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00:01:29.000There is a new story breaking this morning that apparently UFC America 250 at the White House, which was a huge triumph.
00:01:39.000For the administration, for the country, it was a beautiful event, had actually been targeted by, it looks like domestic violent extremists.
00:01:48.000And by that, it actually does seem to hold true.
00:02:15.000They were in various places around the country.
00:02:17.000And what they were talking about, as you said, was they were talking about doing a coordinated multi member attack on the Freedom 250 event.
00:02:26.000Their idea was they would fly explosive drones into buildings to start a panic.
00:02:31.000People would flee in specific directions, probably herded along by barriers already put up.
00:02:37.000And then they would have sniper teams ready to open fire on them.
00:02:41.000And it's not clear just how far they got with this, but according to the FBI, Some members of this chat did travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia, about an hour south of D.C., to a couple days before to make preparations.
00:02:56.000Now, given how ambitious this sounds, I still get the feeling this might not have come to fruition, we can hope, but it's clearly the level of speculation where the FBI was right to get involved.
00:03:07.000Well, and so investigators are claiming that this part of, and this is according to the New York Post, a far right accelerationist ideology, which they link to the San Diego Moss shooting.
00:03:17.000We're going to take issues with that, but here, investigators learned that their aim is.
00:03:21.000Was to take out capitalist elites, billionaires, and politicians who receive money from APAC, officials told the Post.
00:03:31.000So this is a traditional way of looking at political ideologies on a linear graph, right?
00:03:40.000You got the left and then you got the right, okay?
00:03:44.000Now there's something called horseshoe theory, which we haven't talked about on this show because I'm.
00:03:49.000I'm not always convinced that I believe in the way it's presented, but it is something right now that I think is becoming more and more true.
00:03:57.000And that is the idea that it's actually a horseshoe.
00:04:00.000And at the extreme tips, the left and right sort of bleed together and they have less distinction.
00:04:06.000They become more like one another than different.
00:04:09.000You're vastly more likely to see someone who is extremely politically far to the right flip to saying, actually, I'm a revolutionary socialist communist than you are to see them.
00:04:20.000Flip the supposedly lesser distance to, oh, I'm a centrist moderate who cares about growing the economy.
00:04:27.000I actually think this is somewhat to explain Graham Plattner, who had a Nazi tattoo.
00:04:33.000He would have probably at some points considered himself kind of a radical fringe righty in some ways, but then they flipped over and now he's just a communist socialist.
00:04:42.000They're saying it's far right, but on the right, we're usually more in favor of free markets, we're usually more in favor of billionaires existing.
00:04:51.000I don't think Andrew or I have a problem with Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire because he started multiple incredibly groundbreaking companies that did amazing things for the country and for America, for their employees.
00:05:04.000But on the far, far right, you're starting to see stuff that does sound like someone who could be a jilted Bernie Sanders fan.
00:05:10.000We need to take out the billionaires, the billionaire class, or the Apex stuff.
00:05:15.000We've had violent anti Israel demonstrations, and radicalism has been a thing on the left for ages, but we see it growing.
00:05:25.000And so you see this bleeding, intermingling of how they, of their sentiment.
00:05:30.000And so you see these guys who are in the signal chat who, this could easily be the motivation of a far left cell, people who love Luigi Mangione.0.90
00:05:38.000Oh, we want to kill billionaires and people who take money from the Israel lobby.
00:05:43.000That could easily be someone who's a fan of Hassan Piker.0.99
00:05:46.000That could easily be a fan of any number of radical left movements, but they're characterizing them as right wing here.
00:05:54.000And so we have to start poking at that, that there is a funnel from.
00:05:58.000I am on the right to just being a hard leftist, and that includes revolutionary violence.
00:06:04.000Yeah, well, and this is so some of the key similarities, according to the horseshoe theory.
00:06:08.000And again, I chew the meat and spit out the bones when it comes to this.
00:06:11.000I don't buy it completely, but there does tend to be a draw towards authoritarianism, right?
00:06:18.000Preference for strong centralized state power.
00:06:20.000They have an us versus them mentality, binary worldview, conspiracy thinking, scapegoating of enemies.
