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From the Senate with MARKWAYNE MULLIN | July 2024 (Ep. 620)

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From the Senate with MARKWAYNE MULLIN | July 2024 (Ep. 620)
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In this episode, Kyle Thompson sits down with Senator Markwayne Mullin to discuss the legacy of the late Senator Jim Inhofe and the current political landscape, including the implications of the recent presidential debate. They tackle the challenges facing the Biden administration and the potential consequences of Ukraine joining NATO.
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0:50 This is Undaunted Life a Man's Podcast.
0:54 I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.
0:57 Mark Wayne Mullen.
0:58 Welcome back to the show.
0:59 I just heard you ask your assistant for a sweet tea.
1:02 Now is that going to be like, I did not say sweet tea, you said tea, but everybody knows
1:09 what you mean.
1:10 Nobody in Oklahoma drinks like Earl Grey.
1:12 Come on now.
1:13 Well, you're going to, you're going to really make fun of me, actually going to be a hot
1:15 tea with, with honey in it because my throat's killing me.
1:20 Hey, I, I'm not going to give you the slightest bit of crap because before all my surgeries
1:25 and post surgery and all that, like it was throat coat tea with lemon and honey.
1:30 And I basically lived on that.
1:31 That was basically all we could do.
1:33 So make fun of me then, huh?
1:35 I'm not doing it.
1:36 I'm not going to make funny.
1:37 All right.
1:38 I hope you can guess what, when I drink it, I'm going to stick my pinky out when I drink
1:40 it too.
1:41 I hope you do.
1:42 And I also hope it's a little bit sweet.
1:43 So we can call it a sweet hot tea just for you, but glad we had a nice little fun talk
1:49 to this.
1:50 But I didn't want to move off of this because I didn't think that this story got enough
1:53 play, but former Senator, Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhof passed away this week.
1:59 And you know, you technically took over his seat and, you know, he spent, he represented
2:05 this great state of Oklahoma for over 30 years in the United States Senate.
2:09 I do want you to kind of give me your thoughts on Jim and his legacy, but also, I don't know
2:14 if you saw the Wall Street Journal headline on him, but it was former US Senator Jim Inhofe
2:20 climate change denier dies at the age of whatever, whatever.
2:24 And so like, I saw that I was like, it's not that hard to avoid being a [inaudible].
2:29 And so I guess the entire like a committee that came together and came up with that headline
2:35 and all the editors over at the Wall Street Journal, if they're just all gigantic bags
2:39 of [inaudible].
2:40 And so if you want to make a comment about that, you can, but let's just talk about Jim
2:43 a little bit.
2:44 Yeah.
2:45 So for CNN, the same headline New York Times, they're the same headline Wall Street Journal
2:50 to the settle.
2:51 I mean, I'm just like, come on, guys, give me, give me a break.
2:54 And if you actually listened to, to Senator Inhofe, he wasn't a climate denier.
2:57 He was a, he was a, he was a practical guy that said, explain to me when the climate
3:03 started warming and when it didn't, and I'm using, I'm paraphrasing his words.
3:06 He's like, okay, we want to talk about science and let's talk about science.
3:11 Let's talk about the ice age.
3:13 Let's talk about before humans, you know, we're actually here with a dinosaur, something
3:18 happened there.
3:19 Our climate has always been changing.
3:21 Why do we have climate cycles?
3:22 Now could we do better about clean the water?
3:24 And this was, he would, he would say stuff like this.
3:26 Could we do better about cleaning the water?
3:27 Could we do better about cleaning the trash?
3:29 Yes.
3:30 But when we started actually talking about climate change, how long have we actually been
3:33 studying the climate?
3:35 Because if archeologists will go through, and I heard him say this, you know, they'll
3:40 go through dirt piles and they'll see different cycles in, in, in dry seasons.
3:46 They'll see different cycles of extreme wet seasons, different cycles of extremely cold
3:51 seasons.
3:52 And we, and you guys, Russia, those back to five billion years.
3:57 But yet we're comparing what, because a lot of records we had was set when we first started
4:02 keeping records in the twenties and in the thirties.
4:07 And there's a reason why we break records and some break records aren't.
4:10 And so for them to say a climate denier, he was practical on asking the questions and
4:15 you just, you go, even in his death, the guys retired, these, these people still go after
4:20 them because you have some editor and some reporter that wants to be cute and it makes
4:26 you want to puke.
