0:00

The Left's Decline is accelerating

0:02

because this has been their

0:04

playbook. Words you say, uh, we'll

0:06

take your job away if you don't

0:08

use the right terminology to misgender somebody.

0:10

You know, like, they're so serious about

0:12

that. That's it. She's like, ponder the

0:15

words big balls. Like, right now, we're

0:17

talking about how much of your money's

0:19

been wasted by people not showing up

0:21

to the office for four years, and

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she's offended by the nickname of the

0:26

dude trying to put an entered. We

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finally beat Medicare. He

0:31

was right, he did

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beat Medicare, beat it

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0:42

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pill penalty is already

0:49

slashing the development of

0:51

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0:55

of Biden's failed policy.

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1:02

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1:09

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1:20

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1:23

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1:25

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1:27

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1:29

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1:31

is a big Thursday episode. We always have

1:33

a lot of fun on Thursdays. Yeah, we

1:36

usually, I mean, we have your news, we

1:38

have your fun in games and we have

1:40

King of the Hill on Thursday. We sure

1:42

do. And like, you know, you get to

1:44

a Thursday and you got a good sense

1:46

of the week. of the week. Yeah. How

1:48

things have played out. And there's a

1:51

lot of funny shit involved. Well, especially

1:53

in this era for Donald Trump,

1:55

you know, every week is just banger after

1:57

banger. So by the time you get to

1:59

Thursday... It's just an embarrassment of

2:01

riches, folks. There's just so much

2:03

progress on all of these things

2:06

that he promised in the campaign,

2:08

and he's just delivering. He's just

2:10

delivering, right? And on Tuesday's episode,

2:12

I mentioned to you Holmes that

2:14

last week we talked about how

2:17

he has basically made a list

2:19

of everything that pissed you off

2:21

over the last four years, and

2:23

he's just ticking it one by

2:25

one by one. I couldn't remember

2:27

the item on that list that

2:30

caught your attention, and it just

2:32

sprung to my mind. plastic straws.

2:34

Yes. Donald Trump has said, no,

2:36

you're allowed to use plastic straws

2:38

again in America because this is

2:41

America. Yeah, right. You know, I

2:43

also saw something on that. So

2:45

the whole story of like these

2:47

things killed turtles was apparently some

2:49

kids like fourth grade science project.

2:51

Fourth grade. And then it's been

2:54

disproven since, but all of America

2:56

for years. Is having policy pushed

2:58

on it because of like a

3:00

fourth grade kid's side? Dude the

3:02

whole DEA industrial complex is based

3:05

off a flawed McKenzie study that

3:07

has been proven to be wrong.

3:09

What it's so amazing is that

3:11

so Trump's been in office what

3:13

three and a half weeks and

3:15

like what you find out about

3:18

the last like six or eight

3:20

years in terms of what the

3:22

left is pushing ever since Trump

3:24

was elected essentially left starts. taking

3:26

over all the institutions in our

3:29

country and pushing all these narratives

3:31

and whatnot. And it, it, what

3:33

you find out, we're not that

3:35

different than we were in the

3:37

heyday. Yeah. Like all that shit

3:39

was, it was nonsense. But Trump

3:42

had to come around to create

3:44

the permission structure for normal regular

3:46

people to be like, yeah. Yeah,

3:48

we don't have to do that.

3:50

Yeah. You know? Yeah. No, I

3:53

mean, and that's what this is,

3:55

is unapologetic. Right. This is who

3:57

we are. We're just going to

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5:59

one here, fellas. It's just like

6:01

the accelerating of the decline of

6:03

the left. Yeah. They're doing it

6:06

to themselves. They are. Yeah. I

6:08

mean, it's so great to watch.

6:10

But like Democrats and their media

6:12

allies, this is a story, or

6:14

actually something. that Saraj, or boy

6:17

Saraj tweeted. Democrats in their media

6:19

allies continue to spiral as their

6:21

tired strategies fail to slow down

6:23

Trump. Let's watch clip one and

6:25

just react to it and that's

6:27

where we'll kick it off. That

6:31

group is like public employee union

6:33

group. All right. So hold on.

6:35

That group is like public employee

6:37

union. All right. So hold on.

6:39

That group is like public employee

6:41

union. Right. Doing it in the

6:43

middle of a work day. Of

6:45

which Donald Trump. And Ian Musk

6:47

simply asked that the people that

6:50

work for the federal government show

6:52

back up their desk and do

6:54

their job as it was intended

6:56

to do. They can't stay at

6:58

home. They can't do whatever. And

7:00

these guys are going to protest

7:02

that. by showing up in the

7:04

middle of a workday to sing

7:06

an anthem from Union 1950. Yeah,

7:09

I mean that song was actually

7:11

written by Florence Reese, a social

7:13

activist. I think it was back

7:15

in the 1920s. Yeah, well it

7:17

was popularized during the Harlan County

7:19

War by Pete Seeger who covered

7:21

that song. But you know those

7:23

folks in that in that labor

7:25

dispute it got violent and ugly,

7:27

you know, those were... hardscrabble coal

7:30

miners. And also, like these people

7:32

haven't got a callus on their

7:34

hand since, you know, they got

7:36

a paper cut from filing papers.

7:38

Yeah, they get just, it's hilarious

7:40

to think these people consider themselves

7:42

like the coal miners in Harlan

7:44

County from the 1930s. These people

7:46

put coal miners out of work.

7:49

Yeah. They did! And the best

7:51

part about it is that they

7:53

were all offered eight months of

7:55

paid labor. Like they didn't have

7:57

to do anything to just go

7:59

home, we'll give you your full

8:01

salary, whatever pension you're entitled to,

8:03

all of that stuff. And they're

8:05

like, that's just like the coal

8:08

miners who, by the way, we...

8:10

try to put out of work.

8:12

We're discussing the collapse of the

8:14

left and like you said this

8:16

is a choice. They are saying

8:18

which side are you on? They're

8:20

like we will fight Doge. They're

8:22

fighting government efficiency being like everyone

8:24

get on our side right? Don't

8:26

save taxpayer money. It's like how

8:29

the hell did Trump get into

8:31

a situation where he's just Common

8:33

sense and as opposed to like

8:35

no we must waste taxpayer money

8:37

What was that old quote that

8:39

Voltaire quote? It was like I

8:41

I've prayed only for one thing

8:43

that my enemies be ridiculous and

8:45

Trump has gotten that That's it.

8:48

That's what's happened. It's like he's

8:50

good. No question. He's good. But

8:52

his superpower is making his enemies

8:54

ridiculous. Well, I think the acceleration

8:56

of the spiral that the left

8:58

is in right now is because

9:00

it actually kind of worked the

9:02

first time against Donald Trump and

9:04

it ain't working anymore. Right? Like

9:07

the American people... are much more

9:09

comfortable with Donald Trump as President

9:11

of the United States this time

9:13

around. They cried wolf. They tried

9:15

back in 2017. They said he

9:17

was a puppet of Vladimir Putin

9:19

in Russia. And people bought into

9:21

that bullshit. And it was wrong.