00:06:28.000By the way, based on what they just said, targeting billionaires and the elites and those who take money from AIPAC, rejection of liberalism, opposition to free markets, individual rights, compromise, all those kind of things that make a democracy function, a constitutional republic in the case of the United States, populism and totalitarianism.
00:06:47.000See, conservative populism can be a very useful and good thing, but this is one of the things that political scientists have sort of put as the You know, something that they've seen from both sides when you talk about the horseshoe theory.
00:07:02.000Cults of personality, propaganda, willingness to use violence or revolution.
00:07:07.000So, and I do think that when people look at, for example, the Nazis, you know, there's a tendency to call that a far right, fascist, you know, political ideology.
00:07:17.000I would actually, I would even consider that.0.81
00:07:18.000I think the Nazis were a radical third way ideology.0.84
00:07:21.000So, you might even call it radical centrism.0.63
00:07:23.000The point is, politics can be a complicated beast.
00:07:27.000It's not really as simple as just a Linear line where something very far over here is as far away as you can get from something over here.
00:07:36.000It's that getting really far away from what you might call the political mainstream means you're more likely, I'd say, to be resentful of what's going on, more likely to be just an iconoclast in general, more likely to rebel, and unfortunately, more likely, I think, to be seduced by violent fantasies.
00:07:57.000A lot of people, if they're trying to burn down a city after George Floyd, it's not really that they're necessarily that agitated about George Floyd.
00:08:05.000It's that they're agitated against society in general, and that gives them something.
00:08:12.000And I think some of that happens on the right as well.
00:08:15.000And they end up finding a lot that they like on the left.
00:08:18.000And that's why I want to push at this that they're getting seduced by fundamentally left wing fantasies.
00:08:25.000Yeah, essentially it becomes left wing, right?
00:08:28.000Because you believe in castigating an entire group or a class or scapegoating people as opposed to holding people accountable for their own actions, for example.
00:08:37.000That would be a fundamentally left wing view of the world.
00:08:41.000When you horseshoe around, you end up.
00:08:44.000Exhibiting a lot of those same characteristics.
00:10:08.000And I think he raises a really important point here SOT 23.
00:10:11.000So much of the far left rhetoric is driving itself towards violence.
00:10:15.000We're trying to look at the underground networks that drive towards this violence.
00:10:19.00023 people do not get to the point where they're going to commit a mass terror incident in Washington, D.C., without some serious funding, without some serious coordination.
00:10:27.000And we've actually been trying to go with those networks of coordination because this is a terrorist plot.
00:10:32.000That's not a few guys doing crazy stuff, that is a coordinated, planned terrorist plot.
00:10:37.000Thank God we thwarted it, but we've got to do more of that stuff.
00:11:47.000One of the things you see in the Epstein emails is that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump and that Donald Trump literally reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police.
00:11:56.000That's one of the things that came out of these files.
00:11:57.000They were best friends for about a decade.
00:11:59.000And remember, he signed that Transparency Act under duress.
00:12:03.000When some Republican women, Congresswomen like Lauren Boebert, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, did not give in to his pressure of not signing.1.00
00:12:10.000He brought Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room to pressure her into caving on not voting for that bill.0.99
00:12:20.000So, number one is yes, Donald Trump, he said this.
00:12:23.000He knew Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1980s.
00:12:25.000He also threw Jeffrey Epstein out of his club when he found out he was a creep and reported him to the police.
00:12:30.000That's something that the media often misses when it reports the story.
00:12:33.000They tell the fact that they knew each other in the 80s, which the president himself admits.
00:12:37.000They ignore the fact that he narked on him to the police and led ultimately to Jeffrey Epstein's downfall.
00:12:43.000And by the way, the New York Post is actually reporting that his lawyer, Epstein's lawyer, says that he was obsessed with taking down Trump in his final days.
00:12:53.000So before Jeffrey Epstein died, committed suicide, or was killed, whatever happened to him, he was obsessed with President Trump.
00:13:09.000That's probably one of the reasons they don't like each other.
00:13:12.000But President Trump reported him to the police, narked on him, as JD said.
00:13:17.000It's a huge thing that the left doesn't want to talk about.
00:13:19.000But, you know, he continues on here, by the way.