4:27 Now Jim and I, we didn't agree on a lot of issues.
4:29 I mean, we didn't, there was a lot of issues him and I took differences in, but I always
4:34 had a tremendous amount of respect for him.
4:36 And I man it, you know, yesterday when I talked on the floor and I said, I looked at him as
4:39 a grandfather, not because of his age, because the affection I had towards the guy and in
4:45 quiet Frank, he was, he was, you know, sometimes he'd get really ticked at me because if you
4:49 didn't agree with Jim, he would, he would let you know why he's right.
4:54 But then the day he just went on with it, but he still let you know why he was right.
4:59 And you was never going to convince him you're right.
5:00 If Jim was dug on the issue, he was just man, he was, he was just, he was just dug in, but
5:05 he was also a guy that loved the Lord.
5:07 There was zero question about that.
5:09 There was, he was a guy that loved Kay, his wife dearly and he loved his family and he
5:15 served, he served for 60 years and guess what, he didn't lose his faith.
5:19 He didn't lose his wife and he didn't lose his family.
5:21 I mean, that says a lot for someone in politics because it's very common in politics that
5:27 people get up here and they lose their wife and they lose their family and they start thinking
5:32 this is reality and that was never his reality.
5:35 And I think that's quite a testament to anybody.
5:37 Well, I think he had a very long and illustrious career and I got the opportunity to vote for
5:42 him a couple of times since returning the age of 18 and looky there, you've got, not only
5:47 do you have tea, Mark Wayne Mullen, not only is it piping hot, because I think I just saw
5:51 you burn your tire esophagus, but it's, it's a Mullen, it's a Mullen ranch mug.
5:56 Look at that.
5:57 I had to be manly why I'm drinking tea, I mean, because I couldn't have it one of those tea
6:02 cups, right? So I had to have a coffee mug with swag.
6:08 But Mark Wayne, I just, I'm sitting here drinking out of this wonderful and daunted life, you
6:14 know, simple, modern jug, you know, a water, this big thing.
6:18 Why don't I have a Mullen ranch mug? Like what's, what's the deal? You've got my address.
6:22 You can send me a care package.
6:25 I got it. I'll get you. I'll get you. Would you like a vest too? Because you see me in
6:28 a vest. I wear those Mullen Mullen vests too.
6:31 I didn't want to ask, but yes. And if you have any Mullen ranch hats as well, and I don't
6:37 mean, I don't mean like ball caps. I mean, I want a cowboy hat like I'm working on a ranch.
6:41 Yeah, those things get pretty expensive.
6:44 They're worth my time with that.
6:46 Mark Wayne, I'm just saying like, you can find money anywhere. Just go into random rooms
6:50 and in the, in the United States. And I'm sure there's just wall to wall money.
6:53 But yeah, I'm a seven and a half. Okay, so let's get something that looks good. I want
6:57 to look like I just walked right off the set of Yellowstone. Does that work?
7:01 Is seven and a half oval or around?
7:03 I don't know. Like whenever I put on a baseball hat, it says seven and a half on the inside.
7:08 Seven and a half. There's no way you're that mug is a seven and a half. Do you have?
7:12 It's seven and a half. No way. No, turn one turn. Turn sideways. Turn sideways.
7:17 That is not a seven and a half cowboy hat. You don't have a head.
7:23 There's no way. I 100 percent. Hey, you think that's a big big.
7:27 There's a guy that we're trained with at the forged. What's that?
7:30 What's your ring? I have no idea. This is like a plastic ring like that.
7:33 I got for like eight dollars. So I don't know. Like a seven or an eight.
7:36 I don't know. No, but I will tell you this. I will tell you this. I was trying to give a hat
7:41 to a, I was trying to give it a hat to a buddy of mine that trains at the forge here in Edelman.
7:46 He's got an eight and a half head. I've never even heard of such a thing.
7:49 Like, and I've been around the guy a lot. He's, you know, big guy kind of got a big head.
7:53 But I'm telling you right now, I've got a seven and a half.
7:55 So can you make that happen for me? That's the only thing that the listeners want to know.
7:59 Can you make a seven and a half cowboy hat appear for me? That's all.
8:02 I can make it. I can make it. You got a seven and a half head. And you were a small best.
