The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Anchormen with Matt Gaetz & Dan Ball ｜ Episode 2

00:00:00.000 now it's time for the anchorman podcast with matt gates and dan ball

00:00:11.340 welcome to the anchorman show i'm matt gates alongside my good friend dan ball we both

00:00:18.880 host programs here on one american news you can catch real america at eight o'clock eastern five

00:00:23.300 o'clock pacific and the matt gates show nine o'clock eastern six pacific a nice little chaser

00:00:27.480 to real america and this is a program where we just invite the country into our friendship so

00:00:32.740 how's your week been dan uh it's been busy you know that uh the wife and i bought a new house

00:00:37.740 here in southern california so it's been busy working covering all the amazing things that

00:00:42.120 the trump administration's doing then going home unboxing unpacking cleaning things it's a it's

00:00:48.460 about a 50 year old 40 some year old house so and the folks that built it and lived in it for those

00:00:53.280 46 years didn't update much or change much so we have a lot to do but you're doing the same thing

00:00:58.700 everybody's doing in the trump white house they're all like showing up unpacking uh doing a little

00:01:04.100 update here and there and so there's two ways to move one way is you just go all at it you get

00:01:09.880 everything there you unpack everything all at once and then like after two days everything is perfect

00:01:14.760 i am the other kind of move where you just get everything in the house and then you know when you

00:01:19.560 unpack stuff when you need it well i would love to have said that my wife and i could have done that

00:01:25.420 we're doing a little of both we tried to move everything within about a two-day period um that

00:01:31.380 didn't work uh for folks that live in an area that has moisture you heard of those things called

00:01:35.940 termites yeah so we had to wait until it's the state bird in florida it's the termite i thought it

00:01:41.300 was the mosquito down there yeah they share they're horrible have you enjoyed no mosquitoes out here in

00:01:45.980 sokel it's so weird when you go back and forth it's weird isn't it yeah nice not to have bugs and

00:01:49.400 critters you don't even have snakes here do you oh yes we do rattlesnakes matt they'll kill you

00:01:54.060 we know we have every poisonous snake in florida it's true and lizards and crocodiles and alligators

00:01:59.340 and every damn thing anyway so you're unpacking your stuff so we're unpacking the stuff and uh we knew 0.67

00:02:06.840 ahead of time we had to tent the home this happened just about the time those santa anas whipped up the 0.97

00:02:12.120 fires up in la oh that's amazing so what you built was a giant kite well so those winds tore up la with

00:02:19.340 the fires a week later they moved down here to san diego the day they put the tent on it literally

00:02:24.380 85 on our winds ripped it blew it it was smack in the house damaging tile and stuff and so they're

00:02:29.260 like we gotta wait a week for the winds then we'll retent so that backed us moving in another week 0.65

00:02:34.360 that was during the inauguration we were in dc we get back and now here we are trying to find

00:02:39.840 everything did you do the big purge that comes with that like whenever i've moved the best part

00:02:45.640 is that purge where you start to see all of your stuff like in a dumpster or on the way out it's

00:02:50.880 like how do we live with all that there's a cleansing how do you live with all your crap well in my case 0.50

00:02:55.600 too much crap in my case it's mostly my wife throwing out the clothes that she never wants to 1.00

00:03:00.840 see me in again like somehow i don't have a single pair of cargo shorts that survive a move there's 0.97

00:03:07.060 something hyper non-resilient about the bigger point of what you just said was why do you still

00:03:11.120 have cargo shorts matt do cargo shorts are amazing you're anti-cargo short bro i haven't had cargo

00:03:15.740 shorts for like 15 20 i would they are so versatile but you there you can put anything in them they're

00:03:22.120 not flattering i don't like cargo shorts oh man i don't do cargo shorts you are the see you i don't

00:03:27.820 do cargo pants anymore my wife wears cargo pants because now they're hip and cool these big baggy ones and 1.00

00:03:33.180 then they tie the waist with a string my daughter does it too have you seen this they're gonna use

00:03:37.380 a belt they get oversized cargo pants and they tie a string around their waist is it some sort of

00:03:42.400 pirate motif okay producers find it get a shot up they do i don't know it's a thing now it's that is

00:03:48.540 so weird kids do it i'm 50 i don't do hip stuff but i know it because i married a younger woman and

00:03:56.020 i have a 17 year old at home ah you got it you got it from every angle so you're obviously going to

00:04:00.480 be hosting a big super bowl party since you've got the new crib right you know why does everybody keep

00:04:04.380 blowing me up for that are you looking for a party i i get invited to very few of them these days but

00:04:10.020 i will i will tell you that uh is that because you came to work here i don't know no uh i think that

00:04:16.840 the super bowl is like the closest thing we have to a national religion actually it's it everybody kind

00:04:24.120 of stops and has this cultural moment together so are you a big like super bowl guy do you do the

00:04:30.120 the like making of the apps and the everybody wears their team uniforms or do you just kind of

00:04:35.560 let the moment moment go by i put it up on all the tvs make a bunch of great food have a bunch of

00:04:40.820 booze and then people come in some are going to want to watch some are going to want to bs

00:04:45.620 the ladies probably i'm going to get in trouble for this one might just want to see the commercials 1.00

00:04:50.460 and not even watch no no the year that adam levine did the shirtless halftime performance that was

00:04:56.800 for the ladies that was the nfl looking to expand to their female audience i'm guessing 1.00

00:05:01.800 but but my wife is all about the appetizer scene she's got to have just the right casserole dish 1.00

00:05:09.560 she's got to have the bean dip the nachos is she like the smoky little weenies 1.00

00:05:14.200 in the sauce oh you thought we're still talking about the super bowl um was that a bad segue

00:05:20.920 uh i think i thought scott wiener i think she actually likes the the bigger brats i think that 0.75

00:05:27.060 the the brats and like the beer cheese is probably the way she goes and it's not even a metaphor i was

00:05:31.800 gonna say something no no my wife like we have to keep this at least at a pg-13 level to be able to 1.00

00:05:37.300 put us down all right so so you don't know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna use the smoker i saw something

00:05:41.400 on ig the other day yeah i'm gonna use the smoker uh and take the brisket or whatever with the cheese

00:05:47.520 you mix up the dip ahead of time throw it in the traeger for two three hours smoke your queso brisket

00:05:54.360 dip why do you want cheese to taste smoky taste better does i have you well i don't know man smoked

00:06:02.820 cheese i mean i've like accidentally maybe dropped like a cigarette ash in the cheese and that's not so

00:06:08.520 good so i can't imagine why you would want to actually go smoke i actually i'm quite animated

00:06:12.700 about this subject i think smoking cheese is a way to ruin it i i want the rawest cheese you can get

00:06:17.740 i want the creamy unpasteurized stinky old stuff yeah yeah i love it smoke it it it gets a hard