00:13:24.000Actually, I don't think we have that clip, but he continued on in the clip and basically dismantled every single Epstein accusation that they're throwing at him.
00:13:32.000For example, President Trump, JD says he was there when President Trump called the Senate and said, pass the Transparency Act.
00:14:40.000I was a critic of Donald Trump back in 2015 and 2016.
00:14:43.000Now, obviously, I'm sitting here as the vice president of the United States in the Trump administration.
00:14:48.000Well, Joy, a little humility, actually.
00:14:51.000I think that when you make predictions and those predictions turn out to be false, you got to ask yourself, well, what made me wrong about that?
00:14:57.000What did I not understand or not appreciate?
00:15:00.000For example, I said that Donald Trump's economic policies would not lead to wage growth.
00:15:07.000That was actually a major, major thing.
00:15:09.000I said that we couldn't bring back any of those factory jobs because I kind of had given in to this idea that those jobs were disappearing.
00:15:15.000But actually, Donald Trump, you saw a manufacturing boom.
00:16:01.000And it's going to be, we know it's going to be a challenge with some constituencies.
00:16:05.000And he's going to have to be able to pass this test because it's only going to get harder if he runs in 2028.
00:16:10.000So this is a good battleground for a very important war we have to wage.
00:16:15.000He did make a comment, too, that a lot of people are taking notice of that he believes that the president will be supportive of him, whatever he decides to do.
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00:17:25.000All right, so Steve Hilton is actually finishing up a press conference.
00:17:30.000Vailing his tax plan for the Golden State.
00:17:34.000But there is another we mentioned going out of the last segment that JD's media tour is well timed because he's got to be a spokesman for the Iran deal, which some people are skeptical of.
00:17:44.000So he's making the case for peace for America, for a vibe shift back to a domestic focus.
00:18:40.000There could be incentives for good behavior.
00:18:42.000That's how any deal should be structured.
00:18:44.000The point of this has to be that the goal of this throughout is we don't actually want to be in a permanent war with Iran.
00:18:54.000We want to actually have a productive relationship with Iran.
00:18:57.000And so any peace deal is going to have a component of if you guys stop chasing after a nuclear bomb, if you stop treating America as the great Satan, if you stop.
00:19:06.000Endlessly creating conflict with us, this can be a favorable relationship.
00:21:40.000I'm not going anywhere, and the country is watching.
00:21:44.000He might also have thrown in, they're coming after me because my former chief of staff just pleaded guilty to three felonies a few weeks ago.
00:21:51.000Might be something related to it, but we do finally have Steve back, it looks like.
00:21:59.000We're on the road the whole time in California.
00:22:03.000I cannot tell you the amount of times the calls drop, you can't get a signal with the tech capital of the world, but can't get a phone signal.
00:22:13.000So, quickly on the tax plan, we have the highest cost of living in the country because of their insane policies.
00:22:21.000And then yesterday, they passed another budget, increasing spending, increasing taxes, including another $400 on people's health insurance plans if you have private health insurance.0.85
00:22:31.000At the same time as they're increasing by billions of dollars, spending on free health care for illegal immigrants.0.80
00:23:55.000And the thing that's outrageous is that it's really complicated, you've got all these different rates.
00:24:00.000But what's outrageous is that after 72 grand of earnings, which really you struggle to live on that in California, you're paying 9.3% state income tax.
00:24:13.000That is higher than the top rate in most other states.0.82
00:24:18.000And that's why this plan makes such sense.0.84
00:24:21.000And I, but if I don't know how long we have, but if you want me to sort of jump in on the Gavin Newsom thing, I'll just point one thing out.
00:24:34.000There's reporting from serious reporters in Sacramento that this whole thing was initiated not by Donald Trump, as Newsom is pretending, but by whistleblowers within California.
00:24:46.000And the whole thing began under the partly under the Biden administration in the first place.
00:24:51.000I don't know the details, so I don't want to comment till we've seen more.
00:24:54.000What I will say is that you've got a system of legalized corruption in California politics.
00:25:00.000And one of the things that's most outrageous is this thing, which when I first heard about it, I couldn't believe called behested payments.
