Stephen Colbert's final episode of The Late Night Show on CBS has been canceled, and the left is reacting with existential dread, blaming the evil and fascist Trump and ignoring the fact that the show hasn t been funny in a decade and is losing a reported astronomical sum of $40 million a year.
00:06:20.260This is the most boring fucking bit we've ever discussed.1.00
00:06:22.860How did this pass for entertainment?0.99
00:06:26.560So he brings on De Niro to do, to do the big reveal of the number, my friends, my God.
00:06:35.480and de niro couldn't even spit out the number the whole bit was awkward watch what number were
00:06:44.960you thinking of uh there's a hint as to what the answer is ethan hawk immediately goes i know what
00:06:51.440it is it's three that's the number that that's the number i was thinking of yeah yeah okay yeah
00:06:59.140Because I thought it would would have been two million point five or two and a half million.
00:07:08.940That's the number of Epstein files Trump still hasn't released.
00:07:16.440Is it over? Is it over? Actually, it is over. Thank God. Tonight after tonight, it's over and we don't have to talk about him anymore.
00:07:24.280Thank God. Like, I'm sure he's going to, you know, launch a podcast or do something in the independent lane.
00:07:29.380It'll probably do quite well because he has some following there, not enough to justify paying him 15 million dollars a year on air at CBS.
00:07:36.500But he's the one who's chosen to treat it like a funeral.
00:07:41.020That's that's Stephen Colbert's choice.
00:07:43.800I mean, the months of tributes have been a little much.
00:07:50.040And wait until you hear what Don Lemon is writing about this cancellation.
00:07:58.220You'll be shocked to learn he makes it all about himself, all about himself and his arrest
00:08:04.300for allegedly violating the FACE Act when he stormed a church in St. Paul, Minnesota
00:08:09.940with anti-Ice protesters back in January.
00:08:12.780There are dozens of other examples we've got to get to, but first, before we do, we want to bring in our friend, Stu Bergeer, who's host of Predictable with Stu.
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00:09:28.140Stu, what a great day to have you. Welcome back.
00:09:32.720Okay, so they are all very, very, very upset that Stephen Colbert is going away.
00:09:40.560And we have to pretend like this is some sort of unprecedented free speech violation by a network colluding with a president and not the result of a network losing $40 million a year.0.95
00:09:55.620Can you believe how pathetic and lame the sendoffs have been?0.93
00:09:59.880It's incredible, especially from someone that has just not really made an impact, right?0.96
00:10:05.080I mean, he went over there and he started, there's this big piece of the New York Times, just, you know, again, another obituary for the show today, where they talk about how he started over at, you know, with the show.
00:10:16.760And he tried to do a show that would entertain people like every other late night host was doing for many, many years.
00:10:24.740The formula that appealed to a mass audience, make some jokes, the show's not super expensive to produce, you make a bunch of money, everybody's happy.
00:10:32.740He tried to do that, and it was failing. It was failing miserably. So Donald Trump comes down the escalator. Colbert decides he's going to switch his shtick. I mean, he'd always been obviously critical of conservatives, but he was trying to do something else, I guess, at the beginning.
00:10:48.940and the way the times uh phrases it is uh you know he became successful in a period where it
00:10:54.420was still possible for a show to be successful with a point of view uh which is i thought i'm
00:11:01.620an amazing way to put it i missed the era where all these networks were allowing conservative
00:11:07.500points of view to be the lead parts of their late night shows and hardcore conservatives being
00:11:13.420critical i don't remember you know rush limbaugh having uh the late night show he did have a
00:11:18.860syndicated show at one point that was successful but that's not the way that they allowed this
00:11:23.320stuff to work even with successful people uh like rush uh it's a it's it's a joke he has not been
00:11:29.460successful he's he's you know just shedding money like crazy and he's i think if i'll give him any
00:11:37.000credit on anything he was smart to lean into this sort of victim uh situation where he is now the
00:11:44.520victim of the president he can be seen as the the the white knight fighting for everything that's
00:11:50.420good it's such a lie but it's much better than focusing on the fact that you're losing 40 million1.00
00:11:55.100dollars a year oh my god yes you're a loser that's the truth honestly that is you're a loser and you1.00
00:12:02.920got canceled because you you've been a loser for a long time to quote the president about rosie1.00
00:12:07.500o'donnell that's my one of my favorite quotes by him rosie's a loser she's been a loser for a long0.99
00:12:12.500time as if it's like quantifiable like identifiable the date she became the loser forward scientific0.78
00:12:19.880consensus uh it's same same for stephen colbert so let me give you a taste for what's happening
00:12:27.180Of course, Jon Stewart is also devastated at this. And he, you know, as part of the parade of honors for Colbert on his way out, he's not dying. He's just getting his show canceled. Jon Stewart goes on and says the following. Watch South 4.