9:23

And so this time, their bullshit

9:25

detection meter is much, much, much

9:28

higher. And that's why they're flailing

9:30

so much. Not to mention, they're

9:32

proving the need for government efficiency

9:34

because they're doing this in the

9:36

middle of the work day where

9:38

they're being paid by everyone who's

9:40

listening to this. It's funded by

9:42

a union that was funded by

9:44

everybody listening to this show. It's

9:47

unreal. It's unreal. It's genuinely... It's

9:49

beyond parody really it's beyond parody

9:51

and like I was doing Fox

9:53

last night and Brett put on

9:55

the thing that Elon was talking

9:57

about the limestone mines Yeah, that

9:59

they keep apparently the records of

10:01

everyone who's worked in the federal

10:03

government They file Like it's 1952

10:05

they take them physically papers papers

10:08

it all has to be printed

10:10

and they and they take them

10:12

and they put them in a

10:14

limestone mine in like west virginia

10:16

yeah or somewhere like Pennsylvania it's

10:18

like the end scene in indiana

10:20

jones you know where like they're

10:22

putting in the arc of the

10:24

covenant in some box he was

10:27

like they told me that no

10:29

more than ten thousand people can

10:31

retire from the federal government at

10:33

any given year because they can't

10:35

actually file it think about that

10:37

If ever there was an advertisement

10:39

for government efficiency, it's that they're

10:41

literally saying we have a cap

10:43

on the number of people who

10:46

can leave the government because, well,

10:48

we gotta. take these redrope folders

10:50

down into a limestone mine. Like

10:52

what? Like they'll just put to

10:54

wrap your mind around that. Imagine

10:56

that as a defense of the

10:58

status quo of government. And it

11:00

goes back to that, you know,

11:02

the discourse around political pro and

11:04

all those subscriptions that all of

11:07

these government agencies had to get

11:09

to get analytics and access into

11:11

like what the government's doing. And

11:13

my question all of that is

11:15

like, aside from the cost of

11:17

like getting political pro for all

11:19

these agencies, you're talking tens of

11:21

thousands of dollars per. subscription. Like

11:23

maybe the better question is why

11:26

does our government not know what

11:28

our government is doing that they

11:30

have to pay someone to find

11:32

out what they're doing? That's a

11:34

good point. You know what I

11:36

mean? And like that is the

11:38

whole point of Doge. It's like

11:40

there are real inefficiencies in our

11:42

government that are not defensible. Like

11:45

you cannot defend this bullshit. I

11:47

mean just this one example is

11:49

hard to wrap your mind around.

11:51

It's like that scene from... office

11:53

base were like, so what do

11:55

you say you do around here?

11:57

Is like, well, I actually physically

11:59

carry the, they're like, we can't

12:01

afford to have more than 10,000

12:03

people retire. We have to keep

12:06

paying them because we also pay

12:08

a guy to print out a

12:10

sheet of paper, take it to

12:12

a limestone cavern. He's got to

12:14

have a job too. Well, like,

12:16

here's the thing. I don't expect

12:18

the guy who physically grabs the

12:20

red rope and walks to the

12:22

limestone to self-report. Like, it's a

12:25

gig. Right? He's probably living in

12:27

the central Pennsylvania area. He's going

12:29

to drive down once every six

12:31

months, pick up some folders, and

12:33

roll into the limestone. But like

12:35

if you're in charge of that,

12:37

and my bigger question is, the

12:39

entire government, the way of getting

12:41

around whether you have wasteful spending,

12:44

is putting inspector generals. at each

12:46

and every agency. And so for

12:48

the last like 30 years, there's

12:50

been people who are serious, like

12:52

they have to be confirmed, I

12:54

think, inspector generals of each one

12:56

of these agencies. What the fuck

12:58

have they been doing? Like who

13:00

signs off on that? And it's

13:02

like, you know what? This is

13:05

the best way. I mean, think

13:07

about the whole chain. There's a

13:09

person who then files it over

13:11

to deliver it to the guy

13:13

who drives it over to the

13:15

to the limestone cavern. And then

13:17

there's a guy there waiting for

13:19

it to then file it away.

13:21

These are jobs to take a

13:24

sheet of paper. And what I

13:26

think is very important for people

13:28

to remember is you are paying

13:30

for each and everything along that

13:32

supply chain. And the mind belongs

13:34

to you. You're paying for this

13:36

mine. You're paying for the elevator

13:38

shaft. You're paying for the operators.

13:40

So of course people are like,

13:42

wait a minute, what am I

13:45

actually getting in return for what

13:47

I'm charged every year? down to

13:49

lent you're paying him full salary.

13:51

for the rest of his life.

13:53

Yeah, your pain is pension too.

13:55

I mean, if you've ever wondered

13:57

why it is that the vacation

13:59

homes around where it is that

14:01

you live are all by people

14:04

who are like public servants, well,

14:06

there it is. I think what

14:08

it reveals is how much institutional

14:10

resistance there is to change in

14:12

government. Yeah. And that the easiest

14:14

thing to do. If you're those

14:16

inspector generals or whoever who's overseeing

14:18

these programs, like you ain't gonna

14:20

get fired for saying it's all

14:23

good. right that we're doing it

14:25

the best we can yeah and

14:27

requesting the same amount of budget

14:29

from Congress for the next year

14:31

yeah right no one got fired

14:33

doing that yeah so why would

14:35

they and there's this don't upset

14:37

the apple cart mentality to to

14:39

you know government employment that is

14:41

like the entire reason why doge

14:44

and Donald Trump are so important

14:46

it's just I'm so happy this

14:48

is like for those of us

14:50

who spend any time in government

14:52

we spent most of our time

14:54

wishing and hoping at a scenario

14:56

like this could ever be presented.

14:58

We just didn't think it was

15:00

possible. Right? And they just were

15:03

like, ah, the rules, we don't

15:05

do rules. We're just going to

15:07

do this. We're going to doge.

15:09

And when I see Elon with

15:11

his kid in the oval just

15:13

sort of winging it and telling

15:15

him about how they went into

15:17

some agencies. And all of the

15:19

government computers that they, or phones

15:22

that they took a look at,

15:24

all still had Trump administration information

15:26

on it, because nobody had been

15:28

into the office since then? You

15:30

mean Biden administration? No Trump. They

15:32

hadn't been. Original Trump. Because in

15:34

the years since, none of those

15:36

government employees had even shown up.

15:38

They didn't even show up. Like

15:41

that's a breathtaking thing and like

15:43

I just don't for your vacations

15:45

for your paid vacation paid by

15:47

all of you dear listeners It's

15:49

amazing, but it keeps you know

15:51

it so but like he's also

15:53

creating this whole media thing which

15:55

I find completely hilarious. Can we

15:57

play clip two to two? Take

16:01

a deep breath for just a

16:03

moment. And ponder big balls. That's

16:05

the other thing they're doing. It's

16:07

like the give a fuck factor

16:09

is zero. They're like they've got

16:11

this guy big balls. We covered

16:14

them on Tuesday. But they've also

16:16

created the entirety of the prime

16:18

time lineup of the Democratic left.

16:20

The things that like, I don't

16:22

know, I guess a couple hundred

16:24

thousand people listen to. They're... talking

16:26

about big balls. Yeah. Just wait

16:28

for a minute and ponder big

16:31

balls. Yeah. Take a deep breath.

