Blake Masters on the Border Crisis, Education, and Big Tech
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Welcome to Broken Potholes with your hosts Sam Stone and Chuck Warren. Fantastic show for you today. On the line with us, U.S. Senate candidate. It's probably still a little weird hearing that, isn't it, Blake Masters? A little bit, and thank you, Sam. Blake, for those of you who don't know, COO of Teal Capital, has a fantastic background, lives in Tucson. So...

He is near and dear to my heart because he's like the only other person I know around here who doesn't root for the ASU Sun Devils. Scum Devils. Welcome to the show, Blake. Blake, why don't you tell the audience a little bit about yourself and what led you to this moment to run for U.S. Senate? Sure. And thanks, Chuck. I...

I grew up in Tucson. We moved here from Colorado when I was a small child. And, you know, I was in Tucson for high school. Love the Sonoran Desert. I did spend the first part of my career in Silicon Valley. I went out to Stanford and Stanford Law School.

for college and graduate school. Stayed in Silicon Valley for a number of years. I wrote a best-selling book on startups and entrepreneurship with Peter Thiel, who, if you don't know Peter, he's a billionaire technology investor. He was the one conservative, super prominent guy in Silicon Valley in 2016 who publicly supported President Trump.

in 2016 and uh so i run peter's non-profit the teal foundation and also his private investment office and uh i got a chance to move back to tucson a couple years ago 2018 my wife's parents still live in tucson and my parents still live in tucson actually

I met my wife in Tucson in middle school. So we've been dating for a long, long time and got to come back. We have three young children, three boys. Apparently we can only make boys. And they're seven, five and one years old. So it's been great to be back home. And, you know, I started trying to get plugged in politically in Arizona. You know, when I when I moved back here in 2018. And of course, I don't need to tell.

You guys, how crazy it is, I think, that we lost two U.S. Senate seats in a matter of two or three years. And as soon as Mark Kelly was certified the winner in 2020 here, I knew that I had to do something about it. So I've decided to run, and I announced my candidacy on Monday. And so far, I think we're off to a great start.

You've been definitely getting a lot of buzz. I was sort of laughing the other day because it seems like they immediately jumped out and attacked you for, well, he doesn't actually live in Tucson his whole life. As you just said, you moved there when you were very young. This is literally the only attack I've seen them come up with on you is that you say you're from Tucson and they're like, oh, it's not been every second, every minute of his existence.

Yeah, I think I've lived in Tucson more years of my life than I haven't. Certainly more years than Mark Kelly. Well, yeah. I don't know. People tell me he still lives in Houston, Texas. I don't want to traffic in rumor. But, yeah, look, I grew up here, and here is home. Blake, so why did you decide? Look, you have this young family. You're home. You're by your parents, by your in-laws. Yeah.

You have the comfortable life. You have a life where you could just continue on this path and continue to build things and enjoy it and not be under scrutiny. Why did you and your wife, because it's a partnership and it has to be a decision together, why did you decide, let's do this, let's make this sacrifice for 18 months, which could possibly turn into a six-year sacrifice? Why did you decide to do that? Yeah.

It would be great if I didn't feel like I had to. You know, if our leadership class was doing its job, if things were working, great. I would just continue to enjoy my current job and live my life. But none of those things are true.

This country used to work. It used to work. It wasn't perfect. But even in the 90s, when I was growing up, things seemed to work. There was some sort of cohesiveness. There was some sort of optimism about the future. And now things don't work anymore. And I think our leaders, especially, let's say this current crop of Democrats in charge, have failed. And so if you look at the open border and the immigration crisis,

or you look at how the economy is being squeezed. We're squeezing out the middle class. People are having to work harder and harder just to stay in the same spot. You look at the craziness in schools. I just have a big problem with it. So I'm running to take on those problems because I want my kids and your kids to grow up in a country that works and it's recognizable and it's going to have a successful future.

You know, in your announcement, you made a statement that I've been saying for three decades, and it was a conservative principle is having an economy that if the family so decides, they only need one wage earner. And, you know, you obviously put the caveat, you know, this could be

When I first got married, my wife had made then a lot more money. So it's determination of the couple, right? Were you surprised that people attacked you for making such an obvious policy statement that it'd be nice to have an economy where one income works for a family? I guess I was a little bit, and it takes a lot to surprise me these days. But yeah, the Pima County Democrats immediately seized on that statement.