00:12:43.940And let me say this, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, not just for this show, but for the country. The day, the day, oh people, close your eyes and dream. The day that the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration, the day that that happens.
00:13:05.620my brother my brother uh-huh there will be and i mean this the day that that happens there will
00:13:17.180be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make hungary's repudiation of
00:14:34.260You know, it's funny because, honestly, without Donald Trump, to be clear, you could say, okay, well, he's, you know, Trump has been critical of Colbert.
00:14:44.140But without Donald Trump's presence, Stephen Colbert's canceled in, like, 2018.0.75
00:14:48.560I mean, his entire show, the only thing he ever says on the show is an echo of what Jon Stewart just said in, you know, just filling in the controversy of the day into his crappy jokes.
00:15:01.060This is his entire career. At this point, he owes to Donald Trump, at least on this show. The fact that it lasted that long is only because he went in there and he did connect with a portion of the country, a very, you know, left wing, hardcore portion of the country.0.58
00:15:19.780And that gave him enough of a bump, just like MSNBC and CNN did in that period.
00:15:24.960They went on hardcore against Donald Trump, did basically TDS network, and were able to pump up their ratings at a time when there was a lot of passion and everyone was screaming about this new guy who was in here and pissing everybody off.
00:15:42.000And once you took half of the audience and immediately tossed them aside and tried to continually hit the same audience with the same jokes and the same monologues and the same guests over and over and over and over again, eventually they just got bored of it.
00:15:57.900And when you got to the point where they, I guess, got what they want and they got a Joe Biden presidency and that went so poorly, a good chunk of the audience that was with them before left.
00:16:09.100And now you have basically nobody outside of Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel watching.
00:16:14.760And that's why the show's off the air.
00:16:16.040It's got nothing to do with Donald Trump yelling at Stephen Colbert.
00:17:02.080Eleven days later, at approximately midnight on January 29th, the FBI and Homeland Security investigators arrested me in Beverly Hills, where I was there covering the Grammy Awards.
00:23:50.960the executive producer who ran the late show for years, eventually left and somehow landed in my
00:23:58.720world. That same person from that same TV orbit eventually became my boss at CNN and fired me.
00:24:07.500I won't name him. I don't need to. But I will say this. It was one of the most spectacular examples
00:24:14.340of a white man failing up that I have witnessed in this industry, profoundly unqualified,
00:24:23.040visibly incompetent, elevated anyway. Now, talking like about failing upward,
00:24:31.300how did Don Lemon ever get a show in the prime time of Fox News? The answer is,
00:24:37.080I refer you for you back to his identity politics. We it later came out that he much younger in his career, allegedly, when he was co-anchoring with Kira Phillips, was so jealous of Kira Phillips that he sent her threatening notes and she knew that they were coming from him.
00:25:01.680but he wasn't identifying himself as the one behind them. And it turned out, allegedly,
00:25:08.420he had been doing it from a burner phone so that he wouldn't be identified to his co-host
00:25:15.060about the nasty, somewhat ominous messages she was getting. There was reportedly a whole human
00:25:23.220resources investigation into him as a result of this. And he was not exonerated. And yet,
00:25:31.280they kept promoting him up the line, Stu. I'm sure that would have happened to a white man too.