16:33

Big balls. And you know, I

16:35

think this again goes right back

16:37

to the origin theme of the

16:39

left decline is accelerating because this

16:41

has been their playbook. Words you

16:43

say, uh, we'll take your job

16:46

away if you don't use the

16:48

right terminology to misgender somebody. You

16:50

know, like they're so focused. Oh,

16:52

they're so serious about that. Ponder

16:54

the words big balls. Like right

16:56

now we're talking about how much

16:58

of your money's been wasted by

17:00

people not showing up to the

17:03

office for four years and she's

17:05

offended by the nickname of the

17:07

dude trying to put an end

17:09

to that. It's staggering, but also

17:11

like all the names that have

17:13

like tumbled out now with big

17:15

balls and like it was like

17:17

a 1990s prank phone call. Is

17:20

that the origin for you? How

17:22

I used to make dinner reservations

17:24

in the early 2000s. Yeah, hey

17:26

would you blow me? Well that

17:28

was the one that I saw

17:30

today. There was a guy named

17:32

Haywood who was testifying before the

17:35

Doge Committee and I was like

17:37

I'm shocked that this guy's name,

17:39

last name, not Jabom. I mean

17:41

it's just it's just fantastic. much

17:43

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All right, so we should probably

18:30

just stay on the fact that

18:32

these people are losing their minds.

18:34

Yeah. You know, it's only there's

18:36

only so much you can do.

18:38

Honestly, if you're thinking about, um,

18:41

the way that Trump has proceeded

18:43

in the first two and a

18:45

half weeks that that like it's

18:47

great. That's why he was elected.

18:49

But it wouldn't be just in

18:51

the echelon that it is. unless

18:53

you have opposition that are firmly

18:55

standing behind it and they're like

18:58

no don't do these things like

19:00

we've got a series of things

19:02

to set up on this everyone

19:04

you're gonna love this let's do

19:06

clip three please you know 59

19:08

million dollars spent on luxury hotels

19:10

it's actually not the thing about

19:12

the FEMA money that was used

19:15

for migrants that was Yeah. Female

19:17

money for migrants, that's okay now?

19:19

No, I'm not saying it's okay.

19:21

Don't put words in my mouth.

19:23

So would you stop that? Would

19:25

you stop that process? Don't be

19:27

a dick. The portray, what I'm

19:30

saying is the portrayal. Do it

19:32

be a dick? CNN? CNN. Sununu.

19:34

Like, so we know Sunu, we've

19:36

done a lot of stuff. This

19:38

is not a dick. Like he's

19:40

probably one of the more reasonable

19:42

middle of the road republic human

19:44

beings like the reason one of

19:47

the reasons why he's on CNN

19:49

right is because he's one of

19:51

those guys that talks left of

19:53

center right of center and has

19:55

that constituency he can't have it

19:57

Anderson Cooper can't He's like, don't

19:59

be a dick. Also, it's funny

20:01

because to Anderson Cooper, 59 million

20:04

is not a lot because he's

20:06

an heir to the Vanderbilt Fortune.

20:08

He doesn't give a shit about

20:10

59 million. It's just what it

20:12

reveals in all of these things

20:14

is like, their position is indefensible.

20:16

Yeah. You know? And so, so

20:19

didn't say that is frustrating to

20:21

him. Because like... You know, these

20:23

panels are supposed to be a,

20:25

oh, there's one side and there's

20:27

another side. There isn't another side.

20:29

There isn't another side. Not in

20:31

the American public. It is not

20:33

defensible. And Donald Trump, to his

20:36

credit, has spent this first month

20:38

of his administration finding every issue

20:40

that's an 80-20 issue in this

20:42

country, and he's been on the

20:44

80% side. Totally. I mean, real

20:46

quick, just to touch on that

20:48

59, in midtown, some of the

20:50

most expensive hotel rooms, $700 a

20:53

night, to put migrants, people who

20:55

have broken the law, entering our

20:57

country illegally, many of whom are

20:59

continuing to commit violent crimes, getting

21:01

free hotel rooms, every night, some

21:03

of the most expensive real estate

21:05

on earth, and FEMA didn't have

21:07

a dime for folks in Western

21:10

North Carolina who lost everything. These

21:12

are U.S. citizens, these are Americans,

21:14

these are Americans, $59. at a

21:16

rate that was roughly double what

21:18

a room occupancy rate would be

21:20

ordinarily. Because that's the thing is

21:22

these hotel owners love this game.

21:25

They love it. They're like, oh

21:27

I can be guaranteed my my

21:29

hotel has every room occupied at

21:31

twice the rate. Do it. Let's

21:33

run this. No problem. I mean

21:35

you understand it because they mean

21:37

they eliminated New York City for

21:39

two years. Yeah. Right? And all

21:42

the people that moved out of

21:44

it and everybody who didn't want

21:46

to do conferences and all the

21:48

things that they ordinarily did in

21:50

New York because Democrats ruined the

21:52

city, introduced crime, the whole COVID

21:54

backlash, everything else. And so you

21:56

get a hotel, a luxury hotel.

21:59

It's like, oh wait, you're going

22:01

to pay me double max room

22:03

occupancy. I don't care who you

22:05

put in that joint. That's a

22:07

business, that's a business decision. Yeah.

22:09

Right? I'm actually not even, I

22:11

don't even blame those people. Because they're

22:14

like, you ruined every other way in

22:16

my life. Dude, New York had to

22:18

hire a consulting firm and pay them

22:20

millions of dollars to figure out, you

22:23

should probably put trash in trash camp.

22:25

He's not being, he's not joking. This

22:27

is a serious thing. It's like, oh,

22:29

wait, we shouldn't just like, throw trash

22:32

in the street? Oh man, novel idea.

22:34

All right, millions of dollars. Oh dude,

22:36

thanks, man. Pay this invoice. Oh thank

22:38

you so much. That's awesome. I

22:41

appreciate that. All right, clip

22:43

four if we get into this.

22:45

This is one of my favorites.

22:47

I've been told I have 30

22:50

seconds, so I am going to tell

22:52

you that we do have to,

22:54

I don't swear in public very

22:57

well, but we have to fuck

22:59

Trump. Lady! Let me just say

23:01

Lady, I don't think you're as

23:03

type. I don't think you're as

23:05

type. I mean, didn't they say that

23:07

they were going to go on strike

23:10

when Trump won? Like, I guess the

23:12

strike's broken, like Trump. I mean, I

23:14

knew they were frustrated. I didn't know

23:16

they were sexually frustrated. I mean, was

23:19

that like a, just a call, like

23:21

she was flipping teams all of a

23:23

sudden? Maybe she was like, I am

23:25

with those. I'm going to fuck Trump.

23:28

I saw the tax savings and what

23:30

can I say? I just don't think

23:32

like lady just grab

23:35

a mirror. The Malania

23:37

comparison is not a

23:39

kind one to you.

23:41

Clip five, please. We are

23:43

three weeks into

23:45

the second Trump

23:47

presidency, three weeks,

23:49

and tonight there

23:51

are warnings that the

23:54

US is dangerously

23:56

close to a

23:58

constitutional crisis. dollars

24:00

in federal aid. Mark. Why do

24:02

they? Here's the thing. I know

24:04

Caitlin. We all know Caitlin. I

24:06

think she's smart. I think she's

24:08

good. You know, she obviously has

24:11

her CNN gig. Why would any

24:13

producer make her do that? Like,

24:15

why would anybody write that? It's

24:17

a constitutional crisis for spending to

24:19

be examined in this country. Like,

24:21

it's not just a leftist talking

24:23

point, which it is. It's also

24:25

dangerous. I'm gonna toss this aloeop

24:27

over to Ashbrook, but a key

24:29

point here is that's editorializing when

24:31

you're supposed to be just straight

24:33

news. Right. I mean, and that's

24:35

what people want. People are... opening

24:37

up the newspaper people are going

24:40

to evening newscasts to get information

24:42

but that's not what CNN is

24:44

giving them and I'm of two

24:46

minds on this because CNN's content

24:48

is so dunkable it is so

24:50

funny for people like us I

24:52

don't want them to stop and

24:54

regular people out there know the

24:56

no the gig you know what

24:58

they may not know is the

25:00

person who runs news at CNN

25:02

is very close with Kamala and

25:04

Doug Amahov and everybody else but

25:06

They don't care. They're like, yeah,

25:09

give me some CNN clips so

25:11

that I can laugh about them

25:13

in the day. And, you know,

25:15

it's very funny, we talked about

25:17

this on the show, but their

25:19

viewership is lower than all of

25:21

the clips of Scott Jennings dunking

25:23

on them. Right. Which is amazing.

