Alabama syndicated news talk leader right side radio Phil
Williams here live in the right side studios man
we got the local the state of national covering
down on all the issues and oh yeah I
like the dude just said solid conservative and just
plain right well welcome to our number three on
what is allegedly a Thursday that feels like a
Monday and all of us are still like sleep
hung over because we got more sleep than usual
still recovering from a food , food , I
had to it's very rare that I turned down
dessert I was so stuffed that I can't do
it wait on the couch and just tell what
dessert did you turn down the pumpkin pie oh
my God I listen I have to be really really
full to turn down pumpkin pie that was stuffed
so yes that's I feel awful for you I know it's
the meat just wow I got it I'm gonna
jump into number two with a triple dipper here
momentarily before I do that I got a point
something out in case y'all did not know this
just to go ahead and make things a little
more maddening so President Biden only has one three
weeks left on the job three weeks three weeks
just three but he's taking a vacation just so
you know Joe Biden the punitive President of the
United States for three more weeks as left for St. Croix
with his family he's gonna spend his time in
the islands soaking up time on the beach because
you know he's not gonna have any retirement time
at all when he leaves office just saying he
said nothing about retirement time while in office that's
exactly that's a layer of jack that I can't
even get to describe all right so some y'all may
remember a show called Seinfeld and I know that
our avid listener John from Huntsville who has not
texted in the day which leads me to believe
it's safe to talk about Seinfeld he hates Seinfeld
but I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about it today
because there's a thing that comes out every year
now called the festive report it's the festive report
by Senator Randall and I've got a copy of
it here then I'm gonna go through with you
in a moment but you might wonder pray tell
Phil what his festival well there was a time
on Seinfeld when George Costanza 's father Frank played
by Jerry Stiller who was a hoot he decided
he was tired of what he called the overtly
consumer nature of Christmas he had totally lost the
meaning of the season you know Jesus is the
reason for the season but he was all about
the fighting your way to the crowd for the
shopping and all that he thought I'm going with
anti- consumerism and he declared his own holiday called
Festivus and then in the midst of Festivus you
have the Festivus pole which is like a simple
like just plain aluminum pole that stands there it's
like the anti- Christmas tree it's just a pole
no decoration just an aluminum pole like the kind
of used for fencing and then on top of
that he has a portion of the celebration of
Festivus in which you have the airing of the
annual airing of the grievances where you have to tell
people what they've done that made you mad it's
just listen I got a sound clip here JP
you got it for me let's just play some
origins of Festivus first of all many Christmases ago I
went to buy a doll for my son I reached for the last
one they had but so did another man as
I rain blows upon I realized it had to
be another way what happened to the dog it
was destroyed but out of that a new holiday was
born a Festivus for the rest of us must've
been some kind she was tradition of Festivus begins
with the airing of grievances a lot of problems with your people
you're gonna hear about it oh my gosh so
that I don't care who you are that's funny
so you're airing of the grievances inner Senator Rand
Paul so You Know Center, Rand Paul is one
of those who is somewhat of a fiscal hockey
he's always got his eye on waste and watching
to see what the government is spending and just
mad about stuff and I don't blame him when
I look at this I think what in the
world but so sit around Paul came up with
his report and we got an audio play from
him to audio clip number two if you wouldn't
mind getting that ready I'm gonna air it before
I go into the details here but Senator Paul
comes up with the annual Festivus report and in
which he he goes through the long list of
complaints if you will the grievances about how the
federal government spends it sounds funny but at the
same time it's really not you know you look
at it this year he's come up with a
whopping over $1 trillion in literal waste like ridiculous things
like ice-skating drag queens in $1 million or $12 million Las Vegas
Pickleball complex all of it well he did an
interview on Fox talking about the fest of his
report and why he does it let's let's hear
a part of that first and then I'll jump
into what's in it go ahead and of course security
four … Paraguay Kentucky Senator Rand Paul joins us
now Senator this is an annual list you do
you've got a lot of problems with government people to quote
Seinfeld further how tough is it to target and
find the entries on this list you know I
got a lot of problems with big spins in both parties
and here's the thing everywhere you look you find
more of this stuff $1 trillion that means we found
a lot of waste but it's everywhere it's in all the
big departments in the Department of state it's in
NIH it's in the National Science Foundation and people wonder why
does it exist every year we have this Department
of doge are they gonna be able to get
rid of it with the only way to get
rid of it is to spend less money so
if you give the National Science Foundation 4 billion one year
and then you increase it to 8 billion it
doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand you're gonna
get more waste not less this has been going
on since the 70s but it has exploded but
you have to be willing to cut spending for the
overall department N I H will have more ways
if you give them more money they spent $3 million
studying what kids do when they look at ads
