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Heartfelt Reagan Moments and Deep State Realities
Ever wondered who really pulls the strings in our government? Join us this Labor Day morning as we savor simple pleasures, from cooking a hearty breakfast to recounting our unexpected fascination with the movie "Reagan." Listen as we revisit the poignant scenes of Reagan's assassination attempt and the unwavering bond with his wife, Nancy. It's a heartwarming, history-rich discussion perfect for both film aficionados and political history enthusiasts.
Feeling skeptical about our elected officials' true power? You're not alone. We vent our frustrations about the "deep state" and discuss whether long-standing bureaucrats, not our elected leaders, are truly in charge. Dive into our thoughts on Kamala Harris's performance in international affairs, the significant influence of figures like Ron Klain, and even the curious renaming of the two-minute warning in football. Plus, enjoy a funny personal story involving a mysterious white rose and some humorous takes on modern sensitivities. This episode is a rollercoaster of heartfelt moments, compelling debates, and light-hearted commentary.
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Good morning everyone. Happy Monday and Labor Day.
Speaker 2:Good morning to all. It's the second day of September. Yes, unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Well, I have the day off.
Speaker 2:Yay.
Speaker 1:Cramping your style.
Speaker 2:Not at all. Not at all. It's a joy I get to get up and cook my queen breakfast. Up and cook my queen breakfast. We sit here in bed and look at the news and look out the window at the day and share time together. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1:Well, the only thing I really have to do today is write for the Victor Girls.
Speaker 2:And you're going to do some videos. Yeah, but you know I've got other, You've got all kinds of things you want to do, I do and I don't think I'm going to be able to get them all done.
Speaker 1:I have to go out and get some things, do a little shopping, and then I don't know if I'm going to have time to come home and do the videos. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, you just you know, I'll take care of everything else You've got to do what you've going to do here at the house, just taking care of my queen. Okay, got to make sure you're hydrated, make sure you've got nutrition in you. You know, feed you, get you your vitamins, draw your bath water, scrub you. That's pretty funny. That is funny. I will be cooking and all that stuff for you. Okay, like always. So that's my fun. That's part of my fun. That's part of what I look forward to.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you, you do a very good job.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1:So I went to the movies last night and watched the movie Reagan.
Speaker 2:And you allowed me to stay home and watch golf.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gosh, I didn't allow you to do anything, my gosh.
Speaker 2:But I stayed home and watched golf. You sound like I'm a tyrant or something. You're not a tyrant, not at all, but you went to the Reagan movie.
Speaker 1:I did and I enjoyed it. I knew that I would like it, though after listening to Megyn Kelly go on and on and on about it, I was a little apprehensive at first. I thought you know all this hype that she gave it and just a couple of clips that they kept showing, I thought, okay, those are okay. But what if I get in there and it's all horrible acting and the makeup's terrible and the hair's awful and it's just them trying to make Dennis Quaid look like Ronald Reagan. But it was really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I worried for you that it wasn't going to be all that and a slice of pie, but apparently it was really good. You came home and said that you cried and then you told me about it. I was like I can understand why. Yeah, because not only is, was it a very good political understanding movie. You got to understand who he was, the relationships he was in and especially his love affair with Nancy.
Speaker 1:Yes, that was a very good recap. Now Meg and Kelly kept saying it was not a political movie and I guess it wasn't. It was more or less they call it a biopic of Ronald Reagan, and I understand. Hollywood takes liberties, you know, to put a lifetime of a man like that down to two hours and 21 minutes. They're going to have to cut corners and squeeze some things in and pump it up and make it look, you know, romanticized or whatever, but it was still very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, from what you told me, it sounded like it was really good.
Speaker 1:Now I learned some things, but you told me it sounded like it was really good. Now I learned some things. Now, I didn't know that he had put himself up for candidacy of president in the mid-'70s 1975, I think against Ford. He lost in the primaries, which I did not know. He did that. I did not know that there were several Soviet leaders while he was president that died after the main one I forget his name. He was the leader forever and then he died. Was it Brezhnev? I think that might be it.
Speaker 1:And then there was another one, and then another one, and the way they did that scene in the movie was hilarious. He said how am I going to talk to him if they keep dying on me? And then, of course, there's gorbachev. Yeah, and then, um, you know a scene that was quite shocking to me. They kind of started off with the shooting. Well, they started off the movie okay. At the very beginning there's it's like it cuts back and forth in time a lot back to his childhood, back to when he was a lifeguard on the river, a teenage boy, back to an old, old spy. That was back in the Reagan days. They're talking back and forth and wondering how come. Russia isn't, you know, the leader of the world right now. And of course they blame Reagan. But anyway, I forgot where I was going with this. Now, just the way I guess the movie was cut back and forth and the timelines and stuff. Oh yeah, I forgot where I was going with that.
