how good a day has been until the night has come. And with Donald Trump, the whole Greenland thing, You know that after the whole Greenland thing might have been a way to divert attention away from this. But I did have a very smart national security, fellow of impeccable credentials, say we can't hit Kargil Island and the oil terminals, Which is what seems obvious to me if it's keeping the regime alive because that would possibly bring China in to rebuild it and to embed. But in Iran. What do you think of that? There are a lot of reasons why we don't want to hit Kargil Island. You could also cause an oil shock that would do terrible things to the price of energy, which has been relatively stable and low, and that would have an effect in terms of inflation. So Trump's got consider that I think he would have an enormous effect if he just decided to hit the headquarters regional headquarters for the IRGC, its Revolutionary Guard Corps, there was Hezbolla militia and then targets are. 
Speaker 7 02:29:39
Similar to what Israel did, start targeting senior regime officials up to and including Ayatollah Khamenei. You have a number of voices from Iran's opposition, not just on the outside, that are begging America to hit the supreme leader. Um yeah well so they're left to talk about at this point. Um. So there are a lot of targets in Iran on sort of guard island. What, do these guys like guard island is all that money goes to the IRGC. Canada is ramping up its exports of oil. Uh it's at sixty dollars a barrel, seventy dollars a barrel is not that big of a deal in Kentucky. We can overproduce. We are just about to hit full American production. But Eli before I go, I got to ask you the Carney speech, and many of the other Europeans seem to take for granted that the United States will always protect them, no matter what they say about us, if. It's a little bit what Israel must have to deal with on a daily basis, that they are really the linchpin of security in the Middle East, but they get dumped on by everyone. And it's not pleasant. I would say this: it's empty rhetoric. Canada and Europe do not have the military. They don't have the means to protect themselves. That is by our design and there are good reasons for that, so I wanted to say I don't want to give Trump a total pass. I think that some of the things he said were outrageous and the way he went about the Greenland thing, I think could have, but it's not the end of the world because there is no alternative right now to alliances with America. The meeting with Xi. And like, you know, things are going in a direction is absurd and Harney ought to know better. The idea that Canada is going to pursue this kind of relationship. It has with China.
Speaker 7 02:30:32
Over the United States, even under Trump, and I get you know why he's nervous about things, but don't make threats use that rhetoric because it's just not realistic. It's not in the cards. But China sells a lot of oil to China, Which is fine because we have freedom of the seas guaranteed by the United States Navy. And if that ends, they can only sell it to us. And they only spend two percent of their GDP on defense. Eli he talked about his submarine; they have four submarines, the most recent one which was built in twenty fifteen Listen, I agree and that some of this is exposing things. I think listen, Some of what Trump is saying is not I disagree with a lot of it. It's true. When we were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, yes, it's true when they said the Brits did fight special operations like absolutely right. Canadians lost 158 people in there. And also too about this and the Italians and the Germans, we couldn't trust them to secure areas they they were. They didn't. There are cultural issues there that are really deep. It's not just about spending more of your GDP There's. It's that there there's not the kind of military culture that we have in America right now. So those are deep things that our generations are going to be playing out over a generation. But like let's let's be realistic. There is no alternative to American power Europeans Canada. They know that no matter how many times you go to Davos I'm in the kill Davos forever club where you've had like thirty seconds. I agree, Davos isn't by you.
