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00:04:40.860You know, and what's great about her, I think, is the fact that, like, you could be a, you know, we know Republicans, we know Democrats, we know people who are in Congress.
00:04:49.940Many of them slave away for years and years and years and years.
00:04:52.120Democrats are working on, you know, some health care expansion and they're working on, you know, how do we reverse 0.9 degrees Celsius temperature rise over a century.
00:05:40.740All of the incentives perfectly line up for her to continue this bizarre behavior and just show her crazy to everybody over and over again.
00:06:04.340I wanted to start, actually, I was going to start with this pipe bomb news.
00:06:07.520But then just as we came to air, I saw the New York Times article on Kamala Harris.
00:06:12.340It was retweeted by, or tweeted by Dan Turrentine, time, our pal of Democrat fame.
00:06:19.680And he said, I've long been saying she is going to run again.
00:06:23.520And it's an in-depth profile of Kamala Harris by the New York Times.
00:06:28.260The question, I love, this is classic Kamala.
00:06:30.380They asked her, should the party veer left and get more progressive, like we saw with somebody like Mom Donnie, who's not even progressive.
00:06:38.660Or should it veer to the center, like some of, like, Abigail Spamberger, who's their idea of center, even though she wants boys playing in girls sports, the new governor of Virginia, elect.
00:06:50.060And her answer, Kamala Harris' answer is, okay, so should we veer left or stay center?
00:09:09.360Probably the most concerning thing is maybe she did put a lot of time into thinking and coming up with that answer, which is maybe the worst thing.
00:09:16.140But, you know, if you remember back in the campaign, there was that moment where she went on, I think it was The View.
00:09:22.100I remember watching it, sitting in the studio, looking up at the TV with absolute amazement as she couldn't come up with one thing that she disagreed with that they had done during the entire term.
00:09:33.020No disagreement with Joe Biden on any policy, couldn't come up with anything.
00:09:36.540And it was at that moment, honestly, that I thought she was toast.
00:09:41.100It was the biggest gift you could have possibly given to Donald Trump, who, you know, benefits from the dumbest enemies possible over and over and over again.
00:10:23.920By the way, the New York Times points out that she's been calling all these Democrats who won their elections, like Mom Donnie, like Spanberger, and others who won in the most recent November election.
00:10:35.340They said, quote, the exact kind of thing a person planning to run for president might do.
00:10:40.520The Times is clearly dangling this as the closest she's gotten to telegraphing she's going to run in 2028.
00:10:49.640And here's another little piece for you to mull on.
00:10:53.920Her place in history is already secure, and she knows it, writes the Times.
00:10:59.300Quote, quoting her, I understand the focus on 28 and all that, but there will be a marble bust of me in Congress.
00:11:08.760I am a historic figure, like any vice president of the United States ever was.
00:16:03.440I'm not a vice president, and I'm certainly not the person who was just nominated as the, you know, a party nominee who just ran for president.
00:16:11.620This is why she thinks she's relevant, and she's got to brag about it, right?
00:16:17.640Thousands and thousands to hear my voice, and the Times goes along with it, like, and they're paying to see her.
00:16:24.540This is a book promo tour, and there are almost always young black women filling these audiences because to her, to them, she's a hero, right?
00:16:34.680She's like, as she will quickly remind you, the first this, the first that, and represents a certain brand of identity politics that's super popular within the Democrat Party, and in particular, the black female wing of it.
00:16:50.420Yeah, I mean, it's fascinating that she'd be excited about that, right?
00:16:53.980If she could have filled 10,000, 12,000 seat arenas like you did on your tour, I mean, I saw it in person, I saw it in footage in all cities across America.
00:17:04.660If she could have done the same, Megan, I assure you, she would have, right?
00:17:08.300Like, this is not, they weren't like, we want to limit these sales.
00:17:20.860It wasn't, you know, a responsibility to say, oh, gosh, I, you know, I just want to be a partner in history or whatever.
00:17:28.220But I mean, if you step back for a second here, this is a person who ran for president, won a vice president, presidency term in the vice president's office, and also just received, not that long ago, tens of millions of votes to be president of the United States against a person that everyone in her party absolutely despises and calls Hitler.
00:17:50.720On a day-to-day basis, you'd think it'd be easy to fill a 10,000 seat arena in every city in America.
00:17:57.880I mean, she got a lot of votes, but those votes were out of sort of a default, right?
00:18:03.780People who just didn't like Donald Trump and were looking for any other option.
00:18:07.200There was never a moment of passion for Kamala Harris.
00:18:10.880I would argue, even within the Biden administration, I mean, they spent a lot of their time trying to convince reporters behind the scenes how much she sucked at the job.
00:18:21.940So, you know, I mean, I'm sure maybe her family likes her.
00:18:25.020I'm sure there's a few stragglers where you can fill small arenas or small, not even arena, small, I don't know, venues, restaurants.
00:18:44.320But, like, there's not much more beyond that.
00:18:46.580And even the people who cast the vote were doing it with a kind of, you know, shrugging their shoulders and please stop Donald Trump attached to it.
00:19:30.160They, you know, Kamala Harris for the people.