for food on Facebook they had a whole bunch
of kids look at ads for food on Facebook
and that was $3 million worth I mean hundreds of
thousands of dollars to drill holes into cats head
spin them around rapidly and study motion sickness wow
sounds more like animal cruelty than it actually sounds
like an experiment but the list goes on and
on and it's not stuff there he's not wrong
the list goes on and on and I can't
tell you how much I hope that doge actually
gets real all right right now doge is all talk
but they give they not had a chance to
implement anything but it doesn't mean they can't be
looking and this is a great place to start
that there is nothing in this list and I'm
gonna go through you here with you here in
a minute that needs to remain it's if they
cut out $1 trillion and waste if they if they
just got down to the point that they said
OK port barrel is not allowed any longer appropriations
all you have to do is say appropriations have to be
Jermaine to the tech to the bill in hand
otherwise you can't pour up a bill with things
that are unrelated but they don't do that the
way you solicit them as long as as long
as the process says that you can pour up
a bill then people will withhold their votes until
they get their pork written into a bill and
then you get stupid stuff then you get then
you get the airing of the grievances with the
Festivus report so keep playing the interview with with
let's play another minute how about that mansion I
mean you have stolen Covid relief funds 8 million
one guy from Florida did it to buying an island
you mentioned the cat the list does go on
and he also alluded to this senator do you think
your tradition ends this year in other words is
this the year that doge eliminates the need for
you to go through and make this list because
they've done it over the course of the intervening
3 6 5 days ultimately it takes Congress Congress
has to get rid of the spending doge can point
out the spending problems and the ways the same
way I've been pointing it out but the reason
it's not eliminated I don't have the votes to
get rid of the spending so I am very
hopeful that doge will draw attention to this the
same way I've been drawing attention to it but
I'll give you an example about a year ago
there was a chip spill a build a subsidize
microchip semiconductors in the United States well in that bill
a double the size of the national science foundation
of the national science foundation is the one that's
famous for doing a study on whether tequila or
gin makes people more aggressive so they fed fish
half of tequila and the other half of the
fish gin and they decided which made the fish
more aggressive that's the National Science Foundation most of the terrible
wasteful projects are crazy stuff and experiments going on
is national size foundation in the chip bill all
the Democrats and half the Republicans voted to double
the sizes of national sciences foundation so why is
there more waste because the idiots in Congress keep
giving them more money up there he is so
right he is so right and it's because they
have a flawed budgeting process they have a flawed
budgeting process that that entice people to go get
a little something something something they say they brought
the bacon home and then then they have a
gender driven stuff like well if it's DEI we
can get you some money we can do that
you guess some critical race theory we can get
you some money and get some LGBTQ in there
we can get you some money I mean if
you wanna build a bridge of nowhere we can
get you some money do you have a under
privilege underserved community how do you find that well
we find that OK what are used to find
it as we find this I got some of
those we'll get you some money that's the way
it works it's it's it's abnormal there's no one who
would run their home like this a private sector of
business would go under if you ran it like
this I mean can you imagine the private sector said
I just don't feel like paying to keep the
lights on or the staff paid I'm gonna go
buy all these things that don't relate that I
don't need and spend the company 's money on
it how long with the private sector business be there
not long so the bottom line for us today
is that the annual festivities report which I'm gonna
read you some of the things that come out of
it and we'll just laugh over it and yet
at the same time be mad about it because
this is gotta stop how Elon ran X when
he first took it over if that's any indication
now he's gonna work with the doge I'd expect
a lot of this to go away cause one of
one of his quotes from while he fired like
what 70 80 % of his employees he was
like a high high number and he said something
of like it's funny when you're trying to run
an actual business instead of an indoctrination program turns
out you don't need so many people so maybe
he comes in you know maybe when we're not
trying to push all these agendas and just trying
to you know run a government you don't need
all this stuff so here's here's a problem I'll
believe it when I see it and I say
that because when he walked into X he wasn't
dealing with a unionized base yeah which the federal
federal service workers a lot of reunion he wasn't dealing with
people who were on government contracts he wasn't dealing
with things that were being preserved for a period
of time by an executive order that was in
place for the previous administration which Biden has been
doing he wasn't looking at things that are you
know embedded within the bureaucracy they're layered to the
point that if you do away with this when
it does away with three other others that they
do that they layer the stuff so that you
can't get rid of it you can't get rid
of it and it becomes a self licking ice cream
cone and you also have things that are a
part of the previous years budget so they're gonna
wanna ask things and yet at the same time
