Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Jason Whitlock is Fearless: Why Sports Media Went Woke, Plus Hunter Indicted and Apple Mocked for Bizarre Climate Sketch and Much More

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00:06:35.000 With that, guys, joining me now, the host of Fearless on the Blaze Podcast Network, my friend Jason Whitlock.

00:06:42.000 So, Jason, we got a big news today.

00:06:46.000 You know, obviously a lot going on in the world of sports.

00:06:49.000 I want to get to some of that, you know.

00:06:51.000 But some of the stuff we have to get into, pretty amazing.

00:06:55.000 I mean, Hunter Biden today was indicted, finally, after they, you know, sort of blew up this

00:07:01.000 sweetheart deal that he was getting on federal gun charges.

00:07:05.000 As you know, he lied about his drug use when buying a gun.

00:07:08.000 He disposed of them illegally.

00:07:10.000 He wasn't supposed to possess—I mean, all sorts of things that everyone else we know

00:07:13.000 would be going to jail for.

00:07:14.000 But what are your thoughts on this indictment?

00:07:17.000 Will it be a slap on the wrist to pretend like the DOJ actually did something so they can go after their political enemies in a much more aggressive manner?

00:07:27.000 What do you think? I think they brought this on themselves.

00:07:33.000 I think The way they have weaponized the Department of Justice, the way they have weaponized the media, the FBI and everything, you know, this indictment of Hunter Biden long overdue.

00:07:49.000 And I have no sympathy for Hunter Biden because I believe his dad and the Department of Justice

00:07:57.000 and just this corrupt system that they've embraced made it inevitable that there's going

00:08:05.000 to be a boomerang effect.

00:08:08.000 And look, these are well earned and well deserved.

00:08:11.000 I think the kind of activity beyond these gun charges, but the kind of activity that

00:08:16.000 Hunter Biden's been involved with in terms of influence peddling and all that stuff,

00:08:21.000 he is a legitimate criminal.

00:08:24.000 and I'll see you next time.

00:08:26.000 And so he deserves this, whereas, and again, I hate to go here right off the top, but I'm on Donald Trump Jr.'s show, why not?

00:08:35.000 I have a feeling I'd be treated differently.

00:08:37.000 Is that what you're thinking? Yeah, the things they're bringing against your dad are a joke.

00:08:42.000 And so I'm sorry, I relish, I take satisfaction in them getting a taste of their own medicine.

00:08:49.000 Okay, but so I agree with you 100%.

00:08:52.000 Like I said, by this time in my father's presidency, I had done about 40-something hours of testimony before various congressional committees for treason, a crime punishable by death.

00:09:03.000 But when I look at all of the things that Hunter Biden has done, right?

00:09:08.000 I mean, and there's, you know, they keep saying there's no evidence, you know, other than

00:09:11.000 like emails, other than like recordings, other than sworn eyewitness testimony, other than

00:09:18.000 whistleblowers, all the things that were, you know, gospel that they didn't even have

00:09:22.000 during Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:09:23.000 But I can't help but notice that this charge, the gun charge of the long list of things

00:09:30.000 and crimes that he's seemingly done is the only one that doesn't tie back to Joe Biden.

00:09:36.000 I mean, do you believe that that's a coincidence?

00:09:38.000 Or again, is this the way that Biden's DOJ keeps sort of acting as though, you know,

00:09:44.000 they're his own private law firm protecting him from the other stuff that's going on?

00:09:49.000 Bye.

00:09:50.000 I think you're right that, obviously, of the more serious crimes that he's committed, yeah, they found the low-hanging fruit, the, you know, the gun charge doesn't connect to his dad, and it's not really What the guy is guilty of and it's not really what has this company in jeopardy.

00:10:11.000 The Bidens are clearly compromised.

00:10:14.000 The deals they cut with foreign governments, everything that they said about you and your dad and your family is actually true about the Bidens.

00:10:24.000 They're compromised and all of our future and our economy and just our safety and security are all at stake because of deals that they've cut.

00:10:35.000 And so you're right.

00:10:39.000 This is a tiny victory and maybe it's a victory for the Bidens that it doesn't connect to Joe.

00:10:48.000 But to me, I look at Joe's presidency or President Biden's presidency and just It just feels like they're playing four corners offense and just trying to run out the clock and somehow getting to the finish line before they can figure out how to get Gavin Newsom or someone else in there.

00:11:05.000 Or maybe they, and I hate to say it, but maybe they want Joe to just kill over.

00:11:11.000 You know, he's not in great health.

00:11:13.000 That's obvious. But it just feels like they're trying to run out the clock.

00:11:16.000 And you're right.

00:11:17.000 This move here may just be another delay tactic that allows Joe to survive until they can figure out what to do next.

00:11:25.000 Yeah, so, I mean, you know, what do you think that is?

00:11:28.000 Because, you know, again, I think, you know, I think they're worried about sort of him just keeling over because that puts Kamala Harris in there.

00:11:34.000 And I think, you know, we understand probably why she was put in those positions and checked off a lot of boxes.

00:11:41.000 But I think...

00:11:43.000 Even, you know, people on my side of the aisle are surprised at just how bad she is.

00:11:50.000 You know, you put her in front of people and the sort of the run-on, you know, I took a bus because buses are for transportation, which is why the bus is for the bus and the bus.

00:12:00.000 And it's like, you can't even make it up.

00:12:03.000 I don't think...

00:12:05.000 While the Democrats, I think, would be fine with her actually being president because they just let her, you know, push through whatever they're trying to do, just like they're doing with Joe, I don't think they want her on a ballot.

00:12:15.000 You know, Joe Biden is many things.

00:12:17.000 It's hard to hate him because he's like a sort of a big dumb animal at this point, folks, at this point.

00:12:22.000 What do you... What do you think about that?

00:12:24.000 And what do you think their plans would be?

00:12:26.000 What do you think is the ideal candidate, either now, that would then have to run an election in less than 18 months, versus someone who could just maybe take over later on if and when Joe Biden's just clearly not able to perform the job?

00:12:43.000 People don't like Kamala and people are comfortable expressing their dislike for Kamala and so I do think she's problematic for them and that's why I tend to think they're going to run Michelle Obama.

00:13:03.000 Michelle Obama's likability and all the virtue signaling people can do and say, look how I'm not sexist, I'm not racist, I voted for Michelle Obama.

00:13:14.000 They want to tap into that again.

00:13:21.000 My read, and again, I live here in Nashville, I live in the South, is that people are fed up.

00:13:28.000 If this election is remotely on the up and up, I don't think Michelle Obama can win.

00:13:36.000 I don't think Gavin Newsom can win.

00:13:38.000 I don't think Joe Biden can win.

00:13:40.000 People are fed up.

00:13:41.000 And again, as a black person, I'm looking at friends of mine finally open their eyes to the scam of the Democrat Party and all these symbolic gestures of Kamala pretending to be black and pretending to smoke weed and listen to Tupac.

00:14:01.000 All this stupid, superficial stuff.

00:14:02.000 Two years before he put an album out, yeah.

00:14:05.000 Yeah, all this stupid, superficial stuff.

00:14:07.000 And I think Michelle Obama may be surprised that people aren't going to go for her the way they went for Barack.

00:14:17.000 These guys are worth hundreds of millions of dollars now.

00:14:21.000 They're not an underdog story.

00:14:23.000 They're global elites that everybody can see that's been showered with hundreds of millions of dollars that they didn't legitimately earn.

00:14:32.000 It's just been gifted to them.

00:14:34.000 So I'm not sure if she's going to sell as well as they think.

00:14:38.000 So I want you to expand on that a little bit, right?

00:14:41.000 Because I think, you know, conservatives, we make this mistake every time, right?

00:14:44.000 There's a, you know, a black man says something even remotely conservative and all of a sudden we put him out there.

00:14:49.000 This is great. And then it turns out he's not.

00:14:51.000 And we're like, we're shocked that this happens.

00:14:54.000 You know, every time, you know, I've probably been guilty of it myself.

00:14:57.000 I look at, you know, what Trump did, whether it's opportunity zones or...

00:15:01.000 You know, sort of the historically black universities, you know, funding and be like, hey, they're actually doing something for that community, and yet it didn't mean anything.