00:25:37.740Oh, sure. Sure. This was just one of many problems there. Woman after woman came out
00:25:44.580and gave an interview to the press after his Nikki Haley comment about women are only in0.55
00:25:49.040their primes in their twenties, thirties, and forties. Like you could never have a woman in
00:25:53.800her prime who isn't actively having babies. I mean, not for nothing, tell it to Ketanji Brown
00:25:59.060Jackson, because she got appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court at age 54. I'm thinking she's
00:26:03.120fucking prime. That's fucking prime time for any lawyer or judge on earth. Don, can you see it?1.00
00:26:10.440Can you see it? Since it's a black woman and not a white man or a white woman, can you see it?
00:26:16.900Okay, anyway, so this is his newfound explanation for why he went down. It was the white man,
00:26:24.340Chris Licht. And then he goes on to suggest that somehow Chris Licht may have been bringing down
00:26:31.420the Colbert show too. I don't even understand how he says, um, I, okay, I don't blame Stephen
00:26:41.160Colbert, uh, for any of this stuff I'm talking about, but Colbert's brilliant. He operated with
00:26:47.540integrity, but I do wonder the, whether the man I just described, the one who failed up from that
00:26:51.780world and into my professional life and eventually fired me, had more to do with the end of the
00:26:57.480Colbert show, he says that show, than anyone wants to say out loud. Maybe losing tens of
00:27:03.220millions of dollars a year wasn't just about the economics of late night. Maybe it was about who
00:27:08.660was running the building. This is so weird. I mean, Chris Licht was no longer at CBS. He'd gone
00:27:15.060to CNN and then gotten the boot. But I think what he means is white man. White man made these
00:27:20.240decisions white man is running the world white man has fired what is Stephen Colbert again
00:27:27.020checks notes another white man and this is to say nothing of the numbers the ratings of Don
00:27:36.560Lemon's programs right before he got fired which I will talk about as well in two seconds but your
00:27:41.280reaction to this insane narrative quite catty uh there from Don Lemon you could tell this is just
00:27:47.160you know he's very very angry about losing his gig but i don't even understand you kind of hit
00:27:51.500on this i don't understand what the storyline is for these people if you look at the time where
00:27:57.240colbert was i guess moderately successful again nothing compared to the late night show hosts of
00:28:03.460the past but if you look at the high points of the colbert show it's when chris licked was running it
00:28:09.340that's when it was actually at its high point again incredibly critical of donald trump that
00:28:15.620entire time but if you had if there was a peak to this very tiny mountain it was when chris lich
00:28:22.040was there i would also argue i don't know that it's failing up to go from cbs late night to cnn
00:28:30.240yeah like it seems because i remember at the time there was a big conversation about many of us had
00:28:35.840a lot of questions about that move that like why is chris lich doing that exactly it seems like a
00:28:40.140demotion right it seems like why would you want to go to cnn where there's like 12 people watching
00:28:44.560when you have a network, you have this big show, you know, you're constantly in the positive
00:28:49.480spotlight. Why would you want to leave? And at the time, if I remember, Licht was trying to make
00:28:55.120an argument that he thought it was important. Like, it wasn't like, hey, this is a much better
00:28:58.200gig. He's like, he thought it would be important to try to save this network. Again, that didn't
00:29:03.640happen. I think some of the choices he made while there were actually pretty good. I think there
00:29:07.800was some improvement of CNN while he was there, which of course is the reason he was no longer
00:29:12.120there it gets you get tossed out the door yeah uh you know every once in a while cnn would recognize
00:29:16.960that half the country uh doesn't agree with their non-stop uh crazy leftism right and every once in
00:29:23.620a while they would say wait weren't we supposed to be the people we're not supposed to be msnbc
00:29:27.820what if we try to at least we're supposed to be boring right not biased yeah exactly and honestly
00:29:32.980like megan it is boring and it's terrible but there's room for me in the media uh sphere i wish
00:29:42.100there was a place that did what we're supposed to believe a cnn does like a place that just
00:29:47.560doesn't have the politics yeah yeah i liked the boring version yeah and and honestly i think they
00:29:52.660always leaned left to some degree but at least i think there was a time at cnn where a good portion
00:29:58.780of the people who worked there tried they were leftists and and democrats and stuff but they
00:30:03.760would still attempt to do journalism a lot of that is gone uh you know there's still some good people
00:30:10.040who work there you'd have to put on like a a serious filter when you watch them talk about
00:30:14.160politics but anything outside of politics you you could trust cnn they actually used to be really
00:30:19.580good for that um and even the politics were nowhere near as openly biased on cnn as they
00:30:25.800became under jeff zucker and remain to this day so yeah i agree with you there was a time where cnn
00:30:30.740was okay and it was it was tolerable but that changed and don lemon is one of the main people
00:30:36.540who changed it for, you know, toward the worst. Um, he now wants you to think that it's because
00:30:42.260he was black, I guess that he got fired by a white man. He hates white men. Okay. He's married to a1.00
00:30:49.960white man. So I like, I don't understand it. Are they all bad? It's just the one you married. Okay.