Congress before they got there approve the funding for
it so now you've got by law that the
funding is to be spent on this thing so
are they gonna be able to repeal the funding
that's gonna be a congressional act so he's right
when consider Paul said Congress is the one that
has to do this those can advise but Congress has to
do the work have the majority helps and they've
got the majority they better use it exactly it
looks like a break right now we come right
back we're gonna jump on into some stuff that
I hope those can get their teeth into like
who let the doge out we need some doge
Biden what we need Bill Williams right side radio
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JP what's up you like Pickleball no you don't
I don't never played it but I hate that
millennials are obsessed with it it is it is
rather fetish yes I cannot help I think that
it's somehow whether it's gonna burn out sometime soon
you'll never find me on a Pickleball court well
that being said how much would you imagine it
would cost to build a Pickleball court probably too
much do you do you anticipate or being reasons
why the government would build Pickleball courts no I
don't either but apparently a Las Vegas Pickleball complex the
department of the interior decided to spend $12 million my
gosh $12 million on Pickleball courts at a Las Vegas Pickleball
complex just so you know in the annual airing
of the grievances I got a lot of problems with you
people that's a big grievance yeah do you have
that clip still where he says that the annual
area I got it I can bring it I
think we got to play that like several times
how about this let's see which one of my
favorites let's see which we go oh my gosh
H H S you may be curious to know
that even rats get lonely did you know that
I guess they would get lonely I don't know
why we would care about health and human services
spent $419,470 to see if lonely rats seat cocaine
more than happy rat why that's that's the bottom
line cocaine bad we don't care you don't need
to find out whether they're happy people or sad
people like cocaine more it's just it's cocaine bad
that's all you gotta know it's you don't need
4 19 taxpayer dollars how about this of the
Department of energy I want you to move towards
electric vehicles right you know that how much money
has the Department of energy itself spent trying to
push the EV mantra guess guess guess isn't above
the millions yes oh gosh it's it's in the
B I don't even wanna guess I'm gonna throw
up $15.5 billion $15.5 billion by the Department of energy to
push people to electric vehicles they don't want the
tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances
got a lot of problems with people keep that how about
this did you know that climate change is the
existential crisis facing the world oh yeah like we
could die tomorrow I don't I don't wanna be
an alarmist or anything but acid rain no no
global freezing no no no no global warming no
no no no the glacial ice caps pull ice
caps are gonna melt no no no that's not
what climate change the climate change the religion of
climate change that's it all right well it is now
it is now very segmented it's actually affects genders
apparently differently did you know that no I did
not well you weren't paying attention to how much
money they're spending on it did you know that
the department of state just spent $3 million $3 million for
what they call girl centered climate action in Brazil
define a girl is give yourself some applause but
3 million 3 million for girls centered climate action
in Brazil I have not even begun to scratch
the top of this list but I got the
annual airing of the grievances for the festive report
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in the state of confusion Joe Biden just landed
in the Virgin Islands for his last vacation in office
for him he leaves his job in three weeks
in three weeks it's fitting though you know why
you got a free ride on Air Force One I mean
why why not man I think this is maybe
a Joe Biden thing even more if honey let's
go let's go here OK honey let's get let's
go ice cream so I look at it wonder do
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I think the world listen anything can happen in
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spoke for that OK so we're back on the
first of this report if you did not hear
it give me give me some give me some
give me some Frank Costanza give me some Frank
Catan 's grievances go ahead the tradition of Festivus
begins with the airing of grievances got a lot of problems
with people hear about oh my gosh did you
know by the way that the government according to
the fist report put Out My Center, Rampal you
know the whole work from home thing yeah unfortunately
yeah so though you and I don't get that
luxury I don't want that luxury I don't either
I think it's I think it's the most I
realize there are things that could be done remotely
sometimes and I've even taken this show remote and
done it cause I was somewhere else and did
it from a hotel room because I was traveling
or whatever but the reality is there's a lot to
be said for getting up in the morning and
going to work yep and the federal government has
never gotten over the whole Covid you wanna work
from home which I don't know how they handle
people who work in clearance level stuff it's amazing
how many people have clearances I mean a secret
level clearance is like giving out like candy now
but but how do you do clearest level work
from a home anyway the federal government currently spends
about $10 billion a year maintaining leasing and furnishing nearly
empty office buildings because no one 's there working let
that sink that's a government waste 10 30 billion
that's right up there with a Pickleball court right
about to go through the list here find you
a couple not gonna make you mad OK I'll
do that one oh here's one the United States part
