The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - February 24, 2022


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On this episode of Firebrand, Ron Burgundy joins us to talk about his new podcast, Firebrand Dan, and why he thinks we need more people like Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) in Congress.

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00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress
00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,
00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.000 You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.000 It's like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.
00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:54.000 Thanks so much for joining us on Firebrand.
00:00:56.000 Firebrand, we know that the media landscape is a changing one.
00:01:00.000 And it's an important one because it contributes greatly to our national discussion
00:01:03.000 and the platforms that exist so that we're able to share ideas
00:01:06.000 and have debate and discussion in different viewpoints.
00:01:09.000 DirecTV really changed a lot of the TV landscape.
00:01:11.000 They brought people from dozens of channels to hundreds of channels.
00:01:15.000 And AT&T realized that there was a limited offering for news and analysis from a conservative perspective.
00:01:23.000 While there were plenty of shows and programs that would give you an opportunity to have a liberal perspective,
00:01:28.000 there needed to be more build out.
00:01:30.000 And then we had a real news entrepreneur, Mr. Herring, step forward and build One America News.
00:01:37.000 One America News has now grown into a major voice in national politics and discussion.
00:01:42.000 And one reason is because they've got one of my very favorite shows on air,
00:01:46.000 Real America, hosted by Dan Ball, my friend who joins us now on Firebrand.
00:01:51.000 Dan, maybe just give us a sense of how you went from the work you were doing in the news industry to hosting this great national show
00:01:58.000 where you get to talk to people all over the country every evening.
00:02:01.000 Well, Matt, thank you so much.
00:02:03.000 And let me just start by saying only thank you for having me on your program for once instead of the other way around.
00:02:08.000 It's odd, by the way, to be the one taking the questions.
00:02:11.000 But thank you for all you're doing.
00:02:13.000 Fighting. You are a firebrand.
00:02:15.000 I love the name of your podcast you're doing.
00:02:17.000 Because let me tell you, the stuff that you have been fighting for and speaking out against,
00:02:22.000 we need more congressmen and women in that house like you. 1.00
00:02:25.000 So I want to thank you first and foremost.
00:02:27.000 So my background is pretty simple.
00:02:29.000 You know, I served in the United States Air Force.
00:02:31.000 I was a journalist.
00:02:33.000 I worked for, the vets will know the acronym, AFARTS.
00:02:36.000 That's the Armed Forces Radio Television Service.
00:02:38.000 I did that, did my four year tour of duty, got out, got my first job in broadcast news.
00:02:43.000 Back in 1996, as a cameraman.
00:02:46.000 Within a few months, I was a reporter.
00:02:48.000 Within a few years, I was a news anchor.
00:02:50.000 I've done about every job in a newsroom.
00:02:52.000 I was even a news director.
00:02:54.000 I ran the show.
00:02:55.000 And a few years back, I got frustrated, just like you did, I'm sure.
00:02:59.000 And I ran for Congress and lost in Southern California.
00:03:03.000 It was for Mary and Sonny Bona's old seat, which, after some gerrymandering, the Democrats had flipped that one to a highly registered Democrat seat.
00:03:11.000 And I knew what I was up against, but by golly, I felt a need to do it.
00:03:14.000 So I ran an 18.
00:03:15.000 And like I said, we lost.
00:03:17.000 And so then I tried to get back into the industry that I had at one time loved.
00:03:22.000 You know, it's all I knew.
00:03:24.000 When people would see me on the street and recognize me, it was, it's the news guy.
00:03:27.000 It's the news man.
00:03:28.000 That's what you get as the local anchor man, the Ron Burgundy of the city you're working in, right?
00:03:32.000 I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal.
00:03:38.000 It's like you went from the Adrian Cronauer to the Ron Burgundy, right?
00:03:42.000 Adrian Cronauer was at my graduation ceremony in the military as a guest speaker when I graduated my technical school in the Air Force to learn to be a journalist.
00:03:51.000 And real quick story, that's the reason I went in and chose that job.
00:03:55.000 I watched that movie.
00:03:56.000 Good morning, Vietnam.
00:03:57.000 Loved it.
00:03:58.000 Watched the Gulf War on TV.
00:03:59.000 Wanted to serve my country and went and signed up as a journalist wanting to do that job because of that film.
00:04:05.000 Good morning, Vietnam.
00:04:09.000 So fast forward.
00:04:11.000 After we lost, I attempted for a good solid two years, 19 and 20, applying to get back into the news industry, doing what I knew how to do for 20 some years.