00:30:55.680Is there anybody else who's okay? Like how about the white men who watch your show? Oh wait,
00:31:00.820there are none okay never mind so anyway he goes on to talk about how you know back to himself and
00:31:09.000how sad he is about he how he got fired um the network didn't like me asking conservatives hard
00:31:15.360questions okay here's the truth when Don Lemon got fired his morning show remember he got booted
00:31:23.440from the late night show because it was in in the basement when it came to ratings he was he was
00:31:28.040getting absolutely no numbers. Um, do I have his late night numbers here? I don't know if I have
00:31:32.820his, um, evening numbers here. Oh yeah, I do. When he got fired from the late night show or whatever
00:31:38.360the primetime show, he was averaging 600,000 viewers in the primetime. Okay. He was averaging
00:31:45.040150,000 in the demo just to give the audience a feel for where that is. When I left my primetime
00:31:51.280job at Fox, which was January of 17, we were averaging about 3 million viewers a night.
00:31:57.940Okay. He was getting 600,000 and we had between three and 600,000 in the key demo, given whatever,
00:32:05.440any given night in the news cycle. I actually looked it up. We were averaging 500,000 when I
00:32:11.740left. So we were averaging half a million in the demo. That was what he was getting in the overall.
00:32:15.480That's why he got fired. That's why they booted him out of late night. He had no numbers. He
00:32:19.240couldn't put any points on the board. It was pathetic, pathetic. I never even looked at his1.00
00:32:22.800numbers or anybody's numbers on CNN. They weren't relevant to me. They weren't even a competitor.
00:32:26.860It was boring for me to even consider them. Then they moved him to the morning as his
00:32:32.320promotion. Remember, they tried to spin it as a big promotion to go from a solo primetime position
00:32:38.460to a three person morning show with Caitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow. And it became the
00:32:45.680lowest rated program in a decade for CNN.
00:32:50.320And then he made his comments about Nikki Haley.
00:33:37.140Everyone knew you were dumb, which was one of your major sins, which is not really overcomable.1.00
00:33:41.020So I shouldn't hold it against you.0.99
00:33:42.620In any event, these are the people who remain outraged about Stephen Colbert getting his proverbial head chopped off by, I guess, the white men in the C-suites, too.0.99
00:33:55.300Ah, those evil white men and their vendettas against other white men.0.99
00:34:00.960You know, the other thing you mentioned of him being moved from a show that was completely failing in primetime to the morning show, if I'm not mistaken, that was a Chris Licht move, right?
00:34:09.940Like, he actually saved Don Lemon and put him in the morning show.
00:34:14.660Again, he didn't make all good decisions, but that was a terrible one.
00:34:20.440He tried not to fire him, which is seemingly the central focus of this entire media organization for years and years and years and years was to figure out a way to not fire Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon.
00:34:32.540I don't know why they were so dedicated to that cause.
00:34:36.600But, you know, you talk about those numbers, you know, gosh, I remember going back when we first started in television, the first, you know, major network that I worked in, it was in the building at CNN.
00:34:48.520We worked for CNN, and at that time, they were trying to say, hey, wait a minute, we've noticed half the country won't ever turn us on.
00:34:55.460Maybe we should put a conservative on that little ugly stepchild network that we have, CNN Headline News.
00:35:01.620And they put on Glenn Beck, and I was working with him at the time.
