The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Anchormen with Matt Gaetz & Dan Ball ｜ Episode 3

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

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

00:00:17.460 is the host of real america you can catch it eight o'clock eastern five o'clock pacific here

00:00:21.840 on one america news and the perfect chaser to real america is the matt gates show nine o'clock

00:00:27.040 eastern six pacific so this episode is going to publish on valentine's day so i wanted to wish

00:00:33.680 everybody and you a happy valentine's that's right and i did not forget because you know i'm a newlywed

00:00:40.100 you are oh yeah you came to the wedding you know by the way speaking of like chasers did you have 0.93

00:00:45.240 too many last night but the shades you know man i was told that this actually makes me look cool

00:00:49.860 and intimidating as opposed to your producer back there who hides behind the camera yeah that guy

00:00:54.800 normally i just look pudgy and beady-eyed but i think well you know it's it's democratized

00:01:01.760 all right so so valentine's day uh can you think of like the worst one you ever had

00:01:07.460 oh god you want me to say this on the record yeah i got some bro you go first okay i gotta think i had

00:01:15.260 you know i i had a uh special friend tell me that we were going to cirque du soleil and i just heard

00:01:24.620 like the circus part so i thought it was a circus and it ended up being cirque du soleil which is a

00:01:31.980 huge letdown if you're expecting a circus i also had a circumstance where i'm uh taking a girl back to 1.00

00:01:40.400 my home in florida from law school for valentine's day weekend and we get stuck in the atlanta

00:01:46.360 hartsfield airport and have to sleep on the floor and i'm just telling you it is a sad state of the

00:01:52.140 human condition when you get a bad snowstorm over atlanta or a bad rainstorm all the hotels are full

00:01:59.140 it was a nightmare but were you are all yours have been perfect camping out in front of the starbucks

00:02:04.160 waiting until it opened and eating like little cracker cheese packets you try to be as chivalrous as you

00:02:09.040 can be in that situation and at some point most of the restaurants close so it becomes a survival

00:02:15.700 situation i don't know that i've had a bad one no when i've been in a relationship i probably have had

00:02:21.700 some that weren't that great because i wasn't in a relationship you know and you go out and everybody's

00:02:27.340 out doing their thing with the couples and you're the single guy the divorced guy the person just alone

00:02:32.760 at a chinese buffet on valentine's day but i was i was solo in divorce uh for for a few years in las

00:02:39.980 vegas and so i'm betting in those several years there was probably like an elvis impersonator in

00:02:45.780 vegas you're there alone there had to be some crappy valentine's request doesn't love me tender

00:02:49.700 but thanks for bringing that up all right so i have another question for you yes sir uh what do you

00:02:56.580 think now we're both married happily married guys but back to our single days what was the rule

00:03:02.200 on one of your buddy's exes because i know some people that would say once one of your buddies breaks

00:03:07.900 up with somebody it's total no contact don't speak to the person they never existed others on the

00:03:13.180 you're talking about bro code now sure sure others on the other end of the spectrum they're like oh

00:03:17.480 you can it is there's no honor among thieves uh so where do you like kind of fall on that question

00:03:24.160 am i going to get in trouble on this thing since we have like i don't know we're worried about

00:03:28.060 censoring stuff on youtube and whatever can i say the old bro phrase which i always thought it was

00:03:32.520 bros before hoes so you isn't that the way you were totally value that so that that's where you're 1.00

00:03:36.940 at well listen i've had some buddies who've broken up with gals and you go she's pretty fine but i'm

00:03:42.560 not gonna go give her a call that would not be cool okay so not even good friends with the guys

00:03:47.440 could you can you be friends with one of your buddy's exes that depends on how they broke up

00:03:54.260 and what the current relationship is with you and your bro because if he's like oh we had a good you

00:03:59.300 know parting of the ways and i'm still friendly with her and then yeah i think you could be friendly

00:04:03.560 too if your bro calls you and says that and i'll never and i'm censoring myself then yeah probably not

00:04:12.420 a good idea matt so if there was like a so i know bill just dumped you so you would say if there's a

00:04:17.620 messy breakup with one of your bros and a lady very messy yes very nasty then you just you can't you

00:04:24.580 got to shut off even the friendly communication i think so i mean and i ask please sound off on x

00:04:30.080 and truth and other places and say the reason i asked who's right or wrong is because i saw that

00:04:34.900 you had marla maples on real america yeah and i know your buddies with trump yeah and they had

00:04:41.220 the messiest nastiest breakup and you've got marla maples on your program and i'm just wondering 0.99

00:04:48.180 after trump had you at his house yes to have your wedding how you have his ex on your program okay

00:04:55.560 but wait a minute they have a totally different relationship than most of us normal folks that

00:05:00.400 aren't high profile celebrities slash presidents um and former you know model wives i'm talking about 0.99

00:05:08.440 regular old dan ball and his buddy so you have a presidential model wife exception to the typical 1.00

00:05:14.540 bros before hoes okay first of all you're trying to get me in trouble with my wife who does the 1.00

00:05:19.260 booking for my guests on my talk show who booked wait i'm getting in trouble with your wife you just 1.00

00:05:24.440 threw your wife under the bus and said she was the one who booked her yeah because okay so hold on 0.98

00:05:29.000 she booked her oh there it is we've seen marla down at mar-a-lago recently getting along with her

00:05:36.320 ex-husband and helping to promote rfk who just got confirmed who she's friendly with and is helping to

00:05:44.540 clean up as you know florida she's got a big foundation initiative they're trying to clean up 0.98

00:05:48.420 the water and the air and all that stuff and so we had her to talk about maha and i thought it would

00:05:53.440 be okay because she's been down there hanging out with trump and milani okay so why is it bad i think

00:05:59.100 we've just found the lead what what have you observed with uh with trump and marla down at

00:06:06.060 mar-a-lago that the rest of us are not at the parties and stuff she's been invited she's been

00:06:11.380 friends with bobby for 20 25 years bobby just got confirmed as part of the cabinet rfk jr i'm so glad

00:06:18.000 he was confirmed you're totally right i'm teasing you but she has she has been a terrific advocate

00:06:23.160 for this movement for quite some time you just wanted to bust my dance balls i also wonder the

00:06:28.280 extent to which rfk jr has a whole lot of platonic relationships with women i'm just sort of wondering

00:06:33.060 we've heard no judgment i mean hey let's be real pops uncle all the kennedys they're they're the next

00:06:39.080 step in human evolution they're we should hope that the kennedys procreate as much as they're ladies 1.00

00:06:42.940 men them and elon you and i could only aspire to be ladies men by the way speaking

00:06:47.180 of um things that get you in trouble how about the handles coming from elon and his doge team

00:06:52.640 this week are you going to change your handle on x to something racy and sexy i mean we learned 0.98