00:04:23.000 And I would get the initial phone call.
00:04:26.000 Your work's great.
00:04:27.000 We love what we're seeing.
00:04:28.000 We'll be in touch.
00:04:30.000 Of course, then they start backgrounding you and looking at your social media and nobody ever called back because I had come out of the closet as a conservative, as a Republican, as a wait for it, Trump supporter.
00:04:42.000 And I ran for Congress.
00:04:44.000 We can't hire that guy as a news anchor at our station ever again.
00:04:47.000 And so I was never getting any offers.
00:04:49.000 And Mr. Herring, who you intro so eloquently, our boss here, the boss man, he had contacted me and his son several years before when they first started the operation.
00:04:59.000 And I think 13 or 14.
00:05:01.000 And I had turned down some offers there.
00:05:03.000 They were just starting.
00:05:04.000 They didn't have a lot of cash yet.
00:05:05.000 And I was somewhere else.
00:05:07.000 So I kept his cell phone number.
00:05:09.000 And I literally called him August 20th of 2020.
00:05:13.000 And I was fed up.
00:05:14.000 I was up to here with everything going on politically in the world and obviously the election and everything looming.
00:05:20.000 And I said, do you have anything?
00:05:22.000 And he said, we have a talk show post opening.
00:05:24.000 It's not news, what you've been doing.
00:05:26.000 So you'd have to be opinionated.
00:05:27.000 I think you can handle that.
00:05:29.000 And I'm like, hmm, I don't know.
00:05:33.000 And so it was September 14th, right before the election.
00:05:37.000 And this is no thanks to me.
00:05:39.000 This is credit to the American people.
00:05:41.000 Within two months, we were the number one talk show on the network.
00:05:44.000 Within six months, we were the highest rated show the network's ever had since its inception in 2013.
00:05:49.000 And again, that's thanks to Americans seeking One American News out because they wanted truth in reporting.
00:05:56.000 And all they get now on CNN and the rest of these monitors up here in my office is a bunch of spewing radical activists lying to them every single day.
00:06:05.000 And I was fed up.
00:06:06.000 And so we got this platform and we just been out there trying to spread truth.
00:06:10.000 Matt, that's what we're doing every day.
00:06:12.000 Real America is the show.
00:06:14.000 Dan Ball is the host.
00:06:15.000 One American News is the network.
00:06:17.000 Your viewers are committed.
00:06:20.000 And a lot of the One American News viewers that I talk to, that is really not just part of the mosaic of news they get.
00:06:26.000 That is the principal source of news they get.
00:06:29.000 Tell me why you think there are some stories that get special attention or special investigative reporting on One American News that might not on other networks.
00:06:38.000 And I think specifically about the Ukraine hoax.
00:06:41.000 You know, we've had so many scandals in the Biden administration, we forget what Adam Schiff tried to do to the presidency in the Ukraine hoax.
00:06:47.000 And the depth of the investigative reporting on One American News was far and beyond the best that we saw in the country.
00:06:55.000 What is it about the philosophy there that might highlight a different lens for the information?
00:07:02.000 I think that when our producers and the news director and the H's are looking at stories that we want to put, say, Pearson Sharp on and do more investigating at one depth on, we're looking at those ones specifically, too, that the mainstream either ignore or have skewed the narrative so far, the opposite side of the spectrum, that the story is so convoluted you can't make sense of it.
00:07:24.000 Or they literally change the narrative.
00:07:26.000 So if we're showing you facts and something is white, they're telling you it's black. 0.97
00:07:30.000 And that's what the Ukraine.
00:07:31.000 I mean, look, Matt, you've heard in the last few weeks, of course, everybody's saying, oh, misinformation, disinformation, right?
00:07:38.000 Russian propaganda.
00:07:40.000 Trump owns us, tells us what to say. 1.00
00:07:42.000 That's all a bunch of bullshit, number one. 0.99
00:07:44.000 Number two, to your question about the stories, if you have all of the networks for the past five years saying that Donald J. Trump colluded with Russia when the facts have been proven, the dossier was fake, he didn't collude, then, yeah, we're going to hit it even harder to try and offset because we're only one network and you've got half a dozen every day that are telling you the opposite and lying. 0.99
00:08:04.940 So I'd say that's kind of how we pick and make sure that some of those stories that are just being blatantly lied about in the mainstream media have more attention so people get the facts.
