dow so that there would be so much news that the fake news couldn't get any kind of grip on a new good fake news story against them. Now that seems to be happening because he's creating so much provocative news that it's all you can handle. Like you use up all your news minutes talking about what Trump did today and you can't run at a time to say well I think maybe in the 70s oh there was that time he littered in 1973 we should all talk about that a lot. So he's just using up all the shelf space.

So let's talk about some of his nominations for his cabinets and his other jobs. All right raise your hands if you saw this one coming. Nominated for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, formerly known as the Fox weekend morning host. Raise your hands if you called that one. Advance. If there's anybody here who predicted that I want to know your name. I want to follow you on X because if you predicted this one, wow wow.

Now what was my first impression? Probably same as yours. My first impression was uh oh uh oh. How does this make sense? How in any world does it make sense to go from weekend Fox News host to Secretary of Defense? Make that make sense. And then I spent some time on X and people were starting to post clips about it and I saw a clip in which Hegseth was talking about the first thing that needs to be done is all the generals involved with DEI and CRT need to be fired and you need to change the focus from identity to being lethal and winning wars. And I said ah damn it why is that the smartest thing I've heard about the military and it's coming from the Fox weekend morning host? Why is he the only one saying the thing that needs to be done? There's nobody else who can speak those words out loud.

Then I find out that he's been hiding his intelligence. You bastard you Pete you bastard. He's been hiding his intelligence. Did you know that he has degrees from Yale and Harvard? I think he sent back his Harvard degree in protest. How many of you knew that he has two advanced degrees? He doesn't act like he has two advanced degrees does he? Now I'm not saying that he acts dumb definitely not. I'm saying he's acting smarter than smart. If you're really smart you go on TV and people say wow that person's really smart that's a real smart person there. If you're smarter than smart you go on TV you say things that are smart but when you're done people say hey you're like me you're just smarter. Which one does he do? He does the second one. He does the smarter than smart. Smarter than smart is that you bring the goods. Everything you say fits, makes sense, is in context, historically accurate, useful, better high ground, better than what the other people are saying and then you just walk away. You don't have to say and I'm the smartest person in the room. Now there are some people whose names I won't name who are also really smart and they will tell you they're really smart the entire time they're talking like you can't miss it. I want to name a name but I'm not going to because it's somebody I like. But if you can pull off the Trump level of communication where you're talking like you're one of everybody at the same time you're operating at a whole different level. That's everything. Like you can't do better than that.

Now he also, there's a clip also where he was on a podcast. Pete Hegseth was saying that you can't, he doesn't want women in combat positions. Now of course that's an identity DEI issue and he's not saying there's anything wrong with women. He's just saying it doesn't fit or work and there's not enough science to support it as making the military more lethal. Now that's a tough thing to say in public but he said it and he said it with no ambiguity no apology and he said it correctly and in a way that made him look smart. So I love that. I love that. Now it's not even about liking the issue. I do prefer not having women in combat but my reason for it is first of all I'm taking his word for it because he seems to know what he's talking about. By the way he's a military veteran so he spent a lot of time in the military and he's done a lot of work for veterans so he's somebody who understands the veteran situation because he's been so involved. He understands real war. He's been in the real war. And he knows the biggest problem in the military is we don't want our generals wearing dresses basically. So if he can fix that I'm all in.

And I would say that if the goal is to get rid of the DEI in the military and it should be absolutely should be then the person you need to do that is somebody who does not have a long history of being an officer appointed by politicians. You want somebody who hasn't even touched that area. You want somebody who's seen enough combat that you know they can take a hit. You want somebody who's worked on Fox News so you know they can be absolutely violated with criticism and go home as a happy warrior. He can do that. He knows how to take the hardest criticism. He knows how to dodge freaking bullets. Who in the military, right? If you think he doesn't have the goods don't make the mistake of you know imagine if you were around in 1776 and the founders of the country brought you their resumes and George Washington says I'm a farmer but I'd like to be the general of the revolution. You'd say wait a minute you're a farmer how does that make sense? Who is it? Was that Hamilton who was like a teenager? So a teenager comes to you and says hey I got these ideas for changing the entire country. Do you say oh teenager oh good yeah let's go with that? Nope. But if it was 1776 and you said to yourself who's got the most goods who's bringing the strongest package and then Washington walks in he's six foot something people want to follow him and you say okay I don't know what you got going on but you've got the package you're the general. And then Hamilton comes in or whoever it was was it Madison or Hamilton I could never remember which one was super young they were b