Speaker 7 02:31:14
Self-pledger of the banking class. Thank you, Eli Lake, all on X at Eli Lake. I'll be right back in America. Stay tuned. Good morning, Gloria and Evening Rates and America votes your high Canada on the weekend broadcast is underway, as it usually is with John Ellis, founder and editor-in-chief of News Items, which you can find by googling John Ellis and News Items. It's the only newsletter you really need in the morning. And the way Jonah usually works. Fridays is that John will send me a list of topics to cover and I'll get some thoughts down. Hey great minds think alike Jon's second item, which I bumped up to number one is Canada oh Canada uh Jon I'm. So glad you brought this up because I listened to Mark Carney's speech at Davos, which got a standing ovation, moderator said that's very rare at Davos. And it's because he's a banker talking to bankers. And it was really quietly but thoroughly anti-American. Have you had a chance to listen to that speech yet? I have not, I read it, uh but I have not listened to it. Well, Why don't you think about the uh? Well, let me let me give you the main clip, which is cut number five. Two vital institutions on which the middle powers have relied and a question for middle powers like C, an ada : argue that the middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. Middle powers do not what does it need for middle powers to live? The truth when middle powers criticize economic intimidation, this is the task of the middle power, right? So you get it John. He's a little Canada's, a middle power between hegemons and I. Guess we're on the same scale with China. He mentioned hegemon.
Speaker 7 02:32:06
I'm insulted by this. They just got back from China, that genocide of the Uyghurs, uh Jimmy Lai in prison, Taiwan threatened, Hong Kong crushed. And he's lecturing us because of you don't like Donald Trump? Well, I mean I think that the you know Carney came to power uh because of Donald Trump. The Conservative Party in Canada was leading uh the elections and national elections leading up to uh election day by twenty five points. And then Trump was inaugurated, and there was talk about a Nixon Canada and the tariffs were announced on Canadian products and Carney vaulted uh to victory. As a result. Um and so he replayed this card at uh And make himself something of a hero amongst what he calls the middle powers. Well, he made himself something of a pariah to me. A couple other things he said, one of my favorites, actually my favorite cut number six. Our commitment to NATO's Article Five is unwavering. We're working with our NATO allies, including the Nordic Baltic eight to further secure the alliance's northern and western flanks, including through Canada's unprecedented investments in over-, the- horizon radar in submarines, in aircraft and boots on uh uh John I looked it up. They have four submarines. The most recent one, which was commissioned in twenty thirteen. The other three are two thousand and three and two thousand and one, they spend less than two percent of their GDP on defense. They'll get to two percent by twenty thirty compared with Poland and Finland, which are at three point seven and four point seven percent GDP. They do not carry their weight.
Speaker 7 02:32:60
And the reason that they're an energy superpower, I don't claim it, is because of the freedom of the seas that we guarantee. Is it is it too much for Americans? I'm a I'm a multilateralist. I'm international. I love NATO, But this is poking me in the eye and I. Imagine it's got to make Trump really crazy. Well, I think i think it makes trump you know incredibly crazy, which of course, is to carney's at least short-term benefit. Um but all the points you make are certainly valid. I mean, canada, everybody, all of the so-called, uh western countries benefit from, you know, the us umbrella, if you want to call it that. And so if you're going to be critical of the us, i think you also have an obligation to be appreciative of all of the advantages uh that you get from being aligned with us. Yeah, that's all. I would say The thing that gets me the most in life. And i guess on international affairs is gratitude, and uh, canada is not a middle power. It is uh an annex to the united states that's sovereign, but depends upon it. Let's go to your other piece because they make me happier. Let's talk about Wegovy in pill form because this is a giant breakthrough for America and world health. Right, I think everybody's familiar with the weight loss drug Wegovy and the other ones. But the problem has been that you've got to get Wegovy as an injectable, right? So you can as a result it's much more expensive to manufacture. You have to put it in the refrigerator when you get it, you know all that stuff. It's now been approved in pill form, and although the price at the moment is the same, Inevitably and invariably, uh, the price of the pill will come down because of manufacturing pills is much, much less than than doing injectables. So we're gonna have much wider uh distribution, Much wider use uh of Wegovy. And as a result, uh, we're gonna have different menus, you know reduced calorie menus at restaurants. We're gonna have reduced purchases at grocery stores. 