00:19:32.440They used that many times in her campaign.
00:19:34.000So it's not even, like, something she came up with.
00:19:36.340It's not something that's near and dear to her heart.
00:19:38.120It's something that she's parlaying off of, that some campaign operative who got paid some of those billion dollars drafted for her.
00:19:44.680And now she thinks it's, like, a profundity, like she always does with things that she says, and she wants to push it on us in the New York Times.
00:19:51.120Josh Shapiro is in the news on Kamala Harris right now.
00:19:55.200He's, of course, the governor of Pennsylvania.
00:20:01.260She wrote how he came to interview for the vice presidential role, you know, that Tim Walls ultimately got.
00:20:10.060And she paints him as kind of a douchebag that he was basically measuring the drapes for his vice presidential residence and office upon the interview to the point where she had to tell him, you know, it's not a co-vice presidency or a co—it's not a co-presidency, Josh.
00:20:25.740And he was told about her book by a reporter who was with him profiling him for The Atlantic, I think it was.
00:20:39.500And this person wrote about how that went over, where he said, hey, her book just—yeah, it was Tim Alberta in The Atlantic.
00:20:46.440And he said to Josh Shapiro, this is just last week, this is what she said about you.
00:20:54.800And then he said, did she give you any heads up about her book?
00:21:14.900He moved between outrage and exasperation, as I relayed the excerpts.
00:21:19.580Harris had accused him, in essence, of measuring the drapes, even inquiring about featuring Pennsylvania artists in the vice presidential residence, of insisting, quote, that he would want to be in the room for every decision, end quote, Harris might make.
00:21:31.140And more generally, of hijacking the conversation when she interviewed him for the job, to the point where she reminded him he would not be co-president.
00:21:38.280She wrote that in her book, he said in response.
00:42:50.480So far I have put Kamala Harris's bust and the My Little Pony theme song in her head. And
00:42:55.640this is a problem for more than just you, Stu. I'm sure many of our listeners feel the same.
00:43:00.320I think that's true. It's a fascinating story because the length of time it took for us to get to
00:43:07.720anything. There was so many bits and pieces of information that kept popping up about the pipe
00:43:14.600bomber and we just never really got to anything. It seems shocking because you'd think with their
00:43:20.040desire to blame someone who supposedly liked Donald Trump for really anything, you'd think that would
00:43:27.360have been a target if that was real. Certainly doesn't seem like the information we have about
00:43:31.380this particular individual, lines with someone who would support Donald Trump, which is something I
00:43:38.060guess he said in an interview at some point, or at least he said that he thought the election was
00:43:42.260stolen allegedly. We'll see if that proves to be true. But then his grandmother came out and said
00:43:49.560he is not a Trump supporter. He's not political at all.
00:43:52.980Yeah. So who knows? Could just be a crazy person, could be a conspiracy theorist, could be something
00:43:57.860else? It's like Thomas Crooks. Thomas Crooks was hard left, or sorry, he was hard right before he
00:44:03.780went hard left. He was Googling where Joe Biden was in the days leading up to the Trump assassination
00:44:08.500attempt. Then obviously he settled in on Trump. Like it is very possible that these disturbed,
00:44:14.720disaffected, like tricked out young men are not really political, that they have just violence on
00:44:24.100their mind. It is also possible they get used by somebody who corrupts their feeble minds. That's
00:44:29.940something a lot of people have been asking, especially about Thomas Crooks. I don't know about
00:44:33.660this guy, but anyway, there, it is possible that this wasn't political, even though the targeted
00:44:38.900entities were the RNC and the DNC. Yeah, yeah, no, very true. And I think when you look at like
00:44:45.620how all of this played out, you have a guy doing, you know, multiple failed investigations and being
00:44:51.640aligned with a kind of a bunch of big embarrassments, but politically targeted ones,
00:44:56.280right? Things that would end up, generally speaking, favoring the Democrats and the Biden
00:45:02.460administration at the time. And, you know, it's fascinating how these people who do these things
00:45:07.780that wind up being complete disasters always seem to fail up. Like, you know, he walks out of all of
00:45:13.300this and he's got a gig at KPMG, right? Like that it's a very strange development. You'd think this is a
00:45:18.740person who'd be like, Hey, you know, is there, you know, Subway, do you have a gig available?
