The Ben Shapiro Show - SHOCKING Kidnapping Update

00:00:00.000 Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's mom, is still missing.

00:00:02.000 We'll bring you all of the updates.

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00:01:06.000 The nation awaits more updates on what is going on with Nancy Guthrie.

00:01:10.000 That is Savannah Guthrie's mom.

00:01:12.000 That is the biggest unfolding story in the country right now.

00:01:14.000 The kidnapping of the 84-year-old mother of the TV star has, I think, set a lot of people on edge and for very good reason.

00:01:21.000 Apparently, according to the New York Post, Nancy Guthrie's purported kidnappers claimed in a ransom note sent to TMZ that the 84-year-old at TV host mom is safe but scared and they know exactly what chilling demands are being made for her return.

00:01:34.000 The note apparently was sent to TMZ two days after Guthrie's mom was reported missing and demanded millions in Bitcoin be turned over to avoid consequential repercussions.

00:01:44.000 This, of course, is very scary stuff.

00:01:45.000 Savannah Guthrie went on national media yesterday to plead with the kidnappers to release her mom.

00:01:51.000 You know, obviously, it's an act of evil.

00:01:52.000 There have been reports that neighbors had spotted some suspicious vehicles outside Nancy Guthrie's home earlier in the week, a van that was parked down the street.

00:02:00.000 Here is Savannah Guthrie pleading for the release of her mom. 0.92

00:02:05.000 Our mom is our heart and our home.

00:02:10.000 She is 84 years old.

00:02:12.000 Her health, her heart is fragile.

00:02:16.000 She lives in constant pain. 0.71

00:02:20.000 She is without any medicine. 0.76

00:02:22.000 She needs it to survive. 0.97

00:02:24.000 She needs it not to suffer.

00:02:29.000 We too have heard the reports about a ransom letter in the media.

00:02:35.000 As a family, we are doing everything that we can.

00:02:41.000 We are ready to talk.

00:02:43.000 Savannah Guthrie's brother also released a video yesterday, late yesterday, asking kidnappers to release.

00:02:51.000 This is Cameron Guthrie.

00:02:52.000 I'm speaking for the Guthrie family.

00:02:54.000 Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you.

00:02:58.000 We haven't heard anything directly.

00:03:00.000 We need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward.

00:03:05.000 But first, we have to know that you have our mom.

00:03:08.000 We want to talk to you and we are waiting for contact.

00:03:12.000 Absolutely horrifying case, obviously.

00:03:13.000 According to TMZ, the original ransom note contained insider details about the abduction, including information about her Apple Watch and a damaged floodlight at her million-dollar home.

00:03:23.000 The note was sent before those details were publicly revealed, which is why some people think that the note is legit.

00:03:29.000 Now, there are some people who are taking advantage of this.

00:03:32.000 Apparently, one imposter had sent a ransom note, a fake ransom note, and then was caught and charged.

00:03:38.000 According to the New York Post, a California man accused of sending phony ransom texts to Savannah Guthrie's family about her missing mother has been arrested and charged, according to that criminal complaint filed on Thursday.

00:03:49.000 Some sick, twisted piece of trash named Derek Colella, who's in his mid-40s, messaged Guthrie's daughter Annie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni about the ailing 84-year-old on Wednesday, according to a complaint filed in Arizona federal court.

00:04:02.000 A lot of sick people out there, a lot of perverse people out there, obviously.

00:04:07.000 Apparently, the authorities have been receiving a flurry of fake Nancy Guthrie ransom notes, and that is actually bogging down their resources in their search for the actual kidnappers at this point.

00:04:16.000 According to the Post, at least three ransom messages have been reported to Arizona and federal authorities in the five days since Guthrie was disappeared from her million-dollar Tucson home.

00:04:26.000 Only one of them was being taken seriously so far.

00:04:29.000 There are a fair number of clues, apparently, that Nancy Guthrie was targeted.

00:04:34.000 According to certain officials, including former special agent Tracy Walder at the FBI's LA field office, he says, I think that this was targeted.

00:04:45.000 He says, I don't think this is a botched robbery because you don't want to burden yourself with the person that you're taking out.

00:04:49.000 I mean, pretty clearly, this was targeted.

00:04:52.000 It'd be hard to imagine that it wasn't targeted.

00:04:54.000 Well, there was an original ransom deadline.

00:04:57.000 That ransom deadline did pass at 5 p.m. yesterday.

00:05:03.000 That does not necessarily mean that something terrible happened, although the threats were there that something would happen if the deadline passed and a ransom was not paid.

00:05:13.000 Now, all of this is very upsetting.

00:05:16.000 Former FBI director Andrew McCabe said that in these situations, you get a lot of false leads, you get a lot of scammers, you get a lot of people trying to take advantage of a horrible situation.

00:05:25.000 It's unthinkable, but it does happen.

00:05:29.000 He said, obviously, that if you're a kidnapped 84-year-old person, then that is incredibly stressful medically, physiologically, psychologically.

00:05:39.000 Whether the police are any closer is totally unclear at this point in time.

00:05:46.000 The sheriff who's overseeing all of this, a guy named Chris Nanos, he said they've gone through over 100 tips at this point.

00:05:53.000 Are you flooded with tips?

00:05:56.000 Are the phones ringing nonstop?

00:05:58.000 We've probably gone through well over 100 tips.

00:06:03.000 I don't want to discourage anybody.

00:06:07.000 All tips.

00:06:08.000 There's no tip too small.

00:06:10.000 We want all that information.

00:06:12.000 Nanos added that what had been described to him was a very disturbing scene.

00:06:17.000 He said that the specific ransom note that they are taking very seriously, again, contained details about things at the house that were accurate.

00:06:28.000 This one came to me in a text, and I read it, and it concerned me right away.

00:06:33.000 Where I thought, all right, I have a great search and rescue team, very robust.

00:06:37.000 They do amazing things, but I felt like something didn't sound right to me.

00:06:43.000 And so I advised him right then, you should be calling our homicide team.

00:06:47.000 What did they do?

00:06:48.000 You know, I can't get into that because it's part of the case, but they described to me a scene that just disturbed me.

00:06:57.000 We'll bring you more updates.

00:06:59.000 You can check all the updates over at the Daily Wire app where we have a podcast that is covering ongoing developments in the Nancy Guthrie case.

00:07:05.000 We'll get to more on all this in just a moment.

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00:08:10.000 Joining me on the line for all the latest updates is Lyndon Blake.