00:06:57.120 about big balls hairy balls sexy tesla and the media is going nuts that these guys have these 0.98

00:07:02.520 crazy names these very smart 19 and 20 year old rich young tech guys that are way smarter than most 0.98

00:07:08.420 guys in dc present company excluded and you're not there anymore so are you going to change the name

00:07:13.320 just from matt gates to something what's the i'm trying to think of the worst handles i think the

00:07:17.900 worst handle i ever had as a spunky adolescent was on aol instant messenger and it was gates of hell

00:07:25.500 i loved aol oh it unlocked so much potential you could talk to four people at one time it was the

00:07:35.280 most annoying sound you had to wait for i don't like sounds sounds bug me it's like smells that's my

00:07:40.120 wife so i walk in she has the wrong candle burning in the house i'll know in two seconds i'm like

00:07:44.040 put that out it reeks wait a second sounds and smells is there a particular scent that sets you off

00:07:50.020 no i just like a leather candle like those leather ones are good like a man's candle

00:07:55.680 leather is one that's like leather cigar the nice candle a leather cigar like that like if i come home

00:08:00.600 and it's some fufu fruity lavender and yeah i'm like what about a sea breeze linen i mean we live by

00:08:07.520 the ocean fresh linen that's all right i guess yeah well you'll only accept the manly stuff though

00:08:11.980 i did see your dog was at work today shh you can't have pets at the one america news studio

00:08:17.720 oh so that was thanks for ratting me out matt well no i thought the dog was cute it's a it's a small

00:08:22.400 dog it's not my dog it's my wife's dog which i adopted when we got married because it's her dog

00:08:29.360 don't make it like i like little wiener dogs i know where you're going with these i just wonder

00:08:32.880 what kind of man i know where this guy is going with the jokes yeah but you know what dogs i'm

00:08:37.780 getting i already showed you the ones that are coming to the oh man tell everybody that was a

00:08:41.040 great that was a two yeah brothers from the same litter english chocolate labs one's a little

00:08:45.560 darker looks like a bear but you don't want a puppy you had a great riff on how you're going

00:08:49.420 a level above puppy you get the puppies and we've all been through that they chew they piss on

00:08:54.720 everything you got to deal with the whole training and whatever i found a breeder that had

00:08:58.620 two dogs that they were going to be their breeders at their kennel and they didn't get big enough 0.51

00:09:03.900 they only got to like 80 90 pounds i guess in the first 19 20 months and they like 100 pound breeders

00:09:09.580 so yeah i'm buying two they're still pups i guess until they're two years old right so they're just

00:09:16.060 under two but they already got all the commands they're trained for kennels they're potty trained

00:09:20.520 no more chewing so why go get the puppies pay the puppy premium price for a pure bread 0.93

00:09:27.020 premium it's like 2500 bucks to three grand for a pure bread lab you kidding me i'm a rescue dog

00:09:32.740 guy usually they'll like i have over the decades they'll pay the the vaccinations for them they'll

00:09:37.040 just give them to you listen i've loved labs since i was a kid growing up in ohio chocolate and black

00:09:41.000 my favorites and i said if i ever buy another property where i have actual land okay because

00:09:46.100 in cali as you're finding out it's like a lot and your neighbors right here you can spit and hit their

00:09:51.280 door yeah you can reach out your window and shake hands in california but now i have a few acres

00:09:55.480 and i'm like i want the dogs i've wanted for 50 years and i wanted some chocolate labs you got

00:10:00.700 names for them yes bear and bruin did those are awesome names did payton get a vote or was was 0.99

00:10:07.900 that just a dan decision uh my first one was i was going to call the one baron and the other dog

00:10:12.840 trump so if i had a park walking them or running them i could go baron trump baron trump come here

00:10:17.060 and just piss liberals off in california she's like i think the trump's a little drastic so then we 0.99

00:10:22.140 went bear and bruin i gave in on one i think it's lovely and when do you get them probably in about

00:10:27.360 three weeks i got to go way to northern california fly up rent an suv drive them back get to know them

00:10:33.620 what are they going to do to the wiener dog you got this old wiener dog he's like 13 i think he's

00:10:38.080 going to lead them around because dogs listen what do dogs do they do a little butt sniffing and they

00:10:41.940 figure out who's going to be what it's kind of like men right who's the bigger in town you sniff

00:10:47.080 around you figure out who's the top dog and you know who's the lion who's the sheep with men dogs

00:10:51.840 the same way these dogs are 19 months old they're gonna sniff the 13 year old's butt and go he's in

00:10:56.900 charge i think they'll follow him around the property this is the older dog tick tock gold if you can

00:11:01.040 capture this moment and it plays out exactly as you as you have laid out before you're a breeder let me

00:11:05.740 know if that's true but but so you say lab i've never had a lab but i've heard the stereotype that

00:11:11.840 they're dumb golden retrievers i would not do i've been around them with my uncle uh besides the

00:11:19.400 longer hair and the shedding they're they whine they're needy and i've seen them not be yes that 0.99

00:11:24.280 bright chocolate and black english about sorority girls chocolate and black english labs uh not

00:11:32.760 american from i've been around since i was five or six like four of them probably because they make it

00:11:37.400 about 11 12 years they're very smart they're great hunters they're great i mean if you go out

00:11:42.560 and hunt waterfowl those dogs are i don't care if it's two degrees do you hunt duck boom everything

00:11:49.200 man come on okay all right whale duck you guys don't have like water here to have water deer i might go

00:11:55.080 bear hunting soon up in oregon with a friend don't bring the dogs to that though no no no no no all

00:12:00.280 right no been hunting you haven't talked about this no i i think the bird hunting is probably the

00:12:06.920 coolest okay uh the hog hunting is very environmentally helpful because the hogs tear

00:12:12.580 everything up in florida and so if you go out and do a little hog hunting you're saving the bird

00:12:17.800 rookeries and you're saving the habitat for you know we're gonna have on the show soon who is a huge

00:12:22.980 conservationist because that's what real hunters are right you have to thin the herd from uh disease

00:12:29.520 from starvation is good old uncle ted nugent if you noticed obviously we've got ted's stranglehold

00:12:35.400 is our theme song and i talked to his people uh yesterday in about two weeks he'll be on the

00:12:40.720 program to talk about hunting and life and uncle ted's world because he is a awesome character i

00:12:45.800 loved him not a moderate no not a moderate i mean if you want to enjoy i think that's two weeks from

00:12:51.100 now make sure you tune into that episode because uncle ted will tear it up and he's promised to take

00:12:56.020 us on a hunt if you want to go i'm trying to line it up maybe you me tucker some other people

00:12:59.680 aaron lewis wants to go very cool and he does either uh deer or hog hunting he's got a ranch in

00:13:05.540 michigan and in texas you can pick depending on season oh hog hunting in texas you can uh you can