25:25

Stylistically though, I mean, just as

25:27

an artist. Yeah, please. I gotta

25:29

say, pretty dissident audio mixing there

25:31

to start that clip. We've got

25:33

like hopeful orchestra music and then

25:36

it's like constitutional crisis. Can we

25:38

can we actually play that again?

25:40

I got to get into this

25:42

because I missed it. Just just

25:44

watch it again. Let's do this.

25:46

We are three weeks into the

25:48

second Trump presidency. Oh, it's like

25:50

maybe this is positive. And tonight

25:52

there are warnings at the US.

25:54

Hopeful orchestra. Timpani. Timpani. Yeah, see,

25:56

like, well, they screwed it up.

25:58

They screwed up the second mixing.

26:00

Bup, blah, blah, blah, blah. And

26:02

here we are in Washington, we

26:05

are doing good things. I'm so

26:07

angry. It's like, what are you

26:09

trying to do to these people?

26:11

By the end of this sentence,

26:13

you will not have a country.

26:15

Yeah, it's like, the way you

26:17

start, like, all right, here's the

26:19

weather. Can someone cite what part

26:21

of the Constitution says, thou shalt

26:23

waste taxpayer money, because I don't

26:25

remember that. I was never taught

26:27

that part. A constitutional crisis, what

26:29

are they talking about? Well, it's

26:31

just so incredible, because it's coming

26:34

from the same people, violent protests

26:36

in front of Supreme Court justices'

26:38

homes. And like, those are constitutional

26:40

crises. That's what that looks like,

26:42

you know? And like, The idea

26:44

that you have a disagreement about

26:46

spending policy in this country has

26:48

somehow enveloped the left into saying

26:50

constitutional crisis. I mean, look, I

26:52

understand some of this stuff is

26:54

being litigated in court. But the

26:56

idea that you can't look at

26:58

fraud and be like, hey, that's

27:01

fraud, let's not do that fraud.

27:03

And they're like, oh my God,

27:05

it's the end of democracy. And

27:07

also CNN, like your audience pays

27:09

taxes too. Yeah. You know? I

27:11

just, the funny thing is, and

27:13

I feel bad for the people

27:15

who are just like constant CNN

27:17

viewers or MSMEC viewers, because the

27:19

information they flow is just not

27:21

accurate. It's just not, it's just

27:23

not good. Like they, they're actually

27:25

probably just in a constant state

27:27

of anxiety. They have to be

27:30

a risk for like traumatic brain

27:32

injuries. Yeah. Like all day long

27:34

getting this? They have to be.

27:36

When an actuality. The W-2 form

27:38

that they're filling out and the

27:40

taxes that they pay are the

27:42

only thing anybody's looking after here.

27:44

Yeah. And that's really the... The

27:46

only question that you should have

27:48

on your mind is whether or

27:50

not you're getting for your tax

27:52

dollar what you paid for. Right.

27:54

Because that's it. There's not like

27:56

Elon Musk, a billionaire, he's stealing

27:59

our, he's a thief. Yeah, he

28:01

wants your fucking money. He doesn't,

28:03

he builds rockets that fly to

28:05

Mars for Christ's sake. This is

28:07

like that guy is interested in

28:09

your. $24 Social Security check? No,

28:11

dude. He wants to make sure,

28:13

as he said yesterday, that a

28:15

175-year-old American is not getting a

28:17

Social Security check, because you know

28:19

why? Your kid, whose 35 is

28:21

probably not going to get a

28:23

Social Security check, as a result

28:26

of him not looking for it.

28:28

Right. That's such a great point.

28:30

Mm-hmm. And like, constitutional crisis? Oh

28:32

my God! What will we ever

28:34

do? God bless it. These people

28:36

are fantastic the content that's the

28:38

content you have no idea what

28:40

the pre-production We used to like

28:42

not have pre-production in the Biden

28:44

years. It was like what happened?

28:46

Well, nothing. Yeah, he was asleep

28:48

What game can we play here

28:50

on the Ruthless Friday program? Try

28:52

to keep people entertained because the

28:55

guy was asleep again all day.

28:57

And now every day it's like

28:59

we're in a meeting, we're like

29:01

going through, we got 20 topics.

29:03

You should see what hit the

29:05

cutting room floor. We could do

29:07

a whole other two hours on

29:09

it. Yeah. The Trump era is

29:11

like red zone. It is. There's

29:13

so much going on. There's so

29:15

much going. It's like every, it's

29:17

like, it's like you got Scott

29:19

Hansen or Chris Hansen, whatever his

29:21

name is, and it's like touchdown.

29:24

All right, we gotta go to

29:26

another place. Touchdown. And it's like

29:28

Elon found 40 billion here. Oh

29:30

look, 60 billion there. It's like,

29:32

oh, there's a quarry in Pennsylvania

29:34

and every piece of paper on

29:36

a government workers there. And it's

29:38

like, holy shit. We could do

29:40

an episode. We could do an

29:42

episode every episode. team that they

29:44

flash to your first round draft

29:46

pick is scoring. Yeah. And they

29:48

have them on your fantasy. And

29:50

they have them on your fantasy.

29:53

And see. And then's interpretation is

29:55

no, you're not allowed to look.

29:57

It's incredible. You shut up your

29:59

dumb face. Exactly. Impermissible. You're not,

30:01

it's unconstitutional to ask your government

30:03

to spend your money wisely. Don't

30:05

have fun and laugh. Don't do

30:07

that. All right, so our question

30:09

of the day is in their

30:11

moment of darkness, what's the best

30:13

troll to make it even worse

30:15

for them? You've seen a lot

30:17

of great trolls. about, you know,

30:20

just rolling something out to the

30:22

left that just makes them lose

30:24

their mind. The guy who's, like,

30:26

most susceptible to it is Chuck

30:28

Schumer. Like whatever it is how

30:30

mine you if it it originates

30:32

on the online right and like

30:34

rolls anywhere close to his office

30:36

he does a press conference on

30:38

the damn thing. Oh yeah. And

30:40

like within an hour it's like

30:42

well none of this shit. Well

30:44

it was like when Chuck Schumer

30:46

unve this website of like if

30:49

you can uncover any like government

30:51

corruption or any danger please fill

30:53

it in here and then it

30:55

gets filled with conservatives being like

30:57

so there's this guy Chuck Schumer

30:59

who threatened the Supreme Court justices

31:01

you should look into this. Oh

31:03

my god, it's so good. So,

31:05

you gotta put that like and

31:07

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31:18

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31:20

a good one. It was if

31:22

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31:24

she be doing right now? Stands

31:26

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32:14

question of the day from Tuesday

32:16

that we read on Thursdays is

32:18

if Kamala Harris had won, what

32:20

would she be doing? Everybody's talking

32:22

about what Trump is doing, but

32:25

imagine just in a different parallel

32:27

world. Yeah, in the bad place.