Speaker 2:It was a good movie.
Speaker 1:It was a very good movie. Oh, a shocking scene to me was when he was shot and again they started off with him being shot. But then later in the movie it kind of catches up to where he was shot. And then what happens after he was shot and he there's a hospital scene where the surgeons and stuff are cutting his suit off of him and he's laying in the gurney and you kind of see his head, you see his arm or whatever, you see a piece of his side or whatever. But then Nancy forces her way in. They weren't going to let her in. She forces her way in to see him and the first shot you see is him laying there without a shirt on. And that shocked me for some reason. I don't know why, but it did. Because I felt like I was watching Reagan and it was like shocking to see Ronald Reagan without a shirt or the President of the United States without a shirt on. It was weird.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm not sure where you're going with that I don't know where I was going with that either. I think because I think, because they had me believing that Dennis Quaid was Ronald Reagan, so much that I believe that was Ronald Reagan there was the what do they call it? Suspension of disbelief, or something like that.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I like that Suspension of I'm going to use that.
Speaker 1:Suspension of belief, maybe? I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2:You know that's something that you can't really define and if you say that to people, they'll that. You know that that leaves them baffled.
Speaker 1:So suspension of disbelief I don't think that's the right term I'm going to use it anyway I think it's suspension my suspension of reality. Suspension of reality maybe a suspension of reality, and it takes you to the to. It's like what writers do in fiction, novels and in movies they take you out of reality and put you in an alternate reality and make you believe that that's real.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, use that in a sentence. My suspension of disbelief was inordinate to the reality of the happening and you know people will go. Oh, okay, sure, but they'll obviously go. What the hell was he saying?
Speaker 1:It's the disbelief part. That's not right. That's a different. It's supposed to be something else. Anyway, go watch the movie. I did a better review of the movie in my newsletter. I write better than I talk, okay, because I have time to sit there and think of the words that I want to use.
Speaker 2:Now, what was it? Suspension of disbelief.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's not right, though, well.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to use it anyway, okay. So I got to send my.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it was a good movie. Go watch it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not only did I learn a little bit about the movie from what you, or from Reagan about what you said, I also now will be. So now we'll be coining a phrase called suspension of duty. I like that. It's wrong, though. Well, you know, grammar is one of the first things that Twitter checks, you know? Think about it. Anyway, that was good, I like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I would watch it again, and again and again. It's really good.
Speaker 2:Well, we may go watch it again and again.
Speaker 1:Good, yes, I would love for you to go watch it and I would go with you again Would you buy me popcorn, I will Awesome Okay. I'll buy you popcorn and whatever you want, I'll go watch it again today if you wanted to.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness Well.
Speaker 1:Yes, I would Forget. I'll do it in my videos. I'd rather go watch that again, type force. I guess that was it for me. I think, did you have anything that you wanted to?
Speaker 2:Other than Texas. A&m and LSU were sham football programs.
Speaker 1:Yes, give us some football updates.
Speaker 2:Just their sham football programs.
Speaker 1:That's all I'm going to say about that. Why is that? Which team?
Speaker 2:LSU and Texas A&M.
Speaker 1:Why are they sham?
Speaker 2:Well, because they should have won the games that they played. They made stupid mistakes, you know. They played with what I call lack of discipline, and these are two programs that have lots of talent and they should have played a lot better than they played. That's just the way I like it. Plus, I picked them both of them in my pool and they lost. So that may have something to do with me being mad with them, but still that was what I saw in those two teams when I watched them play football.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So that was on my mind really as I tune into TV today is, you know, and the more and more I get mad about it, the more and more I try to get it out of my mind and not worry about it, because there's really nothing I can do. It's just the way our government is now being run, is basically how it's been being run for quite some time, and I say, with a little bit of an exception of the Trump years. But if we go back to Obama and go back to Bush and go back, it's not being run really by a president working with a Congress, working with a Congress, working with a judiciary. It's basically being run by a deep state entity, an animal that really has gotten so far out of control that I don't know if we'll ever be able to do anything about it. And the more and more you know I see that, the more and more you know I worry about it.
Speaker 2:And then you know we see this on the news today we're seeing the president getting on his helicopter to go back and meet with the vice president to decide what they're going to do about the hostages in Gaza, in Palestine. No, and they're not going to do anything. This is all for show. It really it's all for show, because they can't do a damn thing, you know, and it's all going to be some. You know he's going to meet with the vice president. What for what is she going to do? Yeah, really, what is she going to do? Yes, is she going to tell me more about the passage of time?