And they wanted to call it sexist and say, oh, Blake is speaking in code. You know, one being able to get by on one income is code for women shouldn't work.

And, you know, I replied and it triggered this whole thing. But I'm like, no, what if it's not code? What if it is plain spoken English articulating the obvious goal that everybody should agree on? And we used to be able to do it in this country. Look, if two people in a household to you want to wage or, you know, husband and wife want to work.

Fantastic. But like, wouldn't it be nice to have the option? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to afford to raise a family on just one income? I aspire to the world that you create for us where I can be a house husband, Blake. That sounds fantastic. It's all our dream for Sam Stone.

Well, you know, if you look at the polling, this is what people want. Well, sure. It turns out most people want to be able to get by on one household income. Well, sure. I mean, if we went, you and I picked any spot in Arizona, even in the most woke neighborhoods in Maricopa County and went door to door. Do you think an economy where a family can side, they can live on one income is good? We'd probably be 80 percent, 90 percent. Mm hmm.

And I'm sure all the single moms out there would certainly like to have an economy where they can work and not feel stressed because they have jobs that pay enough that they don't need to worry about other things. I mean, it's just the insanity right now of some people in our country that try to make everything such a woke enterprise. Well, look, we are talking about the Pima County Dems, right? Right.

Arizona is back up. We've recovered 80, 87 percent of the jobs we lost during the pandemic. National average is 70 percent. Well, here in Maricopa County, we're actually one hundred and thirty four thousand jobs ahead. So those Pima County dams who run Tucson, who run Pima County, they're the ones holding this entire state back. I'm not taking economic advice from those folks. Right.

Yeah, and look, they just so clearly don't care about solving actual problems for people. Like, they didn't think about single mothers. I pointed this out on Twitter. I'm like, the logical implication of what Pima County Dems was saying was that it ought to be harder for single moms to make it work.

It just makes no sense. They care more about identity politics than actually solving problems for real people. And that's, people are sick of that. I really do believe that there is a segment, I don't think it's a super majority of the left, but there is a part that believe that if we keep doling out X, Y, Z, these people will stay loyal to us. It's almost like indentured servitude to a degree. I've got this gentleman we've done business with in the past and we were having a conversation this past week in Florida about him and

He loves to take all of his staff and friends out to these big trips, 50, 60 people. And they were saying, why does he do that? I go, because he loves the love. I mean, he wants that adoration from people. And I almost feel like that's their policy position a lot of times. Just love us and we'll keep you in where you're at. So you'll continue to love us and thank us. And they don't want people to have that independence.

Right. Yeah, I think the Democratic playbook for a long time has been to, you know, obviously every every Democrat in power is is some sort of elite, a political elite, financial elite, or even if you're, you know, making 40K a year working at, I don't know, BuzzFeed.

or some liberal rag, you're still in the opinion-making class. So the Democratic Party is the elites, the opinion makers. They don't care about hollowing out the middle class, but they also have, they want to shore up an underclass, right? People who are on the dole, people who they don't actually care about providing opportunity to. And

That kind of looks like a Latin American country, right? When you have a thin stratified elite at the top that does well, a hollowed out middle class and then a permanent underclass. And so I think the opportunity right now for Republicans

People talk, I think, online about their realignment. But the realignment opportunity is for the Republicans to come in and be the party of the working class. You know, also business owners who agree with our principles, but really the party of the American middle class. The left likes to give that lip service, but they don't actually do anything. We have an opportunity to do something and to rebuild and protect the American middle class.

You know, I think, Blake, it actually goes quite a bit further than that. If you look at the recent Pew poll and and then surveys about where the two parties stand ideologically today versus 10 years ago, you see the Republican Party essentially in the exact same position it was. The Democratic Party has gone way off to the left.

And if you look at that Pew survey that just came out of attitudes among minority voters across the country, they're saying they don't buy this. I mean, this is a really Ivy League sort of mentality of really paternalism, that they want these handful of big tech companies that donate a huge amount of money to Democrats, have a bunch of millionaires working for them, and then everyone else is on the government dole just scratching by.

And those policies don't resonate with the middle class. They don't resonate with the working class. Yeah, I think that's right. I think that's right. And well said. Yeah, go ahead, Chuck. Let me ask you this, Blake. So you're you're going you're running you're running for office, this U.S. Senate, if you win.

