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The Rob Carson Show- Pt 1 (02/17/25)
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-President Trump not only attends the Daytona 500, but does a lap in the Presidential motorcade! -Sen. Rand Paul suggests DOGE audit the Federal Treasury next.
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Rob Carson
This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Upgrade your business with Shopify, home of the number one checkout on the planet. Shop pay boosts conversions up to 50%, meaning fewer carts going abandoned and more sales going Cha ching. So if you're into growing your business, get a commerce platform that's ready to sell wherever your customers are. Visit shopify.com to upgrade your selling today. Hold it Now. You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking, and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide Web. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey, kids, it's Monday. Monday. Tgim, as I like to say. And honestly, for me, it really is. I was glad it's Monday. It's President's Day. It's one of those faux holidays. What do we need President's Day for? Seriously? And who takes President's Day off other than my boss, Lee? I mean, who honestly takes President's Day off? You know, honestly, should we pare down some of these holidays? Presidents, do we really need a President's Holiday? I mean, we know that we have. Who could be the most. The best president we've ever had, certainly in our lifetimes, is the President. So maybe we should just. I'm just going to call it Donald Trump Day. There he goes. Donald Trump Day. Welcome to the show. Please come inside. Of course, the Daytona 500 took place over the weekend, and William Byron won. And I was talking to Brian, my producer in Baltimore, and he. William Byron. He says, why isn't Billy Bob Byron? I said, you're exactly right. If you're going to win nascar, your name should be Billy Bob Byron or something like that with two names. You know, Billy Bob or Billy Ray or something like that. Not William Byron. Who the hell's William Byron? Well, all I know is that Bubba Wallace did not win over the PA actually, over the. The intercom in the driver's helmets. Mr. President, the radio is here. This is your favorite president. I'm a big fan. I am a really big fan of you people that you do this. I don't know, but I just want you to be safe. You're talented people, and you're great people and great Americans. Have a good day, have a lot of fun, and I'll see you later. There you go. And also, did you notice that none of Those cars are EVs, you know, the. The Daytona 5? Could you imagine the Daytona 500? It was stupid EVs, because that's what it would have ended up being had Kamala Harris stolen the election. I mean, won the. It would have been easy. Could you imagine sitting there and it says, there you go. That's it. It's not the same. Oh, the smell of gasoline, exhaust, one of the greatest smells ever. Don't want to do it with the garage door closed and a garden hose in the, in the cabin of your car. But it is kind of nice when it's just in the air. You know, it's like when you're walking along and you can smell somebody smoking a cigar and you're like, oh, you know, that kind of thing. Or when you're in New York everywhere and you smell pot smoking. No, not so much. I don't. I don't particularly like that. This is Donald Trump being interviewed at one of America's greatest spectator events, the Daytona 500. I'm joined now by the President of the United States. Mr. President, five years ago we were standing in the masculinity is not toxic. Very spot. What brings you back to the great American race? I think it's fantastic. It's great for the country. Our country is doing well again. We have spirit all over the world. This spirit again, we brought it back and it's been less than four weeks. I know you'll see what we do in, in week number four, right here. Bab. In a little period of time, it's going to only get better. But this is very exciting. You brought your granddaughter. I know some of your other family. That was cute too, by the way, are here. You get to take a ride around in the beast. What is that like? I'll let you know in about two minutes because it's going to be. They're going to be going quite quickly. I understand you just got to meet some of the drivers. Are you going to get on the radio again and talk to them? Before this, Joe Biden would have done a lap in the track with one of those three wheeled scooters. Started that man. I say they have a lot of courage doing this. It's. I see it, what it take about three hours I've been here. And they have a lot of. They have a lot of guts, as they would say. Mr. President, enjoy your time. Thank you very much. That was pretty cool. And then did you see Air Force One flying and then tilting, tilting toward the fans and the fans