00:25:08.000Behested payments are when a politician, and Newsom has used this extensively, literally can phone someone up and say, I'd like you to give money to this or that cause.
00:25:21.000And the cause can often be very connected to his own.
00:25:57.000It's that you've got a you've got not just the governor, other politicians can phone people up, businesses who they regulate, and ask them to give money to their pet causes.
00:26:08.000It is legalized corruption and it has to end.
00:26:12.000Well, and you know, it's interesting because you've got Gavin Newsom, you've got Jennifer Seibel Newsom, you've got Javier Becerra, who's also got issues, uh, a scandal plaguing him with I think his former chief of staff.
00:26:29.000You articulated it brilliantly in the debate where he didn't think he was going to get paid enough money in government, so they found a workaround to get him more money.
00:26:55.000They feel entitled to endlessly increase, you know, gouge taxpayers by increasing budgets and then handing it out.
00:27:03.000To their pet causes, whether that's government unions, left wing causes, and activists.
00:27:07.000This is why we have to end the corruption.
00:27:10.000That's the top line of my argument in this campaign.
00:27:13.000I'm going to go to Sacramento and clean up this corrupt system that has given us the highest cost of living, the highest poverty rate, the highest unemployment rate in America, because they don't care about regular people.
00:27:25.000They just care about their own insider interests.
00:27:28.000And that's the corruption you get from one party rule.
00:27:30.000That's why I'm confident we're going to win this year.
00:28:44.000Second question what is it going to take to win?0.63
00:28:47.000So, on the whole voting thing, I mean, obviously, there's the complete fiasco of how long it takes, and that's ridiculous.
00:28:53.000And I had a whole plan for accelerating that.
00:28:55.000And the biggest thing we can do to stop all that insanity is have voter ID, which is going to be on the ballot in November.
00:29:02.000And that's a big part of the story of how I'm going to win, by the way.
00:29:07.000On the voting, I think it's very important to understand the connection between what we saw happen, particularly in LA, and some of these reports that I've been putting out through.
00:29:19.000We've talked over the months about Cal Doge and the fraud reports that we've put out.
00:29:25.000Many of the examples of fraud that we've uncovered in the system in California have been examples of public money being siphoned off into Democrat front organizations that do political activity to build the Democrat machine.
00:29:41.000The very first fraud report that we published back in, I think, February, was $350 million that we found from the cannabis tax in California that was supposed to be spent on.
00:29:53.000Substance abuse prevention actually going to over 500 Democrat organizations.
00:29:58.000And then when you look at what they do, it is voter registration and ballot harvesting.
00:30:04.000And so what you're seeing in these elections is the culmination of the machine that they've built up through the fraud over the years.
00:30:41.000They just give people some relief after the endless gouging on taxes and the increasing cost through the bloat in the government and the insanity of this one party rule.
00:30:53.000So I think we've got, look, I know that people look at this race, especially here, the Democrats, they're totally complacent.
00:30:59.000They assume they've got it in the bag.
00:31:02.000They have no idea what's about to hit them in terms of the energy and the force of this campaign that we're about to run, both in holding him accountable, Becerra, who you couldn't get someone who's the living embodiment of more of the same.
00:31:18.00036 years a career politician in the California corrupt machine.
00:31:23.000And so we will be ferocious in holding him to account because what is he?
00:31:28.000He's just more of the same cost, incompetence, failure, and corruption.
00:31:32.000And we're going to be very strong on that, as well as laying out.
00:31:35.000A positive alternative centered around my plan to make our state cal affordable.
00:31:40.000They haven't faced a candidate like me, they don't understand what's about to hit them.
00:31:44.000This race is going to be much closer than anyone thinks.
00:31:47.000I'm very confident that we can win, not least because a majority of Californians now on every poll it's 57, 60% think that it's time for change.
00:31:58.000We're going in the wrong direction, and that's why in November I think there's going to be a shock, and the whole country is going to hear it.
00:32:40.000Do a little search on how much money from the state budget goes to NGOs annually.
00:32:45.000And it's basically, it comes up in short, it's difficult to pin down, but tens of billions annually is the most accurate high level answer.
00:32:53.000Tens of billions are going to this cabal, this network of NGOs that is a complete corruption of the system and it's a bastardization of the intent of an NGO.