00:15:09.000 You know, I think we make that mistake, and yet the mugshot, did that change things?

00:15:16.000 Like, you know, I noticed that week, you know, I was speaking at a big conservative thing in Vegas, and it wasn't, you know...

00:15:22.000 The black guys that were in attendance that came to me, it was the security guard that was working the venue, right?

00:15:29.000 Not there as a conservative, just working his job.

00:15:32.000 That would pull me aside and be like, hey man, I get it now.

00:15:37.000 So at the risk of sort of making the same mistake over and over again, do you think it's different?

00:15:42.000 Do you think the Fulton County mugshot, whether it's because of all of the history, because of just the optics, you know, It's not like they needed a mugshot of Donald Trump.

00:15:51.000 I imagine he's one of the most photographed people in the history of time.

00:15:55.000 Do you think that changed things for real this time or not?

00:16:00.000 I do, but not because of the mugshot.

00:16:03.000 It's because of the obvious persecution in terms of this is a former president that is being persecuted because they don't like what he said after the election.

00:16:17.000 You're trying to put this man in jail, the President of the United States?

00:16:21.000 We watched Hillary Clinton complain about the 2016 election for four or five straight years.

00:16:28.000 She wasn't persecuted.

00:16:30.000 It's the persecution more than the mugshot, in my view, that is like, Particularly as it relates to black men, I think we're starting to figure out that the left is trying to emasculate and undermine male leadership, quite frankly. And when you make masculinity in short supply, when there's so much hostility towards masculinity, people are more attracted to masculinity.

00:17:01.000 That's why your dad's popularity It can't be broken because people are naturally attracted to masculinity.

00:17:13.000 It's in man's nature.

00:17:14.000 Women are attracted to it. They want that bold leadership.

00:17:18.000 And so there's a lot of things about your dad that, just quite frankly, People are willing to overlook and he doesn't have to say all the exact right things.

00:17:27.000 All he has to do is be bold and be a man.

00:17:30.000 And I think it's so clearly obvious when you look at Joe Biden, you look at these people that he's appointed in positions that has nothing to do with qualifications.

00:17:41.000 It has to do with who they're having sex with or how confused they are about their identity.

00:17:46.000 I think people are just rejecting that And understand like this other team's not on our side.

00:17:54.000 They keep telling us they are, but none of their policies, nothing that they do actually works for us.

00:18:00.000 And in hindsight, looking back, it's like, wow, some of the things Donald Trump did actually did work for us.

00:18:08.000 Let's man up.

00:18:09.000 And basically, Don, this is an issue you don't have to deal with, but as black men, it's a battle between black men and black women.

00:18:17.000 So explain that, because I see that.

00:18:20.000 Everyone's like, well, black men, don't, I mean, I know black women and black mothers.

00:18:25.000 Don't they see what's happening to their sons?

00:18:29.000 Whether it's, again, the effemination or just their children in general

00:18:34.000 with the failure of our school systems, with the failure of our public infrastructure,

00:18:40.000 with the crime rates, just killing people indiscriminately.

00:18:44.000 I mean, I understand sort of the male perspective because watching.

00:18:50.000 And I loved what you did on social earlier today, I think it was, you know, talking about that sort of, you know, everyone...

00:18:56.000 Is there so much injustice and everyone just using that as a crutch and an excuse and the effeminization of really all men, but also certainly within the black community.

00:19:04.000 But why is there that disparity between, you know, black men and black women?

00:19:10.000 Because I feel like the attack is on...

00:19:14.000 These women's children.

00:19:15.000 You know, they're not going after older black men.

00:19:18.000 They're going after the young black men.

00:19:19.000 You see that. It's a clear attack.

00:19:23.000 And I don't understand how they're able to turn a blind eye to that because it seems so obvious.

00:19:29.000 I understand why the black men would come over and say, okay, enough of this nonsense.

00:19:34.000 You know, perhaps, I believe that probably should have happened a long time ago, but, you know, Everything's been escalated and everything's been elevated in the era of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:19:44.000 But why has that gap not been bridged at all with black females?

00:19:51.000 Seventy years ago, LBJ and the Democratic Party cut a deal with black women.

00:20:01.000 Daniel Patrick Moynihan came out with the Moynihan Report that argued for the investment in the Black man and the Black family.

00:20:09.000 LBJ rejected that and went with the Great Society Initiative and invested in women and the feminist movement and single mothers and giving women a financial incentive To choose divorce, to run the man out of the house, black women took that deal.

00:20:28.000 And now the Democrat Party, if you look from Joe Biden, I'm going to pick a black woman as vice president.

00:20:34.000 I'm going to pick a black woman as a Supreme Court justice.

00:20:38.000 Quite frankly, Black women have been bought off.

00:20:43.000 They've been bribed off into believing in the matriarchy.

00:20:47.000 And the corporate media has sold the Black matriarchy as one of the greatest things that's ever hit the planet.

00:20:56.000 It's a total failure.

00:20:58.000 But the media would have you believe.

00:21:01.000 It's awesome.

00:21:02.000 And so Black women are kind of drunk on their power.

00:21:08.000 They've been told by the media that their leadership is the greatest thing since sliced bread, that they take no responsibility for the failure of Black boys and girls and the academic gaps and all the other areas where we haven't been making ground.

00:21:27.000 It's none of their fault. It's all the Black man.

00:21:29.000 And so they just took the deal, and Black women believe in the matriarchy.

00:21:33.000 They believe in feminists. They believe in female leadership.

00:21:36.000 They believe in all the messaging of the globalists that it's time for the patriarchy to fall and for the matriarchy to rise and we're going to run things and we're the greatest and they're not looking at the actual results.

00:21:56.000 How long can that continue though, right?

00:21:58.000 Because if you do look at the actual results, and you know, if I point them out, even if it's literally government papers, I'm, you know, obviously I'm a racist, misogynist, somehow homophobe, but you know, whatever, all of the ists, right?

00:22:11.000 They just throw it out there, right?

00:22:12.000 Racism is the sort of, let's call it the easy button of today's radical left, where it's like, you know, I don't agree with you, therefore you're racist, and that ends the argument.

00:22:20.000 I think that's done a disservice to actual racism that goes on, because I think these days people sort of hear racist, they roll their eyes, they move on, perhaps even in the event of actual racism.

00:22:30.000 I just don't think it's the sort of the cause of and solution for all of life's problems like the left.

00:22:37.000 How long can that continue?

00:22:39.000 The results are clear.

00:22:41.000 Now, you see some of the stuff as it relates to whether it was affirmative action in the universities.

00:22:45.000 You bolster these things, but I've borne witness to some of that myself, and you put someone in a position that they don't necessarily belong, and then they fail.

00:22:55.000 Was their life better off, or could they have done something a little different and then built up?

00:23:01.000 How long can that go on given the results and given the failure there before they say, hey, maybe it's not working.

00:23:08.000 We got to try something different. Well, as long as there's someone else to blame, and that's why these allegations of racism explaining everything is so important to the media.

00:23:23.000 And so, again, Black women and Black people in general, to some degree, are the ones that certainly support Democrats.

00:23:31.000 They believe any failure, they got Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates all out preaching, any failure is not your fault.

00:23:42.000 It's white supremacy's fault.

00:23:44.000 Some white man is the reason why you haven't gotten ahead.

00:23:48.000 And so they take no responsibility for the failure.

00:23:51.000 That's the The whole wickedness and the manipulation of just describing everything as racism, it gives people an excuse for their failure.

00:24:04.000 Listen, we've had people, Brittany Cooper, college professor, black woman, I think at Rutgers or whatever, she's overweight and I saw her arguing that she can't lose weight because of racism.

00:24:17.000 Now, I struggle with a weight problem, Don.

00:24:21.000 Racism's not the cause.

00:24:23.000 McDonald's is. The double filet of fish sandwich is my problem.

00:24:28.000 Well, but I see it getting even worse, right?

00:24:31.000 Listen, you're just a little thick, Jason.

00:24:33.000 It's okay. But when I see...

00:24:37.000 They put Lizzo on the cover of In Shape magazine, and this is the new healthy.

00:24:43.000 And I'm saying... By what metric is that healthy?

00:24:47.000 It's just not.

