Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news. I am Philip DeFranco, and we have a lot to talk about today.

Starting with this. Is people to judge the Democrat's secret weapon? Is he and or what he's doing moving the needle?

Because two of the many, many things the Democrats have been hit on is, one, y'all suck at fucking messaging.

And two, you're not seeking out areas to have conversations that Republicans

have and they've kind of taken over. But in the face of all that, we are seeing a lot of

headlines and conversation around Buttigieg who's going on Andrew Schultz's Flagrin podcast.

Right in there, one of the main takeaways is you have a lot of people impressed by his ability

to talk to an audience that's seen as kind of the other side of the aisle, or at least more on the other side of the aisle. Or with Schultz, at least over, I'd say, maybe the last year being viewed more and more by others,

is at the very least, a kind of mag of friendly comedian and host.

Now, a big thing is that the episode was nearly three hours long, so I don't have enough time to talk about everything they talked about.

I'm gonna link to the video so you can watch it yourself. But we should definitely talk about moments that have been getting a lot of traction online, including this part barely 10 minutes in where Pete explained the necessity

of government research. The federal government could not have invented the iPhone, right? Like,

I don't think anybody's, any of us would want a phone that was like invented by the federal

government. But what makes the iPhone work? Well, among other things, the Internet. The Internet was literally invented by a federal research project. And it would never have been possible to invent the Internet with a private company. Companies can do multi-billion dollar ideas, but a trillion-dollar idea like inventing the Internet. That requires basic research. And that's the kind of thing the government's supposed to do, the internet. Right. That requires basic research.

And that's the kind of thing the government's supposed to do, among many other things.

It requires basic research?

What does that?

Yeah, by basic research, I mean, things that are so fundamental that you actually don't know for 50 or 100 years if they're going to have a return.

They might never work out.

Oh, yeah, you can't look at it as this thing that's going to have a return. They might never work out. Oh, guy, yeah, you can't look at it as this

thing is going to be profitable. But Pete, then noting that it's different from, say, research

a pharmaceutical company does to create drugs with a specific intent to make money on those drugs.

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