00:33:03.000And it's just used to enforce and protect their power structure.
00:33:17.000And I really feel, I just feel that there's no way that they're going to vote for more of the same when it's so painful for regular people.
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00:36:53.000And the MLB decided, in its great wisdom, to issue a warning.
00:36:59.000And this is pitchers Landon Roop, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker.
00:37:06.000And they did this during the Pride night game against the Chicago Cubs.
00:37:09.000So, Pat Courtney, MLB's chief communication officer, said in a statement that the writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practices.
00:37:19.000We have warned the players about future violations.
00:37:21.000Now, so the MLB's perspective is that they're not fining them for liking the Bible or warning them about potential fines for liking the Bible.
00:37:31.000It's that you can't alter the uniform on the field, there is a rule against that.
00:37:38.000All three wrote Genesis 9, 12 through 6 on their cap.
00:37:44.000A reference to Genesis 9, 12 through 6, in which God establishes a covenant with humanity after the biblical flood using the rainbow as its sign.
00:37:52.000Yes, it says, I'll do the King James version because that's what popped up.
00:37:55.000And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I made between you and between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations.
00:38:03.000I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
00:38:20.000This is the famous part of the scriptures where God promises never to flood the earth again.
00:38:31.000And He sends the rainbow up into the sky.
00:38:33.000And it's a symbol that every time we see the bow, the rainbow in the sky, that God is saying, He.
00:38:40.000Has made a covenant with us as humans to never kill us all, okay?
00:38:44.000That he will never flood the earth again.
00:38:46.000Now, so they were speaking with reporters after the game.
00:38:50.000Mr. Roop said, one of the pitchers, the passage was not intended as an attack.
00:38:54.000It's just about God's covenant and a promise that he makes to us, his faithfulness and his mercy, he said, according to Sports Illustrated.
00:39:01.000That's just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that.
00:39:07.000I think this was brilliant, by the way, that they did this because Reclaim the Rainbow is, I think, a tremendous campaign, and we should reclaim the rainbow.
00:39:16.000God's covenant of life and mercy to us all has somehow been co opted.
00:39:21.000By the LGBTQIA, CIA, plus MS, you got the acronym.0.91
00:39:27.000Blake's always good at the acronym.0.77
00:41:21.000I think that if the player, we've seen this, where if players are breaking the rules and it's in an ideologically approved direction, they're not going to make as big a fuss about it.
00:41:32.000If this was mercifully, their games were canceled during peak COVID, so we didn't have to endure this as much.
00:41:38.000But if they were breaking the rules, if George Floyd had died and they said, I'm going to draw one of those black power fists on my hat, I don't think the MLB would do much about it.
00:41:48.000I don't think they would say much about it.
00:41:50.000And I think these men found a very reasonable way to show, I don't really like this, but I'm not going to scream about it.
00:41:56.000I'm going to write a Bible verse that incorporates the rainbow.
00:42:00.000That is a very light touch way of going about this.
00:42:03.000They could throw the hats in the garbage, they could say, They could make a big fuss and they could get themselves in a lot more trouble.
00:42:14.000And I think MLB is showing how intensely this is the new.
00:42:20.000They want to make it a part of the national religion that you have to believe this and you have to celebrate it.
00:42:24.000This is the civic religion of the United States.
00:42:27.000Had become before President Trump that thou shalt worship at the altar of the LGBTQ folks, that you will be a part of it, you will be complicit, you will accept.
00:42:38.000You will celebrate and you will participate in it.0.97
00:42:41.000And for the MLB to warn them and to go on record warning them is a very disastrous misstep for the MLB because I can assure you, MLB, there are more of us than there are of the people that believe in this pride propaganda garbage.0.82
00:43:23.000Because if you go through with this, if you find them for standing up for their faith, their Christian faith, in a subtle act, as Blake said, a classy, understated protest, then you will have holy hell rain down on you from your fans.
00:45:40.000Report links anti Christian extremism and assassination culture to alleged plot against Erica Kirk and others.
00:45:48.000This isn't just Erica, but there wasn't a man arrested that had plotted to harm Turning Point and Erica at our Women's Leadership Summit just last week in San Antonio.