00:24:49.000 So, I mean, I guess as long as you can be accused of racism, I guess you can defy the laws of biology and probably physics and everything else that matters.

00:25:00.000 And yet we're being spoon-fed this shit day in and day out.

00:25:06.000 It's working, though, because it's like a trans, or it's like a brainwashing.

00:25:13.000 It's like Jim Jones and the Guyana tragedy.

00:25:18.000 These people have been brainwashed.

00:25:20.000 They're in a cult, the cult of identity and this racial religion that they're in, and you don't have to take responsibility for anything.

00:25:30.000 It's always someone else's fault.

00:25:33.000 How long can it go on?

00:25:34.000 It's been going on for 70 years.

00:25:37.000 Can it go on another 70?

00:25:39.000 Yes, I think it can.

00:25:40.000 Well, they're going to make sure it does because there's a lot of money to be made in this.

00:25:44.000 I mean, you mentioned some of the people that are sort of, you know, the proponents of this, whether it's critical race theory or otherwise.

00:25:50.000 And, you know, they have turned these things into really lucrative, you know, professions.

00:25:54.000 Then you bring in the lawfare component of that and the lawsuits in corporate America.

00:26:00.000 You know, if... If someone's underperforming but they check off a few boxes, they're naturally due for the promotion and it never seems to end.

00:26:09.000 Don, just think about, and I'm sure you have, but just the average white guy and white woman has been silenced in corporate America Because they can't speak the truth.

00:26:23.000 Because if you say the things that you and I are talking about, you're not fit for leadership positions in corporate America.

00:26:31.000 The only thing you can say in corporate America is, hey, I got to expand the diversity, equity, and inclusion department, and I got to make sure I pander and say everything that meets some kind of sensitivity requirement.

00:26:45.000 And so, men are failing to speak up and speak the truth because they all just want to protect their jobs.

00:26:52.000 I'm going to relate it to, this is why I won't leave the sports lane because you can see all this in the sports world.

00:26:59.000 The NFL is the most powerful force in popular culture.

00:27:03.000 But Roger Goodell, much of the NFL ownership, they're all cowards.

00:27:07.000 And they pander and kowtow and bend the knee to the players and critical race theory and Black Lives Matter They don't believe in it, but they just say what they need to say in order to avoid the controversy, in order to avoid being smeared, and they're just hoping this goes away without them having to stand up and make it go away.

00:27:28.000 And yet, the NFL is probably, let's call it the ultimate meritocracy.

00:27:33.000 I'd love to be an NFL quarterback.

00:27:35.000 That would be awesome.

00:27:36.000 I have no chance.

00:27:37.000 I'm 6'1", 190.

00:27:39.000 Not exactly athletic like these guys.

00:27:42.000 I wouldn't stand a chance.

00:27:44.000 And yet, the people preaching these things that don't take into account that meritocracy, that are putting forth everything but, it's so ironic because it would never fly in the NFL. They're actually doing the opposite of what they're saying out loud because it would never exist in that world because they would lose their entire franchises.

00:28:07.000 Where they can, though, in the NFL, they're battling.

00:28:12.000 They're installing female coaches.

00:28:15.000 They're installing LGBTQ coaches to fit the diversity, equity, inclusion goals and initiatives.

00:28:26.000 They're trying to force coaches on franchises where an owner can't hire the guy he believes is the best candidate.

00:28:35.000 He needs to hire someone that helps them meet some diversity quota.

00:28:40.000 And so they're trying to take the merit out of the system.

00:28:43.000 And it's crazy.

00:28:45.000 I mean, obvious things that people all the time talk about.

00:28:48.000 It's like, oh, we're going to impose quotas on the coaching staff.

00:28:53.000 But every black or every cornerback in the NFL can be black.

00:28:59.000 Virtually all the wide receivers can be black.

00:29:02.000 75% of the locker room can be black.

00:29:04.000 But as it relates to the head coach, we have to manage that with a quota system.

00:29:11.000 There is no quota system going the other way.

00:29:13.000 Hey, should we... Make it mandatory that 25% of the cornerbacks be white guys?

00:29:19.000 No one ever says that.

00:29:21.000 So there's this one way- Or how about like, you know, 70% because that would be perhaps the representative number of white people in America or whatever the number is these days.

00:29:32.000 I don't see a lot of Hispanic players in the NFL, but they make up probably a larger section of the populace at this point in time than African Americans.

00:29:40.000 And yet, no one has a problem with that, right?

00:29:45.000 Because they believe and they're comfortable with that system being based on merit.

00:29:51.000 These other things have to be based on some quota that people that, and again, most of the people leading this conversation, pushing this conversation, they never played football.

00:30:02.000 It's all coming from academia.

00:30:04.000 It's all coming from just miseducated.

00:30:07.000 These laboratories We have on college campuses where everything's hypothetical.

00:30:16.000 Nothing's based in reality.

00:30:17.000 And that's the same thing we have in social media.

00:30:21.000 It's not a reflection of reality.

00:30:23.000 It's all hypothetical.

00:30:24.000 It's all rigged with algorithms.

00:30:27.000 We've just moved into a very dishonest world, and I'll circle back again, not to kiss your butt, but it's why people, why I won't, I'm not going to drag everybody, it's why I won't give up on your dad, is because at least he's honest.

00:30:43.000 You may not love it, but he's going to tell you what he's actually thinking and not just what you want to hear.

00:30:51.000 Yes. Yes, that's...

00:30:53.000 I want to continue on the sports stuff because I think it's pretty fascinating.

00:30:57.000 I mean, there's so much, I mean, even to talk about this, you know, obviously, Coach Deion Sanders is, you know, pretty captivating with what's going on with his success in college football at Colorado, and it's obviously sort of fun and an exciting team to watch, but I know you've been pretty critical of, let's call it Coach Prime.

00:31:16.000 Why is that?

00:31:18.000 Do you have concerns with these star players being coaches?

00:31:22.000 Is it purely optics?

00:31:25.000 Is he getting special treatment because he's able to captivate young players that perhaps other coaches wouldn't?

00:31:32.000 What's your concern there?

00:31:34.000 What he's doing I don't believe is sustainable in terms of he's leading with so much ego and so much bravado from the coaching position.

00:31:45.000 It's just not sustainable.

00:31:47.000 When you are the most gifted football player perhaps of all time, he's certainly in the top 10 in terms of just athletic gifts.

00:32:00.000 As a player, have all that bravado.

00:32:02.000 Your talents back that up.

00:32:05.000 As a coach, Dion is not the greatest coach to ever hit football.

00:32:10.000 And coaches work from a mindset of humility and caution and try to instill that humility in their players and in everybody that works with the team.

00:32:26.000 I think Deion's bravado is going to bite him in the rear end.

00:32:32.000 We've seen coaches get off to fast starts.

00:32:35.000 The guy's won two games and people want to start comparing it to Bill Belichick and Nick Saban and all these guys.

00:32:41.000 It's a little early. Yeah, it's a little, we see, and people's memories are just terrible, Don.

00:32:49.000 Charlie Weiss left the New England Patriots, became the head coach of Notre Dame.

00:32:55.000 Got off to a very fast start, and everybody thought he was the second coming of, you know, Lou Holtz or whatever.

00:33:02.000 It flamed out and they ended up having to fire the guy.

00:33:05.000 We've seen people get off to 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 8-0 starts.

00:33:12.000 Tyrone Willingham is another guy who had a fast start at Notre Dame.

00:33:15.000 It flamed out. After two games, we're acting like Deion Sanders has reinvented coaching.

00:33:22.000 Let's stop. Let's pump the brakes.

00:33:25.000 Let's let this play out for a season or two or three before we anoint Deion Sanders.

00:33:33.000 I don't think his approach with all the bravado and ego, it's not the right approach for a head coach, but maybe he'll prove me wrong.

00:33:42.000 Well, I mean, do you think, though, maybe in this day and age, right, in sort of that flashy world and a bling world and a world where players can now take advantage of their likeness, Do you think that maybe that bravado changes some things a little bit in terms of, you know, recruitment and these things?

00:34:00.000 Because those players see that and they're like, that's the way I'm going to get to the top.

00:34:03.000 Whether that's in the, you know, eventually in the NFL or just being able to take advantage of, you know, the deals they're able to make now as college athletes.

