Hello and welcome to VAPID Response Wednesday. I'm Thomas. That over there is real life attorney, Matt Cameron. How are you doing, Matt?

Hey, all right, Thomas. One of my favorite subjects today, just going to get into some old-timey racism and contemporary racism. When you're sick of the newfangled stuff. That's right. You go back to the classics. Yeah. We all get nostalgic for different things. You know, Matt is apparently old-timey racism. When you're just up to your eyeballs and newfangled racism, it's good to get. You know, but the new stuff is a lot like the old stuff.

But I guess we'll see.

We'll see how alike it is. Well, you know how it is? If you were just doing racism in the 60s, it's going to hit different today. So you've got to be prepared. And producer Lydia, how you doing? Hi, doing pretty well. How are you? I feel like I haven't asked you on this show for a while.

I think I need a haircut.

My hair's a little crazy.

I came all at once. doing pretty well. How are you? I feel like I haven't asked you on this show for a while.

I think I need a hair cut. My hair's a little crazy. I came all at once. I was like, what is all this hair? And then like vaguely. So that's all that's happening with me. Literally nothing else. Like your B-12 intake is really high or something. Your hair's growing real fast. I don't know what that's about. Anyway, yeah, Matt, what are we going to be talking about today? Old time of

racism, More detail? So, yeah, I'm getting ahead of what I think is going to be what I'm calling a heartseller summer. The Hartseller Immigration Act of 1965 is on the chopping block, potentially. Once again, it's a Republican favorite. I've been hearing some talking points in the last few days that are pretty disturbing about why we should be going back to the 1924 racial quotas that you and I have discussed before.

It's a great episode on that around the end of the year. Just fantastic stuff. We'll revisit some of that.

Here's my first thought, Matt. Wouldn't that be actually currently better than where

we are now? Because right now, we're only letting in literally white South Africans as refugees. Yeah. So if you go, okay. Yeah. I was going to say, if you want to apply a quota, they'd be like, whoa, wait a minute. Well, I thought it was zero of anybody we don't like. Well, as you'll see, The quota was 100 for quite a while.

Wow.

Exactly 100 a year.

So, yeah, but this is apart from the refugee program. So we're going to be talking about sort of the basis of our entire immigration system and how Andy Ogles wants to change that from Tennessee. He's introducing a bill. The full text isn't out yet, but from what I've seen, it's a nightmare, just the pieces of it. And the Republican talking points on this are going to be normalizing some things that are completely abnormal. So I want to do a little teaching first to kind of let people know how we got to this place, the 1965 Act, how it was passed, why it was passed. I'm going to give you enough information that by the time we get to the John Daniel Davidson Federalist piece that we're going to read at the end, I think you'll understand

just how stupid it actually is. As stupid as the previous piece we read by John Daniel Davidson?

I don't know. I was that Charlie Kirk.

Let the audience be the judge, yeah. It was a Charlie, something about how Charlie Kirk is.

We'll tell them when we get there. Yeah. It was something about how Charlie Kirk is. Well, we'll tell them when we get there.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, I'm excited for all that nonsense.

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