00:13:09.540 get the ar and go from the helicopter i know i saw your old friend mtg do that didn't marjorie taylor

00:13:14.320 do that once i said she was in a chopper she did a fundraiser oh very fun so your um your buddy

00:13:20.660 chad bianco's running for governor that's what they say so tell us what's your take dropping in a few

00:13:26.300 hours uh my take tell everybody who chad bianco is yeah if folks don't know as donald trump would

00:13:31.460 say straight out of central casting straight out of central casting uh bianco's got the the groomed

00:13:36.740 fu manchu the cowboy hat he's the riverside county california sheriff he's one of the few sheriffs

00:13:43.580 in this state and probably in the country that stands up for second amendment all the way uh he 0.96

00:13:48.360 pushed back on newsome and the idiots in sacramento during the covid lockdowns and said i'm not checking 0.99

00:13:53.180 on people to see if they've got a vax card or shutting restaurants down he was like big middle 0.99

00:13:57.500 finger um he's been very vocal do people know him outside of his area that's usually the hard thing

00:14:02.600 when you run statewide is you got to get right people outside your area to have name recognition

00:14:07.020 riverside county don't quote me on the size of it it's in the top i want to say three or four counties

00:14:12.620 in the state of california it's one of the biggest um and yes he is known throughout the state because

00:14:16.440 the mainstream media in the major markets san francisco la and san diego

00:14:20.460 lit him up during covid when he was in charge for pushing back and giving the big fu to newsome so

00:14:26.760 yes i think he's known in california as a as a ball buster of newsome so you got him in you've got

00:14:31.880 that uh bald brit named steve hilton from fox business news who's in uh nobody's official but

00:14:37.440 they're all in right and then uh businessman grant cardone again not in but he's doing like this

00:14:43.200 grant cardone was telling me how his house got burnt down on your show yeah right because he uh

00:14:48.780 the malibu strip it was like the only house that didn't burn i love grant grant's all energy but

00:14:53.760 grant's on there like you won't believe it we won't be able to build rebuild our eight million

00:14:59.440 dollar house and i'm like somewhere there's a farmer in middle america that uh might have less

00:15:04.980 sympathy for some zip codes than others i know grant love you but bro a lot of people are going to be

00:15:09.440 like hey man we cannot relate but trump loves grant he relies on him for a lot of financial market stuff

00:15:15.300 yep um and then i also hear uh nicole shanahan the maha gal that was with uh bobby on the ticket 0.99

00:15:20.120 right yeah she may jump in as independent then you've got uh she ran into my wife surfing my wife 1.00

00:15:27.500 was surfing in el salvador and like on the wave next to her was nicole shanahan and my sweet wife

00:15:33.480 comes out of the water because of course i'm i'm having papooses on on shore you're not surfing with

00:15:39.040 a nice little coffee no no no no no uh but she comes out and she's like can you believe i just met 0.90

00:15:44.500 the person that was running for vice president with rfk jr and apparently she's a really nice lady

00:15:49.600 do you think that a independent path works in california or do you think that somebody has to

00:15:54.960 kind of get on the red team or the blue team here so you and i've had the discussion privately the

00:15:58.380 recall effort in general is a tough sell in this state because for some reason californians uh have

00:16:04.900 some sort of brain lapse memory loss they forget what gavin has done to this state in the six years he's

00:16:12.360 been in he came in with a multi-billion dollar surplus we were in the black all day long we are

00:16:17.660 now negative i think 60 some billion so he's blown a hundred and some billion dollars on illegals yeah

00:16:23.680 not not fire prevent not a speed rail right high speed rail not that trump's investigating that

00:16:28.180 so he's wasted our money he's allowed millions of illegals in he's allowed taxes to go crazy and how

00:16:33.860 many thousands of businesses fled elon's one of them so but you got to convince people to do the

00:16:39.660 recall this summer we'll see if we get enough signatures to recall him and then if he gets

00:16:43.060 recalled who are we going to put in because you know that's how it works in california

00:16:46.180 we will have a special election and it's two questions do you want to recall newson yes or no

00:16:50.580 who do you want here's 12 names pick the one with the most wins and then like that's always 0.99

00:16:55.400 california gets like caitlin jenner porn star there's going to be 18 people on the damn ballot 0.99

00:17:01.400 there'll be democrats republicans independents so crazy and then again if you win later this fall 0.98

00:17:05.820 you're only getting one year because then you have another election next november for the actual

00:17:10.240 real four-year term that sounds all crazy i know to me why do you think i didn't jump in i was

00:17:15.060 thinking about it it's going to be a shit show yeah well i mean i do think one thing you have here that 0.84

00:17:21.260 i like are your seals have i told you about my obsession with your california seals are they 0.96

00:17:25.020 different than florida seals we don't have any oh we don't we don't know the water doesn't get cold

00:17:29.300 enough for seals we have dolphins okay but i've been i rolled up on some seals out in la jolla

00:17:35.300 cove and uh they're just like the coolest thing ever they have like big boat a little boat on the

00:17:40.900 i was just walking down those down the shoreline and and uh they roll up and it's like the birthing

00:17:47.240 season so there's all these little babies out there oh there's a mess with them they're adorable

00:17:51.980 yeah but if you get close mama will you know what i didn't have an urge to get close i was watching 0.99

00:17:57.540 from afar have you not seen the videos of these dumb tourists that come to cali and think i'll 0.97

00:18:02.180 go down to the la jolla shores where you see all the babies on those rocks right oh let's go pet the 1.00

00:18:06.980 cute little and then it comes after you and bites your damn leg off like don't be stupid people yeah 1.00

00:18:12.160 leave mother nature alone those people deserve that i i would defend that seal in court in such a 1.00

00:18:18.080 circumstance i hear that when if humans touch them their herd will like not accept them back so

00:18:23.760 you're condemning the seal to death with your touch i don't think people know what a heck of a 0.98

00:18:30.100 litigator you used to be because they just see you as the congressman who kicked ass for eight years 0.74

00:18:34.360 and now the talk show host but you had a lot of success if i get in trouble i'm calling gates 0.78

00:18:39.560 i uh i represented some swans once some swans yeah were they pissing off an hoa it was the h actually

00:18:47.580 you're you're really over the target yeah no an hoa had been feeding some swans and a guy came and took

00:18:54.940 them and then i represented the hoa to get them back under the under the legal theory of trover and

00:19:01.100 replevin you're watching so you've set precedence now i don't know about all that swans are protected

00:19:06.300 i did set precedent because i would sue the government when they would not follow transparency laws

00:19:12.020 and then they would have to pay my legal fees like for you know i would sue on behalf of a client

00:19:17.760 but i i did hold some of the larger awards when you would have a government entity that would have

00:19:23.140 secret meetings or wouldn't turn over their texts or emails in florida that's kind of our antiseptic

00:19:28.960 to corruption is we have very strong open government laws like two people on a city council can't go get