00:34:13.000 I think that his...

00:34:19.000 Bravado and personality is going to be attractive immediately.

00:34:25.000 But anytime you set the tone of your team that, hey, the head coach is going to have all this bravado, the entire team is going to follow his lead.

00:34:39.000 And you're going to have a locker room filled with 100 guys with enormous egos.

00:34:45.000 That's not how teams operate well over the long haul.

00:34:48.000 You have role players.

00:34:50.000 You have... You have one or two superstars that have that kind of bravado and energy, but you can't have a team full of that.

00:34:58.000 And so it'll be great that he'll have talent.

00:35:02.000 But in college, only 85 guys can be on scholarship.

00:35:06.000 And there's more than 85 great players.

00:35:09.000 Some of these other teams are going to have just as much talent as Dion in Colorado, and they're going to have, perhaps, better locker room chemistry, a more traditional atmosphere within that locker room.

00:35:24.000 And so I want to see how this all plays out when adversity hits, because adversity hits every football team.

00:35:31.000 There'll be injuries.

00:35:33.000 There'll be critical mistakes where you fall behind.

00:35:36.000 I want to see how this team handles adversity before I'm ready to say this is going to work.

00:35:43.000 Right now, I don't see it working over the long haul.

00:35:46.000 He may get away with it for a season.

00:35:49.000 Don, I'm someone that I honestly think, and I may regret saying this, they're favored by 23 points this weekend against Colorado State.

00:36:00.000 I think they're going to lose the game.

00:36:02.000 And I really do.

00:36:05.000 Colorado State, I think, is fired up.

00:36:09.000 Their coach, Jay Norble, who's also African-American, he's basically come out and made some statements criticizing Deion.

00:36:19.000 He's taking this thing head on.

00:36:21.000 And again, I may look foolish.

00:36:24.000 Deion and these guys may blow him out by 40.

00:36:27.000 I don't see it. I think it's going to be a very close game.

00:36:30.000 And I think Colorado State could upset them.

00:36:33.000 Colorado's offensive line's not that good.

00:36:36.000 Defensive line is suspect.

00:36:39.000 Quarterback's talented.

00:36:40.000 They got a few other really, really good players.

00:36:44.000 I think we'll be surprised on Saturday.

00:36:47.000 We'll see. Or maybe I'll have egg on my face.

00:36:49.000 Well, by the way, because the internet is forever, you know, if you do have egg, if you're right, no one's going to give you credit for it.

00:36:56.000 If you're wrong, they'll shit all over you.

00:36:58.000 So that's sort of the way it works, unfortunately.

00:37:00.000 And I've borne witness of that myself on more than one or two occasions.

00:37:03.000 But if we shift now to the NFL, you saw, obviously, Aaron Rodgers, 39 years old, signed a deal with the New York Jets, guaranteed $75 million.

00:37:13.000 He got hurt, season-ending injury on the fourth play of this season.

00:37:19.000 So many are now blaming artificial turf.

00:37:23.000 Do you think that's a real thing?

00:37:25.000 Is that the cause of this?

00:37:28.000 Is it different there? Is there a clear-cut explanation to this one?

00:37:33.000 I do think they should be playing on grass, but more than that, Don, I think these guys have to take a different approach to the preseason.

00:37:43.000 You can't just snap a finger and go play NFL regular season.

00:37:49.000 Exhibition games are important.

00:37:52.000 Building the callus and getting your muscles used to playing at that level that you play at in a regular season game or postseason game.

00:38:02.000 I think the players have made a huge mistake and they've reduced the number of practices you can have throughout the course of a season.

00:38:10.000 Most of them don't play in the exhibition season.

00:38:13.000 And so I just think Aaron Rodgers set out the entire preseason, went out there, and had a little freak accident.

00:38:22.000 And I do think, you know, Phil Turk is not as good as playing on grass.

00:38:27.000 I would be for that change.

00:38:30.000 But I think it's a culmination of a lot of different things.

00:38:32.000 And then just being 39 years old...

00:38:35.000 Hey, as someone who's 45, the thing I miss most about youth is just not waking up sore every day for no reason.

00:38:42.000 Everything is less flexible.

00:38:46.000 I'm not an elite athlete, but I imagine everything being relative, it's still harder, right?

00:38:51.000 That doesn't change. Can't stop the clock.

00:38:54.000 You cannot. Don, I want to ask you something, and I don't know if you have access to the internet while we're sitting here talking, but I wish you would look up and press.

00:39:05.000 I think, yeah, you know Woody Johnson, the owner of the Jets.

00:39:09.000 It was our ambassador to the UK who worked very closely with Woody.

00:39:14.000 And so you're the perfect guy for me to ask.

00:39:17.000 Did you see the big diamond-encrusted gold chain that Woody wore to the game?

00:39:23.000 It had his name, Woody.

00:39:25.000 I gotta see this.

00:39:28.000 My team is pulling it up.

00:39:29.000 Wow. That's pretty aggressive.

00:39:32.000 Yeah, he looked like Rick Ross or some rapper.

00:39:36.000 He's got a player on his team called Sauce Gardner that has a big gold chain like this.

00:39:43.000 But this guy is 76, walking around like a rapper.

00:39:48.000 Defend your boy Woody Johnson here.

00:39:50.000 What's he doing? You know, listen, I don't know.

00:39:52.000 But, you know, if he's just having fun, then I respect the haze.

00:39:55.000 You know what I mean? I respect it as a shit talker myself and someone who likes to break balls.

00:40:00.000 You know, I kind of respect it.

00:40:02.000 If he's actually serious, which I doubt, knowing Woody, you know...

00:40:06.000 Then that's a whole different story.

00:40:08.000 But, you know, if he's doing something, having some fun with the team and bringing some unity from ownership, especially, you know, given some of the tensions there, not just obviously at the Jets, but basically throughout the NFL, I think it's actually probably, you know, a good thing.

00:40:23.000 I think, you know, bridging that gap.

00:40:25.000 You've seen about the controversies between them.

00:40:27.000 So, you know, I'm going to give them a pass on this one.

00:40:29.000 This one's going to go, they'll go get a little bit interesting because now with Rodgers injured, the liberals are beginning to The push.

00:40:38.000 They want to sign Colin Kaepernick, who hasn't played in the NFL in seven years.

00:40:45.000 Controversial would probably be an understatement.

00:40:48.000 I imagine, you know, not good for a lot of the morale, but that's just my opinion.

00:40:52.000 Maybe it'd be great for team morale, but I imagine it becomes all about him and whatever mission he's pushing.

00:40:58.000 Is Colin Kaepernick ready for the NFL? Is the NFL ready for Colin Kaepernick?

00:41:04.000 What happens? I know I have my opinion, but I'm curious to see what you say.

00:41:09.000 Don, it speaks to how little leftists have to say that's interesting.

00:41:18.000 That they would say something this stupid.

00:41:21.000 The guy hasn't played in the NFL in seven years.

00:41:25.000 And so in order to be provocative, in order to chase clicks, in order to be, hey, the Jets should call Colin Kaepernick.

00:41:32.000 But in their defense, these people think that men can breastfeed.

00:41:38.000 So like, I mean, you know, in all fairness, you know, we're dealing, we got to recenter our logic here to accommodate this stuff.

00:41:48.000 We've got to keep it in perspective and say, you know what?

00:41:52.000 Colin Kaepernick playing quarterback is far more insane than the belief that men can get pregnant or that men should be competing in swimming against Riley Gaines and other people.

00:42:06.000 This is relatively sane because at least Colin Kaepernick played football at some point.

00:42:14.000 Yeah, I think me playing quarterback for the New York Jets is probably more sane than the average shit that comes out of a leftist's mouth these days.

00:42:22.000 And we are told, or we must capitulate and we must believe, or we're just terrible, terrible human beings and fascists and such.

00:42:31.000 I think that, I don't even think Colin Kaepernick wants to play in the NFL. I know for a fact he doesn't.

00:42:40.000 But he does like his name in the headlines.

00:42:43.000 He does like being talked about.

00:42:46.000 When you're famous, you like people to talk about you.

00:42:49.000 People haven't talked about Colin Kaepernick in a while.