00:08:12.000 She's our Daily Wire investigative reporter.

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00:08:20.000 Lyndon, thanks so much for the time.

00:08:23.000 Of course, Ben, a lot to get to on the sixth day of the search for Nancy Guthrie.

00:08:28.000 So we have heard, obviously, that the first deadline in what police believe to be a real ransom note has passed.

00:08:33.000 What is the next deadline?

00:08:34.000 What sort of consequences were threatened, if any?

00:08:38.000 Yeah, so the next deadline is the big deadline.

00:08:40.000 5 p.m. Thursday, the first one.

00:08:42.000 It's gone.

00:08:43.000 The next one was Monday.

00:08:45.000 And KGUN, one of the outlets that reported receiving the ransom note, they gave details on what it meant if that deadline wasn't met on Monday.

00:08:53.000 And they said the note threatened to kill Nancy if payment for the millions of dollars in Bitcoin wasn't received by Monday.

00:08:59.000 So again, those two stations in Arizona, the local news stations plus TMZ all got the same ransom note.

00:09:05.000 That's new information that we learned during Thursday's press conference was the news outlets that got the ransom notes were the same.

00:09:12.000 And again, it hasn't been authenticated as, yes, the person that wrote this ransom note has Nancy, but this is a ransom note that the family has now addressed on camera twice.

00:09:22.000 It's the one that the family is taking seriously.

00:09:24.000 And the FBI that's looking into the ransom notes and kind of heading up that part of the investigation made it clear that they can advise the family on what to say.

00:09:32.000 We saw Savannah reading off a script.

00:09:34.000 We saw her brother on Thursday night reading off a script.

00:09:37.000 But ultimately, it is up to the family to respond, to agree to make a payment if they want to continue to engage with this person, the author of the ransom note.

00:09:48.000 So to me, that sticks out again as Savannah, who has the court TV background, the lawyer background, is saying there is something in this ransom note.

00:09:57.000 And I do not believe it was the Apple Watch and the floodlight that the sheriff and the FBI brought up as two things that were in the ransom note.

00:10:04.000 I think there is more in that ransom note that is personal, that the family is saying, this seems legit.

00:10:10.000 We're engaging.

00:10:11.000 So meanwhile, on Tuesday, we had talked about this, that Ashley Banfield had reported that Nancy Guthrie's son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, might be the prime suspect, but that apparently has been walked back and called reckless by the Pima County Sheriff, Chris Nanos.

00:10:26.000 Yeah, so when they did walk it back and it was called reckless, they did also say, though, that no one is ruled out.

00:10:33.000 Of course, they're talking to the family.

00:10:35.000 And that is something that Ashley Banfield, since we last talked Ben, has not walked back on, but she is sticking by her law enforcement source that says the brother-in-law may be a prime suspect in this case.

00:10:46.000 But again, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said that they have no prime suspect.

00:10:50.000 They have no person of interest day six here in the search for Nancy Guthrie.

00:10:55.000 The action, though, that's happening at Annie Guthrie's house and Tommaso Sioni's house is that we now know they have taken one of those Celebrite boxes, one of those boxes that just extracts all this digital information, that that was seen leaving Annie Guthrie's house.

00:11:11.000 So we know they are looking in.

00:11:12.000 This is a digital investigation and they're pulling stuff from Annie Guthrie's house, who, mind you, is the closest person that lives to Nancy.

00:11:21.000 And something else that was walked back relating to Tommaso and Annie Guthrie during Thursday's press conference was the sheriff has told news outlets that it was Tommaso that dropped off Nancy Guthrie Saturday night.

00:11:35.000 We now know that she oopered to her house, her daughter's house, and was brought back by Tommaso.

00:11:42.000 That was on record told to a news outlet.

00:11:44.000 That was walked back during Thursday's press conference and the FBI was asked about it and they quickly exchanged the podium and the sheriff comes up and he goes, We're just saying family.

00:11:54.000 We're just saying family.

00:11:55.000 So I thought that was interesting.

00:11:56.000 That was walked back as well as forced entry.

00:11:59.000 That had been on record reported from authorities.

00:12:01.000 That was walked back yesterday as well when he was saying, I don't know where that has come from.

00:12:07.000 That's something we're not talking about.

00:12:10.000 Also, just was a note that was unusual too.

00:12:13.000 I'm not asking you to say that the window was busted in in the kitchen, but now you're saying that we're not discussing forced entry or not.

00:12:21.000 That to me is like the person knew how to get in the house.

00:12:23.000 Yeah.

00:12:24.000 So all of this obviously remains incredibly mysterious.

00:12:26.000 Have we had any indicators from the Guthrie family that they are willing to go forward with some sort of ransom payment in order to free the mom?

00:12:33.000 Or I assume that the question is whether the person is either legit or whether they do harm to Nancy Guthrie, even if they receive the payment.

00:12:42.000 Yeah, well, there's no word if they're willing to pay.

00:12:44.000 They want proof of life first.

00:12:46.000 That's the big demand.

00:12:47.000 They do want to move forward and open up that communication line because a ransom note doesn't give any proof of life and doesn't give a way to communicate.

00:12:55.000 So that's why they are going out on Instagram.

00:12:57.000 They're going out to the global platform and trying to be like, we want to talk.

00:13:02.000 We want to communicate with you, but we want proof of life.

00:13:06.000 They're not going to continue to play this phishing game.

00:13:08.000 And now we know the imposter from LA was arrested that reached out to Annie Guthrie and tried to get Bitcoin, but they want proof of life and they want to open the communication.

00:13:17.000 And I am assuming if they are going that far that they know this is legit, there would be talks about payment as well, because this is their mother.

00:13:26.000 This is the grandmother that they obviously think is being held by this person of this ransom note.

00:13:33.000 Obviously, we'll continue to keep tabs on all of this, but the person who you should be listening to is, of course, Lyndon, because she is hosting Finding Nancy Guthrie.

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00:13:55.000 Lyndon, really appreciate it.

00:13:58.000 Thanks, Ben.

00:13:59.000 Meanwhile, it does feel as though violence is becoming more normalized, high-profile violence.

00:14:03.000 Yes, the murder rate is down across the country.

00:14:05.000 Thank God for that.