00:19:34.880 a beer and talk about work together illegal do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars go directly

00:19:40.400 to jail if you do that if two people on a school board um discuss what color the roof should be

00:19:46.520 outside of a noticed public meeting you know that can be a crime and so that i like that yeah it

00:19:51.680 cleans it up everybody gets to see everything play out that been in law in florida yeah we put it in

00:19:56.480 the constitution we put it in the state constitution jeb bush strengthened those laws uh even they've so

00:20:01.800 27 years ago yeah they've received a lot of bipartisan support and if you ever want to repeal one of the

00:20:07.720 open access laws you need like two-thirds of the legislature to do it so there there was a good

00:20:12.940 old boy network that in the 60s and 70s reigned over a lot of florida and we didn't want that

00:20:20.800 reputation and a lot of other states have copied our open government laws which actually is how stuff

00:20:25.560 should work right i was going to say can we please make that like nationally in all 50 states because

00:20:29.740 that's not how stuff works here in california as as i'm sure you're finding out in six weeks right

00:20:34.320 to be in here that's not how sacramento works that place is such a like i wonder if it's more

00:20:39.760 corrupt and dirtier than washington dc well they don't probably not but it's a close second yeah they

00:20:44.580 should have part-time legislature you should not have a full-time state legislature oh no this i don't 0.92

00:20:49.160 think we should have a full-time congress like frankly if you want a hot take i don't think we

00:20:52.960 should have a full-time congress i think you should have to you should have a real job congress should

00:20:57.000 be something you get a little stipend for it shouldn't be a six-figure income you should do your work and

00:21:01.820 you should return home and live among the people whose laws you're making yeah and then no insider

00:21:06.240 trading forever and no insider trading right matt like auntie nancy she uh she had a big trade this

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00:21:31.680 soon as they're made they're posted and then lo and behold you'll you'll see they'll quote tweet

00:21:36.360 the initial publication of the trade and say oh this is increased really 79 hold on a second

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00:22:45.620 prescription meds for a few days we are joined by another anchorman in that exciting dan

00:22:50.400 yeah i mean we named this show the anchorman podcast and we have a brand new and by the way

00:22:56.200 matt let me let me point out since i've been in the biz a little bit longer than our new guest here

00:23:01.120 and yourself i always point out to folks we host opinionated talk shows and anchormen that do the news

00:23:08.740 are supposed to be news journalists that report the facts unvarnished and unbiased we do opinion

00:23:14.440 shows but we thought anchorman was more fun and riley is our brand new host of the real story

00:23:20.160 with riley lewis here on the one america news network so we thought one of our first guests

00:23:24.340 on the anchorman podcast should be another anchorman tell us about your show yeah well i just by the

00:23:30.060 way i have to say this setup right here is perfect you like our set it's a really nice just environment

00:23:34.880 it's cooler than the old news style sets right with all the lights and the desk and the suits and the

00:23:39.800 my blood pressure drops 20 points just when i step on this carpet i just feel so relaxed like i'm here

00:23:45.060 with my homie but but the new show is up and running it has an incredible energy you uh start

00:23:51.580 the show with a monologue that frames up a key issue of the day and i like tell us uh tell us how you're

00:23:56.880 liking it uh it's great so far i mean great team um we're just a few days in but it's been really

00:24:02.420 really good so far and i think we're just getting better with each tape i mean there's really no

00:24:06.300 substitution for time in the host chair so just doing that and getting into a groove is really what we're

00:24:10.940 doing right now but i mean there's no shortage of stuff to talk about um and so every day it's like

00:24:16.080 it's actually quite challenging we have 52 minutes of program time and i have to figure out i have

00:24:20.340 hours of things i could say how do i will it down to just the juiciest stuff because i just could

00:24:24.840 never stop so it's it's actually pretty challenging just to narrow it down to the stuff that's most

00:24:29.220 important to hit program time yeah i love riley's story in that he came on board one america news a

00:24:35.960 couple years ago as a writer and then producing shows so he was behind the scenes in our newsroom

00:24:40.400 and then he started filling in for different talk show hosts when they were on vacation sick

00:24:45.160 whatever um you took over for tipping point for a few months while care was out on maternity leave 1.00

00:24:50.380 that's right and the viewers took to this guy like amazing they were like who is this riley lewis guy

00:24:55.520 and so just in the last what week mr herring and the awesome bosses that we have here at oan

00:25:01.020 decided let's give riley his own prime time show so here he is with the real story he's our lead

00:25:07.060 off hitter now in the prime time it's true you lead off i'm in the middle and you wrap it up you

00:25:11.420 clean it up right it is it is it is going to be ordering i really think i for the viewers um but i

00:25:16.600 do want to express my gratitude to everyone to you to you matt and also to the herring family for all

00:25:20.620 the opportunity because they've given me so many chances to thrive and succeed and just grow as a

00:25:25.380 person and a host so i'm extremely grateful so you were telling me he deserves it this kid works

00:25:29.980 hard as hell man well you were telling me about some of your influences in media and i thought

00:25:34.600 that it would be really interesting to hear like what brought you to this moment in your career and

00:25:38.880 how you view the opportunity um yeah so viewing the opportunity i mean it's it's really such a

00:25:44.860 massive undertaking but i get to join the conversation i mean as a kid i grew up on people

00:25:49.120 like rush tucker carlson i mean that's so i was always a fan of talk radio tv and i thought to myself

00:25:54.240 if i could find a way to do that then that would be a dream come true so i mean for me it was like i was

00:26:00.320 i was such a big fan of just consuming that content at some point it's like i'm tired of just

00:26:04.320 and taking i want to be able to add i want to be able to move the needle forward and join these

00:26:08.200 people so hopefully my goal is that people i used to just look up to and watch can become my colleagues

00:26:13.020 and partners and friends of mine so it's it's really surreal to see that start to play out here and i hope

00:26:18.000 to continue down that path that's what i love about his story because you know there's only a little

00:26:22.680 bit of of age gap right 50 to 25 or 6 so double but i remember being riley and sitting at home

00:26:30.900 right in the 80s and 90s with my very conservative grandma watching certain news figures like walter

00:26:37.080 cronkite every night right and then sitting there and going i want to do that i want to be on tv i want

00:26:43.040 to i want to inform and entertain people and that's riley 20 some years later and he's getting to live

00:26:48.420 his dream thanks to oan i think this is an amazing story with him coming online yeah what's your

00:26:54.020 favorite story you're covering right now uh i mean honestly everything that's going on with doge

00:26:58.540 with fema i love it i look because here's the thing i mean you hear about just reports and it's

00:27:03.300 like the more you read the less you want to know i just didn't understand how corrupt the government

00:27:06.760 was and i want to be clear when i was growing up i just trusted in the government i trusted in the