32:29

In a bad place, and you

32:31

got great comments, but to do

32:33

that, we always start with the

32:35

voice. And as Josh said in

32:37

the last segment, if you want

32:39

to comment, if you want us

32:41

to read your comments, like and

32:43

subscribe. if you wish to opine,

32:45

we coined that phrase. And here

32:47

at the Ruthless Variety Program, the

32:49

first comment comes from the Cookie

32:52

Army. And the Cookie Army writes,

32:54

Kamala would be pretty busy

32:56

if she were president right

32:58

now. She'd have to address

33:01

California wildfires by giving government

33:03

funds to Newsom so that

33:05

he could redirect the last

33:08

of LA's water to the

33:10

ocean to save a guppy.

33:12

Then, she'd have to oversee

33:15

her trans transportation secretary to

33:17

ensure that the FAA was

33:19

expanding their DEI program to

33:21

include blind air traffic controllers.

33:23

Trans Secretary is pretty good. The

33:26

Trans Department. The Trans Department. The

33:28

Trans Department. A good friend of

33:30

the program, Charlie Hurt, who is

33:32

now an esteemed co-host of Fox

33:34

and Friends. He's really made it

33:36

up in the world. Yes, over

33:38

the weekend, he was asking about

33:40

the Trans Department, and I thought

33:43

that was quite funny. It was

33:45

very good. It was not unintentional

33:47

by Charlie. Let's got a comment

33:49

too from Dunks. This is from

33:51

John from Baysideide. If Kamala were

33:53

currently president, she would be

33:55

tripling funding to America's great

33:58

small businesses. The Washington and

34:00

based NGOs, creating a

34:02

new executive agency so

34:05

USAID could focus on

34:07

directing its grift to

34:09

worthy organizations overseas. That's

34:11

so good. Well,

34:13

the transsexual population of Tanzania is

34:16

burgeoning. Must be studied. They need

34:18

to be studied and they need

34:20

to be represented. Their efforts on

34:22

climate change can't be ignored. No,

34:24

that's what small businesses in our

34:26

world. Thank you, John. I appreciate

34:28

that. Smug, what do we got?

34:30

Comment three is from Lorenda Leach.

34:32

Lorenda writes, if Kamo was president,

34:34

thank God for the hypothetical. After

34:36

three weeks, she would still be

34:38

pondering what could be unburdened by

34:40

what is going on. riding around

34:42

in an armored school bus. Because

34:44

that was great. Because we all

34:46

know how else she gets over

34:48

a good school bus, according to

34:50

Chuck Schumer. Well, pondering what day

34:52

or if every day should be

34:54

designated as National Wine slash Wine

34:56

Day. Oh, that's good. That's good.

34:58

Wine and Wine Day. Yeah. She

35:00

should absolutely have that going. Well,

35:02

is anybody tired of winning yet?

35:04

The winds are stacking up here.

35:06

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35:18

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36:41

so this is interesting. So Goldman

36:43

Sachs, there's a lot of financial

36:46

companies that built in this sort

36:48

of resistance left to the first

36:50

Trump administration, an entire industry model

36:52

that was basically DEI enabled. And

36:54

these things are falling fast. We've

36:57

covered this a little bit. Interesting

36:59

though, Goldman Sachs, right? We're talking

37:01

about blue chip name here. It

37:03

walked away from it. Can we

37:05

get clip six, please? So it

37:07

effectively was supposed to be the

37:10

end of the all-white, straight, male

37:12

boards. They even upped the ante

37:14

and made the requirement too for

37:16

companies that they were taking public

37:18

in Western Europe and US. Well

37:21

today, they've formally confirmed that they

37:23

have packed track. We've already seen

37:25

one or two companies where that

37:27

policy certainly slipped away. You have

37:29

to see what's happening in the

37:31

broader environment. There's obviously everything that

37:34

you've seen change since Donald Trump

37:36

re-entered the White House. There was

37:38

of course the NASDAQ board diversity

37:40

rule that was killed in the

37:42

Fifth Circuit as well. All of

37:45

these things played a fact and

37:47

this is Goldman just acknowledging and

37:49

this is not to the time

37:51

that we're in. Finally Bloomberg bringing

37:53

the facts with the real reporter.

37:55

insane because you know now that

37:58

we are in the Golden Age

38:00

it's crazy to think back there

38:02

was a time when a company

38:04

like Goldman Sachs could openly say

38:06

you know because they do M&A

38:09

murders an acquisition that we will

38:11

not take a company public which

38:13

means we will not help get

38:15

them listed on the stock market

38:17

if their board is white people.

38:19

Like that was that was considered

38:22

okay. Yeah I mean like as

38:24

if that's not racism I mean

38:26

that's exactly that's the definition of

38:28

racism of racism. It also just

38:30

sort of just makes me sad,

38:33

you know, that we went through

38:35

a period in American history like

38:37

this, that where there were companies

38:39

as powerful as Goldman Sachs, and

38:41

I know of like two personally

38:44

of people who have gone through

38:46

this process, where they had to

38:48

put two or three people on

38:50

a board, one of them wholly

38:52

unqualified. like just it didn't work

38:54

out like ended up they ended

38:57

up like suing the company like

38:59

creating a huge problem with the

39:01

merger and acquisition because they forced

39:03

a person who was not qualified

39:05

into the position and like there's

39:08

not a single African-American in the

39:10

world woman in the world gay

39:12

person in the world who would

39:14

want the opportunity to be like

39:16

just an add-on to a multi-billion

39:18

dollar acquisition just because of what

39:21

they were born looking like and

39:23

or acting you know I mean

39:25

it's just like their sexual preference

39:27

is certainly not a part of

39:29

whether this come this company succeeds

39:32

or doesn't succeed but we went

39:34

through a period in history where

39:36

that was a real thing and

39:38

then conversation like crazy it's like

39:40

you look back at you look

39:42

back at this Like we look

39:45

back on Bull Connor. Yeah. We

39:47

really are honest to God, we

39:49

really will. But nobody wants to

39:51

hear that, but that is true.

39:53

We will look back on this

39:56

and say, I can't imagine how

39:58

nobody thought this wasn't the most

40:00

racist that we could be. Because

40:02

it reduces people down to attributes,

40:04

and it's a caricature. It's a

40:06

caricature. And conversely, in his autobiography,

40:09

Clarence Thomas writes, he's always hated

40:11

affirmative action and this DEAI stuff,

40:13

because when he would walk into

40:15

a room, he wanted everyone to

40:17

know. he's there because he's the

40:20

most qualified person there not to

40:22

look at him and be like

40:24

he must have been the quota

40:26

guy that's hurtful to everybody. Mark

40:28

injuries and tells this story about

40:30

I think it was meta's board

40:33

or something when they were going

40:35

through having to make sure that

40:37

they worked within this regulation of

40:39

board diversity or whatever and that

40:41

Peter Thiel actually qualified because he

40:44

was gay. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And

40:46

it's like for those of you

40:48

who know Peter Thiel like that.

40:50

That isn't something he would want

40:52

to qualify him for a board.