Speaker 7 02:33:58
And my favorite piece was that the major airlines now projected because people will be weighing less, they'll save five hundred and eighty million dollars this year on fuel costs. All right, Think about the number of passengers that don't sit next to the plus - sized passenger or that sort of in their seat. But, do you think the United States ought to be encouraging people who are morbidly obese? Certainly? But even those who are packing fifty or more pounds or thirty or more pounds to go investigate this? That's good for them? I think I think I mean, you know, efficacy and safety obviously are our big concerns. But uh those concerns have been at least gotten the approval of the FDA. Uh. And you know, if if you have high blood pressure, if you have diabetes, then if you're either obese or morbidly obese um this is a game changer. And and it it means For the, you know, for taxpayers, it means less cost of, you know, medicare and and all sorts of uh government sponsored uh uh medical medical programs, healthcare programs since it's a win in every which direction, except that uh it will have a major impact on the food business and worldwide. Uh, the food businesses employs fifty percent of the world's population. Wow, i'm not saying that fifty percent grow carrots or whatever. But if you think about food growing up, fertilizing up it, the machinery to get it, you know, out of the ground and off blah, blah, all the way to restaurants, waiters, busboys and so on so forth. That is fifty percent of the working workforce of the world after. Um so if you if you have an impact, even a slight impact, uh on all those restaurants and all those grocery stores and all those farmers who have decided to grow different crops.
Speaker 7 02:34:56
Uh The impact is enormous, and we're just at the outset. But because of my rant about Canada, we're running low on time. And there are two very important pieces from news items that you sent me. Gen Xers and millennials are set to inherit four point six trillion dollars from their elders. And OpenAI may be flaming out in either order that you want to do that. Last one was kind of a a sock in the eye for people who are investing in AI. Yeah, I mean, The OpenAI story is that uh OpenAI is is spending vast amounts of money uh and taking in not very much revenue. And the question is whether that's sustainable. Will there be in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, Twenty twenty nine enough revenue to justify the investments that they're making now in data centers? So in some sort, this guy named Sebastian Mallaby wrote a book about venture capital and AI. And, he wrote an influential piece I think in the Journal of Times and said, basically, I used to think open AI is going to run out of money. So that's a big question. But then it's like millennials are not going to run out of money. Well, This is the thing. Okay. We got there's nothing more annoying than the affordability issue when it's raised by Gen Xers and millennials today because they're coming into four point six trillion dollars, right? Four point six, yeah, four point six trillion dollars. Okay, inheriting most any generation ever in the history of mankind. And all they're talking about is the price of you know, going out to dinner come on.
Speaker 7 02:35:43
It's a massive wealth transfer over the next ten years, and two point four trillion of that is in property in the United States. So they'll get a stepped up basis. That's the amazing tax part to this; it makes an incredible windfall. But John Ellis, a great bit of news items today. I want to remind everyone : Google " news items, " and John E lli s ;. It's the best newsletter I read every morning. I usually post one or two of the fifteen to thirty different bits of news that John finds by staying up all night and sitting during his day. And I am so glad you found the Canada thing. Thank you, John. Jonathan Williams is the chief executive officer of the American Legislative Exchange Council. He's also a great economist. He puts together the Rich States, Poor States book every year, richstatespoorstates.com. And I got to tell you right now, Uh I got the longer segment for John because we've got to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly. And that means state taxes. John first, happy new year to Jonathan Williams! Well likewise my friend it's good to see you again! Good to see you and have you got your snow shovel out? Are you ready? Oh yeah! You know in D.C. Uh we they freak out here with about an inch of snow. So this is going to be real loud this weekend Miss Lucky Light Now. Uh it's unfortunate that we've got a new governor in Abigail Spanberger as well. And I want to go right to the fact : The first story I read about her, The very first story is that there's a bill to put a death tax in Virginia Hasn't. Everyone learned that people leave your state when you put a death tax in place?
