Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Culture War debate show, I guess.

Sometimes we do discussions.

We try to have civil discussions, but sometimes they get heated debates.

And moving forward, we are planning on having many of these shows live, pre-recorded simply because we wanted to do it live. We're like, how do we do a show live Saturday night? It's not really something you can do. Tomorrow night, we are going to be pre-recording the next episode of the Culture War, live with the studio audience, and we're allowing our audience members to come up and join the debate. So moving forward,

this is our pilot. We're going to figure out how we do it. So it's going to be chaotic. But don't worry,

Alex Stein will be joining us to make sure that if it is chaotic, we can blame him. It's going to be fun. But today, we're talking about overspending government bloat, welfare, and these policies that will bankrupt or destroy the United States.

I got a couple gentlemen with me.

Sir, would you like to introduce yourself?

Yeah, hi.

Great to be back.

My name's Connor.

I'm a science fiction, political, and philosophy nerd.

Marine Corps and Law Enforcement veteran, I think the easiest way to identify my politics

is a never Trump Republican.

Funnily enough, I was on

this stream a few weeks, maybe a month ago or so, arguing that we needed a state and stateism and

welfare and all that kind of stuff. But I think that the left can go way too far with this stuff,

and you can effectively bankrupt or destroy a society if you're not careful. So that's what I'll be

arguing today. Right on. Sir, who are you? Hey, everyone. I want to go by a Connoboy on YouTube and all the things. I have a substack, accountaboy dot subsect.com. I do a show with Pisco, actually, a soon-to-be reoccurring guest on the Timcast. And so I'm here to defend the welfare state and government spending. And, you know, my preview

for my audience was I never miss a chance to defend big government. So that's why I'm here.

Well, here's my question for you. Are you a small government guy?

Relatively speaking, but there's, of course, essential functions for the government that we should be

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