00:14:06.000 But it feels like the unhinged are finding it a particularly useful time to go after a wide variety of public figures. 0.62

00:14:16.000 According to CBS News, a Maryland man who said he feared President Trump's re-election would lead to a fascist takeover is now facing attempted murder charges after he showed up at the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vaught's Northern Virginia home wearing a surgical mask and gloves, according to court documents and sources familiar with the matter.

00:14:34.000 The person who did the attack was arrested January 22nd by Arlington County Police on several criminal charges.

00:14:40.000 During the course of the investigation, agents with the U.S. Marshal Service also discovered that this person had previously claimed to be writing a manifesto and that he had also drafted a series of notes detailing everything from a weapon stash to a body disposal guide.

00:14:52.000 The court records show that the defendant is accused of plotting to murder a victim with the initials RV, who, according to the criminal complaint, has served as a presidential appointee.

00:15:03.000 Sources familiar with the case separately confirmed to CBS News that the alleged target was apparently Ross Vogt.

00:15:10.000 Now, the fact that most human beings could not identify Ross Vote if looking through a police lineup.

00:15:17.000 He is not one of the most high-profile members of the Trump administration by leaps and bounds.

00:15:22.000 And yet the fact that he was being targeted for death by a deranged individual, again, it shows that there is something that is broken.

00:15:28.000 There is something that is broken.

00:15:29.000 The normalization of political violence that reached its apex with the murder of Charlie Kirk, that has not gone away.

00:15:35.000 And it seems to be getting worse and worse.

00:15:39.000 I'm not sure how to put that genie back in the bottle, except for everyone to take down the temperature.

00:15:46.000 Everyone has to take down the temperature because if that does not happen, then what you end up with is more violence.

00:15:54.000 So, just to take another example, the feds have now arrested a person named Kyle Wagner, a cross-dressing Antifa terrorist who allegedly threatened to assault, kill, and dox officers in Minneapolis, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

00:16:08.000 He said in an ex-post, the Justice Department with ICE arrested a self-identified anti-ICE Antifa terrorist in Minneapolis today.

00:16:15.000 Conspire and threaten to assault, kill, and dox officers, and you'll find yourself in federal custody, facing the full force of justice.

00:16:22.000 Following the fatal shooting of anti-ICE activist Alex Predi in Minneapolis, according to the Daily Wire, Wagner allegedly told his followers to take up arms and attack law enforcement.

00:16:31.000 This person said, Show up, ready to go, not talking about peaceful protests anymore.

00:16:36.000 He called on people to march with guns and said the Second Amendment is the only thing that's going to keep you effing protected from literal effing Nazi gunmen.

00:16:42.000 Get your effing guns and stop these effing people, he added.

00:16:45.000 He was also seen in videos wearing women's clothing.

00:16:50.000 Here was Caroline Levitt announcing the arrest of this Antifa member.

00:16:57.000 Just today, the Department of Homeland Security arrested this individual.

00:17:02.000 He is a self-proclaimed Antifa member who has been threatening, doxing, harassing ICE.

00:17:09.000 He called for the murder of federal law enforcement officers.

00:17:12.000 He encouraged bloodshed in the streets of Minnesota.

00:17:16.000 He proudly acclaimed affiliation with the domestic terrorist organization Antifa.

00:17:21.000 And the Department of Justice, thanks to the great work of HSI and the FBI, were able to locate and arrest this individual today.

00:17:28.000 Now, unbelievably, one of these observer mobs, meaning people who are trying to obstruct law enforcement, actually surrounded the agents who are arresting him, which just goes to show you how out of control things are in Minnesota.

00:17:43.000 You can see here the officers coming to arrest him, and you have the observer mobs who are surrounding these officers as they go to arrest a criminal who's threatening to murder ICE officers.

00:17:53.000 This is where we are now.

00:17:54.000 And this is being fomented by the mayor of Minneapolis and by the governor of Minnesota and by a legacy media that treats basic law enforcement function as a crime that apparently not only requires observers to be there, but sometimes requires obstruction of law.

00:18:09.000 And the person they're arresting was not particularly vague about his threats.

00:18:13.000 Here's a video of him threatening ICE.

00:18:16.000 This is where ICE has come to die.

00:18:24.000 I'm more than willing to keep the peace if they will go back to wherever they crawled out of and leave us alone.

00:18:33.000 We want to know who they are.

00:18:35.000 We will identify every single one of them and we will prosecute them to the full extent of the law.

00:18:43.000 And if that has to be done at the barrel of a gun, then let us have a little fun.

00:18:50.000 Obviously, this person is deranged.

00:18:52.000 And when I say deranged, I think that you probably could have told that by his cross-dressing fetish that he was observing online.

00:18:59.000 This is this person when he is not looking somewhat like a tattooed skinhead preparing to kill ICE members.

00:19:05.000 This is, for those who can't see, this is him wearing a cutout bra and short skirt and some sort of pornographic getup as a man.

00:19:16.000 So, yes, it turns out that we are, when you heat up the temperature politically, the way that it has been heated up, you should not be surprised when it starts to overflow with the craziest people.

00:19:28.000 And that is one thing that you are starting to see more and more these days.

00:19:33.000 And again, some of this is being promoted openly by Democrats.

00:19:37.000 So for example, Bernie Sanders was asked just yesterday if it's illegal for people to invade churches to protest immigration law, which of course is the subject of the Don Lemon arrest, among other arrests.

00:19:48.000 And here is Bernie Sanders basically refusing to say if it's illegal for people to do this.

00:19:53.000 Can I ask you real quick what you think about Don Lemon's arrest?

00:19:57.000 Well, many statements.

00:20:00.000 Do you think it was appropriate, though, for those protesters to be in the church?

00:20:03.000 Is that a protected First Amendment right inside the church protesting?

00:20:09.000 Thanks.

00:20:11.000 And there he is just walking away.

00:20:12.000 Why is it hard to just say it's wrong for people to invade a church to do this stuff?

00:20:16.000 I disagree with what ICE is doing, but it's wrong for people to invade a church.

00:20:19.000 And the answer is that for the radical left and for the increasingly the mainstream left, the people who are violent, the people who are crazy, those people are just too wedded to the cause, meaning they are just too pure in intent.

00:20:31.000 They're the people who are doing the real revolutionary work.

00:20:34.000 And sure, we don't love what they're doing, but are we able to condemn what they're doing when they are really standing in heroic ways for the things that need to be done?

00:20:43.000 This is the permission structure that has been created increasingly by the mainstream left for acts of violence.

00:20:50.000 And it's happening all over the place.