00:35:04.600and it was amazing to to watch there where i mean they had nobody watching that network i mean nobody
00:35:10.240was turning the thing on but our numbers when we got on there were higher than the numbers than
00:35:16.020you're talking about with with don lemon that's embarrassing that shouldn't happen you know there's
00:35:21.060been other developments in that time period certainly a rise of digital and other things
00:35:25.400but you're basically at the point now where it's just sort of one of those networks it's like a
00:35:30.720prestige play in a in a in some executives uh you know portfolio it's not it's they're not trying
00:35:37.620to do news or get ratings or make money or anything else it's just this thing everyone
00:35:41.980kind of remembers cnn as they had this positive view gosh remember when they how they covered the
00:35:46.800gulf war uh hey let's let's keep make sure this is this continues to go on remember larry king
00:35:52.700well yeah we remember larry king but that was a long time ago this thing has been dissolved and
00:35:57.740dissolved and dissolved they've tried to remake it over and over again it's like the person who
00:36:01.900goes in for too much plastic surgery right at some point you get to that place where this looks
00:36:06.120nothing like the beautiful person we used to know it is this this it's just this sort of revolting
00:36:11.580weird uncanny valley of a network and i don't think it's savable at this point it's so true
00:36:17.600so here's what's happening over on nbc where jimmy fallon was always sort of i think it's0.94
00:36:23.880fair to say the least political of the late night hosts Seth Meyer is he he's the jerk I'm just1.00
00:36:30.800gonna say he's such a jerk he was such an asshole when I was over at NBC like I really I couldn't1.00
00:36:36.580stand him I put his wife on because she was pushing some initiative some charity charity and1.00
00:36:41.020it was a favor I was like sure okay I'll put her on and then like a couple months later he was out
00:36:45.580there attacking me at the upfronts where you make your pitch to advertisers literally he was out
00:36:51.120there, like making jokes about what a racist I was. Like, I'm sorry about that. You're just a
00:36:56.580dick. Like if you do that, like what, who would do that? Like if you don't like me or you think1.00
00:37:00.340bad things about me, okay, no problem. We don't have to like each other. Why would you ask me to
00:37:05.180do you a favor and to do a solid for your wife? And then I did it, which was a nice thing for me
00:37:11.160to do. And then to attack me publicly. Like, well, you're such a douche. That's a fucking douche.
00:37:16.480sorry for my language okay anyway um back to jimmy fallon who is far less political than0.99
00:37:23.980seth myers or is he look where he went um was this this is wednesday night this is last night
00:37:32.420this is jimmy fallon who may be starting to think he can fill the shoes of stephen colbert listen
00:37:39.460here. Trump had sued the IRS for 10 billion. What a mess. Trump controls the DOJ, told them make it
00:37:47.300go my way. So he got immunity. No more audits. OMG. He's so happy. LOL. Popping bottles like
00:37:55.040Kash Patel. PJT says DOJ. Is it illegal? IDK. PJT stops IRS. Is that sketchy? YES. Trump says
00:38:04.160nbd okay if fbi is mia trump says okay brb i gotta watch the ufc i-r-s-v-d-o-j-s-m-h-i-y-k-y-k-n-g-l
00:38:15.900it's s-u-s-t-l-d-r-w-t-f oh my god still oh my god that is sorry the worst thing i've ever seen
00:38:26.860that should have come with a viewer warning yes yeah i'm sorry i'm sort of angry at you honestly
00:38:31.300make it for even showing that oh god it's like i was recoiling you know it's like it kind of hit
00:38:40.600my ocd in bad ways too i i disapprove on every level yes there's that weird feeling that you
00:38:46.220get into there's certain episodes of the office that make you really really uncomfortable like
00:38:50.080scott's tots that's the feeling that i had watching that as if i was being tortured uh you
00:38:56.360know the show that's going to replace i guess uh colbert is a show called comics unleashed which
00:39:00.680you know is from what i understand is you know gives comedians like shots that you know that
00:39:04.500maybe people didn't know who they were i work with dave landau on my show steward dave do america
00:39:09.520he's a comedian uh and he always treat he traces back the fall of nate uh late night and this is
00:39:17.020something he puts a lot of thought into into the colbert vaccine song sketch uh if you remember
00:39:23.560this one with the dancing needles with the dancing needles and it was the vaccine s-c-e-n-e and they