00:45:24.480Like, it seems like that's the profile we've seen from someone like that. And I know, honestly,
00:45:29.700there's been so many theories on this and so much speculation and a lot of it ending up in
00:45:34.220conspiracies and all of that. And it's kind of understandable because of all the really strange
00:45:40.480things that have happened. When government officials are telling us the data was corrupted,
00:45:44.920a new administration gets in and they are fine, like almost instantly able to get a hold of this
00:45:50.260data and explain to us. Yeah, it's fine. It's been fine the whole time. I mean, you know,
00:45:55.160when you hear the data is corrupted, it's like, okay, well, we just got to give up. There's nothing
00:45:59.440we can do here. He's wearing a mask. He's fully clothed. He's got the, his face is covered. There's
00:46:05.860no way we're going to figure this out without cell phone data. And then, you know, at the end of the
00:46:09.400day, we just have it, right? You know, there are cameras in the area that were pointed towards
00:46:13.460places that could have. Yeah. So that's another thing Miranda's pointing out that all images and
00:46:19.320videos released by the FBI were low res and choppy. This is before. Yeah. She points out Mike
00:46:24.680Benz, a former State Department official during Trump's first term and an executive director of
00:46:29.480the Foundation for Freedom Online also claims a blur bar or pixelation effect has been laid over
00:46:34.720the suspect's eyes in the footage that shows him looking directly at the camera while sitting on a
00:46:39.320bench outside of the DNC building. Judging by the video, it might also be goggles, but either
00:46:43.400way, nobody recognized the suspect, perhaps by design. But now this FBI takes over. And before we
00:46:50.200know it, they've got, you know, better pictures of him, higher res. And she also points out that by
00:46:57.780the end of February, 2021, the Bureau had begun actively diverting resources away from the pipe
00:47:03.560bomb investigation. It's, you know, they, they did have other priorities under Joe Biden. They were,
00:47:09.160they were tracking grannies at abortion clinics. They were tracking parents at COVID meetings who
00:47:15.040literally just went over their allotted time, not making that up. The Merrick Garland testified before
00:47:22.760Congress on what led them to consider labeling parents domestic terrorists pursuant to that letter
00:47:29.660that went to Joe Biden. And one of the items were, was parents going over their time at the microphone
00:47:35.780at school board meetings. That's the insanity that the DOJ and the FBI were looking into instead of
00:47:41.440trying to find this guy who, by the way, Kash Patel and the FBI said had other bomb parts still
00:47:48.460sitting in his room, presumably purchased after the J6 date. So God knows what he was planning. You know,
00:47:54.640it's like, perhaps we should have been focused on him instead of the parent who went over her allotted
00:48:00.740time. Yeah. And that is, and to add on to that unseemly pile of priorities, they were also taking
00:48:10.740the, the cell phone information of sitting U S senators and looking at what they were doing and also
00:48:17.840running a multi-year campaign to fool the American people into believing their president had some
00:48:27.320cognitive abilities that he clearly did not have. This is a, you know, they, it's his, I think,
00:48:34.960I really think over time, this will become a situation where we really understand historically
00:48:41.020how significant a lot of this stuff was. I mean, you know, we're talking about the American people
00:48:45.660without a president basically for multiple years, uh, at least making the decisions on a day-to-day
00:48:51.460basis, really big things like this. You know, I, I, you mentioned the, um, the pro-life, uh,
00:48:57.440centers. Some of those cases are fascinating. I mean, situations where local police didn't see it as
00:49:03.360enough of a priority. Local police were like, ah, we saw the details of this investigation. We're not
00:49:08.500going to charge this individual. And then mysteriously weeks later, the federal government
00:49:15.240gets involved in a minor case with no charges in a locality where no one was injured. You know,
00:49:22.340there's a little bit of a scuffle, a little bit of an argument, but that's really it.
00:49:25.860And then the feds start coming in and charging individuals for crimes of like blocking abortion
00:49:32.080clinics. And how do they even know about a case like that? Let alone want to prosecute it.
00:49:37.040The, the, all the things that the Democrats say about Trump, they say he's targeting their enemies.
00:49:40.880They say he's out of control. All he wants is power. He wants to, you know, go blow through the
00:49:45.040department of justice and all the things they say about him are all very familiar to them because
00:49:49.620they were doing them all themselves for four years. And, you know, that has to be exposed.
00:49:54.940It really is. We don't get to the bottom of that and, uh, and, and come up with some sense of
00:50:01.000consequence for the people who were involved in it. You know, this stuff's just going to keep
00:50:04.940we should have a congressional like hearing on this and maybe this committee, uh, that Miranda
00:50:09.740references is going to look into with the subcommittee, but I want, I want to know who
00:50:14.100gave the stand down order, you know, if one was given or was it just a generic, like, Hey, we're
00:50:19.380all moving on. Like, Hey, here's 20 other things for you to focus on. So you're not going to look at,
00:50:24.020but it's very, it is weird that they were making progress and, um, you know, getting, getting
00:50:29.880somewhere on the investigation. And then suddenly they had no interest in it. Look,
00:50:34.420I only know two things. We, we have to stand for the people. All right. That's number one.
00:50:41.860I know that. And I know this too, as we go to break, I know this watch.
00:50:46.920My little pony, my little pony. Come and brush her hair. My little pony, my little pony. Tie a ribbon to show how much I care. My little pony, my little pony.
00:51:03.200Yeah. That's rocking. I love it. Someone's got to remake it.
00:51:08.440It's for you to marinate on until we come back, which we will do in just a couple of minutes. Be right back with Stu.
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00:53:13.300Stu Bergeer of Stu Does America is back with me now. Stu, our friend Piers Morgan sat down with Nick
00:53:28.520Fuentes and did the interview that everybody wanted Tucker to do with Nick Fuentes. And I'm sure this is
00:53:35.580going to make everyone super happy and put to bed the controversy of Nick Fuentes and his appeal.
00:53:42.440Oh, wait, no, it won't at all. But here's a little taste of how it went. Take a listen here to top 12.