What are the two or three items that you want to see get accomplished during your tenure? And we can carry this over to the next break after the break. What are the two or three items that you feel like if I can accomplish these things, not only will my tenure be successful, but my country will be a better place for my kids and grandkids? Let's hear about that. First, I think the top priority, I would say, is law and order in the first bullet point.

in that law and order bucket is stopping this immigration crisis, this illegal immigration crisis and the acute crisis, by the way. I think Biden's been in office less than 180 days and we've seen just how bad 180 days of lawlessness and broken potholes will be coming right back.

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It'd be fantastic to have you in there. Started out with law and order. Tell us a little bit more about that, because this has been really the consuming national issue right now, whether it's the border, whether it's what's going on in our inner cities, the movement to defund the police. All these things, I think, are top of mind for for voters across the country.

Exactly, Sam. And the border crisis, it really is a crisis. I'm not going to pretend like everything was perfect in December 2020, you know, at the end of the Trump administration. But it was under control. It was a lot better than it was in 2015 before President Trump took office. And when Biden took office late January this year,

He reversed all these policies that the Trump administration had put in place and basically invited immigrants to come here. He dropped remain in Mexico and said, if you come here, you can stay. And so surprise, surprise, people come here. And it is a humanitarian disaster. Drugs are flowing through the border. One thing I like to point out, most people don't know this. Every illegal immigrant that comes through the border, the gaps in the border wall,

They're basically trafficked by coyotes. You know, they have to pay coyotes a few thousand bucks per person to get in. If you try to do that without going through the coyotes, which are basically agents of cartels, they're happy to shoot you dead. And so everybody's being trafficked. Women and children are being raped. And it's just unforgivable. And then when they get here, there's like hotels and there's tent cities in Tucson, hotels in Tucson, hotels in Scottsdale.

that are taxpayer funded, full of migrants who we've let come here. You go to any public park in Tucson, you'll find Americans, often military veterans who are homeless. Some have mental health issues and they need help. And we're not doing anything to help those people. So it's a complete reversal of priorities here. And everybody I talk to on the ground is just sick of the lawlessness.

So we have to finish the wall. You got to hire a lot more border, uh, patrol and you got to give them the resources they need so that we can have a tight border and we get to decide who comes in here in a legal and orderly fashion. I think is priority number one. Absolutely. I was just in Miami this week and had various meetings with people down there and, um,

The people in Miami are just boggled by the Biden administration coming out so hard saying Cubans and Haitians, we're not going to accept you coming across the water to the shores here. And they're just like, but it's OK for them to walk across Mexico to get there.

And they just it's almost like the Democrats, the only group of immigrants they will, you know, reject are the ones they suspect. Yeah, we'll move to Miami and vote Republican. Yeah. I mean, so we I had to get too conspiratorial here, but no, no, it's true. I mean, look, I had I had meeting with a group of Cuban activists. I had meetings with Haitian activists and they were just dumbfounded by it. And the Haitians.

are not a conservative group but i really think this one flipped the trigger on it they just

They were appalled by it. And just and they're the ones that pointed that out. And the Cubans just like, well, it's always been a double standard with Democrats on the immigration. Right. So be consistent. Pick one or pick the other, but be consistent. And it's not a consistent policy whatsoever. Well, and across the board, Chuck and Blake, it's an in terms of a humanitarian policy. It is a complete and utter failure because, Blake, you talked about.

the coyotes and the fact that absolutely you're right if you cross the border here in Arizona, in Texas, in New Mexico, in California, you do it under the auspices of an international criminal cartel that will absolutely kill you if you try to buck the system. But the ones ending up in those hotels you referred to in Scottsdale, we have them in Ahwatukee, they're all over Tucson, all over Arizona. Those are the lucky ones.

Because if you're not lucky, you end up in a cartel safe house where despite the fact that you've paid them, they ransom you. I mean, this is the most exploitative thing possible. And Democrats are cheering it on a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions.

Right, and I think we need conservative politicians to you know Get up and say this and be unafraid about it and say no actually a border wall is good policy It's good policy for Americans and it's good policy for non-americans frankly, it's the humanitarian thing to do like it truly is And it's not racist. It's not retrograde. It's not anything untoward. It's it's common sense and

You know, I'm certainly not afraid to say it. Even Mexico said that the remain in Mexico policy was working to limit the problem. I mean, this is Democrats are really operating in an alternate reality here. And I want to touch on the other two issues you mentioned, because I think in both of those, they're operating in an alternate reality as well.