00:42:51.000 He's got nothing new to say.

00:42:53.000 He's got nothing of substance to say.

00:42:54.000 He's never had anything of substance to say.

00:42:57.000 And so this little gimmick of We're good to go.

00:43:25.000 All right, so let's take...

00:43:27.000 We'll move from Kaepernick, and let's take the opposite of Kaepernick, right?

00:43:32.000 Novak Djokovic.

00:43:34.000 He was banned from the United States for two years for not taking the VACs.

00:43:39.000 The ban in tennis was finally lifted this year, and Novak Djokovic immediately won the U.S. Open.

00:43:47.000 In fact, not only did he win the U.S. Open, but he won...

00:43:52.000 One of the great ironies of all time, the Moderna Shot of the Day Award, because apparently Moderna is the sponsor of, you know, the USTA. So I'm going to play this clip, and I want to get your reaction, because this to me is like the culmination of all the great irony of what's going on in this world these days.

00:44:15.000 Oh boy. Well, we'll take you to the dirtest shot of the day.

00:44:21.000 And it was...

00:44:22.000 Saving the match point.

00:44:24.000 Oh, the match. Match point to get to number 24.

00:44:26.000 There were a lot of shots that were highly impactful.

00:44:29.000 Here's the final one. Okay.

00:44:40.000 So, one of the great tennis players of all time stood on his principles.

00:44:46.000 You know, of course, it's not like one of the great athletes of all time really needed a shot, right?

00:44:52.000 That doesn't look like he had a lot of pre-existing conditions, so to speak.

00:44:56.000 But, I mean, what's your take on this?

00:44:58.000 Because to me, it's just, it's absolutely spectacular to see that.

00:45:01.000 And watching Bill Gates in the stands, sitting there, just epic.

00:45:08.000 I'm glad it happened.

00:45:11.000 There were three guys in the sports world that really stood up during the whole COVID madness, Vax madness deal.

00:45:19.000 Kyrie Irvin, Aaron Rodgers, Kyrie plays in the NBA, Aaron Rodgers obviously in the NFL, and Novak Djokovic.

00:45:30.000 And obviously we've seen Aaron Rodgers get hurt.

00:45:36.000 Kyrie ended up With the Dallas Mavericks and Flamin' Out.

00:45:41.000 And so I'm glad at least one of them got what they deserved, adding to their legend.

00:45:49.000 I'm hoping that Kyrie Irvin has a great season this year.

00:45:54.000 I hope that Aaron Rodgers comes back and plays next season.

00:45:57.000 Really, really rooting for Aaron Rodgers.

00:46:00.000 I've never been a Djokovic fan, but because of his backstance and the way he stood his ground, I've become a fan of his.

00:46:09.000 And so I'm hoping Kyrie has a great season.

00:46:13.000 I hope Aaron Rodgers comes back, and I hope Djokovic goes on to set every record in the world.

00:46:18.000 He's already in the argument for the greatest tennis player of all time.

00:46:22.000 I hope that it becomes clear-cut, and he's the Michael Jordan of tennis.

00:46:28.000 It's vindication and well earned and well deserved.

00:46:32.000 Yeah, I mean, I think especially when you see, you know, you saw LeBron's son, you know, cardiac issues.

00:46:39.000 I mean, you know, you see a lot of these young athletes.

00:46:42.000 I mean, I'm sure it's happened before, but it seems, you know, grossly disproportionate.

00:46:48.000 Why is that not a story, especially sort of in light of the attacks, the vicious attacks that, say, Djokovic faced, again, for just saying, hey, I don't think I need it.

00:46:58.000 I don't want it. And...

00:47:00.000 Why is that different, and why are those sort of instances?

00:47:03.000 And these are major, incredibly athletic people in the best shape of their life, prime condition, and yet it feels like you read about some sort of college athlete in his prime dropping dead, passing out, whatever it may be, on a floor, and yet Djokovic is the one that gets crap, not the people that would force it upon him.

00:47:24.000 Don, let me really politicize this or take it even a step further.

00:47:29.000 The media is so rigged and has their narratives and Big Pharma tells them what to think and what they can say.

00:47:36.000 They sponsor the tennis.

00:47:38.000 Just compare the number of athletes in their prime, the number of young people we've heard died suddenly, just dropped dead.

00:47:49.000 And just compare that to the handful of Black Lives Matter unarmed Black men shot by police.

00:48:00.000 There have been far more people just dropped dead mysteriously since This COVID thing and forced vaccinations, but the media is going to just keep my black lives matter and lives matter.

00:48:14.000 Let's keep a running scoreboard on whoever died and blah, blah, blah.

00:48:19.000 But they can take a handful of police involved shootings that are questionable, a handful of them, and turn it into a national epidemic that must be stopped and We got to take away people's gun rights and we got to defund the police and we got to do this, we got to do that.

00:48:35.000 But they completely ignore all of these young people.

00:48:40.000 Again, LeBron James' son.

00:48:42.000 You think LeBron James' son has some pretty good genes he's working with?

00:48:46.000 He's got LeBron James' genes.

00:48:49.000 I think he's doing pretty good.

00:48:51.000 Yeah, he's having cardiac arrest at 19, but there's no story here.

00:48:55.000 There's nothing to talk about.

00:48:57.000 There's nothing to see. It just speaks to how rigged the media is and how much control Big Pharma has over the media.

00:49:05.000 So you mentioned Roger Goodell earlier, obviously, head of the NFL. You got Adam Silver.

00:49:12.000 You got all these other guys out there.

00:49:13.000 How did those guys get so political?

00:49:16.000 Because I don't feel like the fan base is...

00:49:20.000 Certainly not majority left-leaning, you know, sort of woke.

00:49:26.000 I think probably the opposite.

00:49:27.000 I'm sure there's some woke fans, you know, certainly in major cities or whatever it may be.

00:49:31.000 But, you know, how did this, how did wokeism take over professional history?

00:49:37.000 And again, you know, I even see some of the players doing it, but you know, I know plenty of, you know, pro athletes.

00:49:42.000 I'm friendly with a lot of them.

00:49:44.000 You hear sort of, let's call it, to quote Donald Trump, you know, the locker room talk.

00:49:48.000 And I don't think, like, virtually none of these people believe any of the shit that's out there.

00:49:52.000 Right now in the woke thing, and yet it's taken over these leagues entirely.

00:49:57.000 How did that happen?

00:49:58.000 Where does it go from here?

00:50:00.000 Which are the ones that sort of play just enough that they can kind of, you know, I get it, they're appeasing both sides and avoiding it to, you know, perhaps run an organization the way it should be, maybe apolitical.

00:50:10.000 What happened with all of that?

00:50:13.000 Nike. Nike.

00:50:15.000 People don't understand that Nike is the most powerful force in all of sports.

00:50:23.000 People don't understand that the NBA is an $8 to $10 billion a year lead.

00:50:30.000 Nike is $40 to $50 billion a year.

00:50:35.000 Nike drives the NBA. The NBA is basically the marketing department for Nike.

00:50:41.000 Nike, again, $40 to $50 billion a year.

00:50:44.000 It's a global corporation.

00:50:46.000 The NFL is $18 to $20 billion a year in revenue.

00:50:54.000 Nike is the driving force in sports.

00:50:58.000 Nike is concerned with the 1.4 billion citizens in China, more than the 330 million potential customers here in America.

00:51:11.000 Nike panders to China They have all this slave Asian labor that they're dependent upon, and they want to be able to sell their products in China and expand that market.

00:51:26.000 And so all of this anti-American sentiment that you see from these sports leagues, It's driven by Nike.

00:51:34.000 When you look at Colin Kaepernick and LeBron James, who are they selling product for?

00:51:40.000 Who are they spokesmen for?

00:51:41.000 Nike. Nike's driving all of this.

00:51:45.000 Now, there's other...

00:51:47.000 Forces as well, World Economic Forum and ESG and all the top-down diversity, equity and equity inclusion and all the anti-American sentiment.

00:51:57.000 Because again, all these forces are working to bring down America so they can install globalism, so they can take away our freedoms and so that people, the working class, will be happy with nothing and they'll love it.

00:52:13.000 But, you know, if I had to point the finger at one primary source, it's Nike.