8:09 Well, no, no, I will probably wear a large or an extra large vest. I'm fine.
8:16 10, one, 95. No, man. No, no, no, you want to bring me some boots too?
8:21 No way. No way. You're an extra large. No way. No way. Okay. We'll just we'll go with a large.
8:26 But I do wear a size 12 in shoe or in boot. And so if you want to send me some boots to go along
8:31 with my hat so they match, I'm just telling you, man, why would I lie? What's what's my motivation to
8:36 lie here? There isn't. I just think you're I mean, it's like guys that say they're guys that say
8:43 they're six foot or probably really five 11. Hey, I straight up told you I was five 10, not like,
8:49 you know, five nine and three quarters. I'm right at five 10. You have a 12 shoe. Yeah,
8:57 which is ridiculous. And you have a seven and a half head. I mean, dude, I'm just nothing on me.
9:05 Oh, dude, like nothing on me makes sense. And I'll tell you right now. And the audience may
9:10 not even care about this. But my mom is like, she's been mad at me since birth because I have
9:15 very broad shoulders as well. And I've had those since birth. And so you try to get these shoulders
9:19 through a normal female pelvis. I didn't why I did bring that conversation up. I regret it.
9:28 Really bad. Hey, well, we can get off of this subject matter and get onto and maybe even more
9:33 depressing subject matter or hilarious one of the two. So this is the first time you and I've spoken
9:37 since the unbelievable debate between Donald Trump and currently sort of President Joe Biden
9:44 and obviously it has been roundly panned by everyone as a disastrous performance. You know,
9:50 whenever the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and MSNBC can't come up with something
9:55 positive to say about Joe Biden's performance that it was an abject failure and disaster.
10:01 And so this week, Mark Wayne, like this episode's coming out tomorrow, but we've been hearing a lot
10:06 about his big boy press conference that he's got coming up. And we've got people coming out
10:10 saying that he shouldn't run. And then we've got other people saying that he should. But
10:13 at this point, Mark Wayne, if you don't think he's mentally capable to run for president,
10:19 then what do we I think it's 25th amendment time, I believe where it's like, hey, he's not fit to
10:23 run the country now in this moment. So just tell me about when you're watching the debate,
10:28 what was going through your head and then, you know, the fallout? What are your thoughts on that as
10:32 well? So I was President Trump called me the week of the debate and asked me if I'd come to Atlanta
10:40 to actually be a surrogate for him, you know, do a media row after it, you know, do the whole
10:44 the call to spin room. No one knows how these debates are going to go right. And to be quite
10:48 frank with you, you know, Biden did he did cognitively very well at the state of the union. I mean,
10:55 right, but he's reading of teleprompter. Right. And you can totally disagree with what he said,
10:59 but he was actually cognitively there. And he was witty and he was saying things.
11:05 So no one expected it to go that bad. It went that bad. I mean, it was really terrible.
11:11 20 minutes into it, they started making a spin and he had a cold that I mean, they released it.
11:17 Right. He was he was already messing up on on all types of numbers. And you know,
11:23 he referred it, he started referring back to just Trump being a liar. It was,
11:28 it was pretty bad. So when you start talking about what the Democrats are going to do,
11:33 you could inject a 25th amendment, right? But they've dug in back to the point they're digging
11:38 in now saying he's fine. Right. And and you and I, I shared my theory. I thought there's a very
11:44 good chance that they were going to replace him. I thought this was the whole reason. I mean,
11:48 I went into depth about this. I think they still would like to replace him. The party,
11:54 the Democrat party wants to replace Joe Biden. The problem is is Joe Biden, who is the president
12:01 of the United States doesn't want to step down. Right. It could be because of Jill. It could be,
12:06 you know, there's a whole lot of reasons. I mean, Jill's ex-husband came out the like two days
12:10 after the debate and said the only reason why he's in is because of Jill and Jill's the one that's
12:13 making him do it. He said, I know because I was married to the lady. I don't know. But either way,
12:18 they're there. And so at this point, if they try to change him, if they don't inject a 25th amendment
12:25 and remove him from office, not remove him from the ballot, but remove him from office,
12:32 then what they're doing, the same party that says they're all about democracy,
12:37 are saying that the 14,500,000 Democrats that voted for him in the primary to make him their
12:44 president nominee for the Democrat party doesn't matter. So they're not about democracy. They're
12:50 about appointment, about appointing somebody. So I don't think at this point, they can remove him from
12:55 the ballot unless they remove him from office. I think they have to do, they have to do both.