00:53:50.520Just to clear up one of the many theories about you, I've no idea what the answer is and you haven't
00:53:54.620got to answer it. But are you actually attracted to women?
00:53:57.200I am attracted to women. You're not gay?
00:54:02.400No. But I will say that women are very difficult to be around.
00:57:06.080You know, look, I, obviously, his views are awful.
00:57:10.160And I think it's quite obvious to everyone that it's awful.
00:57:13.860You know, Pierce can program his own show, just like Tucker can program his own show, and you can program your own show, and I can program mine.
00:57:18.880And, you know, some people think this is interesting, and I think there's a lot of views on this, where it's like, oh, God, his views are abhorrent.
00:57:35.540I don't know the guy, and I don't want to know the guy.
00:57:38.320At the end of the day, though, there's like a different section that I also fall into, which is I just don't find him all that interesting.
00:57:45.260You know, I don't get a lot out of it.
00:57:48.460I don't need or really care about any of his views.
00:57:51.840When you're leading with Hitler was cool, and I like Stalin, I kind of made up my mind about the Holocaust a really long time ago.
00:58:00.140I don't feel the need to re-entertain it.
00:58:09.280It's a criticism of the people who are like, Tucker needed to do his interview with Nick Fuentes a certain way, you know, to like show people that side of him.
00:58:16.860And I just feel like if you spent 20 seconds just Googling the name, you will get all of those views.
00:58:24.300They will be the first thing that's there on you.
00:58:26.320I don't think there's a huge population of people who listen to Tucker's show who walked away with, that's a really interesting guy.
00:59:34.780Yeah, I mean, you know, you interviewed Vladimir Putin, right?
00:59:38.940Like, this is a person that has really awful views and I think is, oh, God, even worse.
00:59:44.680But, yeah, you know, there is value in interviewing someone who, particularly someone who has power.
00:59:52.880And, you know, I'm not saying that there's no case for an investigation on what the phenomenon is if there is one.
01:00:01.220I mean, there's some belief that, you know, it's a little bit overstated, which I know I tend to agree with.
01:00:06.260You know, I run in conservative circles, never met anybody in my entire life who brought up anything about Nick Fuentes, that they watched the show.
01:00:32.980Like you're supposed to take him on at full strength and make sure everything he says is denounced and everyone who talks to him, you denounce them.
01:00:40.160And and I can understand that argument.
01:00:42.780You know, I really do think his views are absolutely terrible.
01:00:45.740And I see another side of people who are fighting back and saying, no, it's a really important phenomenon.
01:01:24.380I'm done with conspiracy theories, too.
01:01:25.900Like I could spend all day if you want to take on somebody's favorite conspiracy theories.
01:01:30.060You could devote your whole show to it every day, debunking each each latest iteration of it.
01:01:34.780Who wants to spend their time like that?
01:01:37.020It's utterly pointless, by the way, because you can't talk people who believe conspiracy theories out of their beliefs of those conspiracy theories.
01:02:01.180Why not spend the time delivering what you know is real news that actually might affect people's lives and let those chips on these other things fall where they may?
01:02:16.380And what we can do is use the law when someone like a Nick Fuentes gets into, let's say, a hiring position and those views are unleashed on a staff position or a staffer, somebody working for him.
01:02:28.760Now, that's illegal, but it's not illegal to have his views.
01:02:31.760And it's not illegal for him to be popular, which he is amongst a certain contingent.
01:02:37.180And they know that contingent knows better than you and I know what he actually stands for because he makes zero attempts to hide it, especially on his show.
01:02:47.080So even if you go over to Tucker's show or whoever's show and you manage to like act like you're kind of a normie, as soon as somebody tunes into your actual show and you're Nick Fuentes, they're going to hear exactly what you stand for.
01:03:12.800And I understand some people feel like really passionate to call out every one of these things.
01:03:17.420I'm glad there is the other side, that if people are searching, the very few that could be convinced, I'm glad that those views are out there.
01:03:24.540But like I tend to – like I was reading a piece by Coleman Hughes recently.
01:03:29.660I don't know if you talked about that.
01:04:06.000Like it is, I believe, an important book.
01:04:08.240A book that like America should know about and should understand how to really dissect a topic like that that's difficult.
01:04:17.420If you don't know Coleman, he's an African-American guy who – but he's talking about race in a really sensible way and solving, I think, a lot of these problems and making real impact on it.
01:04:26.740And, you know, if anyone read it, right, like it – you know, we – Nick Fuentes' views on these things are getting a hell of a lot more publicity from the left, the right, the middle, and everything else than this incredible book that came out like last year that should have been much more in the spotlight and much more part of a serious conversation.
01:04:45.900Like I'm not saying that someone who's, you know, literally threatening to imprison people based on the race is not a threat.
01:04:52.020You should take those people seriously at some level.
01:04:55.480And I don't know what to believe about it.
01:04:58.500If we lose the battle on where the Holocaust – whether the Holocaust happened, we're lost as a society already, and I don't know if there's anything to repair.
01:05:06.360Maybe instead of spending another 25,000 segments on Nick Fuentes, go back and read the Coleman Hughes book.