going crazy. Oh, my God. America is back. America as it should be, is back. A country that is proud of its heritage and a country that broadcasts to the rest of the world. Don't BLEEP with Us, don't bleep with us. Oh, and by the way, Donald Trump, you know, you talk about the, the, the boss visiting you, you know, when you're maybe blowing off work. Donald Trump toured the Boeing plant on Saturday to inspect the, the Air Force ones that he, you know, they bid on and they're building and they're late. Did you know that? Donald Trump goes there, he's been speaking about his dissatisfaction with Boeing over the failure to produce two replacement Air Force ones in the 2018 contract. While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office last week, he says, you know, Boeing, we're not happy with the service we're getting in terms of those planes. According to the AP, the planes are expected to be finished in 2027 or 20, marking a three year delay for the, for each of them. They were originally scheduled completed in 2024 and 2025. Can you imagine what it was like at the Boeing plant to see Donald Trump walk in? They may have had one of those constipational crisis that I've been talking about with the Democrats. The Democrats are having a constipational crisis, not a constitutional crisis. They're having a constitutional crisis because they're crapping themselves because they're getting discovered about how crooked they are and how, how wasted on nonsense. And trust me, we got a lot of that. We got a lot of that coming up on the show. But listen to this. The New York Post is reporting that Joe Biden set a record during his four years as president. Now, Nancy Pelosi told us all that Joe Biden deserved to be on Mount Rushmore, which, I mean, honestly, the audacity, right? The audacity for somebody to say something is outrageous and absurd as that and not get challenged by the media on it. But that's okay because the media is getting a little, what? Furniture from people like Caroline Levitt. We'll get to that later. Joe Biden took more time off than any other US president in modern history. 577 of his 1463 days in office, 40% of his presidency on vacation as the nation suffered. There's your metaphor right there. For all of the suffering. The government does nothing for you and me. They send our money for transgender surgery in Bangladesh. And Joe Biden took 40% of his time off. What would you do with 40%? Vacation? What would you do with that? The average American gets 11 paid vacation days. That's what I get, by the way. I get about 11 days and would have to work 52 years to rack up as much downtime. As Biden scored in his four years. Yeah. The staggering tally includes R&R 43 of the 70 days, or 61% of the time after he was pressured by fellow Dems to drop his reelection bid. So he went from 40% to 61%. The end of his presidency and he belongs on Mount Rushmore. Okay, you keep telling yourself that. And here's John Carl. He's not too happy. He was talking to Hakeem Jeffries about how popular that Donald Trump is. And Hakeem Jeffries was at a loss for words. Donald Trump's favorability rating is actually higher than it ever was the first time around. Let me ask you, a recent poll by Marquette looked at several of the things that he has done or says that he is going to do. And 63% favorite federal government's recognition of only two sexes. 60% favor deporting immigrants who entered the United States illegally. 60% favor expanding oil and gas production. That sounds like winning. 59% favor declaring an emergency at the southern border. Is there anything you are seeing that the Trump is doing that you are in favor of that you think is the right thing? Let me say, as it relates to all of those issues, we're just at the beginning. There you go. And he went on to say, you know, Donald Trump said he was going to stop inflation on day one. That's all he had, as all he had was Donald Trump was going to cure inflation on day one. Well, that takes a while because, you know, he's doing the drill, baby, drill. He's opened up those 675 million acres offshore for all of the drilling and the oil and stuff. And then that oil is made into gas and diesel. That goes into vehicles that plants the crops, picks the crops, takes the crops to the factory, the factory takes the food to the store. You drive your car with the gas or the whatever, and you go get the groceries, and that's when the grocery prices will come down. It takes a little while. It just takes a little while, in case you wanted to know. But today also, did you know about this liberal group is planning Not My President's Day? Today is not my President's Day. And they are expecting tens of people at this, at this Not My President's Day protest in every state. 