of the treasury granted a $700 million pandemic era loan
to a company that was a failed trucking company
that was otherwise bankrupt so basically they bail them
out yeah $700 million pandemic error loan awesome how about
this the National Science Foundation that was one of the favorites
that you heard that sound clip earlier from Senator
Randall the national science foundation spent $288,563 to ensure
that birdwatching groups have safe spaces which are called
affinity groups oh good I'm glad that's what is
what is that about I mean I like I
like sitting on the back deck and watching the
Eagles the egrets the heron though you know the
Kingfisher all I'm around the docks all of them
around my back I don't need an affinity group
to do it in much less pay for my
taxpayer dollars why do they yeah are they under
attack why do they need a safe group I
don't know it's a great question did they feel
unsafe yeah I don't know what we're discriminating against
a bird watches who is their enemy I mean
who is that going watch this fellow so I'm gonna
get me some bird watches I can tell you
my grandmother would take me my sister or my
cousin to go watch birds all the time and
not once I don't think anybody was under attack
doing that high risk environment like a Warzone the
department of state spent a half $1 million $500,000 to
expand the US embassy in Ethiopia # US Invest
In Ethiopian social media campaign a half $1 million social
media campaign in Ethiopia to be a part of
a public relations event for the US embassy that's important
that's $500,000 worth of importance it's $500,000 and what
did they get us nothing what did we get
a whole lot of nothing how about the federal
government spent I don't know what this is I'd
like to think what were they the federal government
spent $7,026,689 on various magic projects magic I think
it was making money disappear trick 7, 0 2
6, 6 8 9 I mean it's pretty specific
yeah I don't have a I don't have a
copy of the 4 3 page actual report I'm
reading you the bullet points but wow how about
this this is real the national Institute of allergy
and infectious disease diseases because we have an institute
for allergy and infectious disease diseases and the US
suburban of agriculture spent $2.24 million on Covid experiments on
cats why cats like what is it like I
don't know I mean I hear that pigs have
organs that relate to humans a lot so there's that
but cats I'm pretty sure there's nothing about the
feline that relates to the human so what is
it we why do I don't know I don't
have it I don't have an answer for you
here how about this one I don't know how
to explain this but the department of state spent
$123,066 to teach youth in Kurdistan had to go
viral on social media ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha funny they just teach us here at right
side how to go viral on social media that's
all I wanna know why am I paying a
kid in Kurdistan this is very important to international
relations I guess OK so there's also a study
that was done in the national suit of health
spent $1.51513,299 on a study in which they this
is awful but they drilled holes in cats heads
to insert electrodes and then put them on a
spinning like let them spin around to study motion
sickness and I realize you're sitting there and like
somewhat sick and like like in all of this
thing but I mean obviously like grandpa said I
think that's animal abuse I would agree but it
doesn't beat the one they spent $10 million on studying
constipation and cats what is it with cat and
so far we have Covid and cats we have
we have motion sickness and cats and now we
have constipation and cats it's very important stuff I'm
pretty sure they were they were constipated you can
tell we're the only ones working today the agency
for international development USA ID is spending $20 million on
a new Sesame Street show in Iraq really yes Sesame Street
back it's it's called Allan Simpson or something like
that I don't know but anyway apparently they're doing
like a children's show on TV in Baghdad with
$20 million being paid for by US AI and that's
important that we pay for that yes it is
so here's the other one big ticket item the
navy built these things called LCS vessels they were
they were built down a mobile actually and they
were an epic failure they were not at all
what they were intended but they were like next
generation it's gonna be like the stealth ships you
know when all this is just it wasn't really
working out they're gonna put another $90 billion on the
same thing 9 9 billion billion dollars on how
to keep those ineffective Navy vessel afloat $90 billion keeping
failed ships afloat they're having to repurpose them they're
having to give them a hold of purpose cause
they're a reason for existence didn't actually pan out
they were they were epic fail fails we do
by the way this is very important as we
go to a break you'll be happy to know
two things before you go the department of state
allocated $32,596.12 to teach breakdancing oh my gosh it
is an Olympic sport or was it was it
was showed up on that one man and then
lastly I was like this the national one down
of the arts yeah they have the bearded ladies
cabaret on ice the bearded ladies cabaret on ice
got a $10,000 grant to vote as long as
they're ice-skating focused on climate change so let that
let that whole thing sink in 10, 000 taxpayer
dollars from the national do the arts for a
drag queen climate chain ice-skating show that sounds like hell
that's $10,000 that I'm sure where we're used highly
effectively to help drag queens teach the world about
climate change can you air some more of the
grievance announcement please and then we'll go to a
break at that point the tradition of Festivus begins
with the airing of grievances got a lot of problems with
people you're gonna take me to a break JP
Phil Williams right side radio y'all stay tuned we
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