01:05:13.060That's something really serious and did some real work on race, and I'd encourage people to pick it up and read it.
01:05:18.380Yeah, I don't – it's just like – I know Jews feel targeted by Nick Fuentes, not for nothing, but women are just as targeted in his rants.
01:05:37.720I think Tucker took a look to see why he was growing in popularity.
01:05:41.600But, you know, now there's a question about whether he even is.
01:05:44.360I saw an interesting report on X the other day suggesting a lot of his support has been somewhat overstated.
01:05:52.060It was astroturfed, and he's been, like, pumped up by people who want to undermine the United States, a lot of foreign actors, making him seem more important than he really is, which makes perfect sense to me.
01:06:03.160Okay, let's keep going because there's one other thing I've got to get to with you before you go.
01:06:06.680So, okay, everyone takes maybe a few extra days off, I think, if they can, in the summer because it's nice weather, and for a lot of us who are parents, our kids are off, and you want to see them.
01:06:21.500And if you can see them, like, on a beach by an ocean, so much the better.
01:06:25.540So I don't begrudge anybody who wants to take their vacation in the summer.
01:06:28.540I do, however, begrudge taking off more than half of your working days over the course of the summer when you are paid reportedly somewhere near $30 million like Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
01:06:47.240The Free Beacon did this amazing report on how over the summer, it's actually from June, July, August, September, and October, so into the fall as well.
01:06:57.100Morning Joe, that show, was without at least one of its married, they live together, they're married, co-hosts for literally dozens of episodes.
01:07:05.760So how does the one, like, you don't go on vacation by yourself without your spouse, not if you're normal.
01:07:12.000So what's like the one asleep in bed while the other one gets up early and actually fulfills their contractual obligations?
01:07:18.480So between May 27th and November 15th, Scarborough and Brzezinski appeared together on just 70 of 124 episodes, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
01:07:28.820So, yeah, so 56% of their shows had both of them on cam, and 44% of their shows did not.
01:07:43.280For 44% of their shows, they were missing one of the hosts.
01:07:46.780Scarborough missed 29 shows, that's six weeks, six weeks.
01:07:51.720Brzezinski missed 41, one out of every three workdays, eight weeks she had off during that brief time for eight.
01:08:01.580In July, she was out for two consecutive weeks, appearing on only about half of that month's episodes.
01:08:06.940Neither was present for 16 shows, leaving Morning Joe's C-list, Jonathan Lemire, Willie Geist, and Caddy Kaye to fill in.
01:08:15.780Caddy Kaye opened the one show by saying, I'm Caddy Kaye, in for Joe, Mika, and Willie.
01:14:35.340That's fascinating because I hadn't heard from anybody that they were taking time off until this freebie piece came out.
01:14:41.760But you made the point there, which I think is interesting and I will quibble with a little bit, which is that hard work, you know, is what gets you ahead and keeps you on top.
01:14:52.520What in Joe Scarborough's life shows any evidence of that?
01:14:55.300You know, he has risen to these levels where he's making $30 million.
01:15:10.460All of these people learned the same lesson, which is if you believe the right things and you get in front of the camera enough, great things happen.
01:15:18.880And you're never held to account for any of your actions.
01:15:34.260And, you know, Scarborough has held this gig for a long time with no audience.
01:15:38.460An audience that's a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of what you have.
01:15:43.220And that's because the people who listen to your show care about what you say and are here to understand the world.
01:15:48.520Where the MSNBC audience is, you watch that show.
01:15:52.920Half of the interviews, because we have it on one of our monitors here.
01:15:56.080Half of the interviews are with, like, kind of no-name actors in movies that are coming out from major studios that aren't really getting any attention.
01:16:05.340And it's like, why would they put that on the air?
01:16:07.620Well, because they're doing the show for, like, 14 Democrats in Hollywood and New York City.
01:16:12.100Like, they're not doing the show for an audience.
01:16:14.360It's just a placeholder so they can charge massive ad rates.
01:16:17.620I mean, it's good work if you can get it.
01:16:19.360But I would find it pretty unfulfilling as an actual life.
01:29:32.480I mean, listen, my, my stunt double, Dave Castillo is an incredible human being.
01:29:37.040He's like a brother from another mother.
01:29:38.520And he's just an incredible athlete as most stunt men and women are.
01:29:43.140I mean, they are trained to do these types of things.
01:29:45.760So that specific stunt was our stunt doubles.
01:29:47.800But we did a lot of underwater, in water stunts ourselves as the cast.
01:29:53.140Lots of wave machines, wind machines, rain machines, water cannons, all kinds of stuff.
01:29:57.920But, but I, but just, just quickly, you know, this was, when I read the script, because this happens, you know, pretty much in the beginning of the movie, this, the anchor getting caught and what leads to, you know, ultimately the demise of three of these gentlemen.
01:30:12.780And, um, Marquis, a week prior had been on a fishing trip and he got his anchor caught in the same place and he had to cut the anchor and it was a $500 anchor.
01:30:21.900And he didn't want to cut another anchor.
01:30:26.120And so that's what ultimately led to this.