50 protests, 50 states. It's going to be hard to do without that US Aid money going to, you know, these groups that fomented revolution and, and violence during the summer of 2020. Yeah, they were a part of it. They were a part of it. Remember, I told you that it's night 1968 all over again. There was nothing organic about the riots of 2020. It was all fake. It was all bought and paid for by US Aid, among others. But today they are going to. They're going to say, it's not my President's Day. About Donald Trump. Organizers claim to be protesting against the anti Democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration. This group has 102,000 members on their Reddit page, 7,000 on Discord. Discord. That makes sense. It also has been promoted by Smart Girls, an organization created by Amy Poehler, who was in Parks and Recreation. We're going to go out and protest because we're concerned about the current president's actions, said Sidney Wilson, a national press liaison or is that lesbian for npr. Told npr we figured it was a nice little punch and here's some of them. And I this is why I'm thinking there's only going to be tens of people, but here they are this weekend. I will lift you up when they push you down I will raise my voice and stand my ground. Well, it looks like it might be a home. They got to come up with some new folk songs when our computer systems are. By the way, all of these people were wearing Covid masks. I'm not kidding. You're attacked by pimply teenage boys. What do we do now? You'll notice there aren't any men speaking here because all the Democrat men. Well, I'll just say, what Clay. What the buck and Clay? That guy, he said, he said, well, Democrat men are p words for cats. They want to take away our protections through their profit. That could be a guy. I'm not sure, but I think it's probably a woman. We have a saying for now. And take it. Come and take it. We are not leaving. We are not leaving. Wow, that sounds powerful. I feel like going on. Sing with us. Oh, God, I gotta sing again. Oh, here we go. Yes, I'm going to let it shine. And to the federal workers who have been let go or put on probation or on administrative leave, let's, let's all say together we love you. We love you. Great. I'm sure that makes them feel great, all 10 of you saying that. I've got some news coming up about Washington, D.C. and I had predicted last week that the recession that hit the rest of us for the last four years is finally coming home to roost in D.C. so all of that is coming up. Some great audio, some great new comedy from Jim Gossett. The phone number here is 800-922-6680. This, my friends, is a Monday edition of the Rob Carson Show. The Rob Carson show podcast is everywhere. Go to newsmax.com listen for details. I will lift you up when they push you down. I will raise my voice and stand my ground where the look like it might be a hard road. I'm gonna walk it with you. Today is not my President Day. A bunch of leftists are protesting Donald Trump, exposing all of the massive corruption that our federal government has been doing to us. And it is a gift from God, actually, because now we know that what I've said that, that Washington, D.C. nothing gets fixed in D.C. now we know why. Because they aren't focused on us. They're focused on sending transgender parades to, you know, Istanbul. I mean, honestly. Bet. Guano. Crazy crap. And. And it's all been true, man. You knew something was going on when they didn't help out the people in Lahaina do. You knew they didn't. There was something going on when they didn't help out the people in East Palestine. You knew there was something going on when they didn't do anything to help out the people in North Carolina after the hurricane. And now we know what they've been doing. They've never given a crap. Our entire lives. Your federal government has not given a crap about you. And now it's all coming home to roost. It is coming home to roost. And the crazy cat ladies are out because honestly, this is. This is your Democrat Party and this is why they are going to be wandering in the. In the wilderness for a while when our computer systems are under attack by pimply teenage boys. What do we do? Or on administrative leave. Let's, let's all say together, we love you. We love you. We love you. Yeah. And as long as the Democrat party has crazy cat ladies in charge, it's not gonna end well. Jim Gossett, I told you about this months ago. Well, they have a lot of cats and they're mostly Democrats like BP Harris. They cry when they lose from their left wing views. I wish they'd spare us their cat ladies. Whoa, whoa, whoa. They're cat ladies talking about some miserable ladies who have clearly lost their mind. What's a suicide rate for Democrat men? Got called out by J.D. vance when he had the chance. He really nailed them. They're too dumb to know Kamala and Joe have really failed them. Yeah, 40% vacation. They cat ladies don't have a child. They cat ladies talking about some miserable ladies who are out