Speaker 1:You know, that reminds me when I was sitting there watching the movie last night or yesterday and watching Ronald Reagan or, you know, dennis Quaid, whatever talking to these world leaders, gorbachev and all that. I sat there I had a glimpse of Kamala sitting there talking to Putin. I'm like, oh no, this couldn't be happening.
Speaker 2:It's just for anybody who thinks otherwise. God bless you is all I can say, because there's nothing I can say to change your mind Right. There's nothing you know other than well, stop right there. There's nothing I can say to change your mind about it. To tell me that, on the foreign policy and on the international stage, that Kamala Harris is going to be a better representative of the United States than Donald Trump.
Speaker 1:She can't talk, let's just start with that. She can't think on her feet, like me. I know that I cannot think on my feet. I'm not quick-witted, I'm not like that. But if I sit down and write something, that might be a little bit different, because I have time to think about what I want to say and pull the words I want.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Where I'm not sitting in front of anybody with the pressure of coming up with something.
Speaker 2:Then she has no way no idea how to handle any of that.
Speaker 1:Right, and I understand people might think well, it's just talking blah, blah, blah. No, you have to be able to know first of all what you're talking about, and she doesn't.
Speaker 2:Well, again, here we go, with this last four years of a presidency going into another four years of a presidency, going into another four years of a presidency not being run by an executive branch, a legislative branch, a judicial branch. It's going to be run by a deep state government, telling her what to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Telling her what to say.
Speaker 1:What I mean? Do you think this? What do you think the deep state government is? Do you think who do you think is in it? I mean, is it people that are outside the government? Is it an actual certain person?
Speaker 2:Basically government appointees that have been appointed by that, you know, run the government to keep their jobs. They don't run the government for the people of the United States. They run it to keep their jobs.
Speaker 1:So give me an example. So you're not talking about somebody like Soros or somebody like that, or Steve Jobs, not Steve Jobs.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they have a lot of influence on you know, with their money, what is being said and what is being done. Yeah, absolutely. But the bureaucracy of the whole thing, you know, trying to get something done, you can't get it done because of what is going on in the deep state.
Speaker 1:So like the Pelosi, the Jeffries.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 1:To me that's not deep state. Those are government officials.
Speaker 2:Deep state is, you know, going further into the government, the people that are the bureaucracy of the whole thing, people that we don't, of the whole thing.
Speaker 1:People that we don't hear about a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people who aren't elected or appointed to all of these cabinet positions, all of these, you know, people.
Speaker 1:What does Ron Klain do? Is he the chief of staff?
Speaker 2:What does he do? Oh, that kind of thing he says Mr President, you need to do this.
Speaker 1:Well, he was appointed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he wasn't elected, was he?
Speaker 2:But, you know he basically is making decisions for this government, not Joe Biden. He's telling Joe Biden what to do and he's activating, you know, and he can go to and say, okay, this is what we're going to get done. Now you take, say, chief of staff for President Trump. He goes and tells all these deep staff, you know all these people that have been appointed to these government positions and have been there for the last 25 years, you do this, been there for the last 25 years, you do this. But they, you know they're, they're, they're, you know they're, they were appointed by this. You know somebody else who's, and they don't want to do it. So they just, you know, stall and do whatever until they can get that power back. So, basically, you know there's a deep layer of these people that just you know, are there just just to keep, keep their job. They're not there to do what the president or what the judicial or whatever wants to do. It's like the you know the stalling and the redacting of trying to get information from the government.
Speaker 2:They're not going to give it up, because if they do and you know that's not just a liberal point of view or the liberals doing it it goes back to certain books that I've read that talk about the investigations into certain people when, aha, this is going to be, we've got them now, and it's being done by conservative people who are getting ready to expose things. And then they stop. Why do they stop? Mm-hmm, Because if they expose those people for these things, then they have to expose themselves for what they're doing. Yep, so they stop. So the deep state continues on to run things for themselves and not for the people. Yep.
Speaker 2:And we've let this government get way too big, like I said, it's not just a liberal thing, it's a conservative thing, it's the deep state of the government. Remember, when I say deep state, I don't say it's deep state liberals, it's deep state conservative. It's a deep state government that doesn't run it for the people, that runs it for themselves.
Speaker 1:Now our government was not this big back in the founding fathers' days. And they didn't intend it to be that big and it needs to go back to that, but we will never go back to that.
Speaker 2:Just put it this way it's too big, it's out of control.
Speaker 1:We can't take it back. It's too late.