00:39:29.740tried to make it into this hey this catchy thing you should take this this shot it's and it's like
00:39:35.420it became the exact opposite of what the institution was supposed to be it was supposed
00:39:41.700to be something that was pushing back against uh you know the the things that uh you know that you
00:39:47.480were hearing from the government you're supposed to be this like you know this force uh you know
00:39:52.060pushing against the tides and and making fun of everybody and instead it was like you know you
00:39:56.560have to embrace the messaging coming from the man right it is the exact opposite and again it
00:40:02.080doesn't matter what you feel about any of these issues honestly it was it's always it's it's good
00:40:07.040to have voices and comedic comedic voices have always been the best at doing this who will just
00:40:12.020just take shots at what we know what we see uh in in in washington and you know from our authority
00:40:19.500figures and from our institutions we should look at them this is america we're supposed to look at
00:40:24.000them uh kind of like with a side eye and and always be suspicious of what everyone's telling
00:40:29.540us if you fold and say hey everybody line up to take this medication what you know whether you
00:40:34.100like it or not you're just sending the signal that we've just given in and that is what they
00:40:38.820did throughout the biden presidency they couldn't find comedy in joe freaking biden for four years
00:40:44.220it was the funniest thing anybody ever seen if it wasn't just for our lives all collapsing
00:42:27.420Rachel Maddow, yes, they rely on her as their queen or did when she was doing more than one hour of television a week.
00:42:33.880But this guy was never the guy setting the agenda or like the talking points or, you know, offering new ideas or new ways of looking at leftists and leftist candidates and or even right wing candidates at all.
00:42:46.300He wasn't. So whatever. Fair, farewell. Nothing against him personally. But this is it's too much.
00:42:52.220He's got to get over himself. Now, I just want to steal one moment, if you don't mind.
00:42:55.680You mentioned Glenn Beck, who I love. And Glenn, as we both know, is an enormous history buff. I mean, I don't think there's a topic he loves more than history. And he was so generous. He had on my husband, Doug Brunt, who has just published a new book called The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel.
00:43:17.080And it's all about this guy named Emmanuel Nobel, who was being raised in, well, Sweden and then moved to Russia around the turn of, you know, into the 20th century alongside another kid named Joseph Stalin.
00:43:33.360And one would become the richest oil baron in the world, and one would become someone who wanted what that first guy had.
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00:44:26.860And then I'll give you one more. Apple Books has made it the book of the month. Apple's so enamored with Doug's book, it's their pick for the month. And they write, whether you are interested in the ideological clash between capitalism and communism, or you're a fan of fascinating historical deep cuts, The Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel is a gripping read.
00:56:05.200it reads you are not alone vote spencer pratt we're all voting for spencer pratt right
00:56:10.980of course obviously i wish i could vote like yesterday so good so it was created by not
00:56:19.060started by but created by uh damalori zanoiki who's been on this program and it's so good
00:56:24.280that that can happen. That could happen even in L.A. where you're definitely not supposed to be
00:56:32.000voting for Spencer Pratt. You're not to admit that you like Spencer Pratt. You certainly shouldn't be
00:56:36.200talking about openly voting for a Republican to run the city. And yet it's in the you know,
00:56:42.540in the way we saw before Trump's last election where there were so many crossover votes.
00:56:47.080I'm sure you are having conversations where people are kind of nosing up to it slightly still,
00:56:51.520you know, like Spencer Pratt is interesting or fascinating.
00:56:56.360Well, he's fascinating. Right. And then seeing whether somebody takes the bait.
00:57:02.000Yeah. I mean, it's really interesting. I remember those conversations, having those conversations with people in 2016 when they were like, I don't know.
00:57:09.320I mean, I kind of like what Trump's doing. Right. Like that was a thing.
00:57:13.000And it's the same sort of of of momentum that seems to be building for Spencer Pratt.