Speaker 8 02:36:32
Well, you would think. I mean, uh this is pretty common sense stuff here. I mean, The United States all across the country, looking at ways to get rid of their gas taxes. Even in places like New Jersey when Chris Christie was governor, uh as part of his deal uh he struck with the Democrat legislature, they began to repeal some of their gas taxes on the books. So, if even New Jersey's looking to repeal part of their gas tax, it's a really head scratcher that you have the left wing Democrats now in charge in Richmond, looking to put one into place. And that's not it. As you probably saw, there are long laundry list of tax increases and bad ideas, such as repealing, right - to- work. Uh You can go down the line. I mean but this is pretty concerning here. You and I watched that race very closely with Wilson, Sizemore and Abigail Spanberger and Abigail Spanberger ran, or at least her ads anyway, came across as a moderate Democrat that i'm going to do the sensible thing. I'm a common sense person. And here we are. We'll see how long that lasts. Unfortunately, i don't think it's going to be long. Turns out, mung beans in a dress. Let's talk about the taxes there, but there are a lot of states.
Speaker 8 02:37:02
They're going to go after good tax pass and they're a lot they're going to do good things. Let's run through them. What else do they want to raise taxes on besides people dying in Virginia? Well, I mean you name it, right? I mean it's the old Reagan line: if it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; if it stops moving, subsidize it. That's unfortunately what Virginia did this session and that's a high-income earners tax. And they're looking to rival California with high-income earner taxes. And so whether that's hotels' taxes or taxes on private clubs, You get down the list and is literally any idea you have on tax policy on raising taxes, they're probably going to pursue this year in Richmond. Now I saw taxes on firearms. Now I think if that's a standalone bill, it's going to be unconstitutional. Is there a standalone bill or is there a general sales tax? Well, I think I've seen it as a standalone, But I think it's very possible. It gets lumped together as part of a budget as well. And you know, there's lots of ways that this can emerge as we go during session here. But, what's really interesting here is that if I'm in North Carolina right now or if I'm in Tennessee on the other side of the Bristol line, and if I'm in West Virginia, I mean this is economic development opportunity one o one to attract Virginia businesses. It's as painful as it is for a Virginia resident to say that. These are huge opportunities for those states to continue to make gains. Their states are already way ahead of Virginia. In many cases on our Rich States Poor States index. And, you know, this is dynamic competitive environment. And uh, we're going to see what those states do to respond to it. Governor Patrick Morrisey for instance, One of our great friends in West Virginia has already proposed at his state address cutting income taxes across the board, once again in that state. So, i mean, this is uh you know, game game on. I think in terms of the mid - A tl antic region and capital people are memorable, i will not live in a state with a death tax. I just won't taxing your.
Speaker 7 02:37:55
It's been taxed before at least once. I will not do it a second time. I'll just leave, and I think other people will. Washington, like Virginia, want to do a millionaire's tax. Don't they realize that people can move? I mean, not some but many.
Speaker 8 02:38:03
Well, The irony there in Washington, State is they've been the recipient of so many people coming to Washington because they had been a no income tax state forever. You know that all the refugees, The tax refugees escaping places like California and other high tax states and going to Washington to take advantage of the fact that they were a no income tax state. As you know, We've talked about their state supreme court invented the right in their constitution to have a capital gains, income tax and claim. It wasn't an income tax. And here we are, Many of us warned that would be the camel's nose under the tent and then be proposing other broad based income taxes. And here we go under Governor Ferguson and legislature proposing a millionaire's tax. So uh unfortunately there are some really bad ideas out there right now, Hugh. But it's not all bad news. You're sending good news as well that will show up at richstatesforstates dot com come April one. But let's talk about who's doing the right thing South Carolina, by the way, sounds like a nice place to move to. Well, they've been getting a lot of residents already, and the legislature has just put forward a great plan to reduce income taxes. They obviously had to compete with North. Carolina that's been doing very good things for years. Tennessee, no income tax state. Florida, no income tax state. Georgia's been cutting taxes. And, so they're looking at ways to get down to a one point nine nine percent income tax. So incredible progress there from a state that has not cut taxes as aggressively in recent years. But you know another one that I wanted to mention here, I just got back from Jefferson City, Missouri yesterday where I was on the ground with our Missouri legislators, our allied delegation. Yeah I have to give a hat tip to Governor Mike Kehoe, who has put in his State of the State address just recently, but he has a bold plan to completely repeal the Missouri income tax. Seeing all this movement around him and seeing that region with Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas and Kim Reynolds in Iowa. And so many great movers he realized that Missouri is quickly being left behind. They're tired of being middle of the pack, and he's got an ambitious plan to go and repeal the personal income tax in Missour.