Well, yeah, the other aspect to the law and order problem is it doesn't stop at the border, right? We have a law and order problem in our cities. I think a lot of this has been a slow boil. It's happened over many years. But a lot of it has to do with just what people saw on TV, or at least on Fox. I'm not sure CNN would cover it. But last summer, during the sort of post-George Floyd era,

BLM protests, you know, people were lighting police precincts on fire and getting away with it. People were smashing windows and grabbing merchandise, looting and rioting, trying to burn down buildings with cops inside them.

cops and then the cops just leave you know because maybe you know that police chief was you know simpatico with the rioters and we need to understand our privilege or something like that like we've lost the will to actually enforce the law we have a national culture that's building that's anti-police the media and most politicians are finding it profitable to be anti-police and this is really dangerous I used to live

San Francisco And they've basically legalized crime in San Francisco up to a certain dollar amount You can just steal stuff and even if the police officers right there, they're sort of told not to enforce the law So if you have an iPhone and I go and you know push you down on the ground and snatch your iPhone It's no longer your iPhone. It belongs to me. And so when the state is unwilling to enforce basic property

property rights. This emboldens criminals. It makes it literally impossible for police to do their jobs. And surprise, surprise, we get a violent crime spike all throughout this country. Yeah, I mean, perfect example right here in Phoenix. Our police chief actually basically told the mayor to go stick it because our mayor told the police to stand down during those protests, during those riots.

And the police chief refused. The department refused. But now you've got a council majority of progressives that are pushing for a hundred million dollar settlement for the protesters who were arrested. And these folks, what they were running around smashing windows, smashing police cars, running around popping tires on every government vehicle in sight. These are lawless individuals.

And they're saying that not only should we not be able to arrest them, but because we did, we have to pay them off. This is ridiculous.

I mean, I just can't work. People won't stand for it. I talked to police officers in Phoenix and they definitely feel defunded. They're they're losing officers because it's a hard and thankless job. And so politicians not just don't have their backs, but are affirmatively hostile to them. You know, well, guys might be looking to take early retirement.

And then which new young talented recruits are looking to become police right now? And then you get a really negative feedback loop and crime is just going to keep going up and up. The fear is in five short years, Phoenix may look a lot like, you know, downtown Los Angeles in terms of urban crime. And we cannot let that happen. Broken potholes coming back in just a moment.

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Welcome back to Broken Potholes with your hosts Sam Stone and Chuck Warren. On the line with us today, Blake Masters, U.S. Senate candidate here in Arizona, COO of Teal Capital. All-around interesting guy, fantastic life story. Talking about some big issues. Wanted to touch on two more that we haven't gotten to. Education and big tech. Education is really lighting up this country right now, isn't it? There, Blake, there is a...

huge movement of parents who are just fed up. That's right. I think the Zoom school experience, you know, where during this pandemic,

All the school locked down and you got to keep the kids at home and OK, pretend that they're still going to school. So we're going to pipe in lessons to their computer over the Internet via Zoom. Well, obviously, that doesn't work. It's not great for kids. But one thing that it did do was it finally showed parents who are right there in the living room what's actually happening in their kids' schools. And then parents were shocked by it.

because you know we'll talk about critical race theory right this uh basically just describes a set of curriculum that's teaching kids to identify with each other in racial terms so if you're white you're an oppressor if you're black uh you know you are a victim or something like this it teaches race essentialism which is obviously really toxic stuff it's the opposite of you know

sort of everything that we're supposed to be teaching people about, you know, content of your character, not the color of your skin. But this stuff actually isn't new. It's not like people just decided to start teaching this stuff in 2018. I think we're just realizing it. And now there's this movement against it. And I, you know, it can't, can't be successful enough because it's,

What's that Reagan quote? If you or freedom is only one generation away from extinction. Yes.

Now, this is something I would not have understood as well, maybe 10 years ago. But now that I have kids and now that I see, you know, what's actually the mainstream in our classrooms, I really think it's true. If you teach a whole generation of kids to hate their country, to think it's irredeemably evil and to identify with each other in racial terms, I think.