00:52:18.000 They're the driving force. How did that shift?

00:52:20.000 I mean, you started off, you know, as a sports reporter in Kansas City.

00:52:24.000 Then you worked at ESPN, which, you know, I mean, I feel like if I watch ESPN, I'm getting more woke.

00:52:31.000 More woke politics than I would if I turned on CNN. But then you worked at Fox Sports and The Blaze.

00:52:38.000 How have you seen that industry change?

00:52:41.000 What drew you there in the first place?

00:52:44.000 And then what made that change?

00:52:46.000 And what then was the precipice for you actually starting to speak out against some of the social shit and the wokeness that was going on in there, rather than just talking about sports and staying in that lane?

00:53:00.000 Biggest change to sports media was Disney buying ESPN 25, 30 years ago.

00:53:09.000 Once Disney took over ESPN, Disney, another global corporation with an agenda, with a narrative, that was really the end of ESPN sticking to traditional sports values.

00:53:25.000 It took time. It was a slow process.

00:53:27.000 But I saw the change in ESPN as Disney's values became more and more pervasive throughout ESPN. I worked there two different times, and the second time I worked there was like, wow, this is a really hostile place for someone with my values.

00:53:49.000 And so, what just ended up happening to me is things became more and more obvious, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this isn't the America I grew up in.

00:54:01.000 I am someone that, in 1984, I was a senior in high school, and me and my dad lived in a one-bedroom, 400-square-foot apartment, In Indianapolis.

00:54:16.000 We were in the hood and we were poor.

00:54:21.000 I was a very good high school football player.

00:54:23.000 I got a football scholarship to Ball State University.

00:54:27.000 Going to college opened my eyes to a bunch of opportunities that America had to offer and I just applied the values that I learned in the church growing up, the values I learned from my mom and dad.

00:54:41.000 And had an amazing American dream story of going from poverty to living on the Wilshire Corridor in Westwood, one of the richest zip codes in America.

00:55:03.000 I believe in that America and I want other young people to have the opportunity and the experience that I had to be able to climb that ladder.

00:55:12.000 We have more economic mobility in America than any place on the planet.

00:55:18.000 And I'm looking at people that want to throw that away.

00:55:21.000 And I'm looking at people reject All the values that made this country great.

00:55:28.000 And I just reached a point where I just felt like I can't sit on the sidelines.

00:55:33.000 I got to talk about this.

00:55:36.000 I have to try to help people understand what we're throwing away.

00:55:42.000 We can't We can't buy into a matriarchal culture.

00:55:47.000 We can't throw away the patriarchy.

00:55:49.000 We can't throw away male leadership.

00:55:51.000 We can't throw away freedoms that we've taken for granted.

00:55:55.000 We can't throw away the American dream or, again, you're probably 10, 15 years younger than me.

00:56:05.000 When I grew up, we were on this path where things weren't perfect.

00:56:15.000 But we were getting closer and closer to the racial harmony that Dr.

00:56:20.000 Martin Luther King and other people fought for.

00:56:23.000 And I've seen all that change on a dime and go the complete other direction where we're having separate graduation ceremonies.

00:56:33.000 We're bringing back segregation.

00:56:35.000 I see it. I mean, I read the stuff going on at universities and the housing situation.

00:56:39.000 I'm like, I sort of feel like maybe we're missing something.

00:56:45.000 One of the things you talk a lot about, and you've been very open about, I wish more people would be open about, is your faith.

00:56:52.000 And, you know, sort of America getting away from that, going to a far more secular society, avoiding that.

00:56:59.000 And, I mean, I think it's pretty clear that without faith, so many of these things that would be natural just sort of disappear to live in the here and now.

00:57:10.000 Talk a little bit about that, because I know, you know, that's the other thing that, whether it's the Vax or whatever, someone like Djokovic, if they talk about their faith, these athletes are killed and criticized at this.

00:57:20.000 And, I mean... I don't know that there was ever a time in human history where that would have been controversial, yet in 2023, that makes you evil.

00:57:32.000 Don, look up Coco Golf, who won the U.S. Open.

00:57:36.000 She dropped to her knees in prayer after winning.

00:57:41.000 It's clear as day on the video.

00:57:43.000 And she's been open about her Christian faith.

00:57:47.000 ESPN SportsCenter tweeted out that Coco Golf was soaking it all in.

00:57:54.000 And people like Ted Cruz and people like Tony Dundee was like, what are you talking about?

00:58:00.000 This woman dropped to her knees in prayer.

00:58:02.000 She's not soaking it all in.

00:58:04.000 But that's how hostile corporate media, ESPN is to Christian values.

00:58:11.000 And people are wondering why the cancel culture and why society's gotten so harsh.

00:58:18.000 When you reject Christian values, you're rejecting forgiveness.

00:58:23.000 And that's why we have no forgiveness.

00:58:26.000 Oh, someone said the wrong word.

00:58:29.000 When they were 18 or 15 over Twitter, cancel that person forever.

00:58:35.000 Are you kidding me?

00:58:36.000 When I think about all the mistakes I've made in my life, really bad mistakes.

00:58:41.000 I thank God every day.

00:58:43.000 Yeah, I'm probably 10, 12 years younger than you, but I just thank God every day that when we were in our 20s or in college that we didn't have video cameras in our pockets.

00:58:53.000 Right? Like... Because you do stupid shit.

00:58:57.000 I learned much more from the dumb shit I did than from when I got it right.

00:59:04.000 That's how we grow.

00:59:06.000 That's how we learn. But if every time you make a single mistake, it's literally life-altering and prevents you from ever recovering, and that's what they'd have you do these days, I don't know how anyone could actually grow or ever get to a level where Where they actually have the real-world experience of life to actually be good at something or to make a good decision for the future.

00:59:30.000 It's... Look, the primary...

00:59:33.000 The purpose of Christian faith is it's about forgiveness.

00:59:37.000 Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins.

00:59:40.000 His grace and mercy is why, again, we get to enjoy life and he made incredible.

00:59:47.000 And so we've just removed all of that and we've removed.

00:59:52.000 So we don't even have an understanding when, again, when you walk away from Christian faith, you don't even understand the value of freedom.

01:00:01.000 And that's why I look at people.

01:00:04.000 We don't even value freedom anymore, and we don't understand what guarantees our freedom here in America.

01:00:13.000 And Obama and these people want to ridicule people for clinging to their guns and their Bibles.

01:00:20.000 No, those are the smartest people in the world.

01:00:23.000 They know that the Bible and that gun are the guarantee of their freedom.

01:00:28.000 Because if the left gets their way and they take our guns from us, trust me, they're going to come knocking at your door, shoving that vaccine in your arm, in your kids' arms, in everybody.

01:00:42.000 I'm so blown away at how little People know and understand about what made this country great and what we should actually value, that they've done some kind of incredible brainwashing job where people could care less, that they would rather have safety over freedom.

01:01:06.000 And that, again, is why I'm so against the feminization of society.

01:01:11.000 I get why it is in woman's nature to Long for safety.

01:01:17.000 It's in man's nature to be risk-taking and, you know, kind of eschew safety.

01:01:24.000 Again, you could never have Evel Knievel.

01:01:27.000 I don't know if you're old enough.

01:01:28.000 Oh, yeah, I'm old enough. Yeah, you couldn't have Evel Knievel in this day.

01:01:33.000 That was just a guy that, I'm going to go out and risk death doing stupid things.

01:01:37.000 You couldn't have an Arthur Fonzarelli, the Fonz, the Happy Days.

01:01:40.000 We could never have that anymore.

01:01:42.000 And literally, I tried to tell people, like, hey, do you know these skyscrapers and these roughnecks, they'd fall to their deaths.

01:01:49.000 And they'd have a little, oh man, it's tough that guy died, but we've got to keep building things.

01:01:55.000 Well, why aren't the feminists complaining about there's not enough female roughnecks?

01:02:00.000 Or construction workers.

01:02:01.000 It seems like, you know, they want a diversity quota for everything else, except for the really shitty jobs where you can die.

01:02:09.000 I don't see that. In all of the virtue signaling I see out there, and I know you do have to go, but I want to close on this note, right?

01:02:16.000 Apple, I don't know if you watched that ridiculous new ad where they're lectured by an actress playing Mother Nature.