00:08:13.940 We don't know what hour they're watching, what show they're watching.
00:08:15.940 So sometimes you've got to just keep repeating it so they see it, especially, again, when CNN, MSNBC, I've got them in my office, I'm watching their lies right now.
00:08:24.940 You know, we've got Navarro getting subpoenaed, Peter Navarro that worked for the president, of course, MSNBC with the plot on January 6th.
00:08:33.940 We've got Giuliani and prosecutors going after Giuliani in New York on CNN and then Russia's doing it.
00:08:40.940 Well, let's talk about the DOJ for a moment.
00:08:42.940 Oh, of course.
00:08:43.940 The Department of Justice concerned a lot of parents when they used the domestic terrorism label to try to have a basis to do what they wouldn't otherwise be able to do,
00:08:52.940 and that's categorize people by their politics, to hunt them, to do everything they can to ruin their lives.
00:08:59.940 There has been a recent Justice Department pronouncement that people who spread disinformation or misinformation may be labeled as domestic extremists and domestic terrorists.
00:09:10.940 Senator Hawley unleashed his wrath at Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco after her boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, issued this unprecedented memorandum.
00:09:19.940 It directs, quote, the Federal Bureau of Investigation to facilitate the discussion of strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff,
00:09:29.940 and will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting assessment and response.
00:09:36.940 Parents waiting sometimes for hours to speak at a local school board meeting to express concerns about critical race theory or the masking of their students, particularly young children.
00:09:48.940 Is that, in and of itself, is that harassment and intimidation, is waiting to express one's view at a school board meeting harassment and intimidation?
00:09:57.940 As the Attorney General's memorandum made quite clear, spirited debate is welcome, is a hallmark of this country.
00:10:04.940 It's something we all should engage in.
00:10:06.940 No, I don't think so, Ms. Monica.
00:10:07.940 With all due respect, it didn't make it quite clear.
00:10:10.940 It doesn't define those terms.
00:10:12.940 Now, since One America News has falsely had to endure the smears of these labels, do you worry that you and your colleagues at One America News may be labeled domestic terrorists by the Department of Justice?
00:10:25.940 I'll wear it as a badge of honor. 0.98
00:10:26.940 I couldn't give two shits less, Matt. 0.98
00:10:28.940 You've probably seen the videos. 0.99
00:10:30.940 I've gone to my child's school board meetings multiple times.
00:10:33.940 I've taken a cameraman with me.
00:10:35.940 You may not think that keeping these face muzzles on our kids, maybe you're thinking you're keeping them safe. 1.00
00:10:40.940 You're not.
00:10:41.940 So my question is, why are you doing this?
00:10:43.940 Well, it's probably because you're either misinformed, blinded by fear, uneducated on the matter, or you simply lack the backbone to stand up to these tyrannical mandates.
00:10:50.940 Note I said mandates, not laws, because they are not laws.
00:10:55.940 A select few in power in this state and in the federal government lack the intestinal fortitude to stand up to these mandates.
00:11:02.940 I've exposed and helped parents there get the recall going for the board members.
00:11:08.940 And I would like to say that those brave parents that have been speaking out for the last year over the mask and vaccine mandates, the CRT, the over sexual books that are on the shelves in K through eight, because parents have taken action with that.
00:11:22.940 But just in the schools my kid goes to, I'm proud to announce that the chairman just resigned.
00:11:27.940 Now, he took another government job, but at least he's off the school board. 0.99
00:11:31.940 So if they're going to call me a domestic terrorist because I went to my 14 year old daughter's school board meeting and said, my daughter feels faint when she has these damn masks on. 0.98
00:11:41.940 She tells me you can't see people's expressions. 0.98
00:11:44.940 She tells me the most damaging thing when I hear her go, it's OK, dad, I don't mind.
00:11:48.940 I don't mind wearing it.
00:11:50.940 Oh, that drives me nuts.
00:11:51.940 So if parents have to go speak up to get these mandates pulled to get the CRT out of the schools and you get labeled as a domestic terrorist.
00:11:59.940 So be it, parents, because soon enough, there'll be a reckoning.
00:12:03.940 And, Matt, let's hope by the grace of God, Republicans take back control this November and come next year, the DOJ is going to have a lot of answering to do.
00:12:12.940 And I have a feeling we probably won't see the current AG in his role once Republicans fully take everything back.
00:12:19.940 I hope not.
00:12:20.940 So I don't care.