40:54

Maybe it's because he's been one

40:57

of the most successful angel investors

40:59

in the history of American capitalism,

41:01

you know? It's like the idea

41:03

that you could reduce somebody that's

41:05

successful down to like their sexual

41:08

preference and be like now you're

41:10

qualified is so fundamentally absurd and

41:12

against the idea of America. I

41:14

can understand wanting to get different

41:16

perspectives on a board, like that's

41:19

what boards do. They want to

41:21

get different perspectives. The boards exist

41:23

because you don't want to be

41:25

monolithic in how you think because

41:27

you might miss something. So I

41:29

get like, but that's what corporate

41:32

boards do. I mean, if you're

41:34

a public company, like that's where

41:36

your job is. But then... To

41:38

have something like a DEAI regular

41:40

where you're like, oh yeah, Peter

41:43

Thiel, checks the gay box. And

41:45

then having a corporate structure where

41:47

you actually have to report back.

41:49

It's insane. To be like, hey,

41:51

we got a gay guy. Like

41:53

where does that go? And like

41:56

what constituency are you satisfying without

41:58

knowing what it is that Peter

42:00

Thiel has to say? Like that's

42:02

unreal. I think now we know

42:04

the constituency it is taxpayer funded

42:07

NGOs. Turns out that's a big

42:09

part of it. Yeah. Well they

42:11

certainly used this. to try to

42:13

push it internationally and made everybody

42:15

else sort of adhere to it

42:17

and gave grants as a result

42:20

of what their social engineering agenda

42:22

would be, which is why they've

42:24

run into a whole lot of

42:26

trouble. Can't, oh no, oh no.

42:28

Anyway, they're not alone. Disney rebrands,

42:31

this is according to Axios, Disney

42:33

is changing its diversity equity and

42:35

inclusion. programs to focus more closely

42:37

on business outcomes. Oh, that's interesting.

42:39

Shareholders must be changing a cyber

42:41

leave programs. A business who wants

42:44

to make money. Ludacris. According to

42:46

a note sent to employees Tuesday

42:48

obtained by Axios. As part of

42:50

the shift sources tell. Axios, Disney

42:52

is moving and changing its content

42:55

disclaimers and it started releasing around

42:57

certain titles in 2020. Like I

42:59

don't know what those are, we

43:01

didn't cover them on the show,

43:03

I'd love to know what those

43:05

initial ones were. But content? For

43:08

Disney! But remember four years ago,

43:10

warning there's three white guys. Exactly,

43:12

and there was this woman, there

43:14

was this woman who was in

43:16

the popular show, the Mandalorian, I

43:19

watched it with our kids, and

43:21

all of a sudden she tweeted

43:23

something that the, that the wokes

43:25

didn't like and so then all

43:27

of it, she's not allowed to

43:29

be on the show anymore. She

43:32

was a normal, conservative. She was

43:34

a normal American and they ran

43:36

her out for that. They're also

43:38

saying they're going to evaluate executive

43:40

compensation, executive compensation with a new,

43:43

strategy. Hold on, but it's mind-boggling.

43:45

A talent strategy. You know what?

43:47

I'm running a business. I'm considering,

43:49

guys, just hold on. I'm considering

43:51

how we can make money. Whether

43:53

or not this person has talent.

43:56

Yeah. I know it's edgy. Yeah.

43:58

But that's, that might be the

44:00

way we head with this. Yeah,

44:02

we're going to find good people.

44:04

What do you think? Do you

44:07

think that's, I mean, too much?

44:09

I mean, that's the thing is

44:11

like. Evolutionary. It had gotten to

44:13

this point where you have massive

44:15

companies like Disney, massive companies like

44:18

Disney, who had had this cool

44:20

aid that they drank, that made

44:22

them think that, number one, let's

44:24

not try to make the best

44:26

business outcome. Who here is trying

44:28

to make money? We're a company,

44:31

guys. What are you thinking? And

44:33

then to be like, why don't

44:35

we try to make sure that

44:37

the person who gets a job

44:39

is not the most qualified? Right?

44:42

Just that it won't trigger a

44:44

trigger warning ahead of our programming.

44:46

Oh no, there's been three way

44:48

people sided during the filming of

44:50

this TV show. And now they're

44:52

like, this is, for it to

44:55

be considered a bold step that

44:57

we're going to try to make

44:59

our shareholders money, we're going to

45:01

try to make our movies to

45:03

actually make money. They're like, this

45:06

is a radical change. Everyone, please

45:08

grab your seat. It's the second

45:10

point. We're going to hire people

45:12

based on merit. It's mind-blowing. That's

45:14

how crazy a period that Americans

45:16

have endured, that businesses have endured.

45:19

I mean, good for them. Honestly,

45:21

I want to see this across

45:23

the board. I want every company

45:25

to be able to publicly say,

45:27

listen. the bad times are over.

45:30

If you're a qualified person, guess

45:32

what? You get a job. And

45:34

if you're a business, you're a

45:36

lot to try and make money.

45:38

Yeah, I don't think people understand

45:40

how pervasive and insidious all of

45:43

this was and how organized it

45:45

was. There are these non-profits, these,

45:47

you know, NGOs and groups that

45:49

raise millions of dollars, a lot

45:51

of them grants, you know, from

45:54

USAID and other things, that then

45:56

put pressure on the HR departments

45:58

of these large corporations. to sign

46:00

pledges on things, whether

46:02

that's ESG or DEI or

46:04

what have you. Shakedown racket.

46:07

And what you got was

46:09

the HRification of the entire

46:11

company. And nobody can really

46:13

go to HR with a

46:15

complaint about HR, right? Right. No,

46:18

you can't. And the funny thing

46:20

is, I think on the

46:22

right, as our... whole party

46:24

has become more working class,

46:26

there has become a misperception

46:29

about corporate America. Corporate America

46:31

is and always will be

46:33

entirely where the business is.

46:35

They are not concerned about what

46:38

you believe. They are not

46:40

concerned about what you think.

46:42

They're marketing products for you

46:44

to buy that they think

46:46

have value and they think

46:48

you'll enjoy. And they're going

46:50

to go wherever the culture

46:52

is, no matter what, where this

46:54

took a turn, is when a shakedown

46:57

racket appeared, where they could

46:59

corrupt a media that provided

47:01

a direct info to you,

47:03

the consumer. there was a

47:05

negative connotation on their company if

47:07

they didn't pay the toll. Yep. And

47:09

that's where DEI came in. If

47:12

you didn't incorporate a DEI program,

47:14

there was an entire ecosystem, a

47:17

cottage industry, boycotts, that had a

47:19

direct access to the New

47:21

York Times, the Washington Post,

47:23

the Associated Press, all your

47:25

local news, everything you're seeing.

47:27

Protest outside your headquarters. They

47:30

would talk about big questions

47:32

arise. HQ. HQ. HQ. And they're

47:34

wondering whether or not they have your

47:36

best interests at heart. And that's

47:38

why they started to do this, right?

47:40

It wasn't like a cultural shift. It

47:43

felt like one. It really felt really

47:45

successful. It was really successful. It

47:47

was really successful. Yeah, but there's

47:49

no difference between what they did and

47:52

what the mafia does to run a

47:54

protection. There is no difference. No difference.

47:56

Except that in this case, some of

47:58

it was funded by people. listening to

48:01

this show without their consent. Yeah.

48:03

So anyway, but that's another reason

48:05

why you got to keep at

48:07

it, right? Trump is doing great

48:10

things. Doosh, all this stuff. I

48:12

can't say I am like over

48:14

the moon about the way that

48:16

this first three and a half

48:19

weeks have gone, and you should

48:21

be too. But you gotta stay

48:23

plugged in. Because these folks, you

48:25

can look at these rallies, dude.