Speaker 2:You're a congressman and you go up and you've got a $175,000 salary, all right, but well, I'm not even going to go into all the things that they have voted over the years for themselves. Like you know you, you get a four-year term and guess what? Now you have an unlimited pension pension for for life insurance not the insurance that we have for you guys, but our special our insurance, health insurance for you and your family for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2:We have voted all these things in, you know, and what you're supposed to have done? You're supposed to have gone up there and served your country, not have the country serve you. But that's what they've turned it into and that's part of deep state. Yeah, that's part of it. So, yeah, that's part of it. So, anyway, the more and more I see that, the more and more I go. You know that's just not right, but you know, all I can do is talk about it.
Speaker 1:When do you think the deep state started? When do you think we lost this control? It was probably before our time, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:Well, when you start listening to a radio and it's on volume, one yeah, and you can hear it fine, yeah. And then you turn it up to volume two and you listen to it. It's the same as volume one was. And then, 10 years later, you got it on volume 112 and it's just the same as volume one was. So it it's increased over time, just like you don't notice. You don't notice it. It's just the same as Volume 1 was. So it's increased over time.
Speaker 1:But you don't notice it, but you don't notice it.
Speaker 2:It's like you know I've talked about. You played on a golf course as a kid and you remember this wide-open view of a hole and you remember all this stuff and then 30 years later you go back to the course and you go I don't remember those trees being like that, but if you were at that golf course, those trees were always like that because you saw them grow over time and you really didn't notice them growing over time. But if you didn't see it for 30 years and you went back to it, you go damn, it's changed yeah, I think I would like to go back and start reading.
Speaker 1:If there's anything out there, they may have gotten rid of it all by now. But reading some of our government history from early, like 1910, 1900s, 18, you know, 60, 18, whatever late, late, late, late 1800s, early 1900s, just to see what it was like back then, before more modern time history.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'd be interesting to do. That'd be something interesting for somebody to go back and research and write about.
Speaker 1:I'm sure there's a podcast out there about it. Yeah, probably so. But you know what slant are they going to give it, you know Anyway, yeah, anyway, we went off on they going to give it, you know anyway, yeah, anyway. We went off on a tangent there, didn't we? It's 20 minutes. Let's do the question of the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was Go for it.
Speaker 1:Okay, sorry we went on and on, but hey, we were on a roll. I thought it was a good conversation. Question of the day when you first wake up in the morning, when you grab your phone, when the first time you grab your phone for the day, whether it's as soon as you open your eyes and your feet hit the floor, or maybe it's a couple of hours after you wake up. Whatever, the first time you look at your phone for the day, what is the first thing you check? Is it email, social media, facebook? What is it? What's the first thing? Weather? What's the first thing you check? I check my email and then I'll go through my social media accounts. Like this I'll probably do Instagram, facebook, and then I'll go to Twitter, because Twitter is my favorite and I always save the best for last. It's kind of when I eat my food, when I eat my food on a plate, I'll eat what I don't like first and then I'll save the favorite for last.
Speaker 2:All right then I always go straight to Twitter to see how many likes I got, and I'm really pissed right now because I didn't get any carryover to my last tweet of the night last night. Oh boy, I'll have to go like it and share it, yeah, and everybody needs to go look at it because it's just part of what's happening to us in the world.
Speaker 2:you know, abc and espn commentators that can no longer call the two minute warning the two minute warning. It is now the two minute time out and the commentator said this. We were told not to call it the two-minute warning. We were told to call it the two-minute timeout. Who the hell are we offending by that?
Speaker 1:Well, I find calling it a timeout offensive. I'm going to write somebody and tell them that Change it back.
Speaker 2:What is it?
Speaker 1:It's flabbergasting, isn't it.
Speaker 2:I'm without speech.
Speaker 1:Two-minute warning is offensive to someone.
Speaker 2:Or is it? You know why? Why are we changing that Right?
Speaker 1:right.
Speaker 2:You know what reasoning.
Speaker 1:Yes, I would like to know.
Speaker 2:You know, is it a warning? Is, oh my God, you know that might trigger somebody?
Speaker 1:Microaggression, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, it's a microaggression. Let me tell you what a microaggression is. By God, Load up my water gun.
Speaker 1:Okay, All right. Well, we got to go.
Speaker 2:Oh, and, by the way, to the person who put the rose on my wife's car.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I person who put the rose on my wife's car. Oh my gosh, I've got my eyes on you. Yeah, that was weird. I came out of the movie theater yesterday and there was a one single long stem rose white rose, white rose on my the hood of my car now.
Speaker 2:The rose wasn't in the best condition in the world. No, so I figured somebody had roses in their car and they just chucked them around, but still, I've got my eyes on you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was weird. Okay, got to go.
Speaker 2:Go Dawgs.