00:12:21.940 They can label me whatever they want.
00:12:22.940 Probably tapping my phones and watching what you and I are doing right now.
00:12:25.940 I don't care.
00:12:26.940 Probably.
00:12:27.940 We welcome all in the federal government to watch Firebrand and to watch Real America with Dan Ball.
00:12:33.940 Dan, while the Department of Justice is not doing or while they are doing these very strange things to target Americans, there's important work that the Department of Justice is not doing, particularly in the area of antitrust.
00:12:45.940 I'm very concerned that large technology companies and other large businesses in America have gained so much power that they've limited novel and unique voices, novel and unique experiences in the marketplace.
00:12:58.940 We've seen that with Google, Facebook, where the DOJ does kind of just enough, but they don't really use antitrust powers.
00:13:04.940 But now we see a tremendous amount of power being concentrated in the hands of those who distribute television content, whether that's through satellite, whether that is through coaxial cable.
00:13:16.940 Do you believe that the Department of Justice should have further investigation into the power that some companies that have satellite and cable distribution have over the content that is on their platforms?
00:13:29.940 So this is a slippery slope, so I have to watch how I answer this.
00:13:32.940 So first and foremost, I believe in and love capitalism.
00:13:36.940 I hate regulations.
00:13:37.940 I don't want government overreach.
00:13:39.940 I don't want them stepping in and telling me I can't have an opinion and say what I want and infringe upon my freedom of speech and freedom of the press, because this is what I've been doing for nearly 30 years.
00:13:51.940 So with that said, because you have people in power, people of influence, and this woke cancel culture mob all ganging up on what you were just talking about, the providers, whether people that provide the servers or the platform, whether it be digital, satellite, cable, whatever it may be.
00:14:11.940 If they are simply silencing people, whether it be on Facebook, on Dish, on whatever, because of political reasons, then whatever happened to political discourse in this country, we're supposed to have that.
00:14:24.940 That's where the government should step in.
00:14:26.940 It's kind of like this, Matt.
00:14:27.940 We don't like regulation.
00:14:28.940 You and I don't.
00:14:29.940 No conservative and no capitalist does.
00:14:31.940 But if a company is out there poisoning people, OK, it's the government's job to step in and say, you're poisoning Americans.
00:14:37.940 Here's my constituents.
00:14:38.940 Stop dumping the medical waste.
00:14:39.940 Here's some regulation.
00:14:40.940 I think any red blooded American, no matter left, right, independent, would agree that's OK for regulation.
00:14:45.940 OK, how do you have a healthy discourse if you're allowing just a handful of these major owners of, again, whether it be cable, satellite, Facebook, Instagram, all the social media, that's only a handful of these overlords.
00:15:00.940 If they're allowed to pick and choose what's misinformation, what's correct, what's not, where the hell did free speech go?
00:15:06.940 Where the hell did freedom of press go?
00:15:08.940 I love Dennis Prager.
00:15:09.940 He comes on the show a lot.
00:15:10.940 And Dennis always says, especially being a member of the Jewish community, he's like, you can't have free speech without hate speech.
00:15:18.940 You can't have free speech without the other political side.
00:15:22.940 It's no such thing.
00:15:24.940 We have to have it all.
00:15:25.940 Whether you don't, whether you like it or you don't like it, whether it hurts your feelings or doesn't hurt your feelings, it doesn't matter.
00:15:29.940 We should be able to express it.
00:15:30.940 And when they want to try and say that OAN is misinformation because, and let's be real, the two main things people have hit us on is our coverage of the 2020 election and then also our coverage of the COVID pandemic hysteria nonsense.
00:15:47.940 We talk about the fact that the vaccine isn't working and we back it up with the data to show it, you know, the science that masks don't work.
00:15:55.940 What do you think the other, why do you, why do you think, why do you think that so many other news organizations were unwilling to cover instances of fraud or illegal voting or irregularity or whatever, whatever synonym they want to use for it?
00:16:12.940 Why do you think that OAN seemed to have almost a laser-like focus into those things and they were ignored by other news outlets?
00:16:19.940 The other ones ignored it because the corporate tyrant CEOs, like the guy who just got pushed out at CNN, Jeff Zucker, who deserved it, told them to.
00:16:30.940 I mean, you're, I know your audience on Firebrand probably follows James O'Keefe and the great work Project Veritas guys.
00:16:36.940 Yes.