00:20:52.000 Yesterday, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez was asked about Don Lemon and his husband, commended their bravery.

00:21:00.000 I just have to give my kudos.

00:21:02.000 It is not easy.

00:21:04.000 And, you know, I know that Don is at the center of this, but, you know, it affects all of our families.

00:21:11.000 And so for you to stand up there and to be in this situation, I just want to commend the bravery of both of you.

00:21:19.000 And just, you know, kudos and the envy of everyone.

00:21:25.000 Everybody wants a moment like that.

00:21:27.000 So congratulations.

00:21:28.000 And by the way, AOC is spilling the beans at the very end there.

00:21:30.000 Everyone wants a moment like that.

00:21:31.000 Yes, Don Lemon was gaming for a moment like that.

00:21:34.000 Absolutely.

00:21:35.000 Being part of the resistance means that if you can draw law enforcement upon you, then you have now become a victim, even if you're the one who's allegedly committing the crime.

00:21:43.000 For her part, Assistant Attorney General Harmee Dylan, Civil Rights Division, she says there may be as many as 40 people who are charged for entering the church and disrupting church activities under the FACE Act.

00:21:54.000 How big is the universe of suspects right now?

00:21:56.000 We're talking about 10 people.

00:21:59.000 Is it 15 people?

00:22:00.000 Is it 20?

00:22:02.000 There are nine people who've been arrested pursuant to the indictment.

00:22:06.000 I believe the total number of people involved in this, based on what we see on the videos that were streamed by the participants themselves, is probably closer to 40 people.

00:22:15.000 Okay, meanwhile, the rest of the Trump administration continues to say that the law must be enforced.

00:22:20.000 This is where the left to overreach could really harm them because it turns out Americans don't like this sort of radicalism very much.

00:22:25.000 They really, really do not.

00:22:26.000 Caroline Levitt said that President Trump will not waver in enforcing immigration law.

00:22:31.000 When it comes to any discussions about immigration policy, the president is never going to waver in his commitment to allow immigration enforcement efforts in this country and to support ICE and Border Patrol and the deportation of illegal alien criminals.

00:22:46.000 And Levitt also continued by pointing out that while everybody is very much focused on ICE and the supposed predatory evils of ICE, there are still illegal immigrants who are in the country and should not be here who are killing people.

00:22:59.000 Four Americans were tragically killed and lost their lives this week, yet again, from an illegal alien, an individual who was paroled into the country by the Biden administration using the CBP1 app, which they created like it was a magic pass for Disneyland.

00:23:15.000 That's not how immigration in this country should work. 1.00

00:23:17.000 And this illegal alien from Kyrgyzstan was traveling on an Indiana highway and he failed to break for a slowed semi-truck in front of him.

00:23:26.000 He swerved into the lane and he crashed into a van carrying 15 passengers and four people were killed in that crash.

00:23:32.000 This is another tragedy that could have been prevented if not for the wide open borders from the previous administration.

00:23:39.000 That's why we now have a secure border.

00:23:41.000 That's why this administration will continue to deport illegal aliens from our country. 0.88

00:23:45.000 We should point out at this point that one of the big reasons for the Trump coalition, and it is a coalition, one of the big reasons that Trump is able to manage a very unwieldy coalition is because it is not a conservative coalition.

00:23:56.000 It is not a Christian coalition.

00:23:57.000 It is an anti-left coalition.

00:23:59.000 Just to be accurate about this, if the Republican Party wants to build going forward, they're going to have to retain a modicum of moderation.

00:24:06.000 They're going to have to recognize that the vast majority of the American people are not people who agree with me on every policy or agree with the vice president on every policy or agree with Stephen Miller on every policy.

00:24:19.000 That actually, if you want to retain electoral success, the best way to do that is to point to the radicalism of the left and to say, we're not that.

00:24:26.000 We're the normies.

00:24:27.000 Why do I bring this up?

00:24:28.000 Well, yesterday, the president returned to the national prayer breakfast and he gave what was, I think, a pretty amusing speech.

00:24:36.000 A bunch of high-profile attendees, obviously, including the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, the Attorney General Pam Bondi, Interior Secretary Doug Bergham, VA Secretary, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, a bunch of other people.

00:24:49.000 And the president then proceeded to give a speech that was sort of religious in overtone, but one of the things about Trump that is fascinating is that he's been able to do things that a lot of Christians, conservatives, religious Jews like me, like, that he's been able to do a lot of those things while maintaining a largely secular coalition.

00:25:10.000 If you take a look, for example, at the Republican Party coalition these days, this is a graphic of religious affiliation by party affiliation in 2023.

00:25:22.000 And so right before Trump's reelection, this is from PRRI and the American Values Atlas.

00:25:27.000 If you take a look at the religious constituency of the Republican Party, what you see is that in 2013, about 10% of people who identified as Republican were religiously unaffiliated.

00:25:40.000 Today, that number is 12%.

00:25:43.000 In 2013, the percentage of people who identified as Jewish in the Republican Party was 0%.

00:25:51.000 Today, it's 2%.

00:25:53.000 If you look at non-Christian, non-Christian was 0%.

00:25:56.000 Now it's 2%.

00:25:57.000 Those incremental increases in the non-religious party affiliation inside the, sorry, that increase, what would appear to be marginal increase in non-Christian affiliation inside the Republican Party is in fact not marginal because the overall loss of sort of traditional religious constituency in the Republican Party is reflective of an overall loss of religiosity in the American public more generally.

00:26:24.000 If you went back further, by the way, what you would see is a bigger slide, that the vast majority of Republicans used to be religious.

00:26:30.000 Today, the majority of Republicans are religious, but an increasing percentage are not particularly religious.

00:26:36.000 And it is pretty religiously adverse.

00:26:37.000 30% of Republicans in 2023 were white evangelical Protestants.

00:26:41.000 Another 20% were white mainline non-evangelical Protestants.

00:26:45.000 About 17% were white Catholics.

00:26:47.000 That number has not increased since 2013.

00:26:50.000 About 3% were Latter-day Saints.

00:26:52.000 That's actually a decrease of 1%.

00:26:55.000 You've seen a fairly significant increase in black and Hispanic Protestants.

00:27:01.000 And then you've seen sort of the other category has grown a fair bit.

00:27:06.000 Now, that doesn't mean that the Republican Party should somehow abandon the moral issues that make the Republican Party the Republican Party.

00:27:12.000 That's not my case.