of their mind. Remember that song that became really big a couple years ago? Richmond, north of Richmond. And, and I remember when that song became a hit and I understood why. Because I knew that the federal government didn't care about you and me. Didn't care about the suffering that we went through the last four years under Joe Biden. Didn't care that, you know, you had to go to Dollar General to buy your groceries. And we did. We all suffered, right? We all suffered well, and now it's happening in D.C. now I saw something interesting this weekend from the International Monetary Fund. This is the America's richest and poorest states versus G7 countries GDP per capita. All right, you ready for this? You ready for this? New York City, $110,000 a year per capita. Massachusetts $105,000 per capita. Arkansas 58,000. West Virginia 57. Canada 54. How do they, how do they buy them expensive houses like on Property, brothers. Germany 52,000. Mississippi 51,000. And in Italy 38,000. But you want to know who leads in the per capita income? Are you ready? You better sit down. Washington D.C. you know what the per capita is? 259,000. 259,000. And what is Washington D.C. build? Nothing. Nothing. Who's making all that money? Well, politicians, A government. Government employees. Alright, Federal government employees. Lobbyists and lawyers. Yeah, the rest of you. I mean, honestly, if you're a cop, screw it, you're living in a townhome. I was, you know, I'm considering moving out to D.C. and, and doing some stuff out there because I want to be in D.C. because it's going to be Hollywood and you know, Donald Trump thinks I'm the funniest guy on tv. And I was just kind of looking at places because I, I am not going to invest a big old house. I'm going to get a tiny house or, I don't know, might even get one of those park and ride kind of campers. Maybe an Airstream. I don't even know. I don't even know. And then, and then I realized, you know, no way. Because the houses are insanely expensive out there. Insanely expensive. In fact, the average house out there in D.C. is about $600,000. Did you know that? $600,000 in D.C. here it is. Yeah. 699,000 in November. The median home in Washington D.C. $699,000. You know what monthly payment on that is right now? If you're going to pay. Well, if you're going to pay like 7%, which is what the interest rate is. Right about now, you're looking at about $5,000 a month for your house payment, Right? Am I. Am I right? Maybe even a little bit more. A little bit more? What cop can afford that? None of them. None of them. What about. What about people who, I don't know, maybe you were an insurance agent or maybe a construction worker. You know, yeah, it's going to be hard, but by February, the median home prices dropped 20%. 560,000. You know why? Because people in D.C. are getting laid off. Because Doge is going, holy crap. And here's the problem with our federal government. We have too many employees and not enough work. I told you this last week. And if you look at the growth of some of the big federal agencies in the country, they went on a hiring spree like nobody's business the last four years under Joe Biden just to hire people, just to enlarge the government and just to inflate the jobs numbers they did. And now all of those people are being dropped, particularly those guys. You know, 280,000 people were in probationary period, meaning all of them are going to lose their jobs. All of them are done. And then you can reapply later. But that's what it's done, man. There's been a surge in new home listings over $1 million. According to TKI, there are 525 listings worth $1 million, 44 listings worth $5 million in Washington, D.C. and they're all going down. Joe Chavez, a premier agent in Kansas City, Missouri, said, since the inauguration, I met with a few people, including one government employee, who are selling specifically because the anticipated return to office orders, among other things. They're kind of mad about that. On Friday, Trump and Musk fired 9,500 workers who handled everything from managing federal lands to caring for military veterans. Departments of Interior, Energy, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Health and Human Services had their employee employment terminated in a drive that so far has largely been not exclusively targeting probationary employees, because Joe Biden blew up those numbers, including, by the way, those 85,000 IRS agents that Joe Biden was going to hire to go after you for making a little mistake on your taxes so we could send the IRS after you. Forest Service fired 3,400, National Park Service, 1,000 because they got too many employees and not enough work. So if you want to move into Washington, D.C. might be a little cheaper these days, and you might be able to get some office space. I got more on this coming up in a couple of minutes. This my Friends