00:06:24.440 consistency that's the pairing cheese and wine but on super bowl yeah you can't have wine with the

00:06:28.960 super bowl you're not breaking out exactly you're not french breaking out some aged uh greer 1.00

00:06:34.360 right no right or some aged blue cheese and then having with a nice cabernet sauvignon or a

00:06:39.860 salve blanc no you're drinking beers you're doing shots and you have messy cheese dip do you get a

00:06:45.580 little smoky wieners do you bet on the super bowl not even like the game but stuff like the are we

00:06:50.100 allowed to say that on this show can we talk about gambling well like just with your buddy not like

00:06:54.400 you know but i mean like would you would you bet 10 bucks on the coin flip or which team scores a

00:06:59.620 touchdown first sure or i'll throw a little stuff in every now and then yeah not a lot not a lot

00:07:04.460 yeah microphone dropping here i feel like i messed something up i'm gonna move this up uh i i think

00:07:10.480 back to like the iconic halftime shows there was the nip slip oh yes that was a big one who by the 0.99

00:07:16.260 way who's doing this year's i totally zoned out i think we get beyonce who's the big name say this

00:07:20.920 year i think does anybody know producers and it's kendrick lamar is performing are you positive about

00:07:27.080 trust anyone with two first names kendrick lamar um can we talk about beyonce though because you

00:07:33.140 know i'm a huge country fan you and i have some good friends that are in the country music industry

00:07:37.120 and i can tell you and i won't throw them under the bus but they probably wouldn't care but a lot

00:07:42.000 of these good old country boys that i know pretty pissed off that beyonce got that grammy their night

00:07:46.640 i'm sorry but you come on the scene and you make some poppy rocky sounding something that has a

00:07:51.320 little bit of country twang and then you're winning the grammys over experienced actual country

00:07:58.000 artists who make good country music i don't care what anybody says about me say whatever you want

00:08:03.160 call me the r word he's racist no no coffee anderson is a good friend of mine that's a black country

00:08:10.740 artist i love his music he's been singing country for years he deserves an award beyonce sorry you 0.99

00:08:17.800 don't deserve shit my opinion even in those like daisy dukes she wears no i don't want to see 0.96

00:08:24.240 beyonce and daisy dukes i don't care and the music didn't sound country to me but it's not does her 0.99

00:08:28.860 music sound okay but like you don't okay wouldn't you agree that that's a critique that's been leveled

00:08:32.760 against different innovations in country music i'm just going to be a contrarian here for the sake

00:08:36.300 of right you had the george jones like electric guitar stuff and when they saw hank williams

00:08:44.280 jr come on the scene it was my favorite artist by the way by the way i mean hank williams jr

00:08:48.980 literally wrote him when he came on yeah he wrote the song family tradition about the fact that people

00:08:54.000 rejected him yeah but that but they didn't think so the old timers like the gene autries and the 0.99

00:08:59.020 marty rob hammer now no but it it shows that country has been on this trajectory basically to pop

00:09:06.640 for quite some time you had uh after bocephus you know uh aggrieved everyone with his presentation

00:09:12.900 of country music then like the tim mcgraw garth brooks guys people got criticized for it too poppy

00:09:18.520 and our buddy john rich they said that save a horse ride a cowboy one of the great you know country

00:09:23.500 songs one of the guys i'm mentioning was too rad beyonce probably should have won that award so

00:09:27.820 what replaces beyonce some like uh you know uh ai robot that sings us country songs that we want to

00:09:34.500 you know i i just think when you when you listen to the current country artists i'm not talking about

00:09:37.680 the old school ones and they even say that the industry is trying to shape and reform and remold

00:09:45.240 what country music is and stands for i think that the artists that are current right now and the fans

00:09:51.480 don't want that and you say well but the grammys prove no the grammys didn't prove otherwise

00:09:55.600 because is that a fan-based voting system did you and i get to say i think beyonce's entertainer

00:10:00.080 the year i think beyonce had the best country album out there no the fans didn't vote and let's be

00:10:04.700 real i know you saw the article that her very wealthy hubs and her were paying a lot of the 1.00

00:10:10.360 radio stations to pump that music out there even more so was that a player for hate don't hate the

00:10:16.800 player dan i'm just saying was that a bought and paid for a grammy or was it earned honestly because

00:10:21.580 the fans loved the music well i don't think so if there was a vote you sound off on x we would

00:10:26.360 have voted differently on the daisy dukes for sure so so you're doing you're doing the is guac one of

00:10:31.500 your go-tos for the super bowl it's one of my i make a mean guac you know it's a healthy fat we

00:10:36.840 should be eating more avocado um so true i do i do the guac as long as i've got sour cream and salsa

00:10:43.360 i'm a condiments guy i like sloppy messy everything if you're doing nachos pile all three on that i'm

00:10:49.780 gonna wear a poncho to dan paul's uh super bowl party you have ready for all the dips it gets sloppy

00:10:54.240 i'm a messy eater uh the trade policies now with mexico actually threaten the avocado game

00:11:01.320 and i am worried about the white woman revolt if the price of avocados goes up oh my god like they've 1.00

00:11:08.860 right they've had to endure the egg price we've all had to endure the egg price going up but i i don't

00:11:15.140 know that uh white women in this country can withstand an avocado shortage you think they'll 1.00

00:11:20.200 turn on trump if he if he keeps this tariff i told him that i told him how does go to 10 bucks a piece

00:11:25.740 i was like mr president they will the blood will be running in the streets if there's not an avocado

00:11:31.560 toast brunch available but wait a second you're from florida yeah okay doesn't florida and i know

00:11:36.960 california where i've lived for years don't we have a large avocado industry because just north of san

00:11:42.080 diego in the fall brook temecula area there are dozens and dozens of avocado ranches why are we

00:11:48.500 buying everything from mexico anyway mexico dumps cheap avocados into u.s markets and they have really

00:11:55.900 overtaken american avocados as a consequence of nafta and they get benefited from usmca on that as

00:12:03.420 well and you're right i mean california probably produces legitimately like the best consumer fresh

00:12:09.880 fruit product florida we've got the larger avocados um and and they don't they don't that's not what

00:12:16.300 retail wants retail actually wants you to buy the smaller avocado because then you're getting the the

00:12:22.400 bigger seed and less meat and so you'll buy more of them and they charge by the weight and so it's a

00:12:28.280 smart i know too much about avocados my wife used to be in the avocado business uh and which is why you 1.00

00:12:34.760 think white women will revolt if avocados go up she's one of them your wife's told you she she will 1.00

00:12:39.380 be leading the insurrection the avocado insurrection ginger lucky gates will be at the front of okay so

00:12:45.780 wait a minute let's go back to this because everything in in mexico is controlled by the

00:12:50.040 cartel let's be real i mean you can't get stuff in and out and i don't care if they're saying oh no

00:12:55.640 no the military's there police are there government officials are there all three of them are either on