01:30:28.460And it's in fear as, as I'm reading the script, I'm so angry.
01:30:34.540I'm angry that this simple little thing could have been the difference between them actually getting home and being alive today.
01:30:41.500Right. And it's one of the things that making the movie and even afterwards, as I've kind of contemplated it, um, you know, I want, I want audiences to, you know, be moved by this movie, obviously.
01:30:53.720And I think that you can take hope away from this to hold on to hope if nothing else, like hold on to that last shred of hope and believe that there are people out there that are, that are praying and hoping for you as their families were.
01:31:05.220Um, but also kind of philosophically, one of the things that I hope audiences take from this and certainly what I take from this is cut the anchor, like whatever is in your life, whatever, whatever petty little thing or large thing or whatever it is that is pulling you down, that is weighing you down, that is drowning you.
01:31:23.840And we all have them. We all have them. And we got to cut these anchors. We, we, we cannot, you know, lose the full, miss the forest for the trees. And, uh, and that's what, this was a kind of a perfect example of that. So anyway, uh, it is, uh, yeah, you're totally right.
01:31:41.720Well, um, thankfully it, uh, it will end well for you, Zachary Levi, cause this is going to be a big hit. It's called not without hope. Go check it out in your theater this Friday. You might not be able to check out movies and theaters for too long. If this Warner brother deal goes through to Netflix, do you have any thoughts on that? So Netflix struck a deal to buy Warner brothers. Everybody's worried because Warner brothers is one of the few remaining movie studios studios that puts out real movies and real theaters, as opposed to direct to streaming on an app on your home TV.
01:32:11.720And then at the last minute, you've got Paramount Skydance swooping in saying, we're going to try a hostile takeover where we rest this deal away from Netflix. And we'll let Warner brothers still be Warner brothers, putting real movies out at least 30 per year into theaters. So some of the acting community are more for the hostile takeover bid than the Netflix bid, which has been agreed to, but is now in danger. Do you have any thoughts on it?
01:32:36.040Oh, I've got so many thoughts about it. Listen, I think that's, I think that we're already in really dire straits, right? We have such a consolidation of power. You know, it used to be 50 different companies that represented the entertainment industry. And now it's basically down to five, six, something like that.
01:32:59.300And this is why we have antitrust and monopoly laws on the books is to ensure that we don't have such a consolidation down to just a few powerful entities that are controlling everything within any individual industry.
01:33:13.400I don't love the idea that anybody's going to buy Warner brothers, to be perfectly honest. Warner brothers has been a home for me for many years. I did Chuck there for five years. Shazam, both films, you know, these are Warner brothers, DC films. I love Warner brothers as a studio. I have a lot of friends there, but they've also been going through lots and lots and lots of issues over the last 10 years.
01:33:36.800First, first with the AT&T deal that was not good for them. Then with the Discovery deal that, you know, ultimately with, with all of these consolidations, lots and lots of people are losing their jobs. More and more, I think great art is not being made.
01:33:51.460I think with the Netflix deal there. It's particularly troubling because they don't really care about theatrical release. And I think that theatrical release is imperative for us. I think that not just from a financial modeling or, you know, allowing filmmakers and artists to be able to, you know, make a living making movies that go into theaters that people pay ticket, you know, pay for tickets.
01:34:14.360But when we don't go to theaters, this is something that's, I think, driving us apart. You know, part of the theatrical experience for decades is that you go to a theater and you are surrounded by strangers, people that don't look like you, don't agree with you.
01:34:26.960It might come from different political or religious backgrounds, whatever it is. But you know that you can go watch the same movie and laugh in the same moments and cry in the same moments.
01:34:36.800And what that does is it reminds you either consciously or subconsciously that we're not all that different.
01:34:41.720And so when we don't go to the theater as, as people, and we don't enjoy these things as a collective, we lose even more of that connective tissue.
01:34:50.840And I know that Netflix is, you know, they, Sir Andos has said as much, he said, you know, I think we can, we can do film windows that, you know, theatrical windows that are like a week or two weeks.
01:35:01.260And that's just simply not enough time, I think, to give a great film its opportunity in the theater.
01:35:06.700Some films don't even pick up their inertia until a few weeks in the theaters when word of mouth gets out and people start going to the theater and experiencing that as it was meant to be exhibited.
01:35:17.340And so I really don't love that. I don't love the consolidation. I don't love that with streaming, by the way, this is another issue that we have and something that I'm actively trying to solve for.
01:35:28.100We don't own anything anymore. We're all just leasing everything. And I don't think that's right.
01:35:34.220I don't, I don't love the idea that as an artist, I could go make something and there's no physical copy of it anymore because nobody's making DVDs or anything like that.
01:35:41.780And so it only lives on a streamer. And then the streamer decides, well, you know, we don't want to put this on the service anymore. And it's gone. It's literally gone.
01:35:48.080I can't point my friends or family or fans to go watch what I made. It doesn't exist anymore because it's not on the streaming service anymore.
01:35:54.620And I don't think that's good either. I think we as the audience, we as the people, more and more of us are waking up to the fact that we are just renting everything.