00:27:13.000 My case is that making the Republican Party non-ecumenical as opposed to ecumenical is a mistake.

00:27:19.000 And you've seen this sort of move being made on behalf of some parts of the sort of trad cath right, some of the quasi-integralists on the right, who seem to be making a move to break up the Republican coalition by suggesting that there is a vast religious revival that is happening in the country that is going to drive Republicans to victory.

00:27:39.000 Those numbers do not exist.

00:27:42.000 By the way, I wish there were.

00:27:43.000 Okay.

00:27:44.000 So don't get me wrong.

00:27:45.000 I wish there were a vast religious revival in the country and that the Republican Party was closer to its biblical moral values.

00:27:52.000 I wish that were the case.

00:27:54.000 That is not supported by the data, which is why Trump is the right president for this moment.

00:27:58.000 And it's why Republicans have to watch out for this sort of coalitional building and how not to break it up.

00:28:04.000 Let me show you a couple of other statistics.

00:28:06.000 In terms of how often people attend religious services, for example, those numbers have been declining radically.

00:28:16.000 People who are born in the 1940s, 49% of those people, people who are now aged 75 plus, essentially, those people, 49% of them go to church at least monthly.

00:28:27.000 Today, people who are born 2000 to 2006, that number has been sliced in half, 25%.

00:28:34.000 How about weekly?

00:28:35.000 Same numbers: 40% for people who are 75 up, 18% for people who are aged 18 to 24.

00:28:45.000 So when you talk about the increasing irreligiosity of the body politic, that is correct. 1.00

00:28:51.000 So it is still true that on a political basis, the more religious you are, the more you identify as Republican.

00:28:57.000 But one of the things that's really sort of fascinating is that even the people who identify in the top quintile of religion are not down the line in terms of their conservatism.

00:29:07.000 That doesn't mean, again, that Republicans should abandon social issues.

00:29:10.000 They absolutely should not.

00:29:12.000 But it does mean that the more overt you are about the more marginal social issues, the more you are likely to lose the Trump coalition.

00:29:19.000 The thing about President Trump, again, he's winning outsized shares of Christians and evangelicals and Catholics and all the rest of this.

00:29:24.000 He's doing all of that because the left is crazy, not because he is campaigning as some sort of religious figure.

00:29:31.000 So the president, for example, has not taken the position, a very strong position anyway, that women should drop out of the workforce.

00:29:42.000 There's a wing of the Republican coalition that says basically it is best if all women are at home and none are working.

00:29:48.000 That is, again, a fringe wing that seems to be gaining credence in places like X.

00:29:52.000 Okay, the reality in American politics, 34% of people in the highest quintile of religious observance believe children are better off if the mom stays at home to raise them.

00:30:02.000 One-third.

00:30:03.000 So even the most religious quintile is not saying that.

00:30:06.000 And that's, again, the top 20%, I'm sure virtually all of whom are voting Republican.

00:30:12.000 When you look at all of these issues, 61% of people in the highest quintile identify with or lean toward the Republican Party.

00:30:20.000 63% of those people believe that abortion should be illegal in most or all cases, which, of course, is the position that I take. 0.68

00:30:28.000 Only 34%, again, say children are better off if the mom stays home to raise them. 0.96

00:30:33.000 And only 37% say America risks losing national identity if it's too open to outsiders.

00:30:37.000 In other words, the sort of trad movement, which, by the way, is sort of destroying itself online right now because it turns out a lot of the trad influencers are acting in very non-trad ways, shall we say.

00:30:50.000 There's a pretty high-profile case online in which a supposedly trad influencer was sleeping with another trad influencer.

00:30:59.000 And unfortunately, this sort of thing is not particularly uncommon these days.

00:31:08.000 According to Will Sommer writing at the bulwark, the online right has been shaken this week by a recording that suggests far-right podcaster Elijah Schaefer, one of the biggest proponents of traditional or trad family values, may have had an affair with employee Sarah Stock, an e-girl and influencer, so ostensibly traditional, her marriage was blessed by the Pope himself.

00:31:25.000 This sort of stuff, unfortunately, there's a lot of hypocrisy in this particular area.

00:31:28.000 The reason I'm pointing this out again, if you wish Republicans to win, then presenting good policy with a moderate face, even if you have outsize rhetoric like President Trump, is a better path to victory than embracing the fringe positions taken by so many in the X space.

00:31:44.000 President Trump can go to the national prayer breakfast and he can give what are at best sort of vague religious statements, and that's fine with people.

00:31:53.000 And President Trump literally joked about making it to heaven at the national prayer breakfast.

00:31:57.000 Here he was yesterday.

00:32:01.000 I said, where?

00:32:02.000 National prayer breakfast.

00:32:03.000 I said, I'll be there.

00:32:04.000 I'm afraid not to be.

00:32:06.000 I need all the help I can get.

00:32:10.000 I'm never going to make it to heaven.

00:32:13.000 I just don't think I qualify.

00:32:15.000 I don't think there's a thing I can do.

00:32:17.000 But all of these good things I'm doing, including for religion, you know, religion's back now hotter than ever before.

00:32:23.000 I mean, I have to tell you.

00:32:26.000 But I said, even though I did that and so many other things, I named things.

00:32:30.000 I said, I won't qualify.

00:32:31.000 I'm not going to make it to heaven.

00:32:32.000 And the New York Times did a front page story that Donald Trump is questioning his life and the meaning of his life.

00:32:40.000 No, I was just having fun.

00:32:42.000 I really think I probably should make it.

00:32:45.000 I mean, I'm not a perfect candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people.

00:32:50.000 That's for sure.

00:32:52.000 Again, that sort of last line there that he's done a lot of things for people.

00:32:55.000 Again, I think that is why he's the president, has been president twice.

00:32:58.000 President Trump also joked about Mike Johnson's religiosity, the speaker of the house.

00:33:04.000 In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years.

00:33:13.000 Now, how about that?

00:33:18.000 How about that?

00:33:19.000 Did you know that, Mr. Speaker?

00:33:21.000 You know, Mike Johnson's a very religious person, and he does not hide it.

00:33:26.000 He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, sir, may we pray?

00:33:31.000 Say, excuse me.

00:33:32.000 We have been lunch.

00:33:35.000 It's okay with me.

00:33:38.000 But President Trump also says, listen, you have to believe in something.

00:33:41.000 You have to have religion generally.

00:33:42.000 And this is the American position.