is a Monday edition of the Rob Carson Show. Don't go hey guys, it's Carson for Green Chef this year, ditch the fads and create healthier eating habits that last with real clean foods. Green Chef makes it easy with recipes curated for a variety of lifestyles and dietary needs. I personally like the Mediterranean. I've been eating it for months now. With pre made sauces and pre portioned ingredients. There's less prep and less mess and more time to savor delicious restaurant quality meals. Stay on track even on your busiest days with salads ready in five minutes or less. Ready to blend smoothies and grab to go protein packed breakfasts. Here are some of the new Green Chef entrees that I have made. Roasted Salmon with Lemon Butter Sauce Thai Spice Chicken Bulgur Bowls Trattoria Chicken and Pan Seared Polenta Pork Filet with almond and dates Mediterranean Shrimp bowls. Unbelievable. Thrive all year with clean easy meals from Green chef. Go to greenchef.com newsmax free and use code newsmax free to get started with free salads for 2 months plus 50% off your first box. Take advantage of this exclusive offer. Go to greenchef.Com newsmax free and get the number one meal kit for eating well. It's a Monday on the Rob Carson Show. It's President's Day for some of you. You have the the day off. So enjoy it. I was talking to my boss, Lee at least and he's going to see that Led Zeppelin. There's a new Led Zeppelin documentary in theaters. Holy hell. I know, I know, I know. I can't wait. I was, it opened on Valentine's Day, but I had a, I had a rough Valentine's Day, I'll just tell you. And for those of you who weren't tuned in, I'm just going to be brief on this. On Friday, Friday at the end of the show, I, I got served. I guess I've never been served before. I got a notice of a divorce via email at the end of the show. And you know, I like to say that God has a sense of humor. You've heard me use that expression before. Because when, for instance, they do a big global warming conference and all these, you know, highfalutin rich guys fly there in their private jets and, you know, don't care about carbon footprint at all and they have them in Davos or whatever and then it ends up being the coldest it's ever been in Davos. That's God with a sense of humor. Or when Al Gore says, oh yeah, we're gonna have the worst hurricanes ever because of global warming, climate change, murder hornets, all of that. And then we have a 15 year dry spell on hurricanes. That's God having a sense of humor. And, and I knew that this was coming, but, but I think, I think God actually said, hey, let's do it on Valentine's Day. Rob will appreciate that. And I gotta tell you, as much as it knocked me for a loop, and it did, it really, it really sucks. It sucks. There's a song by Elvis Presley. I was, I was a late bloomer on Elvis. I was a little kid when I discovered Elvis Presley. And he said, he said this time, Lord, you gave me a mountain, A mountain I may never climb. It isn't a hill any longer. You gave me a mountain this time. And that's the way I kind of felt about it on Friday. And then I thought, you know what? If, if, if, if Mel Brooks were writing the history of Rob Carson instead of the history of the world, he would have put the one divorce that I will ever have in my life on Valentine's Day. He would have done it on Valentine's Day. So I actually started laughing about it on Friday. I really did. And then I realized my life has kind of been like a never ending Tom Brady roast. It really is, except for Tom gets served divorce papers during his speech at the, at the Rose by Gisele Buncher, you know, that kind of thing. But honestly, this weekend, a lot of reflection and actually, I know that I've been given the strength to get through this from you guys and God, I really believe that. I really believe it because, you know, I haven't had a drink since I stopped drinking over three years ago. And I've had a miraculous recovery. And at no time did it come into my mind to drive right up to the liquor store, right up here and buy some booze. It wasn't even. It was. It's like it doesn't even exist. So I know there's a. There's something happening. I know there's a reason why I've come to this fork in the road of my life and why you and I have crossed paths at this time in history. I really do believe it, guys. I believe it is serendipitous. And. And I wish her the very best. And I, and I. It was funny after the show on Friday, I was, you know, combing over these papers that I got in my email and I, you know, just kind of, I could, you know, you could feel. You ever had it when you Feel flushed all the way to your fingers. You're just like, oh my gosh. And, and I just looked at him and I, I just immediately wrote the lawyer. I said, hey, I'm here to. Whatever you need. And I, and I printed them off and I went up to the, to the lawyer's office there. And I walked