00:27:11.780 institutions i no longer do i think that's their fault when did you when did you cross the line on

00:27:16.800 that really in 2016 when trump came really 2015 when trump came down the escalator and you saw this

00:27:22.760 coordinated effort unfold to attack the one guy who goes to washington who says i had a thriving life

00:27:28.800 and a business career but i'm going to sacrifice that you're a trump guy from day one dan was a

00:27:33.200 trump guy from day absolutely absolutely damn right that was i mean it's so non-controversial putting

00:27:37.960 the american people first how how did we have like how was this even a conversation so the second i

00:27:43.280 thought that it was like that's it for me i'm totally bought in 100 common sense this should

00:27:47.060 be the baseline that should be the normal expectation for every single person in washington

00:27:50.880 i don't understand why that's such a controversial take oh yeah and i don't understand why they're

00:27:54.860 going after trump so hard but when i saw that in 2015 it was like here he is descending down the

00:27:59.840 escalator from the elite swamps of dc and new york or whatever coming down to the people a true man

00:28:05.540 of the people that i think it speaks volumes truly about his character is there something weird

00:28:09.500 about the fact that the most man of the people president is a billion septuagenarian yeah i know

00:28:14.760 i know but you know what listen to him he'll always say on the podcast which was brilliant during the

00:28:19.860 campaign to get on those podcasts with theo vaughn and regular folks and just hash it up for one two

00:28:24.200 three hours is he's like i always felt more at home on the job sites with the regular dudes he he

00:28:30.460 always says that when he had to go to the millionaire billionaire parties in new york they always kind of you

00:28:34.760 know they wouldn't brush him aside because of who he is and his cash but he never felt well yeah

00:28:39.440 the nfl wouldn't let it was a connection you're right about that there was he'd rather go to the 0.84

00:28:42.820 job site and bullshit with the plumber and the guys walking the freaking girders and the beams up 0.81

00:28:46.480 there thousands of i mean that those are the people he gets just because you have money doesn't mean 0.98

00:28:50.920 you still can't relate or be relatable trump has proven that and the moment you're talking about

00:28:55.380 is the same for me i can tell you matt where i was i was in a local newsroom when trump did that 0.93

00:29:00.480 and the minute they put out the bs narrative that he called every mexican a rapist and a murderer

00:29:05.100 i started going off in the newsroom i was working in and i believe it was the nbc affiliate in palm 0.98

00:29:11.100 springs california and screw you for still lying to people and the folks i worked with and i got 0.58

00:29:15.720 into it in that newsroom because i'm like that's not what trump said and they're broadcasting it 0.98

00:29:20.280 because every affiliate did oh he called mexicans murderers and rapists no he didn't and from there

00:29:25.580 i was 100 down on trump and i was also 100 against my own profession of 30 years because i saw then how 0.99

00:29:32.180 the media started manipulating and lying we already seen how they covered for obama's ass for eight 0.94

00:29:36.620 years and i was already pissed off about that but then they start lying about trump on top of covering 0.98

00:29:41.780 for obama and i was done with this industry yeah that's the moment i lost almost the mainstream

00:29:46.460 yeah and and and really just i don't understand exactly again why but this coordinated effort just

00:29:53.180 completely was unfolding and it was media it was local state politicians it was this uniparty

00:29:58.580 establishment in dc that said this guy is a threat and it's like the harder they pushed the more i

00:30:02.680 became interested i started reading about it you guys saw it before me you guys saw it before me

00:30:06.160 because it took the russia hoax yeah for me to understand that our federal law enforcement are

00:30:11.940 just politicians with badges and well yeah because you saw the fisa stuff and how they manipulated and

00:30:17.300 that email from the corrupt congress i thought the fbi were the good guys we all did i wanted to be one

00:30:22.120 i wanted to be a g-man as a kid we're like we're the people trying to stop pandemics from spreading

00:30:27.200 but then through the russia hoax i uh i became radicalized against the systems that that had

00:30:33.500 turned but you guys were on the front on the front end of the world because you're young aspiring to

00:30:37.520 be in the media i was already in the middle of the media for years since 1996 and so in 2015 i'm

00:30:43.160 literally watching my colleagues lie and swallow the trump lies hook line and sinker and then what i would

00:30:48.760 try to not on the air but in the newsroom have a discussion or debate with them that trump's not

00:30:54.600 that bad a guy and they're lying about him and man i would get shut down we get into yelling matches

00:30:58.960 and the news director would tell me to be quiet because of course they were liberal and they

00:31:02.520 would side with the other dan you're creating a hostile work environment again with your with your

00:31:06.660 domestic terrorism views right maga hat and your belief that maybe not every illegal immigrant is here

00:31:13.320 for a new life i i do have to say though i mean because this is just it was a grift from the very

00:31:19.080 minute it started and it was clear to me because trump went from being universally loved in media

00:31:25.440 in business he's hanging out with rappers in new york city oprah winfrey is joking about running for

00:31:30.500 president with him i mean uh she did like three times over 30 years with him going to the clips totally 0.99

00:31:34.860 the ladies of the view are like gushing over him and then overnight he's this evil tyrant racist fascist 0.92

00:31:40.800 and it's like i just it felt so disingenuous and that's why i just stopped trusting and what they 0.93

00:31:45.940 had to say see that goes to show how sheepish so many of the liberal people over the last 10 years 0.56

00:31:51.360 since 2015 believe the media and these celebrities instead of their own freaking eyes and ears yes

00:31:57.040 because you just said it how the hell could everybody love trump for 30 40 years in the entertainment

00:32:02.040 industry sports world music world da da da and they flip because he put an r in front of his name on

00:32:07.020 the balance of a d we loved you until we heard the things you actually believe now we're not so

00:32:13.680 sure anymore it's why my favorite trump book is letters to trump because it's all of those figures

00:32:18.960 you just described writing him these glowing letters about his vision and his success and now they're the

00:32:25.840 very same people that would like decline an invitation uh to the white house if if they oh if they most of

00:32:33.080 wouldn't there'd be a couple you know obviously oprah's not going to show up or joy reed or joy 1.00

00:32:36.720 bayar and some of those that used to kiss his ass but i guarantee those rappers the football 0.97

00:32:40.540 donald trump might be the most successful relationship with a man that oprah's had 0.99

00:32:44.180 yeah well look again it's it's one of those weird things where they just expect people to blindly

00:32:54.860 because they're looking at the media angle they just expect people to blindly believe in their

00:32:59.120 propaganda they just spoon feed you misinformation all day long and they it's really insulting i think

00:33:03.860 it's changing though i think it's changing riley because i think that the way people get information now

00:33:08.780 is far more fragmented it's not that one pipeline that dan's parents were used to getting with the

00:33:16.460 five o'clock news people are seeing stuff on social media they are getting thousands of different

00:33:24.180 sources directed at them one thing that is so delicious like my favorite thing i'm covering