00:13:00.520 the take or they're being threatened by the cartel like here's a picture of your family we'll kill

00:13:05.900 them so do what we tell you to do so why and how can we even do any business down there anymore and 0.98

00:13:11.680 i'm so glad trump made them a terrorist group doesn't that mean we can just go in and take them

00:13:15.600 out yeah but then what happens next in mexico i don't know maybe they try to actually have a

00:13:21.060 legitimate government that isn't corrupt as hell and help their people yeah i don't know wow what a

00:13:26.860 novel idea mexico i think the problem with that is the mexicans principally i don't know that they're

00:13:34.160 in a position to have an honest government that isn't completely captive by the narcos and it's sad

00:13:39.920 because the people there deserve better they do than they're getting but like nieto when he was

00:13:45.240 president took a hundred million dollar bribe from sinaloa so you've got to ask yourself like the

00:13:50.200 guys who've come since nieto do you think they weren't offered the bribe or do you think they didn't

00:13:54.980 take it that's my point when i listen to this claudia shine bomb the new president of mexico 1.00

00:13:59.160 how do you get elected with that last name in mexico that's what i'm wondering get elected with

00:14:02.680 that last name in miami-dade county yeah but you could get elected in mexico the last name shine

00:14:07.900 bomb what do you make of her she's got to be on the take um well we saw her fold just like trudeau 0.72

00:14:14.900 in this last week right true it was oh nope stuff's gonna go up from canada mexico coming to america

00:14:20.520 because president trump's threatening these tariffs and then within 24 hours i think of threatening

00:14:24.440 them with the tariffs they both sent thousands of troops to both borders to help close the border

00:14:29.180 down and the tariffs are on hold for 30 days hey makes you wonder what we're going to get in the

00:14:33.680 next 30 i love the fact that trump is like titrating out the threats so that so that he can get these

00:14:39.800 banked deliverables that will actually save the lives of americans but i hear that she is more of a

00:14:46.260 like a puppet of amlo who was the president before and that he's really kind of the socialist

00:14:52.360 godfather of that political scene very anti-american and at the end of the day they they know where

00:14:59.840 their bread's buttered and it is the most sophisticated cartel system in the world and it still operates

00:15:07.400 largely out of u.s prisons that's a crazy thing that we've allowed for too long the communications

00:15:14.540 in u.s prisons particularly in southern california allow the mexican mafia to call shots for ms-13 to the 0.55

00:15:21.920 extent that ms-13 is an ongoing concern and it's pretty messed up like we could stop all communication

00:15:28.140 out of u.s prisons but it means you got to shut down some of the cell service and you know there'll

00:15:32.560 be some nimbys who'd be mad about it so do you think that's one of the reasons now that you're 0.97

00:15:37.040 saying this out loud and i'm thinking about this is this one of the reasons that trump was smart in

00:15:41.800 saying we're going to expand the capacity at gitmo not only for the worst of the worst of the 15 million

00:15:48.540 that jojo let in over the last four years but then we can extricate some of these real bad hombres in

00:15:54.340 our prison system send them down there where the marines run it and we don't need cell service so

00:15:59.340 they can be communicating with their boys on what to do anymore i think that's exactly right lock them

00:16:03.680 up and gitmo i think you nailed it and i think that the the gitmo thing showcases trump's orientation

00:16:11.400 and what's going on as an actual invasion if you view it as just a regulatory process by which you have

00:16:17.280 to ascertain asylum or not asylum then i don't think you activate the gitmo solution the gitmo

00:16:23.660 solution says we're being invaded and we're not going to house the invaders in your neighborhood when

00:16:28.460 we don't know very much about them and far too many of them are causing americans to lose their loved

00:16:33.600 ones and to suffer other unnecessary pressures and i actually think it's also a big part of the deterrent

00:16:40.040 like you notice that just in weeks trump has driven down the encounters at the border by like

00:16:47.160 35 percent probably in a month you know in a couple weeks more that'll be down by half and more because

00:16:52.660 they know the there's no real incentive to come here and stay forever uh and it used to be the way

00:16:58.900 with catch and release so if you end catch and release they get the joke and they're not going to

00:17:03.920 just keep shuttling buses of people here to turn themselves in and say let me go i i'm in fear

00:17:09.420 yeah have you found going back and forth now between the states you have to see the massive

00:17:15.860 differences i'm sure yeah you say yeah more than the mosquitoes for yeah uh there's other blood

00:17:23.260 suckers here in california i'm more worried about florida versus california matt let's have a discussion

00:17:29.180 on the massive differences whether it's food the people crime government i mean we travel down a 0.92

00:17:37.440 lot my wife and i do you know that we've seen you guys down there and we always comment one on the

00:17:42.180 people my daughter noticed it even we were down there uh getting married in october uh at mar-a-lago

00:17:47.480 and we were there for almost a week leading up to it and my 17 year old looks at my my wife and

00:17:52.460 goes have you noticed um the people are a lot nicer when you talk to them and i'm like and again i'm not

00:17:58.820 going all californians in the bus i've been out here for like two three decades uh i love it for

00:18:03.320 some reasons and hate it for others it's a love-hate relationship but she's like they just

00:18:08.100 seem happier they they want to talk to you even if you're a complete stranger she's like dad if we're

00:18:13.180 in san diego or god forbid la we never go to or anywhere it's like people don't want to make eye

00:18:17.940 contact if you want to ask them a question or talk to them or ask directions they act they act put out

00:18:22.760 or they're rude to you but in florida she was like people are nice you go into a fast food you go into a

00:18:28.300 gas station you go into whatever and they talk to you they'll help you they're kind and i'm like well

00:18:33.940 different people freedom does that what have you noticed yeah i mean i've lived in florida my whole

00:18:39.580 life and there is a certain collegiality to it and part of that is because most people are from

00:18:45.820 somewhere else it's a good point in a lot of ways florida has become a reward for people for a life

00:18:52.600 well lived elsewhere and so if you're a state of refugees which we really are that's a good point 1.00

00:18:58.760 you know not just refugees midwesterner yeah but you know my wife and i are right i still always say

00:19:03.400 midwesterner is the best no offense you floridians midwest are the salt of the earth we got to deal 0.75

00:19:07.800 with all four seasons you got to work your asses off sometimes it's very flat and plain yet i love 0.52

00:19:13.380 saying i'm a buckeye i'm from ohio i never said i'm from california i'm from ohio and you're right 0.89

00:19:18.100 florida is filled with people who busted their ass somewhere in a harsher state and then moved 0.87

00:19:23.980 to retire or for some sunshine and so i i didn't think about yeah we got the climate refugees we 0.97

00:19:29.200 got the tax refugees covid refugees last couple years covid refugee well we have uh we say we like

00:19:34.720 to say we have political refugees from socialist dictatorships like cuba and venezuela and new york