00:16:37.940 Let's talk about those two months of phone calls because a whistleblower was kind enough to give James the phone number and he got to call in and listen to two months of their 9am meeting where it's supposed to be.
00:16:48.940 And you may have been in a newsroom before, an editorial meeting, folks, is supposed to be everybody coming together, the news director, the reporters, photographers, producers, and here's your ideas for stories of the day.
00:16:59.940 Then you go out and cover them and you're, sorry about that, you're supposed to be out covering them neutrally, showing both sides.
00:17:06.940 But if you listen to those phone calls, Jeff Zucker was blatantly telling them this is the way we're going to skew stories.
00:17:12.940 And this was right before the election, I believe.
00:17:14.940 Trump continuing to undermine election integrity with bracelets claims of fraud.
00:17:21.940 OK, and he's continuing to do it.
00:17:23.940 And that leads to the question of whether or not Trump in himself is a national security threat.
00:17:29.940 I just want to reemphasize that, you know, I think we cannot normalize what has happened here in the last week with Trump and his behavior.
00:17:43.940 And I go back to what David said, David Challian said, that this is a president who knows he's losing, who knows he's in trouble, is sick, maybe is on the aftereffects of steroids or not.
00:17:59.940 Like they're literally, again, spewing the narrative and controlling it.
00:18:04.940 We don't do that here.
00:18:05.940 Literally, Mr. H, the 80-year-old owner, when he hired me, said, you'll go after them all, right?
00:18:11.940 I said, what do you mean?
00:18:12.940 Left, right, independent, Republican, Democrats.
00:18:14.940 If they deserve it, if they're screwing over the American people, you'll talk about it on the show and nail them. 0.98
00:18:18.940 He said, you're damn right. 0.97
00:18:19.940 He goes, you're hired. 0.90
00:18:20.940 That's how we do things.
00:18:22.940 Nobody's in my office going, you will have this guest on.
00:18:25.940 You will not say this.
00:18:26.940 You won't say that.
00:18:27.940 You won't ask these questions.
00:18:28.940 Nobody ever does that.
00:18:29.940 Ever.
00:18:30.940 That's why people watch, because it's real.
00:18:32.940 And CNN is hemorrhaging ratings because it all is so contrived in so many circumstances.
00:18:38.940 Now, there was a circumstance a while ago where the head football coach of Oklahoma State University wore a One America News T-shirt while fishing.
00:18:46.940 And no offense, Dan, but everybody knows you don't wear your favorite shirt fishing.
00:18:51.940 You wear the shirt that you don't mind getting some blood and guts and bait on.
00:18:55.940 And he later had to apologize for wearing your network shirt, which I've met a number of the great people who work in your organization from the Herrings all the way to the fine greeters who ensure that everybody has a great experience when they come to your studios there in San Diego.
00:19:12.940 And everyone is kind and welcoming and just American.
00:19:16.940 And so I'm wondering how it makes the people at OAN feel when the woke mob literally says that someone is a racist for wearing a T-shirt with your logo on it.
00:19:25.940 Most of us around here laugh it off.
00:19:27.940 And I don't know if you know, because he came out and apologized after and then said, I didn't realize OAN stirred up so emotion and hurt feelings and that we provided misinformation and were racist.
00:19:38.940 I mean, he jumped on the bandwagon.
00:19:40.940 Oh, yeah, no, he caved.
00:19:41.940 Yeah.
00:19:42.940 He caved to the woke mob.
00:19:43.940 Our players expressed their feelings as individuals and as team members.
00:19:48.940 They helped me see through their eyes how the T-shirt affected their hearts.
00:19:53.940 Once I learned how that network felt about Black Lives Matter,
00:19:58.940 I was disgusted and knew it was completely unacceptable to me.
00:20:03.940 I want to apologize to all members of our team, former players and their families,
00:20:10.940 for the pain and discomfort that has been caused over the last two days.
00:20:15.940 Black lives matter to me.
00:20:17.940 Our players matter to me.
00:20:20.940 So when they played for their bowl game or championship game right a month or so back and lost right to Baylor, I think I sent him a gift right before the game on Friday.
00:20:30.940 We know he received it because we got confirmation.
00:20:33.940 I sent him a set of balls and a brand new golf T-shirt with a collar and a nice embroidered away and not that T-shirt he got.
00:20:40.940 So I don't know if he's going to wear it.
00:20:42.940 I don't know if he's going to play with those golf balls I sent him, but I figured he needed a pair.
00:20:45.940 So, yeah, that's how I feel about the cave.