00:33:29.320 right now is how the democrats are reacting to doge oh because hilarious because there there's a theory

00:33:35.380 of the case that the that the smart approach for them would have actually been join in claim credit

00:33:41.840 for part of it and then blame the republicans for the stuff that isn't popular and say that like

00:33:46.700 the doge stuff that's popular therefore and the stuff that's unpopular the republicans are for

00:33:50.660 tactically that would have been an approach but now the fact that they're against the entire

00:33:55.280 enterprise of finding waste like puts them on the side of the peruvian transgender comic book yes and

00:34:03.940 like you've been covering street in iraq yeah and i i think republicans made this mistake during the

00:34:09.180 obama years where we would oppose anything obama was for and that allowed him to define what we stood

00:34:16.760 for and against as a party yep and they are falling into this trap big time yeah because listen there's

00:34:23.020 no way that 51 percent of the american voting population believes that cutting spending is a

00:34:30.920 bad thing why would well especially on this stuff like this isn't the widows and the orphans 1.00

00:34:36.360 absolutely not like you you guys have been covering this stuff it's it's the craziest no you could

00:34:40.920 imagine i honestly hope that it's just money laundering and not this actual stuff i would

00:34:47.880 rather believe that like the cia is running guns and money than believe that we're funding the dei

00:34:54.000 seminar in serbia well that's the thing i mean is it is it corruption is it incompetence i don't know

00:34:59.580 what's going on it's not incompetent i don't think i don't think it is but i also think it's it is weird

00:35:03.880 to sort of put yourself in a situation you look at usa id as one example so it's supposed to be an aid

00:35:08.720 agency but then we're funding iraq and sesame street so at first it's like okay well you say

00:35:12.760 it's about aid but clearly it's not and they go okay it's not but it's about advancing u.s soft power

00:35:17.500 on the world stage well so then why do you need to do that through an aid agency it's how does eight

00:35:21.180 million dollars to politico help foreign nations they gave eight million last year to politico

00:35:26.480 absolutely and the overall bill since 2017 was 40 how many million guys yeah what does giving politico

00:35:32.040 a left-leaning online have to do with helping foreign affairs and international affairs with the united

00:35:38.500 states of america nothing you just wanted to push it's a bribe just a bribe yes so politico would do

00:35:44.120 the bidding of the deep swamp and the left and then shut down organizations like the one we all work

00:35:50.900 for gentlemen because we know what the heck happened to us we're democrats sitting united states senators

00:35:55.380 four of them and two members of congress from california all wrote letters to all the satellite and

00:36:01.440 cable carriers and then our advertisers saying pull away and down for missing disinformation but we're

00:36:06.060 going to give 40 million freaking dollars to politico to lie to the american people and keep their

00:36:10.820 subscriptions up look it up it's a fact at least politico's american they were giving money to

00:36:15.180 reuters reuters is british like we're we're paying that's a sad commentary on the state of the american

00:36:22.820 media that we have to go and and pay off foreign media to do large-scale influence operations that's not

00:36:29.220 america first can we ask riley so we can get off politics for a second because this uh this podcast

00:36:36.200 was supposed to be not political all the time we started on valentine's day and that's what i'm

00:36:40.760 going to go back to because i don't even know if this guy has a gal or not i mean you and i have 0.99

00:36:44.780 known each other for a bit and i know ginger you know payton we know our wives let's turn it back to

00:36:49.440 some bro conversation because they can watch our talk shows for the politics got a gal what are you 0.99

00:36:54.420 doing for valentine's day uh absolutely nothing uh nothing now you've heard the worst story right

00:36:59.540 i'm looking let's get into this okay okay where are you looking uh well i'm church grocery stores

00:37:05.540 uh i've i've i've tried the app scene for the first time ever i can't blame you 50 percent of

00:37:11.480 couples in america right now are formed on the apps i don't get it i would not have presented well

00:37:16.560 on the apps but it when half cut when half of the couples are meeting on the apps you got to have

00:37:21.840 some sort of line in the water there do you know hold on real quick do you know why you wouldn't

00:37:24.920 do well on the apps can you cue this up jared you know why you wouldn't do because this bite this

00:37:29.840 sound bite is going to follow you everywhere and people are gonna be like just roll the the famous

00:37:35.500 matt gates sound bite is it safe to say that based off of your comments you're suggesting that these

00:37:40.200 women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight yes what do you say to people who think that those 1.00

00:37:46.340 comments are offensive be offended 0.99

00:37:48.260 iconic be offended matt be offended plenty were you're on a dating website and matt's like i believe

00:37:59.460 this is in this women are like oh my god i'm offended oh no women want the alphas be offended no i i push 1.00

00:38:05.040 back strong on that but but all right so you you've had the dating app scene like have you had like a

00:38:11.020 really good date out of the apps surprisingly yes actually which ones i i had it didn't end up

00:38:18.100 working out long term but i went on a few dates with a really nice girl from coronado actually

00:38:21.920 nice island right off san diego very very though which apps oh okay so hinge is the one that i've

00:38:27.160 been using i hear but here's the thing yeah there's a lot of them and at first i didn't know where to

00:38:31.400 go so i asked some friends of mine and just looked for some data and i've heard decent things i actually

00:38:35.660 know some people that have got good relationships you didn't try that farmers.com or no no look hinge hinge is

00:38:40.720 supposed to be the app that gets you off the other apps what i've learned this it's a dating app and

00:38:46.040 it's supposed to be where you're not there for like a hookup that's right you're not there for a 0.96

00:38:49.740 casual thing the people there are there to like find their person that said there's a lot of creeps

00:38:55.900 on hinge like i've heard i've heard all right so so you go on hinge and you meet a girl from coronado

00:39:01.720 now the reason that would terrify me is there are so many navy seals and navy guys at coronado

00:39:09.060 that whenever i like would connect with a chick that's from an area like that i would think well

00:39:14.980 i mean what she's got better options she's got to watch navy seals swimming in their skivvies outside 1.00

00:39:20.540 like you know every morning what do i have to offer but you didn't let that deter you right no absolutely

00:39:25.880 i mean there's no harm in looking and trying you know um and it's still it's still new but i what do

00:39:30.380 you put on the hinge profile to really to really uh yeah can you put yourself out there and say

00:39:34.920 i work at oan i politics or no politics no politics no politics not at first no well and

00:39:41.680 i'm still debating what about hobbies hobbies yeah definitely um so music is one that's that's big for

00:39:46.420 me so i put that out there because it's something i think is actually maybe useful i can play music

00:39:50.640 for people i write music that's been a big part of my life you could serenade them oh by the way

00:39:54.440 totally but that's open doors for me in the past so why not oh hold on absolutely that's open

00:39:59.200 doors for you yeah well like open doors and opened oh come on give it let's go what girl doesn't like 1.00