00:19:40.920 and california yeah those that's where people are fleeing but it does it does cause people to i guess

00:19:46.860 uh forge those friendships uh a lot quicker and in a meaningful way but you know florida we got

00:19:53.040 the better tax policy yep we got the better regulatory prop policy we got the better second

00:19:57.700 amendment policy uh and your governor has better hair so that's all we got to brag about gavin's

00:20:04.260 hair gelled hair wow you just brought up second amendment don't make me go there because you

00:20:08.940 know that's one of my biggest like look for 32 years i've done this job media started in the

00:20:17.200 military grew up on a farm in a small midwest town we had guns and we had our free speech and i watched

00:20:26.100 the local news i thought was telling me the truth so the top two things those old guys in wigs 20 years

00:20:31.100 ago thought were very important i hold very dearly my right for free speech my right for freedom of the 0.97

00:20:36.960 press what we do matt and my right to carry this damn gun to protect myself especially now that 0.79

00:20:43.660 the previous administration allowed 15 million illegals of which what were those numbers again 0.97

00:20:48.980 for a fact 14 000 murderers 13 000 rapists or something like that that's just what we know of

00:20:55.340 out of the 15 million so you know and if i'm not in a freedom loving state like florida or texas

00:21:01.420 where you can constitutional carry or open carry like in the lone star state i think that deters the

00:21:07.600 bad guys here in cali they don't even want you new york they don't want you carrying and so you're

00:21:11.820 like a sitting victim for the bad guys yeah then they know it and they know it that's the problem

00:21:17.720 that's why i wish we had open carry in cali like texas because then i'd be like just big huge

00:21:22.700 six inch barreled 44 magnum i just carry that sucker right there on the hip every day and be like

00:21:28.040 okay try me keeps everybody polite you smashing grabbers try me so i want to delve into what is

00:21:35.860 the right gun policy because there's some different arguments on that yep um we used to be a concealed

00:21:41.580 carry with a permit state and then in florida we went to uh a constitutional carry so you don't have

00:21:49.160 to rent your rights from the government amen but we didn't go open carry and i think the reason the

00:21:55.220 legislature didn't is because there was a lot of opposition from sheriffs and police chiefs who

00:22:02.600 said well if you have open carry and we come on to a situation then we have multiple threats we have

00:22:09.400 to neutralize when people are carrying openly and then there were other people who said well actually

00:22:14.540 conceal carry is better than open carry because then you never really know who has a gun and so

00:22:21.120 you're more likely to uh i guess stay polite or whatever but i worry about even giving that choice

00:22:28.440 to the government like if i had my way i would have almost no gun laws and i would i would leave that to

00:22:33.960 the individual because i think that's where the constitution reposes it but do you think you're safer

00:22:38.380 if you're wearing wearing that gun openly and everyone can see it or like the fact that anyone could

00:22:46.180 be concealed creates more of a safety dynamic well here's the deal let's go to are americans actually

00:22:52.860 following that law and other people carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and just breaking

00:22:57.560 their state law because they feel the constitution is their law it's the law of the land i'm not going

00:23:04.420 to say i know people but obviously i think we all know people who carry without the proper permit

00:23:09.300 because they feel like constitution says it how can some governor or legislature in some state like

00:23:14.360 california tell me and this is how it works here if you ever try to get one here i know i've had one

00:23:18.360 for years in cali you have to jump through hoops you have what like for people that are in freedom

00:23:24.180 states what what do you actually have to do to be able to carry here so in california every two years

00:23:30.200 for your initial one because now i'm on my second i think third renewal or second renewal i've carried

00:23:35.500 for like six years something like that so first time you go in first of all it's a few hundred bucks

00:23:39.360 so you have to pay for your right to do it seems odd you used to have to take an eight hour class i

00:23:44.700 believe now that just got changed to almost a 16 hour class i don't think i did 16 hours of class

00:23:49.400 in four years of college okay um they're about to make the shooting requirements even stricter so

00:23:55.360 you will have to go into the range after you set hours in a classroom on a saturday sunday which most

00:24:00.280 americans do you have eight to 16 hours laying around these days no you're working two jobs to pay all

00:24:04.680 the damn bills since joe biden was in anyway so you spend hours in class you spend hundreds of 0.80

00:24:09.920 dollars then you have to go to the range and you have to qualify well i was just told when i 0.99

00:24:15.200 recalled last year that good old sacramento and newsom are changing the requirements to try and

00:24:21.320 weed out more people to legally carry a concealed gun they're going to make it 25 yards with your pistol

00:24:28.400 shooting within a certain circumference of the bullseye and i believe my trainer told me

00:24:33.780 they're going to make you do it with both hands i'm a dominant lefty i can't do it with the right

00:24:38.260 hand are you kidding me that's like telling a guy when he's well you know where i'm going with that

00:24:41.640 guys anyway my point is they're going to make it harder for you to shoot and qualify they already

00:24:46.740 charge you about 300 some bucks because you have to pay that private class the instructor their money

00:24:52.260 that's a private business then you pay the state the filing fee each county is where you apply with

00:24:57.800 your county sheriff now some county sheriffs like in riverside county my good buddy chad bianco the

00:25:02.400 sheriff there he got rid of the three recommendation letters but in san diego you have to get

00:25:06.860 recommendation letters for a gun you only had to get two recommendation letters for college matt

00:25:11.220 this is what i'm telling you three for a gun they want recommendation who do you even get those i

00:25:15.700 would try to make those as hilarious as possible i would try like do they have to be upstanding

00:25:20.300 member could can like you go to your felon friends and do it well i don't know if they'd like a felon

00:25:24.140 doing it but you can ask anybody could be a boss a co-worker or whatever but yeah they want those

00:25:29.120 three letters recommending but can they come from anyone they can they can like i would get like

00:25:33.120 the menendez brothers and puffy as my three recommendation letters and submit those you

00:25:38.080 also have to do a uh in some counties again because how they issue in california is every county sheriff

00:25:44.360 approves it they usually have a committee or board that oversees it with the sheriff and then they'll

00:25:48.360 sign off besides the three letters you have to do usually like an impact statement paragraph

00:25:52.600 well i need it because this is like college i told this is ridiculous what california makes us do

00:25:59.140 matt not to mention don't forget this state is the state that makes you wait 10 days to buy any gun

00:26:05.620 not just handguns like new york and other states right where the handguns only are the 10 day waiting

00:26:10.580 or cooling off period in case somebody pissed you off the government thinks you might go buy a handgun

00:26:14.780 to shoot them that's asinine but forget that 10 days for any gun matt that means if you want a 0.94

00:26:20.900 little 22 rifle to go target practice or plug some squirrels on your property or something you have to 0.98

00:26:26.180 wait 10 days if i want to transfer a gun to mr matt gates that i've had my family for 40 years you and