48:28

Look what they're trying to do.

48:30

They are going to, at some

48:32

point, latch in to another shakedown

48:34

racket. And you just have to

48:36

say, no, I'm not doing it.

48:39

Like you just have to be

48:41

steadfast as a good, like I

48:43

know that this is not something,

48:45

you've got lives, you've got softball

48:48

practice, soccer practice, you got all

48:50

this stuff. But this is why

48:52

you got to pay attention to

48:54

this stuff because we kind of

48:57

took our eye off the ball

48:59

for three and a half years

49:01

while they built this thing. And

49:03

the next thing you know, every

49:05

institution in America was just shoving

49:08

a quota system down our throat.

49:10

That's crazy. Yeah. It's wild that

49:12

it can happen in this country,

49:14

but it did. Anyway. Wolf gave

49:17

me the actual, you know, and

49:19

I asked what the content thing

49:21

was, like that they're now removing.

49:23

Oh, and Disney? Yeah, this is

49:26

what, this is what it is.

49:28

They had a content advisory disclaimer

49:30

on some of the show, like

49:32

Dumbo, and Peter Pan, the cartoons?

49:35

Yeah, that they warned that it,

49:37

quote, includes negative depictions and or

49:39

mistreatment of peoples or cultures. Okay.

49:41

Dumbo. Okay. It might offend, what

49:43

is it, the child donkeys who

49:46

are getting drunk and smoking cigars

49:48

in dumbo? Like, really? Like, child

49:50

donkeys? You remember them? Yeah. Was

49:52

it, like, island where they're all

49:55

just being back in? Well, they're

49:57

just trying to have a good

49:59

time? might as well play a

50:01

game. Yeah, play a game. Let's

50:04

do it. King of the Hill,

50:06

it's Thursday. We got to get

50:08

to it. Our defending champion is

50:10

Holmes. Yeah. With the ultimate cheat

50:13

code, Sherry Jacobus. I think I'm

50:15

going for what the chiefs couldn't

50:17

accomplish. It's the three p? Yeah.

50:19

Going for it. And Ashbrook, you

50:21

have our challenger. Joe Walsh. Joe

50:24

Walsh. Smoking Joe Walsh. Okay, and

50:26

smug your judge and I'm bailiff.

50:28

That's right. Ladies

50:32

and gentlemen, your attention,

50:35

please. It's time for

50:37

king of the hip.

50:39

In the red corner,

50:41

fighting from who knows

50:44

where? Smoking Joe Walsh!

50:46

And now, in the

50:48

blue corner, fighting from

50:50

her on Twitter account

50:53

and Kirk, champion of

50:55

the world. Tommy Cherry

50:57

Jacobas! It's so good

50:59

every time. Seriously. And

51:01

he gives a little

51:04

more when he's playing.

51:06

Yeah, he throws a

51:08

little, there's a little

51:10

more diaphragm to it.

51:13

He projects. Yeah, no,

51:15

it's great. Okay, you're

51:17

our defending champion. So

51:19

I will go. I'm

51:22

gonna call up exhibit

51:24

three. Exhibit 3

51:26

is shared Jacoba saying simply,

51:28

it's hard to say goodbye,

51:30

but there's no denying that

51:32

your Maga friends are no

51:35

basically Nazis. Good God. She

51:37

always takes it to 11.

51:39

Nazi. She only has nine.

51:41

She just has one speed.

51:43

It's just not fair. It's

51:45

just so good. It's like,

51:47

yeah, no, they might vote

51:49

a little differently on fiscal

51:52

policy or they may exterminate

51:54

11 million people. Yeah. She

51:56

just, she has one. One

51:58

speed. That's why she's unfair

52:00

in this game. I mean,

52:02

like, the first few words,

52:04

you're like, where's this going?

52:06

It's hard to say goodbye.

52:09

And she's like, but you

52:11

have to abandon all your

52:13

friends. They're now Nazis. And

52:15

family, whatever. Where did that

52:17

come? Yeah. All righty. Ashbrook.

52:19

Okay. Spagets. Can we have

52:21

exhibit eight, please? And

52:26

we have Joe Walsh quote tweeting

52:28

himself at almost 11 a.m. on

52:30

February the 11th he says hey

52:32

Maga if you want to get

52:35

rid of the Constitution have the

52:37

balls to say so. And when

52:39

I'll tell you smoke and Joe

52:42

is we do we have big

52:44

balls. Is that a video he

52:46

has there? That's what it looks

52:48

like it's a one minute 31

52:51

second video of himself. that he

52:53

is that he's promoting a podcast

52:55

and offering for his his followers.

52:58

Yeah, it's important. I like it.

53:00

Well, there's I mean, that's a

53:02

good note. No doubt. I think

53:05

it might appeal a bit more

53:07

to Duncan who's if Duncan were

53:09

judge. He's a big fan of

53:11

like misuse of the internet self-promotion

53:14

kind of nonsense, but I just

53:16

can't get over. Yes, she has

53:18

one speed and it's always 11,

53:21

but to be like... It's hard

53:23

to say goodbye to all your

53:25

friends. Be a shut-in. It's just

53:27

you, the cats, in a bomb

53:30

shelter. Your friends are all Nazis

53:32

now. They're Nazis. I gotta give

53:34

round one. Every Democrat the country

53:37

is Anne Frank. Yeah. You know,

53:39

I mean, what a wild, what

53:41

a wild thing. Hope you got

53:44

a nuke there, Ashbrook. Okay, exhibit

53:46

13 from Joe Walsh. And Joe

53:48

writes helpfully. I'll be on sub

53:50

stack with the cost of this

53:53

afternoon at 4 p.m. Eastern. Come

53:55

on over to sub stack and

53:57

check it out at the quote.

54:00

Jim Acosta show, close quote, while

54:02

you're there, hit me up with

54:04

a subscribe. And then he has

54:06

his sub stack, social contract with

54:09

Joe Walsh, front slash subscribe. I

54:11

love that. I appreciate it. The

54:13

self-promotion is great. You know, I

54:16

feel a little guilty though. Come

54:18

on. You think you've got a

54:20

nuke? Yeah. He has a nuke.

54:23

I just feel guilty about it.

54:25

I don't think you do. Not

54:27

at all. I don't. Because 30

54:29

minutes after her take about how

54:32

all Trump supporters are Nazis, she

54:34

had exhibit four. The only Nazi,

54:36

the good Nazi is a dead

54:39

Nazi. Geez. So when she was

54:41

saying it's time to say goodbye

54:43

to your friends, she didn't mean

54:45

just like, via text. No, she

54:48

may kill them. You

54:50

know, and I don't want to,

54:52

you know, color the opinion of

54:54

the esteemed judge here, but I

54:56

appreciate that Holmes provided the 30-minute

54:58

context there, which I think makes

55:00

the take even better. Yeah, because

55:03

it's, they're meant to be together.

55:05

She knew what she was, her

55:07

suggestion is. kill your friends. Yeah.

55:09

Like let's not make a mistake

55:11

here. Like Ashbrook, yeah, that's pretty

55:13

nutty being like, yeah, I'm gonna

55:15

be on with Acosta already, this

55:17

is gonna be a trash heap.