Speaker 8 02:38:59
So, kudos to Governor Keihl for really being a leader on that this session. And Alec keeps a great close eye on the American Legislative Exchange Council, alec dot org slash you keep tonight on the U-Haul broke index. Inbound states that U-Hauls headed there. Number one, Texas. Number two, Florida. Number three, North Carolina. Number four, Tennessee Outbound states, :, California, Illinois, New, Jersey and New York You know you think they would learn Jonathan and what about we got like 45 seconds The Index of State Education Report, which was released this week Well brand, new education, freedom and economic freedom go hand in hand. Uh The Sunshine State, the free state of Florida number one, once again this year in our index Arizona number two, Arkansas number three, incredible progress for the Lone Star State, the biggest gainer this year after their major school choice expansion that we've talked about a billion dollars going to families and kids across the state of Texas. So lots of great stories there at alec dot org I don't see Ohio on this list Jonathan. You doing your Michigan thing?
Speaker 7 02:39:30
We'll follow up. Jonathan Williams, CEO of Alec, A L E C dot org. Thank you, friend. I'll be right back on the Eugene Show. Thank you very much, Larry. I'm going to start in French and then I'll switch back to English. Merci Larry.
Speaker 6 02:39:39
Thank you Larry. It's with pleasure and the duty to be with you tonight in this pivotal moment that Canada and the world are going through today. I want to talk about arupturing in the world order, The end of a pleasant fiction and beginning of a harsh reality where geopolitics, where the large main power geopolitics is submitted to no limits, no constraints. Again, I would like to. I'll tell you that the other countries, especially intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty andterritorial integrity of the various states. The power of the less powerful starts with honesty.
Speaker 7 02:40:11
It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry; that the rules- based order is fading; that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable; as a natural logic of international relations reasserting itself. And faced with this logic there is a strong tendency, For countries to go along to get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety. But it won't. So what are our options? In 1978 the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. And in it. He asked a simple question. : How did the communist system sustain itself? And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window : Workers of the world unite! He doesn't believe it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists not through violence alone. 
Speaker 7 02:40:54
But through the participation of ordinary people in rituals, they privately know to be false. Habermas called this living with a lie. The system's power comes not from its truths, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the green grocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack. Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down. For decades. For decades countries like Canada prospered under what we called a rules-based international order. We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. Because of that we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection, We knew the story of the international rules based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And, we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, Collective security and support for frameworks for resolving dispute rupture. Not a transition is not whether to adapt or not. We actively take on the world as it is not wait around for world. We wish to be. We are calibrating our relationships so their depth reflects our values, and we're prioritizing broad engagement to maximize our influence given given that foreign taxes on incomes on capital gains and business investment.
Speaker 7 02:41:52
We have removed all federal barriers to interprovincial trade. We are fast-tracking a trillion dollars of investments in energy, AI, critical minerals, new trade corridors and beyond. We're doubling our defense missions that work issue by issue with partners who share enough common ground to act together. In some cases this will be the vast majority of nations. What it's doing is creating a dense web of connections across trade, investment, culture on which we can draw for future challenges and opportunities. Argue that middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. But I'd also say that great powers great powers can afford for now to go it alone. They have the market size, military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness, we accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination. In a world of great power, if we choose to wield them together. Which brings me back to how : What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First, it means naming reality. Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is, : a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion. It means acting consistently, applying the same standards to allies and rivals. When middle powers criticize, economic intimidation from one direction, but stay silent when it comes from another, we are keeping the sign in the window. It means building what we claim to believe in. 