You don't have a good future. It's just that simple. This society will break. Blake, you just brought up a great point. What has having kids changed your perspective? So, for example, your children have taught you a principle that, yes, it is literally one generation away, right? What are other things that you've learned that you're applying to life now or to policy that you didn't know before kids?

one thing it's taught me having kids and having to care for them is you know you can't take things for granted and i think this is natural in some sense like you don't realize how much your parents did for you until you have to do the same for a brand new baby like you just don't you sort of know it maybe intellectually but it's different to change the diapers at 4am it's different to like you know teach a kid to ride a bike i mean these are beautiful moments

But it's just great. There's a grave responsibility that you feel sort of instantly when you have to care for your own new child. And I think the zooming out, it kind of makes me just appreciate all the generations that have gone before us. You know, going back, hey, thousands of years, you know, it's great. People dealt with a lot of

a lot of adversity to say the least just to get us to where we are here in Western civilization, but specifically in the American context, like our prior generations, you know, like the greatest generation who, you know, fought the Nazis, beat the Japanese, beat the Russians. These people sacrificed a lot to build this country. Our founding generation sacrificed a lot to build this country.

And that's why it makes me so mad that now what's in vogue and sort of liberal elite society is just to throw all this stuff away. They want to wipe away all the past and say it's all evil. It's all racist.

and it's just so self-centered not to recognize that we stand on the shoulders here of all the generations that have come before us i think we should respect our history understand the dark parts and try to get towards that ever more perfect union but recognizing the rich traditions that got us here and paying respect to them i think is super important i wouldn't have said that 10 years ago before i had kids

That's great. That's great. Yeah. I mean, you know, one of the things that I keep going back to is in the last couple of decades, how the progressive sort of ideology, which is really our societal ideology for how you raise kids, has said that everyone's what they did in the past was wrong and kind of thrown. I'm not talking about abusing children or that kind of thing, but in terms of discipline, in terms of requiring, you know, kids to participate in family life and civic life and all these things.

They went away from all that. And I got to look back and say, you know, we did a pretty good job here of creating good Americans for generations. And then you look at this current generation and they're out of control. I'm not I'm not even going to ask you to comment on that, Blake. Broken potholes coming right back.

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You'll find us. Our web genius, Jamie Promises. She's cringing right now. Blake, before we went to break, we wanted to also talk a little bit about some of the other things you're really focused on. One of those is big tech. I think you have a really unique perspective coming from working with really one of the very few or only Republicans, prominent Republicans, prominent conservatives in that industry. The role it has had in the last year and a half has just expanded enormously.

You know, what do you see going on? What can people do to sort of stop this out of control, the censorship, the influence that is coming from this massive industry?

First, I'd note, we call these companies big tech. That's the label we've sort of given to them. I'm not sure it's actually the best description of what's happening. They're plenty big, but there's not a whole lot of new technology being developed at Google, at Facebook, at Twitter. So I think we should start by calling these companies what they are, which is giant software monopolies. And props to them for innovating at some point.

At a certain point, though, they have reached such a gigantic scale. They've been able to amass so much data on all of us. They've been able to more or less monopolize the free flow of information in our society that when they start to abuse their bigness and abuse their power, when they start to get political,

when they put their thumb on the scale, when Twitter bans a sitting United States president from its platform, I think we need to be very open to regulating them, to preventing abuses. And, you know, this is something that conservatives didn't want to hear five or six years ago. And maybe fair enough, because the problems weren't quite as

acute then. But at a certain point, no, you treat a giant multinational corporation like Google, which has the power to swing an election. It's OK to treat them differently than you might treat a hair salon. It's interesting because, you know, that former president who got banned on Twitter, Donald Trump, is right now suing some of those companies.

for their abridgment of the First Amendment. And interestingly enough, I think Jen Psaki just became his, the White House communications director or spokesperson, just became his star witness when she went out yesterday and said, we are actively coordinating with social media companies to stop messages that we think are inappropriate.

That means government is working with them. That means they are absolutely bound by the First Amendment, doesn't it? Right. Yeah. My comment on that on Twitter was Facebook is an extension of the Biden administration.

And you know what? I'm not sure I didn't have that reversed. Maybe the Biden administration is just an extension of Facebook. There is a fusion in this country, an alarming fusion of corporate and political power.