01:02:23.000 I'm going to play a one-minute clip, but I've got to get your commentary on this because I imagine it's going to be gold.

01:02:29.000 Check this out. I hope we didn't keep you waiting.

01:02:49.000 Mother Nature.

01:02:50.000 Mother Nature, welcome to Apple.

01:02:53.000 How was the weather getting in?

01:02:55.000 The weather was however I wanted it to be.

01:03:04.000 Let's cut to the chase.

01:03:06.000 In 2020, you promised to bring Apple's entire carbon footprint to zero by 2030.

01:03:11.000 Henry David Thoreau over here said we have a profound opportunity to build a more sustainable future for the planet we share.

01:03:18.000 I think our 10 o'clock said the same thing.

01:03:20.000 They all do. All right.

01:03:23.000 This is my third corporate responsibility gig today, so who wants to disappoint me first?

01:03:30.000 So what's the deal with corporations releasing these bizarro videos?

01:03:36.000 How does Apple, they talk about carbon footprint, strangely enough, I have a feeling they haven't changed their policies on lithium mining by slave child labor, you know, in East Africa.

01:03:47.000 I have a feeling You know, but, you know, hey, guess what?

01:03:50.000 It doesn't count in their ESG because they sub that out to someone else.

01:03:54.000 They just pay someone else to do the dirty work, so it doesn't really count.

01:03:58.000 You know, what is the deal with the virtue signaling?

01:04:01.000 Does it do anything? I mean, do people, I mean, if I see it, and I don't follow Apple at all really, you know, but if I see that it's BS, doesn't everyone else, do they actually get anything out of it at this point, or does it not even matter?

01:04:13.000 There's so much B.S. in that commercial that we could have spent the entire show just me nitpicking that because it's a five-minute commercial and it's Tim Cook pleasuring himself.

01:04:28.000 I was to say he's basically masturbating and look how great I am because one of the number one things you're Go to Apple, go to any of their meetings, and see if this potpourri of people that they have in this commercial, if that's what Apple's real meetings look like.

01:04:46.000 Again, that thing was so color-coded, and women here, and oh, here's a black guy in dreadlocks, or he's got braids, and all this.

01:04:55.000 The whole thing was fake and phony, and Octavia Spencer is mother nature, and her condescending attitude.

01:05:03.000 It... That was a liberal leftist wet dream commercial.

01:05:11.000 When they shot that, they all just sat around and smoked a cigarette and said, oh, look how great we are.

01:05:17.000 In our little fantasy world, this is what it looks like.

01:05:21.000 There's a black woman who's telling everybody what to do, and Tim Cook's just sitting there nodding his head as Stacey Abrams or Lizzo tells him what to do.

01:05:32.000 It's a joke.

01:05:34.000 It's the...

01:05:36.000 You know, I watched it and I'm like...

01:05:40.000 How much time you got? I need to get rid of my Apple phone is all I kept thinking.

01:05:45.000 Thank God. You know what? This is legitimate.

01:05:47.000 Thank God I got Patriot Mobile on my Apple phone.

01:05:49.000 Listen, like I said, you know, sponsors of this show, I believe yours.

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01:06:18.000 Thank you so much, Don, for having me on.

01:06:22.000 Next time, I'm actually headed to John Rich's house for an event.

01:06:28.000 I was with him on Saturday, so tell him I said hi.

01:06:31.000 Great guy. I double booked today, and so I wish I had more time, but I got to run over here.

01:06:36.000 I think Marsha Blackburn's going to be here.

01:06:40.000 We're going to have a great event.

01:06:41.000 Very nice, man. Well, I appreciate you doing it.

01:06:44.000 We'll definitely have you guys.

01:06:46.000 We'll have you back on again.

01:06:48.000 I imagine while we may have tried to solve all of the world's problems, I have a feeling the left isn't just going to go away and go back to normalcy or sanity.

01:06:56.000 So we'll be back.

01:06:58.000 And so, guys, I'll stick around a little bit as well.

01:07:00.000 I'll take some of your questions here, talk a little bit news of the day, and we'll have Jason back on soon.

01:07:05.000 So thanks a lot, man. I really appreciate it.

01:07:08.000 So guys, appreciate that.

01:07:10.000 I thought that was great. It's great to see someone like Jason who just, you know, says it like it is.

01:07:15.000 A great follow, so go check him out.

01:07:18.000 But there's still a lot going on.

01:07:21.000 I want to take some of your questions.

01:07:23.000 I want to see if you weren't on Twitter today.

01:07:26.000 Probably good for you.

01:07:28.000 Good things rarely come out of, you know, either the ad site or the news today.

01:07:32.000 But today, when Hunter was indicted...

01:07:36.000 Shockingly, folks, shockingly, rather than him trending on Twitter, the son of the President of the United States, the most famous crackhead in the world, rather than him trending, yours truly was the one that was trending on Twitter.

01:07:53.000 The same thing happened, folks, when they found cocaine in the White House last month while Hunter Biden was literally in the White House.

01:08:01.000 Who could it be? Well, it must be Don Jr., magically.

01:08:05.000 It had to be mine, not the most famous crackhead in the world who was actually there.

01:08:11.000 The Hunter indictment today better not be the only indictment the DOJ brings.

01:08:18.000 And that's why you guys have to be out there.

01:08:19.000 You have to be vocal. You have to make sure that they don't get away with this.

01:08:24.000 There's tax crimes out there.

01:08:26.000 There's money laundering crimes, unregistered foreign lobbying crimes that could all be charged and should all be charged until those cases are brought.

01:08:36.000 This is just one big cover-up.

01:08:37.000 Notice the only thing they actually do about this thing The only thing that they don't do is go after Joe because it's the one crime that Hunter's involved in that doesn't involve the big guy?

01:08:49.000 But one notable thing about the Hunter indictment is that it came after an article by David Ignatius in the Washington Post saying that Biden shouldn't run again.

01:08:59.000 This one's actually significant for a couple of reasons.

01:09:02.000 One is Joe Biden is an avid reader of David Ignatius and the fake news Washington Post.

01:09:07.000 That's the Amazon Bezos Washington Post.

01:09:10.000 So Biden read the column saying that he should step down and not run for re-election.

01:09:14.000 But the second aspect of this...

01:09:16.000 That many don't know or understand is that Ignatius is basically known as the CIA's go-to reporter.

01:09:24.000 In other words, folks, the deep state is panicking that Joe Biden is losing in poll after poll.

01:09:33.000 That Americans are waking up to the corruption that's so flagrant and obvious you'd have to be an imbecile to not see it.

01:09:40.000 They're desperate to make sure my father isn't back in office and back in power because they know that will be the end of their reign of terror.

01:09:50.000 And now the deep state, through their spokesperson, Is letting Joe Biden know just that.

01:09:58.000 Now, I imagine Joe Biden probably doesn't even figure that out anymore.

01:10:02.000 There was a time he probably read that and understood the narrative and the messaging.

01:10:07.000 I think that time is probably long gone.

01:10:09.000 We've seen gaffe after gaffe, right?

01:10:12.000 You know, you see lie after lie from Joe Biden, right?

01:10:16.000 Today he said he was a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania.

01:10:19.000 No, no, they paid him a million bucks and he did nothing.

01:10:22.000 You know, yet another lie.

01:10:24.000 He's done so many of these things.

01:10:25.000 It never seems to end.

01:10:27.000 But my father's dominant polling lead isn't the only good news out there right now.

01:10:34.000 Mittens. Mitt Romney announced yesterday that he will be retiring.

01:10:40.000 And good riddance, folks, because with Republicans like Mitt Romney, who needs Democrats?

01:10:45.000 Mitt Romney represents the worst of the Republican Party.

01:10:49.000 He tells himself he's better than you while supporting trade agreements that shut down the factory that you work out.

01:10:56.000 He shouts about the rule of law Well, bending a knee and supporting the BLM rioters.

01:11:03.000 Well, fortunately, the Romney wing of the party lost.

01:11:07.000 That's why he's retiring.

01:11:10.000 He told reporters in interviews that the Republican Party today is led by Donald Trump.

01:11:15.000 Romney lost, and we're all better for it.