Speaker 7 02:42:50
Rather than waiting for the old order to be restored, it means creating institutions and agreements that function as described. And it means reducing the leverage that enables coercion. That's building a strong domestic economy. It should be every government's immediate priority. And diversification internationally is not just economic prudence, It's the material foundation for honest foreign policy because countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation. So Canada, Canada has what the world wants. We are an energy superpower. We hold vast reserves of critical minerals. We have the most educated population in the world, our pension funds are amongst the world's largest and most sophisticated investors. In other words, We have capital talent, but also have a government with immense fiscal capacity to act decisively. And we have the values to which many others aspire. Canada is a pluralistic society that works. Our public square is loud, diverse and free. Canadians remain committed to sustainability. We are stable, reliable partner in a world that is anything but. A partner that builds and values relationships for the long term. We have something else :. We have a recognition of what's happening and the determination to act accordingly. We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation ;. It calls for honesty about the world as it is. We are taking the sign out of the window: we know, The old order is not coming back ;. We shouldn't mourn it ;. Nostalgia is not the strategy ;, but we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers : The countries that have most to lose from a world of fortresses and most to gain from genuine cooperation.
Speaker 7 02:43:49
The powerful have their power, but we have something too. The capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together. That is Canada's path. We choose it openly and confidently, And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us. Thank you very much. Well thank you Prime Ministerum I think that actually makes sense anyway.
Speaker 1 02:44:14
Skipping more than five minutes of outro. 
Speaker 9 02:47:57
Hey. Yo, how's it going? Good, you? Good good. Um, You guys all set up and ready to rock and roll tomorrow at uh Sixth Street? Yeah. Yeah. Have you been there before? Yeah. Okay. Have you been up to the pool area? You know how to get up there and all that?
Speaker 3 02:48:16
Yeah yeah I remember I did that inspection and. 
Speaker 9 02:48:18
Oh yeah All right? Been a couple of different things there. Yeah Sorry. 
Speaker 1 02:48:25
About this text that uh.
Speaker 9 02:48:40
Um. All right, yeah, I I'm planning to swing by there tomorrow. I'm not sure what time, but if you guys are good then I won't stress about it. Um So, the goals are you know, pressure wash all the rebar, get everything cleaned up. Um Then, we could even spray aqua block too. I mean, we're it's gonna be a while before we pour again. But I don't know how much you want to put on their plate.
Speaker 3 02:49:08
I can always bring it and see, you know. I don't want to. I want to make sure that we're clean first. Um, yeah,
Speaker 9 02:49:19
I got Rudy along and Memo there cleaning up. They're already hauling down all the concrete down in the trap, you know? Yeah, so it's they've they've got a head start on that. But yeah, Like cleaning the rebar and getting all the concrete out of the pipes because you know, these. Details are a little different with the century sleeves inside the structure than we've done in the past, you know. So, anyway, um, yeah. I mean something something to something to look at. Um. So yeah, I mean I'll leave that up to you. It's, just it's more important to clean off all the rebar than it is to uh wash it, you know? And, there's no real, there's no any grip at this point either that heat so You cut out for.
Speaker 9 02:50:04
There's no what? There's no forms to strip. Not even everything up for the most part until we go, we're going to remove a couple forms and move them, but you guys need to remove anything. So really just cleaning cleaning up for the truck crews and making sure everything is pressure washed. Soum, all right. And then I can and. 
Speaker 3 02:50:29
I see it because I can't, I'll uh, yeah, my thought was to give you four colors. I haven't ran it through chat just uh and I get your point. I am not saying I am going to nail it. Um, But ran it through chat, and they gave me like they think a sixty five, thirty five will be the thing. I don't know is is the chatter they them? Um,
Speaker 9 02:50:51
Probably a lot of different people rolled into one. That's actually probably the proper pronoun in it, even probably matches the reality of life.