So when you have every Fortune 500 company, or most of them anyway, that are basically happy to parrot progressive activist DNC talking points about BLM, about defund the police, you get in the situation that is really quite concerning. It isn't a free market at all. And this is why Republicans...

you know, need to actually rediscover our rich tradition of being skeptical of concentrations of power, certainly governmental, but also corporate. And this is a Barry Goldwater point. This is a Theodore Roosevelt point. In order to preserve freedom, it's not just about

about keeping the government small, although that's good too. We really have to watch out for this creep where Facebook and the White House start to blend together because you wouldn't want any misinformation to spread. That's Orwellian. And frankly, it's kind of fascist. People objected to these comparisons a little bit. But if you look at China, they are clearly making a very deliberative effort to use their tech industry to influence world politics based on the interest of the Chinese Communist Party.

And it's clear the Democrats have taken up that model from them. I'm going to make a historical analogy that I'm probably going to get a lot of people upset. But if you go back to the 1930s, one of the first things the Nazi Party did was co-opt the giant manufacturing companies, the biggest companies in Germany, to participate alongside them by promising them exclusive access to the market through the government.

What do we have Democrats doing now? Isn't it the same thing?

looks a lot like the same thing it looks a lot like yeah the chinese model i mean the chinese communist party uh you know is a totalitarian communist state but they're not making the same mistakes mounted they're not skipping the capitalist stage um they've they've wisened up they actually read their marks more closely than now and so you have this yeah elite dominated society um where the ccp promulgates what people are allowed to think no dissent is allowed

And like you said, they're happy to keep, you know, industry technically in private hands. Technically, Mark Zuckerberg owns the majority of Facebook. But functionally, it starts to blend in and is controlled by the state. And so the question in America is, are we going to let that happen?

Are we going to let these big tech companies and, you know, the Democrat progressive activist class run roughshod over the rest of us? Or no, are we going to push back? Are we going to keep them at bay? And are we going to preserve some space for actual free thinking and free discussion of ideas in the future? That's the only way we can possibly have a good future. Blake, on a foreign policy, how is a U.S. senator? What would be your policy about handling China?

You know, China is very, besides the mayhem they cause around the world, they're also very good at filling a void. So, for example, when we say we're not going to go help Haiti, China is going to be there.

When we say we're not going to help some other third world country, they pop in. What would be your stance on how we confront China and lack of a better word, China's aggressive policy towards the world and making sure that they're doing everything possible to protect their party's interest? I think we do it with strength.

but not with provocation. We don't want to get involved in faraway wars that have nothing to do with China. That shows weakness, and it allows China to get into Africa. The longer we're in Afghanistan, or the longer we're obsessed with somehow exporting democracy to Syria, the more China is just going to say, well, we'll go industrialize Africa. We'll go take over South America. If we say, hey, China,

You're China. You can't have Taiwan. You can't have the rest of the world. You know, China is going to fall in line. China is not going to look to start World War Three if we have a strong military presence that is also restrained. And that's what I think Donald Trump for the more than any other president in recent memory was achieving.

If you think about who the CCP wanted to be president, did they want Joe Biden or did they want Donald Trump? Who would they rather have in office? The answer is obviously Joe Biden, because then they just get a clearer shot at Taiwan. I don't know if they take that shot in the next two years or in 20 years, but they had a preference here. And that should tell us a lot. Yeah, no question about that at all. You mentioned what they're doing in Africa and in South America. Yeah.

One of the things I think a lot of people miss, and we've talked about it on the show before, is that what they're engaged in is economic imperialism. They are going in, and all these countries, frankly, got used to a sort of Western free ride where the IMF and other institutions would loan them huge amounts of money for

ongoing needs or for infrastructure and then they got to the point they couldn't pay it back and it you know western countries go ah well okay we'll wipe that off the books and call it good china doesn't do that they go in and actually foreclose upon the infrastructure and take it over and they are taking over these countries one port one bridge one rail station at a time

Yeah, I think it's a big problem. And you know what? It's made all the more frustrating because we basically let China do that. Not just in the immediate sense in the last couple of years, but decades long. We industrialized China. We gave them the keys. We offshored our manufacturing base, our industrial capacity to China. You look at semiconductors like we invented the computer chip. That's why it's called Silicon Valley. We invented that in California in the 50s and 60s.