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14:59 When I've also heard that obviously, if he were to step down, it would be Kamala running,
15:05 that all of the money that has been raised for the Biden-Harris ticket can't just be transferred
15:10 over to a, you know, Hakeem Jeffries or a Michelle Obama or a Gavin Newsom or something like that.
15:17 Is that correct? Say that again.
15:19 So what I heard was, is all the money that has been donated to Biden-Harris can't be just like
15:25 transferred over to another Democrat? Well, it's not completely accurate because the money could be
15:30 transferred to a PAC. So it couldn't be, it wouldn't be transferred to say the Michelle Obama,
15:38 I'm just using that example. I'd say, Hakeem Jeffries is more likely, but say, if Hakeem Jeffries,
15:44 Hakeem Jeffries for president, it couldn't be put to a campaign account. Most campaigns at that
15:51 high level are actually more than money comes in from, from PAC. So they could give all the money
15:58 to the DNC, Democrat National Conference, right? They could give every bit of it, or national
16:04 committee. They could give every bit of it to the DNC. And the DNC could just run the ads for
16:09 president Trump or for president or president nominee. I mean, or they could just run it against
16:15 president Trump for that matter. So the money would still be used in the Democrat campaign.
16:20 It wouldn't be sent back. What would, what would happen is, is they would have to write a letter
16:25 to all the donors and say, Hey, we're no longer in the race. You gave the race for the general,
16:32 the primaries already over. So all the money left over for the primary could be used every
16:38 one to, but we got money left over for the, for the general. Would you, would you like this to be
16:44 donated to the DNC? I promise you, everybody that wrote Joe Biden, a presidential contribution
16:53 would say, yes, give the money to the DNC. Okay, well, we'll see how that goes. Again,
16:59 this seems like a big way, but it seems like they're going to do it. I don't think they're going to
17:02 do it, Kyle. I don't, I think because I think the only way they do it is they have to, they have to,
17:06 they have to put, put in the 25th a minute. In fact, President Trump is kind of, if you listen to
17:13 him right now, he's kind of saying the same thing, because he's saying he's actually calling for
17:17 them to removing from office, because they know they won't do it. So he's saying, remove him from
17:21 office, don't just remove him from the ticket, remove him from the office, because he's cognitively
17:25 not able to serve. So do you think, do you think they'll do a second debate?
17:30 I, I've, I've actually, uh, suggest not that my opinion matters to the president, but I
17:37 suggested they, they doesn't do it. Um, and, and because there's no, there's no upside for him doing
17:46 it. It was such a bad debate. There was no upside for it. It can't, it can't, it can't get any better.
17:54 Yeah. Uh, uh, for, for Trump. And so debates, sometimes the first one has the biggest impact.
18:04 Right. The second one is you have to go into the second debate with the idea of do no harm,
18:10 because you're not going to win any votes. You just don't want to lose any votes. So you have
18:15 more to lose than you need to gain. You will not gain anything on that. He will not gain anything
18:20 on the second debate. He can only lose off the second debate. So I would say for Trump, no,
18:26 for the Biden team, I think it's, it's rolling the dice, right? Do they wait until September,
18:32 or whenever the next debate is, I think it's September, uh, and then say, let's have another
18:37 shot at it. Listen, if he's not healthy now, he's not going to be healthy in September and then
18:41 they're going to run out excuses. They can't go in there and say he was fatigued because of
18:45 international travel. They can't go out there and say he was fatigued because he had a cold,
18:50 uh, they can't go out there and say, you know, he, he wasn't well rested. I mean, whatever their
18:54 excuses, they can't do that again. So I don't, I don't think there will be a second debate,
18:59 but I don't know that for sure. I'd no one said that. I just think it's both both both sides. It's
19:05 too risky for them to do one. Well, we'll, we'll just have to see, but next time might I suggest
19:10 to the Democrats give him like, I don't know, methamphetamine or just something that'll really
19:14 get him a little bit better than he was last time. Let's at least have some fun with it.