in. They were shocked, you know, I guess they're kind of expecting an angry guy. And I walked in. Hi, I'm Rob. Nice to meet you. Oh, you're the lawyer. Oh, nice to meet you. Hey, hey, here's the deal. Make sure I got this right here. Do you have a notary public? Let's go ahead and. Yeah, okay, why don't you stand? And then I just said, I said, okay, cool, here you go. And she was like looking at me like, what the, what are you. What? And I said, I just want her to be happy. That's it. And it is true. So I think you and I are here for a reason. And, and so I have a buoyancy in my heart that has carried me through this weekend. And it was rough. It was very rough. But I realized that my, my goal in life is I need to entertain, inform and motivate my audience and to witness to others about what is possible. What is possible when you, when you believe in yourself and you believe in God and you believe in music and family and all of those things. So I wanted to share that with you. It was, it was like a screenplay. It was like Mel Brooks saying, okay, here goes. It was just kind of funny. So. But I'm okay, you know, I'm, I'm okay. Unemployment claims surged in Washington D.C. well, at least government employees know how to file for unemployment. File for government benefits 1780 for the week ending February 8th. Nearly 4,000 workers have filed since Trump took office. So there is that. Unemployment claims skyrocketing. 7,000 claims filed in six weeks of the new year. 55% more than in the prior six week period. Normally, unemployment doesn't happen in D.C. unless you are in the prior private sector. I know when I lost my job in radio I had to file for unemployment. And then of course, the, the D.C. housing market is plummeting. And this is, this is really, honestly, it's very unique and I don't wish any misfortune on anyone. But if 94% of the workforce doesn't come to work for four years, did you think anything else was going to happen? Did you, did you honestly think that it was going to end up well, if you don't show up for work. If you don't show up for work, chances are you're going to lose your job. And the rest of us have suffered over the last four years. All of us have suffered the last four years. Hell, five years ago, I was on food stamps, for God's sake. And then I had to sell cars for a living. And I went from zero to a hundred thousand dollars a year in one month. Couldn't save the marriage, But I did 100,000. Got a new. Got a house and everything. So I will tell you if you've lost your job. I've done it five times. I've been in radio 30 years of those, 30 years, I've been unemployed five of them. It's not fun. It's not fun, but, you know, just believe in yourself and pick up the pieces and breathe. That's what you got to do. That's what you got to do. I want to go to Frank in Annapolis. Frank in the lovely and quite insane capital of Maryland. Frank, welcome to the show. What's on your mind today? Well, Rob, I mean, you just disrupted my OODA loop. If you're a fighter pilot, you know what that is. But I am not. Look it up someday. It's other pilots down. You get inside their OODA loop. It's just their OODA loop. Okay, brother, I'll. Thank you. I appreciate that. My wife got inside my OODA loop on Friday. Yeah, go ahead. Exactly. Why? It's like, I have a son that's going to a bad divorce right now. Mine's not a bad one. It's not a bad one. It's just. It's. Every divorce is bad, but go ahead. Yes. I've got two sons in law enforcement who really can't afford a house around here. I know, bro. I'm retired from the army, but I work in the education system and none of the teachers can afford a house around. No. No. And I could go on and on and on. I got a daughter that stays with me. She's divorced. She's got. You know, I got my three grandsons living with me. Because around here, and it's the only. The only thing I can say about it all is, is that something President Joe Biden said once to the West Virginia coal miners, they can all learn coding. Yeah, there you go. You're exactly right. That's what Joe Biden said. He said to the West Virginia coal miners, and he said to the Keystone XL pipeline workers, y'all can learn coding, can't you? Retrain in the middle of your Career people. Exactly. And the other thing, you know, I did have something in common with you, but not anymore. My wife's from Missouri, too. Oh, very good, Very good. Yeah, yeah, from Missouri. Missouri. Well, south, Southwest for us. But I appreciate your call, man. I do appreciate. The great thing is I don't have to pretend to like her sister anymore. But anyway, let's move on over the weekend, I want to mention this. I want to mention. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Mike. Mike Johnson did an interview with a podcast. Now, I told you that Joe Biden was on vacation 40% of the last presidency. And Nancy Pelosi tried to convince you that, A, inflation didn't exist, and B, he deserved to be on Mount Rushmore. And then we found out after that, the debate, you know, where he showed to the entire world who didn't know Joe Biden was. Had dementia, you know, the CNN viewers and all that. Oh, Mike Johnson had a little meeting him with him at the Oval Office, and here's how it went. Finally, I just went to the Hill press Corps and said, the president is not being allowed to meet with the Speaker. There's a problem. So they started putting pressure on them. They finally relented. They invited me to the White House. I show up and I realize it's actually an ambush because it's not just me and the President. It's also Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem. So I walked in the Oval and, ah, I know what this is. This is a. They're going to hot box the speaker on Ukraine funding. That's what it was. We sit down, we're in the midst of it. President reaches over just like, and grabs my arm and he says, the speaker and I just need a couple minutes together. Would y'all just leave us alone? And I looked up on the faces of some of the staff standing around the lawn. They're like, no, he did it. So they. He called it. He's the commander in chief. So everybody leaves real quickly. Mr. President, can I ask you a question, sir? Why did you pause? You're fueling Vladimir Putin's warmish. And he looks at me, stunned with this. And he said, I didn't do that. I said. He goes, oh, you talk about natural gas? Yes, sir. He said, no, no, you misunderstand. He said, what I did is I signed this thing to. We're going to conduct a study. I said, no, you're not, sir. You paused it. It occurred to me very. He was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, we're in serious trouble. Who is running the country? Like, yeah, there you go. Yeah, Mount Everest. See, everything was a distraction. Everything was a gaslight. Gaslighting. Everything was gaslighting. Trying to convince you that what you knew in your heart was true was disinformation and misinformation. And by the way, we'll get into how you paid for it. It. USAID was a part of that. USAID. Here are some of these USAID workers. There were 11,000 people working for this stupid agency. And some of the things they did, we've all heard about the bat guano crazy. Well, bat guano studies in China. They funded the Wuhan virus. Patient zero, who got Covid, got a grant from the federal government. Usaid. USAID even went to the Taliban, for God's sake. But here's the USAID workers in Washington D.C. who need to work, learn code. I guess people are really scared. I think that, you know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids daycare, their medical bills. And then all gone overnight. All gone overnight for Christina Dry and Adam Dubard, fired this month. Why didn't they do a story on the Keystone Xdale pipeline workers? The chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the U.S. agency for International Development? It's not U.S. aid. It wasn't never meant for aid. USAID. They're trying to make it seem like it's charitable. It's not. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration. They're not looking for competency. They're not looking for if you're good at your job. They're looking for peer loyalty tests. And if you don't. No, no. They're just looking at if you're needed, if you're. If the job needs to be had, give it you. You will be punished. And they had to leave the building. And these are folks who had decades and decades of public service serving usa. I was talking to my friend Doug this weekend and he used to work for the government. And I can't remember what agency he worked for, he says, but. But his job was to come up with one number a month, just one number. It was some sort of what? And he said it take me just a few minutes to do it, but the rest of the time I did nothing. And I had a friend named Kathy, worked for the federal government and she just sat around most of the time. Because we have too many employees and not enough work. Too many employees, not enough work. And Joe Biden blew up the payroll at the federal government gigantically, including wholesale 87,000 new IRS agents. Don't know what they're going to do yet, but we got to hire them and that's what they did. Here is Tim Burchette, he's in Congress. By the way, here's where some of your money went. Well, that's an excellent question. And when you see people here in Tennessee paying 50% of their, their income to state, federal and local taxes to other. And you know, through everything else where I live, there's a 9.45% sales tax on everything, fees and everything else. And then they see us sending literally billions overseas to our enemies. You know, I uncovered $40 million going to the. The Taliban. Yeah. A guy named Sean Ryan over Middle Tennessee. Yeah. This is why they're being fired, guys. The United States