00:33:43.000 The American position is that biblical values are good and that we like the practice of religion in this country.

00:33:49.000 Freedom of religion and freedom from government, intervention in religion, that is the same amendment.

00:33:54.000 And that is for a reason.

00:33:56.000 That broadly ecumenical approach is a winning approach for the Republicans.

00:34:00.000 And pointing at the radical left anti-religious secularism of the left is a winning approach for Republicans. 0.99

00:34:09.000 I've always said you just can't have a great country if you don't have religion. 1.00

00:34:14.000 You have to believe in something.

00:34:16.000 You have to believe that what we're doing, there's a reason for it.

00:34:21.000 Of course, he is obviously correct about that.

00:34:24.000 And President Trump has the pulse of the American people on the vast majority of issues, which is why he usually takes the 80%.

00:34:31.000 Republicans need to continue to do that.

00:34:33.000 The good news is Democrats are making it fairly easy.

00:34:36.000 Democrats, for example, when it comes to voter ID, continue to take the position that it is Jim Crow 2.0 to do voter ID.

00:34:44.000 That, of course, is unbelievably silly.

00:34:46.000 President Trump says, listen, everybody wants voter ID.

00:34:49.000 Democrats obviously would like to cheat if they don't want voter ID. 0.95

00:34:54.000 It polls at 97%.

00:34:57.000 And even the Democrat, the people, the voters are at 82% for voter ID, but the leaders don't want to approve it.

00:35:04.000 They said they will strike.

00:35:06.000 They will not allow it to happen.

00:35:07.000 It's polling it over 90%.

00:35:09.000 It's called voter identification.

00:35:11.000 When you go to the polls, you show up.

00:35:13.000 Yes, my name is so-and-so, and I live in the country.

00:35:16.000 I can vote.

00:35:16.000 I'm here.

00:35:18.000 They say that's not allowed.

00:35:20.000 And everyone's trying to figure it out.

00:35:23.000 And they do something to win.

00:35:26.000 You know what it is?

00:35:27.000 But let's get on to another subject.

00:35:27.000 They cheat.

00:35:30.000 Bill Maher was with Stephen A. Smith, and they were both pointing out that it's very stupid for Democrats to call voter ID Jim Crow 2.0.

00:35:38.000 Don't engage in that kind of hyperbole because we're living in the year 2026.

00:35:42.000 And when you start bringing up Jim Crow 2.0, you're trying to harken back to a time that most people recognize.

00:35:50.000 No, we're not living in those times right now.

00:35:53.000 Of course, we've got our troubles, but we're not doing, don't do that because that's playing right into Trump's hands.

00:35:58.000 Was I right in saying that?

00:36:00.000 And yes, and you're factually right.

00:36:02.000 It's this thing that he's trying to do with not conceding elections.

00:36:09.000 It's not primarily a racial issue.

00:36:12.000 Not everything is primarily a racial issue.

00:36:15.000 It has racial overtones, as does everything in this country.

00:36:18.000 But yes, you're right.

00:36:20.000 It's foolish to make it about that.

00:36:22.000 Yeah, obviously that is correct.

00:36:24.000 Democrats keep taking the 20% on the 80-20.

00:36:26.000 That is a very, very dumb bet.

00:36:28.000 Now, when it comes to the 2026 elections, it is not as though Republicans are set to clean up.

00:36:33.000 And the question becomes why?

00:36:35.000 And there are a few key reasons.

00:36:36.000 One is people still feel on tensor hooks about the economy.

00:36:40.000 That is definitely one big reason.

00:36:42.000 And another reason is because people are tired, man.

00:36:45.000 I mean, let's just be real about this.

00:36:46.000 People are very tired of the way that politics has been working in the country.

00:36:49.000 A large part of that has been driven by the left.

00:36:52.000 But it doesn't help when you have headlines like you have today about the stuff that the president has been apparently posting over at Truth Social.

00:36:58.000 There is a video that he posted over at Truth Social that apparently contains an image of the Obamas as apes.

00:37:06.000 Now, obviously, ugly, terrible, stupid, all those things.

00:37:11.000 Do I think the President Trump even watched the whole video?

00:37:13.000 I have serious doubts.

00:37:15.000 President Trump has a habit of late-night truthling, where he just sort of gets up at 3 a.m. or he's up at 3 a.m. and he just starts truthing things out.

00:37:23.000 And I'm almost certain that the president never watches the entirety of any video.

00:37:29.000 I don't think he has the attention span to get through any of the videos that he's tweeting.

00:37:32.000 I think he sees that there is something that is pro-Trump, he puts it out there.

00:37:37.000 And if there's an ugly image in there, either he ignores it or he didn't see it in the first place as a general rule.

00:37:43.000 Doesn't mean that it's good for him to do it.

00:37:45.000 I think that is the reality.

00:37:47.000 Here's the video that is now launching a thousand think pieces.

00:37:50.000 Initiated by a court order, the Michigan investigation team obtained forensic access to a DS-200 tabulator, the machine that counts the votes.

00:38:00.000 A telet 4G wireless chip manufactured in Taiwan was discovered embedded into the motherboard.

00:38:06.000 The voting machine tapes clearly indicate modem engagement and transmission of election data.

00:38:14.000 Some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections, that five key states all stopped counting at the certain time in these key battleground states.

00:38:25.000 These were all where the software, the mini machines, ESNS machines were used, the SmartMatic, the gyms software.

00:38:32.000 So when the vote stopped counting, and this has been noted in other countries as well, President Trump was significantly ahead.

00:38:40.000 When reporting and counting resumed, there was a massive spike occurred that favored Joe Biden.

00:38:52.000 Okay, so if you actually watch that entire video in context, what you see is that the video is a minute, two seconds long.

00:38:58.000 The first 59 seconds of that video is a person speaking to camera about Dominion voting systems.

00:39:07.000 And the president put out a post about how many votes were deleted and all this.

00:39:11.000 I don't think that that stuff is verifiably true.

00:39:14.000 But as far as the video goes, the very, very tail end, like the very, very end, that's when you get the graphic of the Obama as apes.

00:39:21.000 Now, does that justify?

00:39:22.000 And it doesn't justify anything, but I think that the suggestion that the president did not watch the entirety of the video and that he just put that out late at night because he watched the first 25 seconds of the video or 40 seconds of the video, I would say that that is extremely high probability.

00:39:36.000 That nonetheless will launch a thousand thing pieces.