19:17 But, you know, you didn't say yes to that. That was my suggestion to anybody. Just listen to this
19:21 out there. Now it was either last month or a couple of months ago, we talked about Trump's
19:26 potential VP picks. There was a report that came out this morning that said the short list is now
19:30 down to three people. That is Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Ohio Senator JD Vance and then
19:36 governor North Dakota Doug Burgum. Now you had talked about before, it's like, look, no one's
19:40 going to be able to get this list. Vegas is not going to be able to get it right and all that.
19:44 I will say that of those three names, I don't think any of them necessarily help Trump very much,
19:50 but they also don't hurt him very much. I think Doug Burgum would be the most milk toast vanilla
19:54 of all of them. But even Marco Rubio, that's who I had originally supported for the 2016
19:59 nomination for the Republican side of the ticket. So that would be interesting. Obviously he would
20:03 have to change his residence out of Florida and, you know, that put some stuff in line with that.
20:08 But what is your read right now on who he's going to pick as VPs? He's going to wait all the way
20:11 until the convention to announce it at the convention. What do you know? I believe now he's going to
20:16 probably announce it at the convention. He had a pick and it changed. So he's changed drastically
20:24 in six weeks. The six, I'd say six weeks ago, maybe eight weeks ago. It was, I was almost certain
20:34 he was going to pick a VP. In fact, the names that are on this list right now were just beginning
20:40 to circulate. The names that were on the short list at Christmas all the way up until two months
20:45 ago was really the top list was, it was, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, Elise Stefanik, Sarah Huckabee,
20:53 Governor Sarah Huckabee. And then the only guy on that was really Tim Scott. And that list is
21:02 completely changed now. And he had a pick to the pick to the point where this week we were supposed
21:09 to be doing a fundraiser for the for the VP in Oklahoma. After the debate, the numbers changed.
21:17 And I haven't talked to the to the president about it because I haven't asked the question.
21:24 I have made the assumption that the VP picked to who he was going to pick after or before the debate
21:30 changed after the debate. And I don't know, I saw I don't know who who that final person will be
21:39 will be standing. But considering the the the the conventions next week, I mean, he can announce
21:49 it Sunday if you wanted to. But I think he gets a lot of a lot of splash for for announcing it at
21:55 the convention. I think he's got to know the media will start licking, leaking here really quick
22:02 on who's on who that person's going to be, be prior to the actual announcement. So we'll know
22:09 before he actually announces it. Okay, you know, he's got to flare for the dramatic. So it makes
22:13 sense if he did the the full announcement, like he has, you know, them come out at the convention
22:17 and things like that. So another thing that's going down in DC this week is we've had, you know,
22:22 we got Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine in town, you know, Biden managed to speak for 15 minutes
22:29 straight about the potential. Ukraine joining NATO and different things like that. There are a lot
22:35 of people that are very concerned about Ukraine joining NATO. And then there's seemingly a lot
22:39 of people as well that are like, no, it makes perfect sense to join NATO. Everyone's worried
22:44 about the provocation that that would cause for Putin and Russia with them having a NATO member
22:50 right on their borders, right on their Eastern border. What's your read of the situation right
22:54 now about the likelihood of Ukraine actually becoming a full fledged member of NATO?
22:59 I think unlikely. Keep in mind if they become a full-fledged member of NATO right now,
23:08 that puts a lot of countries at war with Russia. Exactly. Immediately. So I think it's very unlikely
23:17 that to happen because if if we if we bring them into NATO, that's the same thing as us
23:24 declaring war on Russia. Now, you got to think about that and same thing with all the other NATO
23:30 allies. That's the that's, I mean, and maybe I'm speaking too far out, but that's part of the
23:37 NATO pack. If we're all there together, if someone invades you and fighting you, then we're there
23:44 together. And regardless, if it's a NATO ally that that is the aggressor, if a NATO member
23:50 invades a NATO member, we go after the one that invaded the NATO member, not the one that was
23:56 trying to defend themselves. I mean, so there's I'm paraphrasing all this. Right. So I think it would
24:02 be very tough for them to be a NATO member, why they're in the fight. I think if this thing gets
24:09 if the conflict or the war, it goes away. I think there's a way for Ukraine to get there
24:19 and after the war is over. But I think it's hard for them to do it now.
24:23 Yeah, I think that makes the most sense because right now, everyone's still concerned about the
24:29 amount of money that's flowing through to them right now. But certainly, if you provoke Russia
24:34 more by doing that right now in the middle of a conflict that could have really bad downstream
24:38 consequences for the United States. Yeah. And I want to put this back in their perspective too.