00:20:49.940 Grow some balls. 0.96
00:20:50.940 There's just too much that we saw with Joe Rogan apologizing for some past comments. 0.98
00:20:56.940 I mean, we're supposed to all grow and be better humans.
00:20:59.940 And it would just be nice if everyone was a little more forgiving and that we weren't trying to rip each other off the air or not engage in discussion and discourse with each other.
00:21:07.940 Whoopi gone.
00:21:08.940 Let's talk about that.
00:21:09.940 Everybody's saying so horrible has happened to Whoopi.
00:21:11.940 I don't want Whoopi gone.
00:21:12.940 I don't want Whoopi gone. 0.99
00:21:13.940 She sticks her big foot in her big fat mouth all the time. 1.00
00:21:16.940 And she's, to me, a racist idiot telling Joy Reid. 1.00
00:21:18.940 She's one of the worst racists on television towards white people. 1.00
00:21:21.940 Yes, you can be racist towards white people. 1.00
00:21:23.940 I don't want them kicked off.
00:21:25.940 That's civil discourse. 0.94
00:21:26.940 They can spew their nonsense opinion, too.
00:21:28.940 But don't try to kick me off in this network off.
00:21:30.940 You know what you can do if you don't like it?
00:21:32.940 Click.
00:21:33.940 Change the channel.
00:21:34.940 Change the channel.
00:21:36.940 Or hate or hate watch, which is what so many people do with the view.
00:21:39.940 I mean, I still believe Whoopi Goldberg's best days were a Sister Mary Clarence and Sister Act.
00:21:43.940 It's sort of been downhill from there.
00:21:45.940 There are three vows every nun must accept.
00:21:47.940 The vow of poverty, the vow of obedience, and the vow of chastity.
00:21:51.940 I am out of here with that.
00:21:53.940 DirecTV has announced that they are not going to renew the contract for One American News.
00:21:58.940 That is very concerning to so many of your viewers, but also those of us who rely on an honest platform.
00:22:06.940 And by the way, a platform where, you know, I know when I go on your show, I'm going to get pushed.
00:22:10.940 You're going to ask tough questions.
00:22:12.940 But a platform to be able to get truth before people.
00:22:15.940 What message would you share with your viewers who are concerned that come May, you might be off the air?
00:22:22.940 Anyone that watches the show knows I don't censor myself, or at least I try not to ever censor myself.
00:22:29.940 But because there are a couple hundred hardworking employees at the OAM network, and because of the man and his two sons that are here every single day, eight, nine, ten hours a day running this place.
00:22:40.940 I don't want to see anyone get in trouble or lose anything.
00:22:44.940 Okay.
00:22:45.940 And so with that said, I have to watch how I comment now.
00:22:49.940 And a lot of folks have been asking me, hey, Dan, you sent out this all call.
00:22:52.940 You told us that OAM's in trouble.
00:22:54.940 Are they going to stay on the carrier?
00:22:56.940 I'm not allowed now to mention anything about this situation because I have been threatened by an army of lawyers by a certain large company.
00:23:08.940 But here's what I can tell you.
00:23:10.940 OAM is not going anywhere after April, no matter what happens with whomever is carrying us on whatever provider.
00:23:19.940 We are not going away.
00:23:21.940 We just might be in less households and it'll be a massive hit to the budget here, to the hearings and to the hard workers.
00:23:27.940 So expansion raises everything else out the window.
00:23:31.940 But guess what? I'm not going anywhere.
00:23:32.940 I'm staying right here.
00:23:33.940 Okay.
00:23:34.940 You sound like Churchill during the tough days of World War II where he said even if we lose England, even if they cross the channel, we'll go to the British Empire's faraway lands and we'll fight from there as long as we can.
00:23:47.940 I know that your voice is an important one.
00:23:50.940 The voice that One America News offers is absolutely critical to our national discourse.
00:23:54.940 I'm rooting for you.
00:23:56.940 I'm rooting against the woke mob that tries to cancel everyone that seems to raise a ruckus or raise their voice or raise tough questions like OAN has done about the 2020 election and about the efficacy of these vaccines.
00:24:09.940 We should be able to question these things.
00:24:11.940 Thanks for doing it on Real America.
00:24:13.940 Thanks for being my buddy, Dan.
00:24:14.940 Thanks for joining us on Firebrand.
00:24:15.940 Thank you, brother.
00:24:16.940 You take care.
00:24:17.940 God bless you.