01:36:04.420It's just subscription after subscription. I mean, by the way, I said this 15 years ago when everyone was cutting the cord on cable.
01:36:10.100I told all my friends, I said, do you realize what's going to happen? We're going to cut this hundred dollar cord, this bill that's got all these channels and certainly some that we don't care about and we don't watch.
01:36:20.260And that's, you know, why are we paying for all this? But then what's going to happen is we're going to have 10 subscriptions over a whole bunch of different services and we're going to pay twice as much.
01:36:29.040And that's exactly what's happened. And now we don't, there is no home video. There's no ownership anymore.
01:36:34.540We've got to figure out a way to get back to that. And I don't know that any of these things are getting us there. So it's troubling all the way around.
01:36:40.520I cannot imagine going to see, you know, some of the movies we grew up on, like Indiana Jones, just on the small screen, not, not being able to watch that on the big screen or another one, Schindler's List.
01:36:53.260Remember? I mean, everybody remembers seeing that movie for the first time. Unfortunately, in my case, I went with my stepsister who had just gotten off her shift as a nurse and went into Schindler's List with a salad from McDonald's in one of those plastic containers.
01:37:08.520So it's like, every time she opened it, it was so loud. And then the salad eating was loud. I was like, slowly moving my way away from her, like four seats down. Like, oh my God, this is so inappropriate.
01:37:22.460That's an episode of Seinfeld. I mean, that's basically what you find yourself in.
01:37:26.420But anyway, the point is like, most of these movies will be way more impactful on the big screen. And yes, there is something to it. You think of like the great horror films that we've all seen, like Friday the 13th, seeing that in the theater with the audience yelling at the same moments,
01:37:42.300or even you walk out of terms of endearment, everybody's got this tear-stained face.
01:37:46.400Like, there is a shared community in experiencing it together. So I agree. I mean, I'm not really rooting for the Netflix deal. I have to be honest. They're big enough.
01:37:54.760And I'm not really a big fan of the people who run Netflix and own Netflix. So we'll see what happens.
01:37:59.480Okay, let's keep going. Let's talk politics for a minute. RFKJ, your guy, notwithstanding the fact that he's at least one of, if not the most maligned member of the Trump cabinet, he's probably tied with Hegseth, is the most popular.
01:38:13.300I've been saying this because he proved the most popular in a recent poll. But then we just got another poll, once again, says the same thing. RFKJ, the most popular. So are the people learning to ignore the media?
01:38:25.060I hope so. I mean, I think that, you know, unfortunately, we've been living in a culture where legacy media has been just an arm of propaganda for far too long, you know.
01:38:38.340And I think it started, well, I don't know, there's a lot of things that we could pick at and all of that.
01:38:43.700But obviously, you know, once people figured out that, you know, death and fear and all of that sell, well, then they're just going to push more and more and more of that.
01:38:52.460And I do think that, unfortunately, we have massive just financial interest in this when legacy media is in large part financed by the pharmaceutical industries.
01:39:06.780They have a vested interest in making more money, and so they are going to do everything they can to make sure, lean on these news industries to, you know, entities and outlets to malign somebody like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who I know personally, and he is a wonderful human being.
01:39:27.980And he's not a perfect human being. None of the people in any of the political spectrum are perfect human beings.
01:39:33.140So, first of all, we need to let that go, right? We're not trying to vote for or support people because they are perfect.
01:39:40.000We're trying to understand, are they actually trying to do the work to make this country healthier, better, bring us back into alignment, bring us back into understanding each other?
01:39:52.120And I believe that Bobby has been doing that from day one.
01:39:56.480I mean, clearly he's been doing it for a really long time because he was beloved in the Democratic Party.
01:40:00.920He was beloved by people who are more liberally leaning for a really long time.
01:40:05.960And then because he wouldn't toe these very ridiculous, you know, woke is used now in so many different ways, but, you know, kind of woke ways, then he couldn't be the Democratic nominee.
01:40:17.720And therefore, they had to besmirch and smear him every chance they could.
01:40:23.020But listen, more and more data continues to come out about vaccines, about our food, about agriculture, about pesticides.
01:40:31.220And I know that he's doing everything that he can, everything within his power to fight for us, for the American people.
01:40:38.040And I hope that more and more people are willing to just look beyond the propaganda because that's what it is.
01:40:46.300We have been propagandized on every side, right?
01:40:49.440I don't think that this is exclusively something that happens in legacy media on the left.
01:40:52.960I think that there is even legacy media on the right that chooses to use stories or factoids or data points that are, you know, salacious and trying to rile us up.
01:41:06.580I can tell you this for a fact, having been in right-wing media and left-wing media, they are all slaves to Pfizer.
01:42:59.320I now have my very own channel on SiriusXM.
01:43:02.480It's called the Megan Kelly Channel, and it is where you will hear the truth unfiltered, with no agenda, and no apologies.
01:43:08.620Along with the Megan Kelly Show, you're going to hear from people like Mark Halperin, Link Lauren, Maureen Callahan, Emily Jashinsky, Jesse Kelly, Real Clear Politics, and many more.