And pretty soon we're not making computer chips at home anymore. We offshored the entire thing to Southeast Asia. And now half of them are made in Taiwan. So if China were to seize Taiwan, well, we already got a chip shortage. We already can't make Ford F-150s here in America because we can't get the computer chips. And that's a national security threat. It's a huge. We just let that happen and we got to reverse the policies that led to it.

We're with Blake Masters, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate here in Arizona. And Blake, as we wrap up here, tell people where they can find you and tell them why they should vote for you. Yeah, thanks, Chuck. Please go to my website, which is BlakeMasters.com.

Just a quick aside, I hope you see that the website is actually very different from most political candidates. Most political candidates' websites look all the same. It's kind of hard to navigate all the different pages. You've got pop-ups coming at you everywhere. I wanted one page. I wanted to very clearly state my position on the issues. People might disagree with them. People might agree with them.

But you can't scan the website for one minute without seeing what I actually think and what I actually stand for. Hopefully that's refreshing, but you can learn more at Blake masters.com. And, uh, look, I think I'm running a different kind of campaign, bring a different kind of candidacy here. I think people are ready for Frank talk. I think people are ready for conservative solutions, uh,

I think people are ready to stop being lied to. And so, hey, maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but I will always...

you know, call out what I see. I see the progressive takeover of this country. I don't think it's going to end up well. I'm going to give it everything I have to fight against it. And yeah, Chuck, Sam, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having me on. Thanks, Blake. We appreciate it. And good luck on the trail. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. That was Blake Masters, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.

We've all met Blake before. We didn't talk about, you know, what's amazing about him is he was a Stanford undergrad, Stanford law school grad. He's been there. He did not become taken by the

the woke, shallow ideology that you see a lot coming from both coasts now. And, um, you know, the other good thing is we have two great names, Sam Stone, Blake Masters. I mean, ladies, is there, are there better solid names and Blake Masters and Sam Stone? Kylie Kipper. Yeah. That's not going to work for anybody. She's irrepressible. Yeah. Now if you add irrepressible, which I do not think is on her birth certificate. Yes. Well, but we make, we can make that change. Yeah. So we're going to do our sunshine moment now. And, um,

Kylie has worked feverishly on this. And here we go. Kylie Kipper with the

Sunshine moment. The sunshiniest moment today. Which is a good thing to bring up after talking about China, but continue. Yes. Well, I was going to talk about the 300 words that got added to the dictionary, but once I looked further into it, it kind of wasn't all that exciting. No, it would not get people coming back. The words that got added were not all cheerful, so let's just, we're not going to talk about that. All right. But, okay, so McCormick, the food company known for making seasonings and spices, is hiring for a taco, director of taco relations,

and they're looking to pay anyone who simply loves eating Mexican food. So I thought this was going to be a good spot for me because I love eating Mexican food. I'm the person that orders four bowls of chips and can't stop until they said that it's— By the way, that really doesn't count. No. But I experience all sorts of Mexican food. If it has cheddar cheese on it, it doesn't count either. Yeah, but you're a connoisseur of chips is what we've learned so far, but continue. And tacos and burritos. I try it all.

But anyways, I thought it was for me until they said that I had to develop my own recipes. Oh. And I had to have these type of skills, which I do not. I'm not the best cook, aside from making pasta. Have you tried to become a good cook? No, I haven't. But maybe I should. So you don't know. So you're underestimating your skill set. Yes, exactly. I burn frozen pizza, so I just don't think it's in my thoughts. Okay, so maybe you're not underestimating. Maybe you're just true to yourself and you've been introspective about it. Yes. So they will be in charge of tasting pasta.

taco recipes. They're going to have to do taco food trends on TikTok and social media. And they're really just trying to expand. The problem with food now is I remember reading a couple years ago a New York Times article by the food critic. Been there for years. And he went on this whole diatribe about

trying to be so fancy that they give these names, these various vegetables and things names. So he mentioned one, I forget what it was. He goes, that's just simply a purple carrot. And I feel it's the same thing like this taco tester. Look, a taco's great because you go and you have your chicken or your beef, some cheese, some lettuce, some salsa on it and some sour cream maybe and you're good to go. Folks, Chuck doesn't know what a taco is either. Yeah.

He's from Utah. You got to give him a pass. So they're not going to pay me 100 grand. Yeah. Broken potholes. Coming back next week. Running for office? You need a campaign website. Introducing the web address of the democratic process, .vote. So how do you purchase your .vote website? Visit www.yourname.vote.

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