Speaker 3 02:51:02
Oh, I just heard something that's saying uh totally rabbit hole, But uh there it's a good possibility the way that, that uh, compared to the money that the money this OpenAI is spending versus their their revenues. They're expected to run out of money in like two years. So. 
Speaker 9 02:51:23
Well they haven't made any money. Right like ever. Right I mean it's all investors'money that they're just, Going negative constantly, right? I mean.
Speaker 3 02:51:33
Yeah, they're just spending money. Exactly. So they've got like the the subscription and they've got this and that, But you know you then you've got Google that comes and says, it comes on the top of them on shopping and whatnot, and they're like oh crap. So they drop everything and go to the shopping aspect of it. Um And then you've got uh Elon Musk is suing them because like It's like when he started that company with. Seat money, he's like this will never be a for- profit company. You know, and then they. So.
Speaker 9 02:52:06
Yeah, if he gets one hundred fifty billion out of it, good for him. Right?
Speaker 3 02:52:11
Um We'll see. Right But that was just gonna get just just gonna help push them over the edge. You know So is was my point. So. Um But Anywaysum So yeah I'm I'm good on thatum So. We'll be there. We had six feet tomorrow. Um, I talked to Pedro today. I sent everything over to him, But do you when you want to go over the drawingum to make the changes toum whatever we want to change?
Speaker 9 02:52:46
Yeah, I mean, I whenever you have it. I mean, I would say as soon as you have it done, send it to me and I'll try to look at it right away. And then we'll have to figure out when sit down and how to change it, how fix it You know yeah. Okay. Did he seem interested in rendering it?
Speaker 3 02:53:04
He seemed interested. No big deal. Yeah, no, he seemed interested. He's like," Yeah, I'll jump right on it. I'll take a look." And then he started like, well, you know, um yeah, and then he's like well. Can you convert it to twenty seventeen SketchUp? Because I was like I don't even know how to do, you know. Soum it's like it doesn't you know. You know, it's like well, I want to verify a couple dimensions myself as well. And I need to talk to Corey about some changes. It's like, well, it's just a rendering, right? You don't need to be exact. I'm like yeah but I want to you. 
Speaker 9 02:53:39
Know verify. Well and and the render and mean no offense, but we got to figure out the drawing. The purpose of the drawing is to figure out if we can even do what he's asking us to do. Like can we make it all fit? You know so, And, we're not going to render something that can't be built and get it to the client and then tell the client later, oh, sorry, we rendered it. Yeah. And you can't have it. We actually can't do it. You know? Right. Yeah, He doesn't I wouldn't I wouldn't So. 
Speaker 3 02:54:06
No what I was What I wanted from him was hey, I want you to look at it. I want you to give me a timeline and a price. You know, just wrap your head around it. And if there's something that you see that you need for me in order to do this You know, I want to be able to be in front of it was my, Right. So,
Speaker 9 02:54:27
Right on. Okay, cool. Um, so yeah, I mean plan for tomorrow. That job opens I think seven thirty You know same. It's Manhattan Beach for for clean that rebar. And thenum It sounds like I might have to run to Malibu now. But anyway, we'll see But Yeah a good time My beat Poncho will be happy that I'm. I think his schedule too, but whatever is what it is. I got to call him right now. We just talked this morning too. Like, yeah, we're at Cliffwood tomorrow. It's like, hey uh well big change. You know I'll be tomorrow. So anyway, um all right, cool, thanks dude. Yeah. No problem. Thanks dude. Yeah. Bye, bye.

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Discussions focus on improving project execution and organizational strategy through hands-on technical training, efficient tool management, and proactive planning. Key points include the importance of achieving the correct surface texture for concrete repairs, implementing a new inventory management system, and addressing logistical challenges for upcoming projects. Additionally, there are personal updates and political commentary, particularly critiquing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at Davos and discussing U.S. foreign policy towards Iran.