federal government is getting its first colonoscopy in 250 years and they're finding some cancerous growths and they're removing them. That's just it. That's just it. Did you hear what I said? The per capita income in Washington D.C. 259,000. New York is second at 110,000. And D.C. doesn't create anything. This is long overdue. Is it going to be painful? Oh, hell yeah. But guess what? We've had to go through it for the last, I don't know, 20 years and the federal government has done nothing for you and I. This is Brett Weinstein talking on Joe Rogan show. Something that I said last year. Elon's six wizards, they brought in some young wizards to go in there and go over the books and they are just finding crazy. $40 billion for electric car ports. Yeah, yeah. Eight ports have been built. What? You know how crazy? Too many workers, not enough work. There's $40 billion. Yeah. I do carports. But I have to say, as much as this is shocking, listen, I wasn't surprised neither. I thought that effectively our entire system had been turned into a racket and that we were basically being fed a cover story from it. Yeah. And it's weird to now have the evidence of this, but I think it was. Nothing ever gets fixed. Apparent that whatever had taken over our system wasn't interested in the well being of average people. That it was interested in the power of the state to take people's resources and redistribute them. And that that really is what's been going on for most of our adult lives. I told you, bourgeois proletariat. Best deal. And I was right. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. You ever watch Parks and Recreation? I love that show. Even though, you know, the cast is largely liberal. But, yeah, Parks and Recreation did a. An episode years ago about cutting the budget. And Ron Swanson is, like, absolutely thrilled about it because he knows all the waste that exists in government. And Leslie Nova's like, no big deal. Listen, that's not it. No, it's right here. This is Ron Swanson, by the way, one of the greatest. Nick Offerman, one of the greatest characters in television history. Too bad he's not like this character. I really like your shirt. So I'd like to talk about where you think there's waste within your department. Where do I start? There you go. What exactly will you be cutting and how much of it? And can I watch you do it while eating pork cracklings? Okay, let's start with personnel. You need to understand that just to keep this town afloat, we probably have to cut the budget of every department by 40 or 50%. Okay, well, Chris said that you just had to, you know, tinker with things. Yeah, he said that. Because that sounds a lot better than we're going to gut it with a machete, because it's about time. The federal government is way overdue, guys. Way overdue. And I. Listen, I lived there for 12 years trying to buy a house. We, you know, back in 2004, we bought a house, right? And we had to pay $45,000 over asking because of the real estate bubble caused by the subprime, you know, lending scandal by the United States government. They effed up the banking industry. So we got in with an arm at, like, almost 7%. And then the housing market collapsed and our house went down in value by a couple hundred thousand dollars. So we're stuck in a. In a loan for the rest of the time. We live there at 7% because the federal government was involved in giving people who had no business having humble. It was a DEI of home loans is what it was. Given money to people who didn't have the money. $60,000 salary get you 500,000, $600,000 house in PG County. It was stupid. It was ridiculous. Did you hear about this? It looks like Rand Paul and Elon Musk are gonna look at Fort Knox. They're gonna see if there's really all that gold in Fort Knox because they haven't had an audit since 1974. Did you know about that? The bullion depository has 147 million troy ounces of gold, which is about how many tons is that? It's a lot of. It's a bit. A hell of a lot of gold. But they need to check it. Now, gold reserves in the US just like all reserves, act as a financial safety net against economic instability. Well, this is why I do Burt's Gold, by the way. Burt's Gold, that's what it does. Financial safety net against financial instability. And in case you don't have any of your money in gold, maybe you should do it. And here's how you do it. You just go to Burt's Gold, you text them my name, Rob, to 989898. They've got gold. They're not covering up anything. Burt's Gold is not afraid of an audit. But all you got to do is just is text my name, Rob, to 989-898 and they will get you on the ball rolling on putting savings or maybe a 401k into gold. How does that work? And then also you're going to get this wonderful thing. The guide for gold in the Trump era with Don Trump Jr. He wrote the forward. 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