01:43:38.200So, Zach, we were talking about RFKJ, and one of the things he did this week that he's taking flack for, but not from anyone reasonable, is they're trying to remove hep B from the list of recommended baby, day one baby vaccinations, saying,
01:43:56.300if you want to get it done, you should, but we're only recommending it for mothers who are hep B positive or for mothers who don't know and might be hep B positive,
01:44:09.580because it's a sexually transmitted disease or something you get through IV drug use, and most children, most babies do not need any of these vaccines until they become more, you know, into the teenage years and potentially sexually active, or drugs and so on.
01:44:27.880Anyway, that doesn't happen for a newborn baby in virtually any case.
01:44:35.660I think that it's really, really tragic what's happened in this world, again, in the medical industry, one that, of all industries, we would imagine or we would assume these people having taken Hippocratic oaths to do no harm, right, under any circumstances,
01:44:56.960to not deceive that might lead to harm, that money has become, you know, the only objective, it's just make money at any price, whether that's the cost of human life or our own health.
01:45:15.120The fact that hep B vaccines have been forced on babies day one, freshly out of the womb, when mothers take a test, a blood test, they know if a mother has hep B or not.
01:45:26.540This was all predicated upon, by the way.
01:45:28.960There was the study that was done that, you know, advocates for the hep B vaccine point to, and this data that says, well, but, you know, there's this amount of mothers who, even after testing, still contracted hep B,
01:45:44.860and so, therefore, we just need to cover all of our bases to make sure that babies are given this vaccine.
01:45:48.360That study was done on prison inmates.
01:45:52.200That study was done with women who were essentially practicing things that would put themselves in harm's way, that would make them susceptible to getting hep B, even after being tested for hep B.
01:46:10.220That is taking, that is cherry picking a very small amount of data, then applying it to the general populace, and then saying, well, see, this is what happens.
01:46:17.800We don't know, so we should probably just give every child a hep B vaccine.
01:46:21.820It is absolutely insane that we're doing this.
01:46:23.520More than that, Bobby, not too long ago, he did a press conference where he showed the data, data that, by the way, I knew for a really long time, people like me who have cared about this vaccine issue, across all vaccines for a really long time, and understanding that there is a lot of risk that comes with this, and does the value, does the upshot outweigh these risks?
01:46:45.960Bobby laid out pretty clearly that if you look at the data, we've been told for a long time that vaccines are the main reason why we have essentially eradicated things like polio and measles, mumps, and all of these things that we shoot up our children with to avoid these problems.
01:47:06.460But the data actually shows very clearly that almost all of these things were essentially already eradicated because of far better sanitation and far better things like antibiotics that were being applied to the general populace.
01:47:21.920That means all of those sicknesses were already going away before the vaccines were being applied to everyone.
01:47:27.020And then, of course, in 1986, under Reagan's lead, which is really disappointing, he gave immunity to all of these drug companies who were making vaccines and saying, well, no one can sue you if anything happens.
01:47:41.920Now, why would they need to have this level of immunity if what they were making was safe and effective?
01:47:49.460No other product in the country has this kind of immunity.
01:47:53.180And for, again, for why, so that we can go back to data that shows that they weren't even really, again, this is, I believe this wholeheartedly.
01:48:01.100This is data that Bobby showed very clearly.
01:48:03.540People still debate it, obviously, because there's a lot of doctors who I think are really well-meaning people, but who have believed this trickle-down of information that comes from vested, greedy interests, people that control the narrative or the people that are making the most amount of money doing this.
01:48:20.560And I would also argue to say that I think a lot of them are willing to pump children full of a lot of vaccines that might actually be injuring them, knowing full well.
01:48:31.020By the way, have you seen or have you heard of an Inconvenient Study?
01:48:47.920An Inconvenient Study, essentially, there was a doctor who did a study of vaccinated children versus unvaccinated children in the thousands, right?
01:48:55.020So it is a truly, like, it gives you the data points on both sides and what is downstream of being either a vaccinated child or an unvaccinated child.
01:49:06.840And shocker, the unvaccinated children have extremely low, like, when it comes to asthma, eczema, things like autism.
01:49:16.820Like, the vaccinated children were the ones who had multiple times more cases of what was going on, and they buried it.
01:49:23.620Because the guy on Hidden Camera, he says, I can't release this study.
01:49:32.400And this is the pressure that's coming from on high.
01:49:35.440And this is what was going on during the pandemic and during COVID.
01:49:38.180Any scientist or any doctor who dared question the narrative was shut down, was silenced, was censored.
01:49:45.460Their credentials were stripped from them.
01:49:49.400Their relationships were ruined because they were questioning what is now becoming very evident that, oh my God, these COVID vaccines actually were incredibly detrimental to us.
01:49:59.040And they were causing all manner of side effects, including, by the way, there were 10 children who died in Pfizer's own trial, and they hid that information.
01:50:19.360I've told the audience, I reported at the time on the fact that children were dying in the wake of the vaccine, especially thanks to myocarditis and pericarditis.
01:50:26.400And of course, I got attacked by the leftist, you know, media as a liar.
01:50:31.420And I said, you don't, don't, do not give your child this vaccine without checking this out, especially if he's a teen and a boy.