55:20

And then he's like, but also,

55:22

send me some money. Yeah. Normally,

55:24

that's like a solid play. But

55:26

to be like, everybody kill your

55:28

friends. You can't beat the Queen.

55:30

I hate to do this. It's

55:32

a second round knockout. Oh my

55:34

God. Doing. Who will end the

55:37

reign of Sherry? Doing what the

55:39

chiefs couldn't. Good God. I think

55:41

if we just feel your friends,

55:43

that's a you take. No, honestly,

55:45

the funny thing is I didn't

55:47

want it because last week I

55:49

literally thought it was the worst

55:51

one that I've ever heard in

55:54

this show and we talked about

55:56

it. And I don't like to

55:58

be hyperbolic about King of the

56:00

Hill. because King of the Hill,

56:02

like, you get great stuff. It's

56:04

hard to say this is the

56:06

worst. Yeah. Kill your friends. Yeah.

56:08

I think we just got to

56:10

find her one single friend. Just

56:13

one other human friend. And then

56:15

maybe she will stop posting so

56:17

much crazy shit. I mean, it's

56:19

tough to get friends when you're

56:21

like, there's a 50-50 chance. I'll

56:23

just kill you. I might ace

56:25

you. Oh man. Well I appreciate

56:27

it. Good game. Good game nevertheless.

56:30

I'll talk to you to play

56:32

another day with Sherry M. Sherry.

56:34

Bad news folks. Bad news. This

56:36

is the only piece of bad

56:38

news that we have on the

56:40

program. Oh I hate to hear

56:42

it. There's a convenience store chain

56:44

that's near and dear to the

56:47

hearts of many of our listeners

56:49

in the middle of the country.

56:51

Come and go. Yes. It's...

56:53

It's a K, yeah. It announced, according

56:55

to the New York Post, that dozens

56:58

of come and go convenience stores across

57:00

several states are about to be rebranded.

57:02

In my view, a massive mistake. My

57:04

mother listens to this. I can't believe

57:06

we're covering this. So there are reactions

57:08

my mother listens to this. Apologize to

57:11

my mother. But I do have a

57:13

question. Are you saying they're just pulling

57:15

out of the original branding? Oh my

57:17

God! You apologize to us mom. I

57:19

simply read what Wolf provided me. No,

57:22

it turns out. It's a real question.

57:24

I don't know if you guys have

57:26

had this experience, but like, you know,

57:28

coming goes. They're not everywhere. But if

57:30

I'm in a town and I see

57:33

a come and go, I try to

57:35

go in every single time. You're like,

57:37

I'm gonna come. Do not come. No,

57:39

it's- Because you want to show that

57:41

receipt to your buddies? You do, because

57:44

then you'll, yeah, exactly. You'll take a

57:46

picture of the receipt and send it

57:48

to your boys and be like, look

57:50

where I'm at. Yeah. And that's, you

57:52

know, for the women listening to this,

57:54

it's just simply the fact that we

57:57

could be 80, we could be 40.

57:59

We're all still 12 in our hearts.

58:01

It turns out it's gonna be completed

58:03

by the summer of 25, the work

58:05

is a continuation since come and go

58:08

is acquired by Utah-based, there you go.

58:10

Oh, okay. Utah-based company, yeah, I mean,

58:12

they got morals and stuff, this company,

58:14

Maverick, they're like, we can't have it.

58:16

I'm just I'm pleading with the good

58:19

people of Marrick. Listen, you don't know

58:21

what you have. You don't know what

58:23

you have here. Come and go? So

58:25

can stay. Are you seeing the background?

58:27

Oh my God. It says the... Wait,

58:29

no, the background right here, are you

58:32

seeing this? The company was founded in

58:34

1959 by TSGental. Gentle's come and go,

58:36

like... How do you find this, you

58:38

see? Did you hear Ashbrooks? No, I

58:40

wasn't paying attention. I was looking, there's

58:43

a guy named Gentle who started this.

58:45

No, I get that, but he said

58:47

you could come and go or you

58:49

couldn't, so can stay. Oh my God.

58:51

Yeah. He was trying to do a

58:54

Utah thing there. That's outrageous. I won't

58:56

stand for it. Regional humor. Regional humor.

58:58

You're from the area you know exactly

59:00

what we're talking about. You're probably offended

59:02

by the whole segment, frankly. But I

59:05

apologize to Duncan's mother that was just

59:07

a control thing. What are we supposed

59:09

to do with that? You know, it's

59:11

a story. It's New York Post. Outender

59:13

Hamilton started the publication for Crying Out

59:15

Loud. You got to cover it. Yeah,

59:18

yeah, that's an important publication. All right,

59:20

so just remember, we have a question

59:22

of the day and you got to

59:24

get involved. You got to like and

59:26

subscribe. We're almost to 100,000 and this

59:29

is the only way this poor man

59:31

gets a pla. is if you get,

59:33

if you just do it for us.

59:35

Do it for Smug's living room, if

59:37

nothing else. It's a, you know, I

59:40

understand it could use the law. It's

59:42

going right on the mantle. You could

59:44

use a little something. Yeah, it needs

59:46

it. Yeah. So the question is for

59:48

next Tuesday, in the moment of darkness,

59:50

what's the best troll to make the

59:53

experience the Democrats are having even worse?

59:55

How to twist a knife? How can

59:57

you twist a knife? Listen, we got

59:59

a lot of fans that are in

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the press office over in the White

1:00:04

House. that may take your suggestions very

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My understanding is that we're going to

1:00:17

provide some new offerings. We've had some

1:00:19

great ideas about new offerings lately that

1:00:21

I think are going to blow your

1:00:23

mind. I can't wait for this one.

1:00:26

Yeah, there's one. There's one in particular

1:00:28

that it's fantastic. Hopefully we'll be able

1:00:30

to announce that next week. And then

1:00:32

remember for those of you who are

1:00:34

listening, they're going to be joining us

1:00:36

for the live show next week. Thank

1:00:39

you for buying tickets. I'm sorry we

1:00:41

don't have a bigger venue. Again sold

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out very very quickly and we're sorry

1:00:45

about that. We wish we could, you

1:00:47

know, just do this for thousands, but

1:00:50

we got, you know, we did this

1:00:52

in two weeks notice. We want to

1:00:54

like put it together together quickly. There's

1:00:56

going to be some great guests. People

1:00:58

that have held a line of formulated

1:01:01

the vision of roofless they've been on

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you know them I'm not going to

1:01:05

give any hints, but you will be

1:01:07

surprising you will love every minute of

1:01:09

it But also No, this isn't our

1:01:11

last one. We're actually going to pick

1:01:14

up the cadence. Yeah We're going to

1:01:16

pick up the cadence. We're going to

1:01:18

do this a little bit more. We're

1:01:20

going to get back out there. We

1:01:22

did like, I felt like our 2021,

1:01:25

or 2021 rather, cadence was really good.

1:01:27

And then, you know, we sort of

1:01:29

fell off a little bit. We're going

1:01:31

to get back into like a full

1:01:33

cadence. You're going to get these all

1:01:36

the time. So stay tuned, we're going

1:01:38

to keep providing opportunities. to

1:01:40

do all all that,

1:01:42

think we did it.

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I think think so. it.

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I banger of an

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episode, gentlemen. an Again,

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thank you so

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much to our listeners.

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have not yet,

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the faith, hold the

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line and own the

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faith. Hold We'll see

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you on Tuesday. own the

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Stay We'll see on Tuesday. Stay

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ruthless.