00:46:00.000So, the Network Contagion Research Institute says that U.S. Capitol Police threat assessment showed a 58% increase in threats against members of Congress from 2024 and 2025, and threats have overall doubled since 2020.
00:46:17.000So, this research institute studies how radical ideologies spread across digital networks and social media.
00:46:23.000They analyze the threats against Erica and others to assess the level of danger and how permission structure plays.
00:46:37.000It's when Hassan Piker gets up there and he talks about social murder and why Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, probably had it coming.
00:46:47.000This is what happens when they call you Hitler and they call you Nazis and they call you fascists and they dehumanize you again and again and again, or they call you a pedo protector.0.85
00:46:55.000This is the new one that I'm going to raise the alarm bells on is that when they accuse people of protecting pedophiles, it's creating a permission structure.0.98
00:47:04.000Because listen, if somebody is legitimately protecting pedophiles, And allowing the rape and sexual abuse as they're threatening.
00:47:11.000And if they're above the law, then yeah, you could see how certain people might take matters into their own hands and plot an assassination attempt.
00:47:18.000It's a modern update on, you know, when people say, oh, they're doing a modern Holocaust, and people think, well, if I was in Nazi Germany and I had the ability to prevent the Holocaust through some act of guerrilla violence, people will have this fantasy that tells us I would do that.
00:47:33.000And so when you go around and say, Holocaust, there's a new genocide, genocide, genocide against trans people, genocide against whoever else, people who are unwell will take that very literally and they'll start.
00:48:18.000This is according to Travis Hawley, cyber threat and open source intelligence analyst at the Network Contagion Research Institute.
00:48:25.000What you could call our digital diet is really shaping how people see ourselves, our values, and our country, and even our history.
00:48:31.000So there is a lot of countries that want to shape the discourse on social media in the United States because we are the most powerful country in the world.
00:48:40.000So this includes Neville Singham in China, wealthy individuals.
00:48:45.000This includes foreign malign interests out of Russia, perhaps Iran, perhaps other places.
00:48:52.000So, anyways, this is really concerning, says Holly, and really showing up how democracy actually has a weakness if it is not protected.
00:48:59.000Okay, so all of this is really direct.
00:49:01.000So, all of it relates to our sports, all of it relates to anti Christian bias, and about our feelings about our own country.
00:49:09.000One of the ways that that is manifesting is in how proud some Americans are to be American.
00:49:15.000You can see this manifesting in so many different ways.
00:49:17.000We have so much sports going on right now.
00:49:18.000It really is what we're talking about.
00:49:20.000Scott Jennings addressed this on CNN as well, 44.
00:49:23.000According to some polling that came out this weekend, most Republicans love America.
00:49:29.000They're proud of living in this country.
00:49:31.000Unfortunately, I think Mr. De Niro's comments are pretty indicative of a majority of Democrats who can't seem to find that attitude, which I applaud, inside them to love your country even though you lost the last election.
00:49:47.000And, you know, loving America, being a patriot for America, feeling good about America shouldn't be dictated by whether you won or lost.
00:49:53.000When I hear De Niro, I hear him saying, I can only love America if we win every election from here on out.
00:50:51.000You root against America, you're not proud of America, and then you have people who want to burn down America, kill Americans, kill Christians.0.87
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00:53:22.000Yeah, I hope so, or maybe we should phrase it as a return, because this is kind of how it used to feel, right?
00:53:30.000Where so much of our attention, yes, is focused on what's happening in the world as it should be, right?
00:53:34.000There's more important things than sports, but sports is always an escape.
00:53:38.000That's the way I always approached it.
00:53:40.000That's why I wanted to be a sportscaster, because it was an escape from reality for so many people, no matter what was going on in your lives.
00:53:46.000So, over the last, let's just Call it a week.
00:53:50.000I mean, the NBA has had a lot of issues over the last, I'd say, decade or maybe five, six years with wokeness and really just taking it really too far, where people kind of stopped watching.
00:54:02.000I don't know what they are for this year's postseason.
00:54:04.000I think probably super high because it is the Knicks.
00:54:06.000It was the Knicks, and it was, you know, more than half a century since they'd really been able to have the potential to win the whole thing.