00:57:19.860it's hard to know whether it's real or if it's just an online phenomenon i guess we don't know
00:57:24.680that yet we'll know eventually but it's so central to to the the possibility of a rise of
00:57:33.900spencer spencer pratt that you have to by default do such a terrible job uh which is what karen
00:57:41.500bass has done this isn't something that can just happen like you know like a republican can't get
00:57:46.440just elected because they're interesting and they run a bunch of ads right like you have to have
00:57:52.520your city burned to the ground while you're in uh in africa right you have to watch homeless person
00:57:58.740after homeless person yeah that really happened literally yeah city burned down yeah she wasn't
00:58:03.720there she doesn't seem particularly sorry and they're seriously thinking about re-electing her
00:58:08.720yeah well i mean and she's leading right now i mean we talk about prediction markets all the time
01:14:47.840And I honestly think that whole movie, that particular movie, Juno, which wound up being viewed positively by pro-life people like me, really screwed with her head, honestly.
01:14:59.200Ever since that happened, she's been on this constant tour to prove she swears that she doesn't actually like people who are pro-life or something.
01:15:07.580There's been this kind of retribution against what people wound up perceiving her as after that movie.
01:15:14.400Again, I didn't think that she agreed with me on that issue.
01:15:18.440They just put a somewhat positive light on 50% of the country for an hour and a half.
01:15:25.920And just that was seemingly enough to throw her into this spiral that winds up her being Elliot and playing some role in this movie, which I don't know if it's Achilles.
01:15:36.200I've heard that maybe it's not, maybe it's another role.
01:15:38.340But whatever it is, if she's credited as Elliot, she's already playing a role before the movie begins.
01:16:14.760And we're actually supposed to buy the lie that she's a man.
01:16:18.280This is like, you know, they just there's been a big debate on the left about whether they should release the DNC should release this autopsy report about why it lost the 2024 election, which is like, OK, I mean, I don't care whether they do or they don't.
01:16:31.460I mean, I know why they lost the election. There are a lot of reasons. Number one is Kamala Harris sucks.
01:16:36.160But really above that is their far left insanity. You know, they're they're they're chopping off the body parts of healthy children.1.00
01:16:43.640OK, how's that? I've summed it up for you. You don't need to see your autopsy.
01:16:48.280Um, but it is now they've released it. I guess this guy who's running the DNC who nobody knows
01:16:54.400about, um, what's his name? Ken Martin. He, while under pressure from the guys at Pod Save and
01:17:00.780elsewhere, finally said, okay, I'll release it. It seems to be rather boring based on what I've
01:17:05.040seen. I've just read a summary, but one of the, one of the things they do point out in the summary
01:17:09.880is the trans stuff. And in particular, they point to that transgender focused ad that Trump released
01:17:17.520Kamala's for they them. Trump is for you. Remember? And it pointed out that she wanted to pay
01:17:22.900for the sex change operations of prisoners in California, which was a real thing. And like
01:17:30.580Elliot, whether it's Elliot Page in Hollywood doing this and forcing this character on us as a
01:17:35.520male, as like someone who's supposed to be like a badass male in folklore, or it's Kamala Harris
01:17:45.100trying to make us get involved in actually pay for chopping people's healthy body parts off1.00
01:17:50.740so they can pretend they're something they're not.0.88
01:17:53.580This is what this is why Republicans have still at least a shot in the midterms still.
01:17:59.560You know, it's like they've been quiet.
01:18:01.560The Democrats have been smart, very, very uncharacteristically smart over the past four months.
01:18:07.100They've kept their mouths shut and let Trump twist in the wind over the Iran war in the economy where he remains.
01:18:14.020because the latest polls out of from Fox News are dreadful for Trump and the Republicans.
01:18:20.420But this kind of thing does remind us of what's behind the other curtain.
01:18:29.780I mean, really, what they need to do is just get out of the way.
01:18:31.900If they get out of the way of themselves and allow nature to take course in the midterms,
01:18:36.620likely they're going to win, not because of anything magical that they have on their own,
01:18:40.560But because history, election after election after election in the midterm, the party in power, when it comes to the president of the United States, almost always loses seats outside of massively outlier type situations like, you know, 9-11, right?