00:39:38.000 That sort of thing is, shall we say, self-defeating at the very least.

00:39:43.000 Aside from being immoral, if the president did it on purpose, which I don't think he did, that it is self-defeating.

00:39:49.000 It is an own goal.

00:39:50.000 There is no reason for that sort of activity.

00:39:52.000 And it is one of the reasons why the president has never been able to get to 55 or 60% of the approval ratings, even when his policy has been at its height.

00:39:59.000 Well, the big game is coming up, obviously, on Sunday, and our friends over at Cal Share sponsors.

00:40:04.000 According to the Calci markets, you can buy a yes on Seattle at 69 cents and a yes on New England at 33 cents.

00:40:12.000 I believe that the Vegas odds right now also have Seattle as a pretty heavy favorite in this game.

00:40:19.000 We're going to go through some of the ads for the big game.

00:40:21.000 Some have been pre-released.

00:40:22.000 We begin with Bud Light.

00:40:24.000 Here's some of their ad.

00:40:27.000 Oh, what's that?

00:40:29.000 First beer of the wedding.

00:40:30.000 Is there enough for everyone?

00:40:32.000 Oh, right there.

00:40:35.000 I got this.

00:40:36.000 Okay, so we've got Post Malone, Shane Gillis and Peyton Manning, and a lot of people running down the hill.

00:40:44.000 That is a terrible utilization of your talent, Bill, right there.

00:40:48.000 Truly.

00:40:49.000 And now they're all just falling down the hill in slow-mo.

00:40:52.000 Okay, I think we've seen enough.

00:40:57.000 Yeah, I don't see it.

00:41:03.000 I'm not sure why this, that is happening.

00:41:05.000 It is alive for you!

00:41:09.000 Oh! 0.60

00:41:10.000 Oh! 0.60

00:41:11.000 Yeah, you can pause it.

00:41:13.000 Oh, that's the kick.

00:41:15.000 That is not a good commercial.

00:41:16.000 I mean, seriously, you have a high level of talent in that commercial, and I do not understand why you would use the talent that way.

00:41:21.000 And I don't know whose idea that was.

00:41:24.000 Not good.

00:41:25.000 Okay, let's move forward to Duncan.

00:41:28.000 They've got some celebrities for the Duncan commercial.

00:41:31.000 Okay.

00:41:33.000 Well, reactions, thoughts.

00:41:36.000 Ben Affleck.

00:41:38.000 Jason Alexander.

00:41:40.000 I have monster cringe.

00:41:42.000 Golden crown.

00:41:43.000 I don't think he directed Arco.

00:41:45.000 Did I tell you I destroyed this, burnt it, and disposed of all the copies?

00:41:48.000 Yes, I did.

00:41:49.000 I lied to you.

00:41:49.000 Good news.

00:41:50.000 Can I get a copy?

00:41:51.000 Oh, God.

00:41:52.000 No one.

00:41:53.000 No one can see this.

00:41:55.000 Yeah, it's only going to air once.

00:41:58.000 Still holds up.

00:41:58.000 Oh, God, Matthew.

00:42:00.000 Okay, that's Marcus.

00:42:00.000 What?

00:42:02.000 That's not the one you're going to see at the big game.

00:42:04.000 So we have to call it because of copyright law on Sunday.

00:42:08.000 Instead, I assume you will see the actual unaired commercial.

00:42:11.000 That's a smart preview, at least.

00:42:14.000 All right.

00:42:14.000 Xfinity did a Jurassic Park crossover.

00:42:22.000 Xfinity blowing it out on the Jurassic Park rights purchase.

00:42:26.000 What did I touch?

00:42:27.000 King paused.

00:42:28.000 Okay, so you've got the original stars.

00:42:29.000 Okay, fine.

00:42:30.000 You got Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neal in the car.

00:42:34.000 They de-aged them for the commercial as well.

00:42:36.000 Yeah, I was going to say, Jeff Goldblum, you never know, because honestly, Jeff Goldblum has been the same age since he was 12.

00:42:42.000 But okay.

00:42:43.000 We're stopped.

00:42:44.000 Offenses are failing all over the park.

00:42:45.000 Samuel Jackson.

00:42:46.000 Okay.

00:42:49.000 John.

00:42:51.000 Add Borough.

00:42:53.000 I can't get Jurassic Park back online without.

00:42:56.000 This place is awesome.

00:42:56.000 Whoa.

00:42:58.000 By the way, you should have plugged this in.

00:43:03.000 Oh, so.

00:43:04.000 Ah, okay.

00:43:06.000 I think we're back in the middle of the day.

00:43:07.000 That's clever.

00:43:08.000 Okay, that's clever.

00:43:09.000 That could have been bad.

00:43:12.000 All right.

00:43:13.000 I like it.

00:43:14.000 Okay, pause it.

00:43:15.000 That was good.

00:43:15.000 Okay, fine.

00:43:18.000 I like that.

00:43:19.000 That's good.

00:43:20.000 That is it.

00:43:20.000 That is a good use of Xfinity.

00:43:22.000 That is the best of these commercials that I have seen.

00:43:25.000 Well, they got all the original cast, including the corpse of David Attenborough.

00:43:29.000 David Attenborough died in like 2014.

00:43:32.000 So they got the original cast, including the rights, I assume, for Richard Attenborough.

00:43:38.000 So that's okay.

00:43:40.000 I like.

00:43:41.000 This is a clever use of movie placement.

00:43:44.000 Now, that is the favorite so far, for sure.

00:43:46.000 Okay, Elf Cosmetics.

00:43:49.000 Elf Presenta.

00:43:51.000 Get ready for the world's biggest reggaetone show.

00:43:54.000 What's her name?

00:43:55.000 Megan.

00:43:56.000 I don't speak Spanish.

00:43:56.000 Melissa McCarthy.

00:43:57.000 Okay.

00:44:00.000 Melissa McCarthy is Melissa McCarthy. 0.63

00:44:04.000 I know this is Savvy's jam right here.

00:44:10.000 I can hear you laughing from the other room, Savvy.

00:44:12.000 Don't pretend.

00:44:13.000 What day is it?

00:44:14.000 Melissa, the big show is tonight.

00:44:17.000 How is your Español?

00:44:20.000 Tadio soy unbeno.

00:44:24.000 Soyun beno.

00:44:27.000 Okay, even I know no Spanish.

00:44:28.000 No, that's funny.