00:54:33.000And when you look at what foreigners are saying about our country and how great we are and calling Walmart a museum, then maybe we should start to take some of these things, not take them for granted as much.
00:54:44.000And then, of course, with UFC, like, again, I just was able to look at the pictures and videos during and after, and it was incredible to watch.
00:54:55.000That video you're showing right there with the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels together, it gives me chills, even for those people out there who aren't huge UFC fans, right?
00:55:05.000It has been incredible from a sports aspect.
00:55:07.000And I'll wrap with this part on it because sports is the ultimate uniter.
00:55:13.000On a football Sunday, a basketball Saturday, at a UFC match, whatever it is, your race, your sex, your politics, your socioeconomic status, your religion, nothing matters.
00:55:25.000That is the foundation and the fabric of America.
00:55:28.000Nobody knows that more than Donald Trump.
00:55:30.000And I love what we have seen over the last week or so.
00:55:41.000They're appreciating the mac and cheese.
00:55:42.000They're driving down country roads listening to Ella Langley.
00:55:45.000They're in bars singing country roads.
00:55:49.000I mean, it really has given, I think, a lot of Americans fresh eyes to see how great our country is, too, which is why it's so depressing to hear people like Robert De Niro and all the polling that shows how little love the Democrat Party has currently for the United States.
00:56:04.000Even though we are such a great country, you don't even have to say we're the best country in the world, but we're objectively a great country.
00:56:10.000So, whatever it is, can't you put that aside and just say, Hey, America 250, we love you.
00:56:17.000You know, even if you don't like the president, you got another crack at it in a couple of years.
00:56:21.000Like, I mean, what's there not to love about this great country?
00:56:25.000Yeah, I think we're on the same page with that.
00:56:28.000And I think the irony, though, it's rich to watch a Robert De Niro at the podium saying the things that he has been saying for a long time now.
00:56:37.000I mean, the effort that it takes to find all the words and the big adjectives that I'm sure he had to put into a thesaurus to come up with to criticize the president, criticize America.
00:56:50.000And oh, by the way, try to go do that in some of these Middle Eastern countries.1.00
00:56:54.000Like, you're actually going to be killed, right?
00:56:56.000So, the irony to me is something that we can never forget about.
00:56:59.000At the same time, they really are, and I think have been, the vocal minority, a very loud minority.
00:57:06.000And that is thanks to the echo chamber that mainstream media has been forever, and certainly social media and X before Elon took over.
00:57:15.000But so now there's almost like a panic in the voices of the De Niro's and the Bet Midlers and even Julia Roberts, I was surprised to see her over doing that stuff this weekend.
00:57:28.000But like, I think there's a panic because they feel like they're losing their grip on control of the mindset of so many, especially the youth.
00:57:38.000So they're going to get out there and they're going to scream it and be extra loud.
00:57:41.000But the way they're doing it, I mean, they're almost being mocked.
00:57:44.000And listen, I'm trying hard to be above it, be above the fray and be a good Christian and not make fun of them.
00:57:50.000But sometimes, I mean, sometimes I need to be mocked, right?
00:58:49.000But she's up there in front during this counter programming and she starts, you know, it's like she went to way too many of these sort of new age, you know, health retreats and these counseling sessions where she's like leading the audience through, like, Like, breathe out the hate, breathe out the anger, and breathe in the love.
00:59:08.000And it was like, it's like, Julia Roberts, you are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.0.75
00:59:12.000You have been given every darn thing.0.82
00:59:55.000So, but here's the problem is that for so long, the left has been able to just take low hanging fruit and say, You know, white man bad, capitalism bad, you know, with their iPhones in their hands and having that penthouse in Tribeca.
01:00:10.000And people see it and go, yeah, you're right, just because you don't like Donald Trump.
01:00:14.000So, what I'm hoping for, especially with this younger generation, is that people dig a little bit deeper and don't just take that low hanging fruit, just don't just take those talking points and believe every single thing.
01:00:27.000Maybe some of it you do agree with, maybe some of it you don't.
01:00:30.000But when you're told, and the example you're being given by these leaders, mentors, people we're supposed to look up to, Is led with hatred, maybe start there.