00:26:33.080 i have to go to a gun store fill out forms you have to wait 10 days and you have to pay i think a 62

00:26:38.720 fee to get the gun i'm giving you if i just want to give it to you this is how messed up this state is

00:26:44.780 for our second amendment right so letters paragraph weeks of waiting oh i forgot about that part some

00:26:52.420 counties are so backed up there's people waiting 12 to 18 months to get their ccw now let me explain

00:26:58.600 you can get asylum faster well what if what if god forbid some domestically abused woman is like 1.00

00:27:06.020 i need a handgun this psycho's been stalking me i'm gonna get killed no problem 10 days to buy that gun 0.99

00:27:11.940 but your county sheriff doesn't approve your ccw you can't carry it and in 18 months she gets killed 0.98

00:27:16.840 because she can't exercise her right to carry a gun i guess the whole premise behind waiting periods

00:27:21.900 is it's you're cooling off if there's someone you're about to kill cooling off and their background

00:27:25.760 checking you and the gun because if it's a used gun they want to make sure it wasn't using a crime

00:27:30.040 that's the only part i get is they want to clear the gun before you take possession because let's say

00:27:35.320 god forbid i committed a crime with a gun i'm selling you they want to know before then you would

00:27:39.980 have that gun the serial number is attached to you and uh-oh it was committed in a crime five years

00:27:43.980 ago so that's one of the things they say that's why but to me all they're doing is creating a

00:27:48.480 california gun registry because why do i have to register every single gun my dad gives me a gun

00:27:55.120 i i gotta go register that and tell you i have that gun that was in my family for 50 years

00:27:59.500 that's i mean it is ridiculous i totally understand why the state allowed itself to be forcibly

00:28:07.660 masked and locked down you see why you were you were completely captured so let's talk about a

00:28:12.600 topic that's been at the center of political debate ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine two

00:28:17.260 treatments that became a hot topic during the covet 19 pandemic remember when president trump

00:28:21.460 advocated for these treatments stressing the importance of having multiple options in your

00:28:25.500 medical arsenal well here we are 2025 and getting access to these meds is still a battle many doctors

00:28:31.200 are hesitant to prescribe them and most pharmacies won't even carry them that's why i'm telling you

00:28:35.200 about all family pharmacy this is a pharmacy in florida the place of freedom and it's working

00:28:40.240 with doctors who will make sure you get it they prescribe ivermectin hydroxychloroquine

00:28:44.620 menbendazole antibiotics and more so there's no need to waste your time searching for a doctor or

00:28:49.500 waiting in long lines if you want to be ready for anything all family pharmacy has you covered

00:28:55.100 ordered in bulk and have it shipped right to your door stock up now protect your family and visit the

00:29:00.180 new website allfamilypharmacy.com forward slash matt use code matt 10 for 10 off get your order and

00:29:07.660 make sure that you are prepared with all the medications you need yeah big thanks to all

00:29:11.700 family for helping us keep the lights on on the anchorman podcast dang right by the way that's

00:29:15.580 awesome because you and i said this on last week's episode i took all those things when i got covid

00:29:19.900 two three times over the last four or five years and it worked every time never took the jab don't want

00:29:24.900 that mrna in me that stuff works i had a hard time getting hydroxychloroquine i wanted it i had a

00:29:30.020 doctor willing to prescribe it but just getting it was was crazy and it it shows us like the need to be

00:29:35.900 personally resilient politically resilient i mean we saw our boy rfk jr get through that senate committee

00:29:42.740 and that was a big story of the week i think that they hit him harder than anybody so far cash

00:29:48.540 well maybe not anybody they hate well whoops i forgot i was next to matt gates present company

00:29:53.840 excluded but but i would the guy that didn't get confirmed that showed up but we love pam too we

00:29:58.220 do it's gonna be a great age but you're right okay you aside matt the ones that are still in the hot

00:30:02.760 seat i think rfk took the biggest hit because there's senators and house members on both sides

00:30:08.620 of the aisle that love taking that big pharma money and that's why they don't want rfk in there

00:30:12.300 because come on he's going to clean some stuff up and it's not going to be good for big pharma and we

00:30:17.700 know and you know that's one of the biggest contributors to political campaigns forget the

00:30:22.160 old days when i was a kid and they'd say oh the big three in detroit are the powerhouse they'd

00:30:25.760 drive everything in the country no no it ain't the car manufacturing industry anymore it's it's big

00:30:30.440 pharma and medical yeah why would they hit him so hard they don't want him in he's going to clean up

00:30:35.320 the vaccines he wants to clean up our food clean up our water a lot of people make billions of dollars

00:30:39.540 on that crap uh big tech is the other one you know right that's who really didn't want me in there

00:30:44.840 they they had descended their lobbyists on senators to get them to oppose me because i think these 0.91

00:30:50.220 technology platforms are making their terms of service more important to the values that under

00:30:57.340 gird free speech than even the constitution itself great point and that is not the society we want to

00:31:02.680 live in and uh you know they they have a tremendous amount of power and they you see these tech bros now

00:31:08.600 uh cozying up to trump yeah look at look at suckerberg as i call him so you're not buying

00:31:14.340 the zuck transition you're not buying the new curly hair the gen z clothing i saw that i was making

00:31:19.120 you're not you're not in on it well i i just buy it i buy it as a rental i actually think in the next

00:31:26.220 four years these guys don't want to get zapped with a whole lot of trump's attention for targeting

00:31:32.540 conservatives at the same time if this thing were to swing back they'd abandon us faster than you could

00:31:40.840 possibly imagine yeah and so empowering them in the short term i think probably inures to our

00:31:47.200 long-term detriment yeah i mean look you got to go along to get along right i think that's what

00:31:51.020 they're doing they know now mag is in charge uh they saw not just trump what he's doing they saw us

00:31:58.900 speak right trump had what 10 million more votes than kamala did so i think if you're a tech giant

00:32:04.400 you realize the country as i've said it for years and i hope to god it stays this way at least till me

00:32:09.840 and my kids are dead and gone is this country is center right it's always going to be center right

00:32:14.560 i pray and i think that they saw that in the election and the numbers and their subscribers

00:32:20.440 and i think that they're going to play nice in the sandbox like you said for four years we'll see

00:32:25.240 if in four years it's jd vance as president with maybe a don jr or matt gates as vp on the ticket

00:32:30.940 and we continue then eight more years of it and on so on and so forth then yeah then maybe they

00:32:36.760 will eventually stay that way but i agree with you it's probably a rental agreement for four years

00:32:42.080 we'll play nice we'll do what trump and people say for now but if the pendulum swings and they

00:32:47.940 start getting emails again like we know facebook and meta did saying lie about that covet stuff cover

00:32:53.560 that up censor people they'll go right back to it i mean remember how crazy it got where people

00:32:58.880 at google were telling sundar pachai to not allow cops to have gmail accounts it got wild and when you

