e to say he's maybe one of the bravest people who's ever worked in government. I mean he's a brave mofo. I'd just like to take a moment to acknowledge that when people take these jobs it's not always for the power. Sometimes they're patriots. Rand Paul as far as I can tell isn't doing it for the money. As far as I can tell I don't see any indications to that. And he takes difficult stands which I believe are completely principle driven even when I don't agree with them. When I disagree with them generally he'll state his principle and I'll go, "Okay well that's consistent." So even when I don't like his opinions I like his opinions. Can you say that about everybody? You can't.

I would say it about RFK Jr. When I don't like his opinions or don't agree with him still totally respected because he shows his work, right? He says it's this study. This is why I believe it. That's all I'll ask of anybody. I don't ask you to be right all the time. That would be unreasonable. So Rand Paul's in my sort of highest level of government credibility. He puts his life on the line, doesn't walk away, doesn't appear to be lying about anything. Can you even think of a time he was accused of lying? I don't think he's even been ever accused. It doesn't seem to be part of his deal. He's just trying to make something better it looks like to me. So just kudos to one politician who while I don't agree with everything he says, that's not really mentioning Thomas Massie who is somebody I also often call out for extra respect because of the rational approach he's bringing. Again not somebody I'll agree with every time but he always brings the goods, always brings the argument, right? And it's never silly. It's never stupid. Sometimes you just don't agree. Priority is different or something but smart people, good patriots. I'm glad we have them.

All right let's talk about summer news. You know what summer news is? It's the kind that's mostly made up just so we have something to talk about in the summer. Well along those lines are probably drunken vice president. I'll just say probably because she acts like she's drunk in public but that's all I know for sure, right? I don't know if she is. I just know she acts like a drunk. And if you're not asking the question is she actually drunk I believe you're not doing your job as a good citizen, as a citizen who's you know has any interest in the country. I feel like it's a fair question. Are you drunk right now?

In fact in 2023 it's the most reasonable question you can ask. As soon as you get into a disagreement on social media I've taught you this before. If a troll comes after you in the comments and you're sure they're just, it's like they don't want to understand, they're probably drunk. Like actually literally if you looked at the population of the planet at any given time from the afternoon to the evening what percentage of people who drive by you on the highway are drunk? Probably 10 percent. Probably 10. What percentage of people on social media are the ones who are the terrible trolls? No different. It's probably not a coincidence you know that the amount of alcoholics, the amount of trolls seems to be similar. So it won't bother you as much to see a troll comment if you just say to yourself probably drunk. You wouldn't be wrong a lot.

But drug Kamala Harris was railing about the state of Florida allegedly having in their new curriculum something that is insulting to black people and anybody who cares about black people because it said, quote, let's see how she, I want to see how she paraphrased it. She said quote, "Just yesterday in the state of Florida they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery." Now do you think that that was true? Do you need me to do an extended explanation of why that didn't happen? Why Florida isn't actually teaching people that slavery was sometimes good? Do I need to get into any of the details or will you stipulate that it's obvious on the surface that nothing like that happened? You know nothing like that happened, right?

All right so here's the closest thing that did happen. So this is summer news. This is somebody misinterpreting something in a really obvious way like a real obvious misinterpretation and then getting really angry about it. So first comes the misinterpretation and then there's the mock anger. Do you think she's really angry? Do you think she woke up and thought oh I'm so angry about this? No no she's not angry and nobody who's talking about it cares. It's just summer news. It's just something to talk about.

Here here's the actual statement from part of the curriculum I guess. It says quote instruction, so I guess the teachers are being instructed how to teach the history. Instruction includes how slaves develop skills in which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. So slaves developing skills that could be applied for their personal benefit turned into why is Florida saying that slavery was good for slaves?

Do you know what this personal benefit means in context if you keep it in context? Do you know what personal benefit means? It means, I'll give you an example. This is my understanding. It means that if you were a slave working in the field which you can imagine would be among the worst of these slave jobs, if you could figure out a way to let's say learn how to repair wagons or to shoe a horse, put horseshoes on a horse, probably better work. So that would be a case where a slave could go from the worst thing you could possibly do to something a little less worse. Still a slave. Nobody thinks that. Literally nobody thinks that and Kamala Harris doesn't think it. Nobody who agrees with her and claps like say a lot, none of them believe it. They might act like they believe it. They might argue with you with stern looks but they don't believe it. This is just summer news.

How about that Jason Aldean song that people are calling racist? How many of them do you think actually believe there's something in the song that's racist? Probably nobody. No I've said that even I like got the vibe but when you look at it you're looking for the racist stuff it's just clearly not there. But I can see why it's provocative. So if somebody said hey the media has primed us to have a bad reaction to material that's a good take. That's a good take. But if you say it was racist and yet there's not a single image you could point to that would back that or song or there's nothing in the words or the imagery that would suggest that this is just summer news.

If you got even a little bit worked up about the Jason Aldean situation you were getting worked up by drunken trolls and people who just need something to talk about. None of this stuff is real. It just isn't.

All right I told you that I agreed to talk to Roseanne on her upcoming podcast. I was thinking about Roseanne the other day so thinking about what she got canceled for and I don't need to go into the specifics because you probably remember them anyway. But do you think that in the real world there's even one person who believed honestly that Roseanne was bigoted? I think they accused her of being anti-semitic and at one point of offending a black woman that she didn't know was black. Nobody. But you couldn't find one person in the entire world and certainly nobody knows her