00:40:05.140 a guy who can play music i know wait are you singing or are you making that like what are

00:40:08.860 you doing you mean music wise what are you playing the piano for him guitar uh so guitar started with

00:40:12.920 just like classical but i used to be in a band in college and that was that actually worked for me

00:40:16.800 pretty well so i had a keyboard player and a drummer another guitar player not the annoying guy that

00:40:20.380 grabs the car and sits down and kumbaya around the fire and annoys all of us regular bros

00:40:24.080 okay good just making sure i need the band name don't be that guy band name uh i don't think we

00:40:29.800 didn't even have a name actually your band didn't have a name we went as untitled at any college event

00:40:34.420 but we played mostly just dorm parties really i could see why the chicks were throwing themselves at 1.00

00:40:38.280 you the drummer from untitled is here that's right um what did you play were you like blink 180 i'm

00:40:45.540 trying to get age bracket here yeah well blink songs yeah a lot of modern rock a lot of classic rock too

00:40:51.080 so uh zeppelin was big pink floyd dire straits that kind of stuff you know um eagles though so

00:40:56.460 lots of different stuff and then some soft rock i've learned that ladies like kind of 80s 90s soft 1.00

00:41:00.440 rock so christopher cross kind of stuff you know christopher cross that's right you know dire

00:41:04.760 straits isn't classic they were 80s bro ease up i'm a 70s baby well they came out in the 70s but

00:41:09.560 classic rock is 60s 70s it's not 80s our age group dan always had that special mix you put on

00:41:16.700 when a special when the ladies came over that's true you always had i did have a mix yes that was

00:41:21.840 like the this is going to be a more relaxed and uh delightful environment so what was on the dan

00:41:28.440 balt mixtape i had a lot of like uh early john mayer a lot of room for squares was on like the old

00:41:35.080 i'm gonna sound way old i didn't put any of that new crap on there well what was on the the dan 0.56

00:41:39.120 balt romance tape i mean i would have it's it's the it's the valentine's day episode so i would i

00:41:43.500 would have eagles probably peaceful easy feeling or hotel california all of them actually all of

00:41:47.980 yeah just a steady stream of eagles one of these nights lion eyes lion eyes you don't put that on

00:41:55.560 no no that's a bad one that's a later one oh no you can't um i would put even but again in high

00:42:01.680 school if i'm dating some of the hippie style chicks then you'd have some grateful dead on there 1.00

00:42:05.620 too because a little bit different a little bit getting it on mix depending on the person

00:42:10.780 like this is a hairband by the way you know how much you're gonna get us into right matt when i

00:42:17.940 go home thank you well my wife um actually used riley's strategy she is a musician and she would 1.00

00:42:23.520 write songs and she would record them during covid and she would send me like a little cover song

00:42:28.600 and it was so delightful i beautiful i was i was very wooed by that wow if we know who the better

00:42:35.440 half is in this relationship clearly i will say one one other strategy i learned this worked well

00:42:40.540 in college and i think beyond too but playing records actually listening to albums with someone

00:42:45.180 opening it up you take the sleeve you look at the pictures on the inside the vinyl absolutely yeah

00:42:49.980 there's there's a power a special power yeah to a record player a vinyl and just sitting down and

00:42:55.820 listening to an album and that transcends generations because we're gonna watch this on valentine's day and

00:43:00.640 your dms are gonna be loaded up they're gonna be like who is this sweet man who is willing to

00:43:05.640 listen to music he'll compose a song for me enjoy time you'll make them dinner probably you'll bring

00:43:11.400 them flowers you cook totally all right what's what what what would be your go-to valentine's day

00:43:15.660 dish that you would make depends but i really like a chicken alfredo or like a pasta dish i'm a big pasta

00:43:21.140 guy that's a little thick for valentine's day i know i know yeah but you're gonna think about after

00:43:26.020 dinner you don't want to be all loaded and bloated down with a bunch of pasta i'm thinking like a lean

00:43:30.820 protein like a chateaubriand what are you going going with when ideal valentine's day you have to

00:43:35.680 cook it it can't just be anything you drink yeah no no don't come at me with some beef wellington i

00:43:39.300 know you don't know how to make i do but i'm not um let's see because i need to figure this out since

00:43:43.500 we're hours away and i haven't i would say that my wife will want me to probably get a really high-end

00:43:51.340 steak and grill it to perfection and then she'll do a caesar salad with it because she loves caesar 0.99

00:43:57.880 she'll eat a caesar salad 10 times in a week um and a great bottle of cab and that's it i can keep 0.92

00:44:04.420 it simple that sounds she's not a huge sweet tooth person no dessert like any of that i'll eat the

00:44:08.420 dessert i'll make creme brulee one of my favorite but she won't steak caesar great wine good music

00:44:14.460 she'll be good and then just great eye contact and listening gentlemen listening do you think and then

00:44:20.120 you're in like flynn yeah and i honestly think that the home cooked meal is the better valentine's

00:44:24.940 day approach because the restaurants are ripping you off oh yes four times markup on the bottle of

00:44:30.660 wine yeah when it's not even like really their best stuff they do some special menu they do prefix

00:44:36.340 you know what you may be listening to this and watching this as you're preparing your valentine's

00:44:41.340 day meal and ordering your iver take some advice from us family farm because we know what to do

00:44:46.580 ask our wives when when are they coming on we should get them on here to have a little chat 1.00

00:44:51.420 see what they have to say about us i haven't told them that we have this show well you know my wife

00:44:57.100 knows because she's here every day in the building usually sitting behind the camera watching us do 0.98

00:45:01.000 this today she had to go home because you know we're remodeling the new house when people watch 0.93

00:45:05.020 this episode and they go back and they say we have to start from the beginning and watch the other

00:45:08.500 ones they will find a very important discussion we had about cargo pants and cargo shorts in episode 0.54

00:45:14.500 two i took crap for that by the payton was holding out on us because your wife was wearing cargo pants 1.00

00:45:20.280 at the time with the string instead of a belt tying them in the back like the young kids do these days 0.97

00:45:25.660 i had no clue till my teenager came home and she had these baggy pants down off the waist with a string 1.00

00:45:31.100 and then they tie a bow in the back and i'm yeah they don't use a belt does the bow mean anything

00:45:36.760 do different colors have meaning no it's like a white thin piece of string they loop it around twice

00:45:42.460 and then just tie it in the back and holds their pants plus they wear them way low now and they

00:45:46.780 want them big and baggy and i don't like that look but whatever whatever they want to do whatever

00:45:51.200 you want to do dear whatever you want i want to know riley we only got a few minutes i want to know

00:45:55.040 riley's dream guest on on uh his brand new terrific yes the real story with riley lewis they have to be

00:46:01.740 at six eastern six eastern uh dream guest there's a lot of them uh i think i think it would be cool to