00:33:05.940 think about the power that these like genderless woke topians who live in san francisco wield it is 1.00

00:33:12.280 it is scary yeah they wield the power of information big pharma wields the power of billions of dollars

00:33:18.840 so you're right those two are the most probably going to be detrimental to our society moving forward

00:33:24.280 unless we can get a handle on both them big tech and big pharma because if you're brainwashing with

00:33:29.920 the information and then you drug them up on the drug it actually goes well together we're going to 0.99

00:33:34.660 have a bunch of damn dumb sheep in this country which there's already millions of them but think 0.99

00:33:38.540 about that if you're taking your zanny bars and your ozempic so you're all chill while you're all 1.00

00:33:43.840 skinny and eating away your muscles and tendons and then on this device all you do is get lied to

00:33:48.280 about left-wing bs what are you going to become in a few years democrats you mentioned the ozempic it's

00:33:55.740 so funny how that dynamic weight because i lost my weight with hard work and diet uh why i found a

00:34:01.520 little but i uh i coffee is really the key for me i tried to substitute meals with coffee and long

00:34:09.380 walks and i uh it sheds off you didn't have to go take ozempic and ruin your well also when you cut

00:34:15.620 the booze there's no faster way to lose weight than to just like stop drinking for a few months

00:34:21.360 entirely not even a sip of wine sip of beer i'm not we're not going to be doing that i'm not giving

00:34:25.580 the vino up matt dance uh giving it up especially before the super bowl what a terrible thing for

00:34:30.000 me to say to our audience before the super yeah come on making everybody guilty show drink all you

00:34:34.760 want on super bowl sunday but don't shoot up the ozempic man everyone who does that looks like they

00:34:39.300 have ozempic face they do okay you know what i first mike pompeo definitely took ozempic you think

00:34:44.520 oh yeah there's no way the guy looks like a like a beach ball that was deflated i noticed at first

00:34:50.740 uh peyton my wife and i were watching uh speaking of football we're watching the roast right we're

00:34:57.120 watching the roast of brady tom brady on uh netflix and when ben affleck walked out at the end of the

00:35:04.600 roast i didn't recognize him and i'm like that boy's on ozempic because you saw the recent study

00:35:10.020 what a week or two ago not only does it eat the fat it eats your tendons and muscle tissue and then

00:35:16.440 some woman just came out some social media influencer gal who's young said she took it 0.88

00:35:19.980 she now has osteoporosis and some bone disease she took it 13 months one year why the hell would you 1.00

00:35:27.340 take this we had a family member who took the generic version of it and she lost her what gallbladder

00:35:31.680 or something she had taken out her gallbladder had to be removed because of a generic ozempic and she 0.99

00:35:36.400 only took it for five months generic ozempic stop taking this work out go to the gym eat right

00:35:42.720 what's your what's the workout routine for dan ball uh lately because of the house none

00:35:48.040 and moving wedding and the election and the holidays chasing your termite tent around yes

00:35:52.820 prior to three months ago prior to three months ago it was four days a week at least at the gym

00:35:58.420 lifting weights minimal cardio because i'm a little guy already but just lifting weights and eating

00:36:02.940 right that what ginger always tells me is cardio is so overrated it is i've always felt that way but

00:36:07.640 for different reasons but but that it's the lifting of cardio but it's the lifting of the weights that

00:36:12.740 like really builds muscle and uh and actually eats the fat right doesn't the muscle eat the fat burn

00:36:18.960 into both if you're not adding enough calories and that's hard for me i would work out and i had a

00:36:24.640 trainer years ago and i'm like okay why am i not putting on more bulk he's like well first of all your age

00:36:28.740 when you get past 40 it's harder i'm 50 but two he's like are you eating like four meals a day

00:36:33.420 are you having shakes and protein in between like if you're not taking in 3500 calories or 4000 calories

00:36:39.700 if you're lifting four or five days a week you won't build anything and then it was burned through

00:36:43.700 what you're trying to create and i can't eat that much like you have to eat a lot if you really want

00:36:47.560 to build screw you you can't eat that much i could i could go to shut down a chinese buffet i'm talking 0.99

00:36:54.040 about healthy food matthew oh you sound like one of those skinny bitches who's just like oh you know 1.00

00:36:59.480 like i eat whatever i want and i don't do so hard for me to put on weight no no no anybody that knows 0.97

00:37:05.580 that's watched this talk show the last four or five years that i host on oan knows i was a little

00:37:09.240 pudgier even the bosses here at the network they're like you're good on tv you lost some weight good on

00:37:13.660 you and i'm like yeah thanks being on tv to work on it keeps you a little focused on it yeah let's

00:37:19.480 see let's talk to matt you've been on tv now for a month solid you have to look at yourself every day

00:37:24.020 for an hour don't think you're not going to become your own tv well it's right in front of you how do

00:37:29.580 you not look at these monitors i look at the guests i'm always like oh if i looked at myself i'd be too

00:37:35.660 distracted well i'm not saying i look at myself to go hey look at that guy no but you do a lot of 0.79

00:37:40.360 things i look and i go shit that hair's out of place oh the makeup sucked today yeah this tie 0.97

00:37:45.080 doesn't match that because i'm trying not to distract the viewer this is something i got taught 0.97

00:37:48.920 years ago in denfos the defense information school of journalism in the military and our broadcast

00:37:55.180 journalist professors unlike woke colleges said look your on-air presentation and again podcasts are

00:38:01.480 different you should look and this doesn't have any ego or anything you should look flawless and you

00:38:06.600 shouldn't have distracting things on your body which is why they tell female news anchors don't 1.00

00:38:11.020 wear big dangly earrings guys don't wear loud crazy ass ties don't have your hair all out of whack if 0.83

00:38:16.560 the viewer is paying more attention to something you have on your person or how you look they're not

00:38:21.460 listening to you matt do you think the same is true like just in a job interview or an interpersonal

00:38:27.540 interaction that the more you can kind of be understated on that because the opposite of that is the

00:38:33.400 peacocking right that you the way you get noticed in a crowd is the big flamboyant tie or the hair

00:38:38.280 that's going crazy what are you applying for you applying for a hollywood role in some new movie and

00:38:43.880 you're going to audition so you want to be out there or are you applying for a desk job at the irs

00:38:48.820 like if you go in and you've got stuff yeah most people just want to make a positive impression

00:38:53.500 exactly whether it's a first date or this is something i got told 32 years ago do not

00:38:58.140 distract that was the word they used don't distract from the information you're trying to provide

00:39:04.860 so if you notice yeah i try to look pretty well groomed every day i get the haircut every three

00:39:09.760 weeks so it stays in check and i i try to wear pretty simple a lot of red white and blue are my

00:39:14.340 jackets and ties and shirts and i don't wear any outlandish jewelry or do something crazy with my

00:39:18.940 appearance because i want them to listen to what the heck we're telling them now this podcast is