24:44 I'm not, you know, I'm I'm evolving a lot in foreign affairs. And so I have to do with this
24:49 constantly. I can't understate this statement. I mean, I can't I can't understate I can't overstate
24:56 I can't overstate this statement. If Russia prevails in Ukraine, we will be in a fight with Russia.
25:06 It'll kick off a large scale war. It's it and there's a there are several things that people
25:15 don't realize that Ukraine has. One, Ukraine is is a major food supplier to that entire region.
25:24 Two, Ukraine has the second largest gas supply energy, which gas means energy gas supply in Europe.
25:35 The second the only one part larger than him is Russia. Third, Ukraine has arguably three trillion
25:45 between one point five and three trillion dollars worth of earth minerals underneath their feet.
25:53 Rare earth minerals means chips. It means high tech means batteries means everything we fight
26:03 wars with. And the person that controls the other three large deposits is China. So now you have
26:10 China and Russia that's controlling the the the four largest rare earth mineral supplies
26:16 in the in in the world. Huge, huge, huge issue. And the fight doesn't stop in Ukraine.
26:25 No one and this is why everybody all their bordering states are real concerned about this.
26:31 No one thinks that you that Russia will stop there. They absolutely positively will not. So we have
26:39 choices inside the United States because it will come to us because we're a world economy. I don't
26:44 care what people say. We're not an isolationist country and we haven't been an isolationist country.
26:49 So it will come to us and it will affect us. And when it starts affecting us, then we will have to
26:54 make a decision on what we're going to do. So we either have a choice that we fight with finances
27:00 or we fight with blood. Those are our choices right now. And those that see turning our head and
27:07 doing nothing doesn't the outcome is is just a nor ignoring a problem that you're going to deal
27:17 with at some point. I don't I'm proactive, not reactive. And so unfortunately, we have to be
27:23 involved in this regardless of what the politics is behind it and what people think about it.
27:28 As long as that war is going on, we had to be somewhat involved now. Would that fight take
27:32 in place if Trump was in office? No, I'm a thousand percent that fight would not have taken place
27:38 that Trump was in office. But that's not the scenario we have. Hopefully, this time next year,
27:44 you're not Ukraine. The topic of Ukraine is irrelevant because the war is over because Trump
27:48 gets in and and he has some really tough conversations that Biden can't have and and Trump can.
27:55 Yeah. So that'll be something to see. I think the world would look completely different if
27:59 the 2020 election had gone the way of the Republican candidate. But Mark Wayne, we are out of time
28:03 here. But I do just want to ask you for a few things here at the very end. And these are all
28:07 these are all small things. Okay. But just just a reminder in case you've forgotten.
28:11 Mullen ranch mug. Mullen ranch vest size large. Yeah. Mullen ranch vest size large.
28:20 You have female large cap. No, no. I mean, I have an impressive chest, but maybe not that
28:26 impressive. Number three, seven and a half cowboy hat. This isn't a bad thing. And number four,
28:31 because those first three, the next time I see you on camera, I've already won a top hat and a
28:36 tuxedo. So I need to be wearing a, you know, the ranch vest with the mug and the hat. It just has
28:41 to happen. Our audience needs it. But then the fourth thing, and this is perhaps optional,
28:46 I will wear the exact same get up and hold the same mug when you get me an interview with Trump.
28:51 And so I'll do the exact same thing. It can be a short one. It can be like a five to 10 minute
28:56 long thing. I'll even go out tomorrow. That's no big deal. I'll even play golf. I haven't done
29:00 that in 15 years. And I'd probably still be better than Joe Biden. So those four things,
29:05 those are all super easy to pull off, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One and two, I think I can take
29:10 care of three, we'll have to negotiate on. And four, we will see. Well, I'm not in Congress,
29:16 but I can negotiate with the best of them. Okay. I'll tell you what, right now, I come from a long
29:21 line of potato farmers back in my Irish days. And so we didn't just give those things away.
29:25 You know, we had to barter with people so that we could continue to survive. But hey,
29:28 is there anything else you want to share with the audience before we get you out of here?
29:31 No, man. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. See you next time. All right. See you.
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If you don't think he's mentally capable to run for president, then what do we... I think it's 25th amendment time.
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If Russia prevails in Ukraine, we will be in a fight with Russia.
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