00:46:09.460 get ted nugent on actually to talk guns that would be we could probably make that happen you're i'd

00:46:13.420 like to he's coming here in two weeks just come up yeah okay that would be a dream your dream guest

00:46:17.300 of any living human was ted nugent uh well if any living if we're any any love music if we're going

00:46:23.020 that i love ted ted don't be offended by that or be offended but i'm just saying any living human well

00:46:28.580 i don't want to i mean if we're going literally any human i would say paul mccartney

00:46:32.120 oh he is a music lover there's no way i mean ladies he's single he's got to have so many good

00:46:38.020 stories paul mccartney oh yeah and i grew up on the beatles and i'm just i want to know

00:46:42.380 the craziest stuff he's seen in his lifetime i mean and favorite favorite beatable beatles album

00:46:47.240 um mate it's their their early work i think was was really special but maybe abbey road i mean just

00:46:53.600 because all the way through on vinyl it sounds so good i love sergeant pepper love the white album

00:46:59.000 yeah the white the white album's all right i think if we're talking about dead musicians i'd

00:47:03.580 like to just you know have a few edibles with jerry garcia for a couple hours oh

00:47:07.240 that would be some cool story any living human you could interview on on real america

00:47:14.140 clint eastwood clint eastwood clint eastwood you picked friends favorite i love clint eastwood

00:47:21.300 i met him once and i'll tell this quick story because i know we only got a few minutes left

00:47:25.040 and and james woods of course we know is a patriot uh clint is a patriot i was working local news

00:47:32.280 palm springs market i want to say 2002 or three about the time i met trump the story i told you

00:47:37.980 on the first episode and friends of mine owned a steakhouse in the palm desert area in southern

00:47:45.020 california and uh i was in there eating and the owner came over and said hey i know you're a huge

00:47:50.840 clint fan we've talked about it before you know that my dad knows him very well because of in carmel

00:47:56.140 california i guess they had a business together the hog's breath restaurant clint's on his way here

00:48:01.000 from playing golf out at pj west with james woods i would call your newsroom get a camera guy and we

00:48:06.700 probably get you like a couple minutes with him when they enter the restaurant like sweet so i put down

00:48:10.720 my booze stop drinking it's work time call get a camera guy over there sure enough in a few minutes

00:48:15.580 here comes clint eastwood and james woods and i'm pretty sure they had a couple cocktails on the

00:48:21.440 golf course like we all do and one of the first things out of woods's mouth was he says i forget

00:48:28.340 what how we how we brought this up about having cocktails or whatever but james says that clint was 0.98

00:48:34.000 out there dropping acid with him and that's why they're all kind of messed up and clint's like damn 0.81

00:48:38.240 it jimmy and he gets all mad at him and he's so tall and lanky and whatever and james is just laughing

00:48:42.660 and whatever and then so james goes on and i interview clint for like two or three minutes

00:48:45.840 and they go on to their dinner did it seem like he was on acid no they just had some cocktails

00:48:49.800 but woods was being funny maybe i don't know um did he talk to like the pink elephant in the corner

00:48:55.680 no they seemed fine just like they had a couple cocktails on the course but that little just

00:49:00.740 couple minutes and looking at clint's entire career right from starting on television at 17 or 18

00:49:06.340 years old and now he's what 94 he just finished his last project 94 or 93 94 i swear and he just

00:49:12.480 finished a film that he wrote i think for sure he directed it he still composes music i mean the

00:49:19.060 guy does the whole facet of filmmaking and he's become a big enough icon and name to tell the

00:49:24.320 studios whatever and do his own thing do you remember when he has that crazy bit with the

00:49:28.180 empty chair talking to yeah yeah brack obama yeah all right so if i that's mine how about you guys want

00:49:33.280 a very different direction i would probably like go with vladimir putin oof interesting tucker's been

00:49:40.760 and then like the ayatollah maybe would be on my list really and then like bill clinton like that

00:49:46.620 that rounds out my top three these are interviews with all of those people i'd have a lot to talk

00:49:51.660 about these are interviews not double dates you're talking about yes yes yes not my valentine's day

00:49:56.220 date no no frankly you know what if i could interview bill clinton the ayatollah or vladimir

00:50:01.340 putin i would do it on valentine's day and i would even cook for him matt let me tell you what

00:50:05.500 if you come out with me on valentine's day we'd have a hell of a time wouldn't you love to interview

00:50:09.620 bill clinton um i did for about two minutes tarmac albuquerque new mexico 1995 ish i'm working

00:50:21.880 for um a farts armed forces radio television service active duty air force uh air force one

00:50:27.040 landed at kirtland air force base and he was going to talk to local schools in albuquerque

00:50:32.140 about uniforms in schools plus he was on the base doing downsizing so we're all worried we're

00:50:37.200 going to get closed down and i was at the end of the receiving line where all the dignitaries

00:50:41.360 you've been there before all the dignitaries lined up in uniform and the politicians to kiss the ring

00:50:45.640 and i was there to document and ask him a question or some crap and that's all all i remember about 0.87

00:50:50.100 him is uh the broken blood vessels that you get when you're an elky on your nose and face and he 1.00

00:50:55.480 smelled like booze that's what i remember bill clinton i tell you what what a lovely note for us to end

00:51:00.640 on valentine's day that i told you something you didn't know womanizing drunk bill clinton 1.00

00:51:05.300 oh breaking news our very own dan ball spent two minutes with bill clinton and didn't even have to

00:51:11.140 file charges afterwards so no i had a hangover the next day from smelling him can yeah well riley

00:51:18.880 we're excited for your new show we're excited for the primetime lineup and really i just wanted to

00:51:24.320 invite you on so that dan would stop hazing me as the new guy in the primetime lineup but now that

00:51:29.300 you're here uh i think it's going to be an incredible year i think it's going to be an

00:51:33.020 incredible term transformational and what a place to what a place to be talking about it when when

00:51:38.640 you shared with me off camera that this was a dream i really felt that and i think it's a dream for all

00:51:44.320 of us to be in in the great golden age absolutely i mean what a time to be alive really it's remarkable

00:51:49.840 um and i'm very grateful i love hearing that story from you brother that that this kid because my my

00:51:56.060 my goals as a kid and i'm sure you too matt changed throughout the years look at what all you've

00:51:59.820 done state house federal government now talk show host whatever and i don't know that i was dreaming

00:52:04.720 about being a conservative talk show host a little kid i mean we were doing cops and robbers and i was

00:52:09.240 dreaming of going to be a marine corps sniper and an fbi agent you told matt and i before we invited john

00:52:14.560 like my dream growing up was to be a talk show host or a news guy and here you are i mean this is we'll go

00:52:22.280 deeper into all of dan's dreams next week on the anchorman show that's all the time we have

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - February 15, 2025

Anchormen with Matt Gaetz & Dan Ball ｜ Episode 3

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