00:39:23.280 different but on our political talk shows we're giving them and we're spitting a lot of truth

00:39:27.120 to power and they need to hear it because they don't hear it on cnn or msnbc or the big old three

00:39:31.860 so yeah don't come in and have a mohawk shaved next week and an orange suit because nobody's going to

00:39:37.860 talk about what matt told them about how corrupt congress is they're gonna go what the hell was

00:39:40.840 matt gates wearing i could never have a mohawk or a shaved head because i have like a hideous actual

00:39:47.120 head it's like if you felt my head it would be like braille up there i'll take your word for it yeah but

00:39:51.800 god gave me terrific hair for this purpose like some people god gave a beautiful dome piece but

00:39:59.060 no hair i got the hair but but it's rough there's another so you're saying gavin has a weird head

00:40:03.680 then because he's got some good hair he might so underneath that he's got a uneven bumpy dome is

00:40:09.700 what you're saying possibly i'm not gonna check he might we could ask one of his many mistresses

00:40:13.940 they might know but anyway all right we'll have to cut that out this oh we're not cutting

00:40:17.220 on gavin newsom i get to trash talk him all the time are you kidding me i've had to suffer

00:40:22.300 under his rule and it's not so golden state the mistresses thing isn't even uh it's out there 0.63

00:40:26.820 bro yeah he admitted to it when he ran several years ago was it for gov or san francisco mayor

00:40:32.200 whatever it was him and his best friend's wife who his best friend was running his campaign 0.69

00:40:37.260 were doing the hibbity dibbity so yeah i can say it all i want it's real journalists actually covered

00:40:42.300 it years ago now of course they cover for him speaking of saying what you want so i want to talk

00:40:46.920 about profanity without using any without using it and and here's why because it's really interesting

00:40:52.440 to me that in in this job we have we do an hour every night each two hours between the two of us

00:41:00.420 um and we we have to be so precise on that but the way real people talk is actually a lot different

00:41:08.660 right and i wonder about this because when i was doing sports as like a kid like the coach

00:41:15.880 that screams the f-bomb at you every minute we win well i don't know if that cuts through

00:41:21.820 as much as like the one i that what i would ascribe to more is like that one well-placed f-bomb or that

00:41:27.980 one well-placed gd or that one you know i think that when it's used like to salt the meal of oratory

00:41:37.200 it can be quite effective but if it's overused it shows a certain lack of creativity so like what is

00:41:44.880 what is a right amount of profanity not for this job i think but just for life yeah i think it

00:41:49.720 depends on the situation i think and to your point you think about trump's speeches he'll talk for 90

00:41:54.640 minutes on the stump when he was campaigning and then in the middle or at the end he'll throw out

00:41:58.900 everything woke turns to but the whole speech he didn't curse that's what you're talking about that

00:42:04.180 perfect placement oh he'll put the f-bomb in oh he was like the climate change they're gonna melt

00:42:09.340 they're gonna melt the ice caps and the ocean will go up one effing inch and i was just like

00:42:16.000 sir this is turning point there's students here he doesn't care no and when and we've had private

00:42:20.900 conversations with him he throws in some f-bomb oh well trump look to be clear he's a new yorker yeah

00:42:25.980 come on trump speaks like a queen's construction worker and there's nothing wrong with that here's

00:42:31.140 my whole thing i've been in two businesses if you will in my whole life the military and journalism

00:42:37.180 do you know what people sound like in the military do you think we sit around not cursing

00:42:41.600 and then you've been in a newsroom for a month do you think news people don't sit around when the

00:42:46.660 mics aren't on cursing like drunken sailors hell yes we do they just act all prim and proper when

00:42:51.820 they give you the news it's a lie it's a facade so is there a proper amount of profanity no i don't

00:42:57.900 think so i think it's a situation it's the person it's your surrounding read the room but also i just

00:43:03.640 don't anymore and so yeah i like to throw them in now and then because i want to show people

00:43:08.120 that i'm real i speak this way if i'm at home i mean if i'm pissed off about something yeah i throw

00:43:13.580 in a bunch of colorful metaphors and i could say it that way or i could just say i throw in a bunch

00:43:17.500 of f-bombs because that's how upset i am about the way my country's being ran the last four years and

00:43:23.080 so yeah i stepped up my profanity a bit because i'm upset about it and i think the majority of americans

00:43:27.260 are too and i get as christians we're not supposed to so give me my vice my vice is i like a few

00:43:33.640 four-letter words matt and vino and vino okay are you a red guy or white vices two vices um

00:43:40.720 depends the situation really if it's 100 degrees out here in socal you think i'm gonna be drinking

00:43:47.060 a big heavy cab i don't know so you go i'm gonna bust out a white so for me it's the sauvignon blanc

00:43:52.200 i like the citrus like during the day i like shards better oh okay do you go buttery shard or

00:43:57.580 like the sharp um depends what i'm eating you're a complex puzzle i'm a wino listen and i don't mean

00:44:06.160 that like i drink a lot of wine i've gotten into it i've traveled different wine regions i've had

00:44:11.900 buddies family and i really studied wine like i love it a lot like there was a point several years ago

00:44:18.680 before i got busy with this job that and my wife can tell you i would sit there don't show me what 0.98

00:44:23.220 it is let me taste it and if it was california anyway because europeans are tough and different

00:44:27.360 um i could tell you the varietal and i might even get the region i could be like that's a merlot

00:44:32.000 that's a hell of a that's a pinot noir that's a cabernet sauvignon and then i could tell this is

00:44:35.820 when i was going to napa a lot i could be like that's central valley that's monterey area that's not

00:44:40.400 napa that's a napa red i was getting pretty good for a while i like wine it's good jesus turned the

00:44:46.080 water to wine matt oh i'm i'm here for the wine i was not a big wine drinker but my wife being a 0.77

00:44:52.000 californian you're right like you do learn and pick up and it's a thing people understand to a

00:44:57.160 greater you don't have it in florida you don't have the temperature for it the weather man we got we

00:45:00.340 got like prison toilet wine is what we have in florida wait i think we have muscadine wine we have

00:45:06.320 that weird little grape that turns into a sweet wine but i i wouldn't like clean my come over to the

00:45:11.640 come over to the ranch we'll enlighten you on some i can't believe you can like tell the varietal from

00:45:15.600 tasting it i think i have producers who can do that with marijuana well it's california yeah who

00:45:20.600 can like this is a blue dream this is a sour diesel you can blindfold them handcuff them and they know

00:45:26.680 once the effect that's a sativa that's an indica that's they can tell about that i know anything

00:45:30.460 about marijuana anyway it's gonna be a totally unusable podcast by the time we're done with it

00:45:37.720 it's a podcast is there anything else the fcc is against drugs weed wine profanity we're like on

00:45:44.740 the fcc blacklist bingo card on this program we told people when we started this this is not a