01:26:12.820Even if things were going pretty well, it would be hard for for them to win.
01:26:16.060They come in with a two, three seat majority.
01:26:18.060Right. Just minor, minor losses is going to mean the House goes away that the Senate is at risk, certainly.
01:26:25.140I mean, I think most places see it as like a 50 50 proposition as the Democrats get it when the Senate should not.
01:26:31.160have been, the way the Senate is set up, Republicans should be heavily favored. I mean,
01:26:37.320there should be an 80 or 90 percent chance of them winning. And the fact that it's 50-50,
01:26:41.220it's because of people like Janet. Or, I'm sorry to put it so frankly,
01:26:43.840or your child has a chance of turning into an Elliott Page. Like, truly, this can't happen.
01:26:49.360Like, the Democrat Party is the one pushing this trans madness on us, open border madness on us.0.63
01:26:54.940The only one who's abandoned that is Rahm Emanuel on the Democrat side. Gavin Newsom wants an open
01:26:59.280border. So does Kamala Harris. She's reportedly running again. I haven't seen one other Democrat
01:27:03.200say no, that they would keep Trump's border the way it is. The risks are extremely high
01:27:08.140in stacking, in particular, the Senate with more Dems. Sorry to interrupt. Keep going.
01:27:13.600No, no. It's true, though. I mean, I think there is a one of the things that I think
01:27:17.680hits hard about the trans issue in particular is not necessarily about trans issues. I honestly
01:27:23.820would argue that most Americans really don't want to think about it. You know, we understand
01:27:28.620that people go through things and there's difficult things they're dealing with and
01:27:31.600honestly like i got enough stuff going on in my own life i don't really want to think about what
01:27:35.560you're doing uh with with your uh with your reproductive organs frankly i i think the average
01:27:41.640american is like i just want to look the other way and move on with my life and get to the
01:27:45.900restaurant or whatever i'm doing um but what where that hit i think centrally to people as a as a
01:27:52.080campaign issue is that it hit at a very fundamental thing that we need which is truth
01:27:57.320we must have we must be able to agree that when a person is born a man or a boy and they grow up
01:28:04.580and they become a man they can't with a series of magical words they can't say abracadabra or
01:28:09.460beetlejuice a certain amount of times to change their gender we all understand everybody including
01:28:15.780those people on the left that embrace those policies and go on television and act like they
01:28:21.020believe them none of them believe that is a true thing none of them believe that is possible
01:28:26.980but they say it anyway and that feels like people have abandoned the fundamental precept of america
01:28:35.020right that we're going to be here we're common sense people and we're going to go forward and
01:28:39.400we're going to just say the things that are true and all of that is is really really important and
01:28:44.600it is a core issue but typically what happens when it comes to elections and i would say even more
01:28:51.200central with off year elections and midterms is that if they are getting hit in the face constantly
01:28:58.020with issues that are affecting them more the trans issue is really important because it hits
01:29:04.020at truth but most people aren't interacting with those issues on a day-to-day basis some are and
01:29:09.180they're really important to talk about janet's worried about her wallet she's worried about
01:29:13.300her wallet she's paying her bills her kids or grandkids right that that's what they care about
01:29:18.180And in the absence of those issues, a lot of times people will be able to focus on other important things.
01:29:24.720When those things slap you in the face, the ideology goes out of the window, honestly, with a lot of people.
01:29:29.880Even if they believe in a lot of the things that Donald Trump cares about, if they believe that he is doing a good job on a good portion,
01:29:36.100and I think there is a good portion to argue on his behalf from this presidency,
01:29:39.540If this stuff happens and the result of it is we have a president who is basically trying to convince people that their economic situation is better than it is, hey, you should recognize we actually are in the golden age of America.
01:29:55.220I mean, Trump has made these arguments very recently.
01:35:04.620Stu, there is a very disturbing legal case out of the UK right now, which is one of those cases that speaks volumes about where a society is.
01:35:14.920and our friends across the pond need help.
01:35:18.460They've just lost their way over there.
01:35:20.920They are so obsessed with identity politics.1.00