00:44:29.000 You need juicy lips so you can utter those R's. 1.00

00:44:34.000 That doesn't even make sense.

00:44:35.000 We have a lot of force.

00:44:36.000 Yeah, I'm not into it.

00:44:37.000 I'll say.

00:44:40.000 Okay, we can stop it now because now you have a dude wearing the makeup in the background. 1.00

00:44:45.000 Oh, you're going to force me to watch this?

00:44:49.000 By the way, you don't pronounce the R with your lips.

00:44:55.000 Yeah, not.

00:44:56.000 Nope.

00:44:57.000 That's going to be a no from me, dog.

00:45:00.000 Again, Elf is, as a cosmetics company, very smart in the way that they market because basically they're very, very low-cost cosmetics.

00:45:06.000 And so marketing down scale like that is pretty smart.

00:45:12.000 It looks like a cheap TV commercial.

00:45:15.000 Okay.

00:45:16.000 Savvy's not going to let me get away without going to the end here.

00:45:20.000 Okay.

00:45:22.000 You're better than this, Misa.

00:45:26.000 Fuego, fuego, que su fuego.

00:45:29.000 Wow, so that's her with the makeup, but she looks significantly worse than she did before. 1.00

00:45:33.000 And then she's dancing.

00:45:37.000 Glacier's the door.

00:45:42.000 Melisa.

00:45:46.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:45:47.000 It's like the proper amount of racism.

00:45:51.000 I mean, Savvy, you have to tell me if you're offended.

00:45:55.000 Okay, so, yeah, okay.

00:45:56.000 So Savvy loved that one.

00:45:58.000 All right, I'll let her be the judge.

00:45:59.000 Okay, honestly, I will admit that I've seen this commercial already, and I think this is actually the best of the commercials.

00:46:04.000 This one is very, very good.

00:46:05.000 Betting on the right guy with Fanatic Sportsbook.

00:46:08.000 Explained by Kendall Jenner.

00:46:13.000 Haven't you heard?

00:46:14.000 The internet says I'm cursed.

00:46:17.000 Any basketball player who dates me kind of hits a rough paste.

00:46:25.000 While the world's been talking about it, I've been betting on it.

00:46:28.000 How else do you think I can afford all this?

00:46:30.000 Okay, it's a clever conceit.

00:46:34.000 And then she goes through everybody who she's dated, basically.

00:46:37.000 I kind of feel bad for the dudes she dated.

00:46:39.000 Honestly, she's just torching their careers and making money off of it, which is a pretty terrible move morally. 1.00

00:46:44.000 But as a commercial, it's a very funny conceit that she's dating people just to destroy their careers and then bet on their destroyed careers.

00:46:52.000 This pool, basketball boyfriend one, missed the playoffs.

00:46:57.000 I guess nobody was getting a ring in this house.

00:47:00.000 Do you like this bad boy?

00:47:02.000 Boyfriend two flopped right out of the league.

00:47:05.000 Not that I ever drive.

00:47:14.000 This cute jack.

00:47:15.000 Thanks, boyfriend three.

00:47:17.000 But today, it's time to bet on something new.

00:47:20.000 Football players, I'm making my bet on who's going to win.

00:47:24.000 And you can bet with me or against me on Fanatic Sportsbook.

00:47:27.000 Next up, San Francisco.

00:47:30.000 Football boyfriend.

00:47:32.000 Yes.

00:47:35.000 Okay, her as like evil supervillain is pretty funny. 0.94

00:47:38.000 Only on Fanatic.

00:47:39.000 I'll admit that's funny.

00:47:40.000 I do enjoy the fact that that commercial is basically about how to rig betting.

00:47:46.000 It's basically about insider betting.

00:47:50.000 But yeah, at least it's self-effacing and clever.

00:47:52.000 So I kind of enjoyed the subversiveness of that commercial.

00:47:55.000 Okay, the worst of these commercials, by the way, is the Pringles commercial.

00:47:58.000 It is a terrible commercial.

00:47:59.000 This is a truly bad commercial.

00:48:03.000 I'm so tired of boys.

00:48:07.000 What the hell would happen?

00:48:08.000 Sabrina Carpenter.

00:48:11.000 So she built a person made of Pringles. 0.99

00:48:13.000 Pringle Leo.

00:48:19.000 It's breaking apart.

00:48:31.000 I'm crying while cannibalizing her friend's boyfriend.

00:48:34.000 Okay, I don't even understand what that was supposed to be.

00:48:38.000 They went into the ad department and they said, we have Sabrina Carpenter for a thing. 1.00

00:48:42.000 And they're like, how do we do something with this?

00:48:44.000 And that's what they came up with.

00:48:45.000 Well, they can't all be winners.

00:48:47.000 Okay, I've been told that I must do Navartas.

00:48:49.000 Okay, here we go.

00:48:58.000 Have you ever...

00:49:01.000 Okay, so this is a bunch of NFL tight ends.

00:49:04.000 See, tight ends, this relaxed.

00:49:09.000 I am so relaxed.

00:49:12.000 They're carefree.

00:49:16.000 Calm.

00:49:18.000 Serene.

00:49:20.000 You know what these tight ends are so relaxed about?

00:49:22.000 Prostate cancer screenings.

00:49:24.000 They've learned there's a simple finger-free blood test.

00:49:28.000 Roughly one in eight men would be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and I was one of them.

00:49:32.000 I'm here today because I caught it early.

00:49:35.000 Kronk, what'd I teach you?

00:49:37.000 Relax your tight end.

00:49:39.000 Oh.

00:49:39.000 Prostate cancer screening starts with a simple blood test.

00:49:43.000 Find out if a PSA blood test is right for you at Relax.

00:49:46.000 It's a bloodtest.com.

00:49:48.000 Okay, so Ashley, I was very much pro that commercial until the shots of the relaxing butts game.

00:49:56.000 I think the best one and the most effective one is the Xfinity commercial.

00:49:59.000 I think that the Fanatic Sportsbook one with Kendall is clever.

00:50:03.000 So I like that one.

00:50:04.000 I think the worst one is the Pringles one.

00:50:06.000 I think that's a bad commercial.

00:50:07.000 All right, folks, the show continues for our members right now.

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00:50:20.000 Okay, no, not even close.

00:50:36.000 Two.

00:50:37.000 Great.

00:50:38.000 Whatever.

00:50:39.000 You know what?

00:50:39.000 Two, four, three, six.

00:50:42.000 I cannot believe we're back here again, Ben.

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