00:45:51.200 political talk show no it's a podcast with two friends talking about and by the way i forgot to

00:45:56.820 look at comments before we came on um did you see any comments of things we were supposed to address

00:46:00.480 so i saw so many people loved it on on my platforms like as of the time of filming this we

00:46:05.560 had over 130 000 views which is incredible thank you share view make sure everybody like a half a

00:46:10.700 impressions in like a day yeah it was it jumped and thank you people people loved the set so big

00:46:16.600 props to the crew everybody thought this was thank you to the herring family a dope setup buying us some

00:46:20.820 stuff and i have noticed that there is a tchotchke arms race underway that i'm losing oh that that if

00:46:27.240 you look behind dan you've got the challenge coins you've got the hats what are those awards

00:46:33.620 oh my book ends up there yeah okay so take the wide shot uh who's in the back today i don't want

00:46:41.200 to say the wrong director's name um those little tchotchkes up top grab one you can get you can get

00:46:46.300 one we can't see it it's too wide by the way do you see the pillow that my friend sent me i'm kind

00:46:50.760 of a big deal i mean what's the name of our show nice does this not fit in very legendary

00:46:57.980 i did not buy that a friend bought it for me okay i did not buy that pillow for my all right so tell

00:47:04.000 me about this with my friend windy and rob i'll give them a shout out bought that pillow for me

00:47:07.880 because they said that is very fitting that we're doing a podcast called the anchorman so this my

00:47:12.380 friend is something that when you're a young journalist you can get a close-up of this there

00:47:17.660 you go when you're a young journalist you hear about the emmy award this is an emmy oh my god i got an

00:47:23.280 emmy yeah i don't care anymore they're bookends now i thought they look pretty what'd you win an

00:47:29.300 emmy for i don't know you don't remember the the piece you won an em this one was for best morning

00:47:35.460 newscast and show coverage of president ford funeral 2006 i've been in this a long time the other one i

00:47:42.780 think is for best uh hold on hold on hold on best anchor what was what what was it about your

00:47:48.040 coverage of the death of former president gerald ford that was award-winning well if you can't

00:47:53.180 hell i've got a pretty good gift of gab you turn me on like the energizer bunny and i go 0.99

00:47:57.900 so so it's just everybody else had shitty coverage yeah and i kick their ass no uh look 0.98

00:48:05.680 small market palm springs is where he lived in rancho mirage southern california and and then he 0.99

00:48:11.180 was he was buried close by had a funeral at a beautiful big church and i was a morning show

00:48:16.840 anchor they pulled me from the set sent me out to the uh church that morning and they had set up

00:48:22.560 flatbed semi trucks for all the press because obviously anytime there's a presidential funeral

00:48:26.680 it's a big deal in this country yeah and so they were like it was a sea of journalists standing on

00:48:32.080 um semi trucks all hoping to win that emmy no i'm sure uh my my station thought it'd be smart to put

00:48:39.580 me out there like 4 35 in the morning and insert till noon and so by the time sounds like a micro

00:48:44.480 aggression done by the time we got done and the motorcade was leaving with the president's body

00:48:50.320 and we were signing off i think i'd gone live for somewhere between seven and a half eight and a half

00:48:54.280 hours non-stop and so i mean i won one that's amazing yeah whatever point is they used to mean

00:49:03.320 something to me where i thought it was a big deal until i found out how corrupt journalism is these days

00:49:09.760 and that happened several years ago when i ran for congress as i told you in the last episode

00:49:13.720 and now working at oan meeting people like you and finding out how corrupt the industry that i loved

00:49:19.840 for three decades really is and now i sit and i look at them and i go man i used to think it was a big

00:49:24.140 deal to win an emmy like my peers think i'm a really good journalist but then i see 99 of them

00:49:29.660 whether they're local media or national are lying to the american people and so now i joke about these

00:49:35.140 and go yeah i won some emmys but do i really care anymore no i would rather win the approval of our

00:49:41.380 viewers matt that say you've won more than one emmy now i got five nominations two wins over 32 years

00:49:47.700 that's not a lot oh by the way i want an it's a rigged system i would wear that that thing around

00:49:52.340 my neck like a medallion i would get the other one mounted mounted to the hood of my car if i could

00:49:59.580 no seriously it they're not that big a deal to me anymore because one you have to apply to win

00:50:06.640 one so you have to submit so you take your material every year as a reporter in the industry you can

00:50:11.320 do it as a talk show host now and you submit to what is it called mattis uh yeah i'm gonna submit

00:50:18.500 but for all the weird categories like best coverage of like a revolt by indigenous people

00:50:24.240 like i'm gonna i'm gonna go for all the dei categories there are weird categories so you can

00:50:29.340 apply for best talk show best newscast uh best anchor uh best special report best live report

00:50:36.400 uh best one-time program so if you and i did a one-time special whatever let's say you and i

00:50:41.980 would have done inauguration day we could turn in inauguration day coverage and say it's a one-time

00:50:45.840 event right every four years but a one-time event so there's all i need is all i need is my gerald

00:50:51.440 ford i need i need like bill clinton to kick the bucket i want to put one over some former president

00:50:57.000 where i can be out there i can give you one for your bookshelf and then we'll get mine over there

00:51:01.940 well it doesn't count if i didn't earn it but you have to apply then there's and you have to pay

00:51:06.580 see here's the key another key i didn't think when i was a young journalist you have to apply you have

00:51:11.900 to pay a fee then you wait for the board of your peers to vote it's all anonymous allegedly and then

00:51:18.360 whoever gets the most votes you win an emmy you win an emmy so it's like a campaign what that's a

00:51:25.300 great point somebody told me that because if you know your local board of governors who's voting for

00:51:29.740 you because the country's broken up into sections right on depending on where you broadcast from if

00:51:34.000 you know the board of governors and you suck up enough and they like you might get a little if they

00:51:39.020 hate you you'll probably never like since i started here i've never submitted i actually 0.75

00:51:43.020 haven't submitted anything for an emmy since 2000 i left vegas 2013 i haven't submitted for an emmy in

00:51:51.060 12 years hence my five nominations were at the beginning and middle of my career when i was

00:51:56.000 submitting as my eyes got brighter to the fact that journalists lie to the american people and that

00:52:02.900 this thing is kind of a paid for trophy i went i'm not gonna apply for this yeah you've really crushed

00:52:07.780 my hopes the last time i had colleagues vote with me on anything i removed the speaker of the house 0.91

00:52:12.320 but thank you all so much for joining us for the second why do you need a freaking award you got

00:52:19.120 rid of mccarthy that's in itself that's better than an emmy it's actually his scalp that i have

00:52:24.140 instead of that but appreciate you being here with us our second episode we will be publishing every

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - February 08, 2025

Anchormen with Matt Gaetz & Dan Ball ｜ Episode 2

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