01:00:41.000And that's when, to me, they lose their credibility.
01:00:44.000So it's depressing, but at this point, it's kind of on us, guys, if we are surprised by any of this behavior.
01:00:53.000Well, and this is exactly, but I will say that is this the Julia Roberts clip?
01:01:05.000What they call death and void, we know is breath and voice.
01:01:12.000In the end, gorgeously endures our enormity.
01:01:17.000You could believe departed to be the dawn when the blank night has so long stood, but our bright fled angels will never be fully gone when they forever are so fiercely good.
01:04:33.000And I think it's more like because in Europe, we have a lot of rather negative news about the Americans in the last five years, let's say that.
01:04:40.000And I think we are all enjoying the fact that this country is so great to visit.
01:05:13.000All on the same side of every issue and really lecturing you about it.
01:05:18.000Gosh, the lecturing, the European lecturing, I just can't.
01:05:20.000Anyways, I actually looked this up yesterday because I saw Elon Musk is actually going to be suing ZDF, which is one of the top two largest broadcasters, news networks in Germany.
01:05:32.000And he said about some of the migrant crisis stuff that you have to protest loudly and repeatedly if something's going to change.
01:05:39.000The ZDF took that and translated it to you have to hunt down migrants.
01:05:44.000In the streets, and they will they are refusing to retract that, Sage.0.94
01:05:49.000I mean, you were a journalist, yes, a sports journalist.
01:06:04.000I think when I was there, yes, certainly times have changed in the last two and a half years, but absolutely.
01:06:08.000The problem is leadership, and if you're leadership at these networks, um, I mean, they're the ones that are dictating it and how you should cover a story and how you should report.
01:06:17.000And so there might even be people who are being forced to translate it, knowing that it's wrong, but this is what their boss tells them and they have to keep the job.
01:06:23.000I mean, we know all about that and those kind of mandates, right?
01:06:27.000But to your point, Blake, especially in Germany and in France, I mean, there's a reason why they mock us, a reason why they loathe us and think that we are so beneath them.
01:06:36.000It's because of how it is being reported.
01:06:38.000It is actually no different from the mainstream media here, but I don't think any of us, including those of us in it, fully realize those of us who are sane and kind of in the middle or center right who've been in the media world, I don't think any of us realize just how dark and dirty it was.
01:06:55.000Thanks to Elon, thanks to X, and then this space, the streaming podcast world, people are realizing just how dark it was and in some ways still is.
01:07:08.000Where you know that it was painful for him to sit there and watch this pleasant, kind guy from Germany saying, wow, this place is not bad.
01:07:17.000I mean, this is the same guy that a year ago was trying to sell his book, and that's therefore the only reason why he was coming clean, saying that he wasn't honest, basically, as a journalist.
01:07:28.000At CNN with his social media in any way.
01:07:31.000And he's just one of many stars of all of these networks.
01:07:34.000So it is incumbent upon us with all of our God given platforms at this point to just speak the truth.
01:07:41.000And I do believe that that means even when it is uncomfortable, something that we don't want to report, we have to report the facts and the truth.
01:07:48.000That's how I was trained 35, I'm aging myself years ago when I was in college.
01:07:52.000Like it doesn't, your opinion actually doesn't matter when you're a journalist hosting those news shows.
01:07:59.000It's not about your opinion, it's about the fact.
01:08:00.000We give the viewers I mean, the sports audience, whatever it is, the facts, and then allow them to form their opinion.
01:08:08.000But that's not what's been allowed to happen in our country or in Europe.
01:08:21.000I'm just trying to think clearly about all the issues, and then you know where I end up.
01:08:25.000I'm just giving you plausible deniability for the next thing I'm about to say, which is I will tell you, Europeans, they marvel at our conservative movement and the fact that we have this robust.
01:08:35.000Movement that can push back and fight back and go toe to toe with these guys because they don't have that in Europe at all.
01:10:23.000I mean, apparently, this is a breeding ground for people like that who want to create fake narratives to, I don't know, spread their mission.
01:10:31.000It makes me so sad, but we've got to remember this.
01:10:33.000We have to remember that this is what the left has done so brilliantly indoctrinate these young people.
01:10:38.000We have to continue to educate about the facts.