01:11:19.000 He criticizes those who are actually doing good work in the Senate, like my friend J.D. Vance.

01:11:24.000 Because he understands that Vance is actually fighting for you, unlike him fighting for the unit party.

01:11:30.000 So it's not all lost, but we've got to stay on, we've got to keep fighting, and we cannot give up.

01:11:36.000 So I'm going to take a couple questions here for a little bit, and then I'm going to go over to locals.

01:11:41.000 So for those of you who are over there, I'll take your guys' questions directly so I make sure I cover all of that.

01:11:48.000 But if you guys have a couple questions over here, anything that's been going on, I'll hit them.

01:11:54.000 Otherwise, I'll switch over to Locals and we'll see you guys on Thursday.

01:11:57.000 Or on Monday. I don't even know what day it is anymore.

01:12:00.000 That's how crazy my life is.

01:12:01.000 So, let's see.

01:12:05.000 Bless this world. D. Jr., Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson for VP. Mark Robinson's in the house over in North Carolina.

01:12:12.000 A great guy.

01:12:15.000 Very outspoken man.

01:12:18.000 Great guy. Become a friend.

01:12:20.000 Hung out with him a few times.

01:12:23.000 Absolute legend.

01:12:24.000 Funny guy. That would be interesting and that would drive a lot of people pretty crazy.

01:12:31.000 Yeah. Mittens are leaving because the water's getting hot.

01:12:37.000 Don Jr., great guest.

01:12:40.000 Thank you. I appreciate that.

01:12:42.000 Raider208, thank you. Yeah, no, I thought that was actually great.

01:12:44.000 Like I said, Jason called.

01:12:46.000 He's like, hey, I can do an hour, but I basically got to be out at 7.

01:12:48.000 He mentioned why. I was with John Rich this weekend.

01:12:51.000 I was speaking at the Tennessee Firearms Association.

01:12:55.000 Their big sort of annual meeting, John played there.

01:12:58.000 I was a keynote speaker talking about the insanity of what's going on in the Second Amendment world.

01:13:04.000 You saw New Mexico's governor wanting to just suspend the Second Amendment, like your right to carry.

01:13:12.000 We're just going to, I don't know, rights, you know, rights.

01:13:14.000 Who really cares? Let's just forget about that.

01:13:18.000 Even some of the lunatic leftists like David Hogg and stuff like that came out against that insanity.

01:13:23.000 But I guess that's the problem with what's going on right now, guys.

01:13:26.000 The left has just been emboldened to just forget about everything.

01:13:30.000 To forget about rights, freedoms, because they've just gotten away with so much murder these days that, you know, it's why we've got to keep fighting back.

01:13:43.000 Stop wasting time talking about Biden's impeach the fool and move on.

01:13:46.000 Yeah, listen, I love that, but that's not, you know, unfortunately I'm not in charge.

01:13:50.000 Hopefully this message gets out there and we actually do something.

01:13:55.000 We don't get to get away or change the process, right?

01:13:58.000 The Democrats can change a process like they did during an election.

01:14:00.000 They waived state constitutions.

01:14:02.000 It was an emergency. Minor details, right?

01:14:04.000 Governor of New Mexico, I just mentioned that.

01:14:06.000 It was an emergency because some people were shot.

01:14:09.000 We just got to suspend everyone's rights.

01:14:11.000 Though I imagine the rights of the people that were suspended were not actually those who committed the crimes.

01:14:16.000 I imagine those were not done by people lawfully carrying concealed weapons, but by pieces of shit criminals.

01:14:22.000 But that doesn't matter in today's left.

01:14:25.000 So we don't get the benefit of the doubt of not being able to play by the rules.

01:14:29.000 Only the left does that.

01:14:30.000 So we have to...

01:14:32.000 You know, for better or worse, we have to do that.

01:14:35.000 Though, at this point, my theory is we've got to play the game that they're playing, because otherwise we have no chance of actually winning, and we've been playing t-ball while they've been playing hardball.

01:14:45.000 God is going to restore your father to his rightful seat before the 2024 elections, the Smith-5.

01:14:53.000 Unfortunately, that's not going to happen.

01:14:57.000 I know there's people talking about those things.

01:14:59.000 It's just never going to happen.

01:15:00.000 We've got to win this thing in 2024.

01:15:02.000 We're going to have to beat and defeat whatever bullshit they throw out there.

01:15:06.000 But, you know, I know there's people holding on to that one, but it's unfortunately not going to happen.

01:15:13.000 Certainly not in this day and age.

01:15:15.000 Certainly not with, you know, people in office and the people that it's just not the way it works.

01:15:20.000 And it would be shut down across the board.

01:15:23.000 So we are going to have to, and I don't think...

01:15:27.000 Joe Biden got in there, you know, under real merit and pretense, but that doesn't matter.

01:15:33.000 He's there now, and we're going to have to beat him or whoever else they stick in there in 24.

01:15:39.000 And that's why we got to be out there, you know, fighting.

01:15:41.000 But we can't hold on to those kind of dreams, unfortunately, because that's just not going to happen.

01:15:45.000 And I know that's going to be a major disappointment to a lot of people that would love to see that.

01:15:50.000 But... We'll see.

01:15:53.000 Junior, is Giorgio Maloney a fake?

01:15:56.000 She lied to the country.

01:15:57.000 Is that the Italian PM, right?

01:16:01.000 You know what? I don't know enough about it.

01:16:02.000 I like what she was running. I don't know if she's trying to appease the left with whatever it is.

01:16:09.000 I haven't been following it closely enough to tell you one way or the other.

01:16:13.000 I imagine she's better than some of the radical leftists that they would have put in there,

01:16:16.000 but I don't know enough about Italian politics, frankly, to talk about it.

01:16:28.000 I think that's probably in response to my, like, you know, let's not hold on to sort of, you know, certain pipe dreams, like, you know, someone's going to just get put back into office.

01:16:37.000 Again, we can't do that.

01:16:38.000 We just got to go win. We got to make sure we win the house by a larger margin so we can do a lot more.

01:16:44.000 So we're not holding. I mean, I'm watching a couple people.

01:16:46.000 Oh, Well, we don't want to impeach Joe Biden, because that wouldn't be nice.

01:16:49.000 It's like, I mean, you have evidence, like, the Democrats are out there.

01:16:52.000 What evidence? Oh, you mean other than phone calls, other than emails, other than wire transfers, other than, like, why is Hunter getting paid millions of dollars?

01:17:02.000 Over and over. Why is the money flowing from China to the entire family who's never been there or even conducted business?

01:17:09.000 Other than minor shit like that, you know, why?

01:17:13.000 I mean, we have Republicans that are trying to hold that up in the House because they're weak.

01:17:16.000 So figure out who they are and call them.

01:17:20.000 Do I think Biden will pardon his son?

01:17:22.000 I think eventually. He's not going to let him go to jail.

01:17:25.000 They'll just drag it out. They'll drag out the proceedings as long as they can, and then they'll do it when it doesn't hurt him politically or it doesn't hurt the Democrats politically.

01:17:39.000 But I'm sure it'll happen.

01:17:41.000 Nothing's going to happen. And guess what?

01:17:42.000 They'll settle for slap on the wrist.

01:17:44.000 He'll say, oh yes, he committed a major.

01:17:46.000 There will be no jail time and there will be no this.

01:17:48.000 The same guy that was going to give him the clown deal, Weiss, is the guy that's in charge of the new investigation.

01:17:55.000 So we all know where this one's going and it's going nowhere.

01:17:59.000 But again, I think it is telling that the one crime of the many that Hunter's committed is the one crime that isn't tied to Joe Biden, so they can cover for him longer than they would be able to otherwise, and avoid bringing that scrutiny or giving the Republicans more to latch onto.

01:18:20.000 So that was clearly by design, and if you don't believe that, you haven't been watching closely enough.

01:18:26.000 Would you see yourself run for president after your father's next four years?

01:18:30.000 Lieutenant Cooker. Wow.

01:18:34.000 Let's worry about the next.

01:18:35.000 We got a lot to worry about in 2024.

01:18:38.000 Let's worry about that.

01:18:39.000 Maybe one day I got to keep fighting.

01:18:41.000 I think I can probably do a lot more fighting.

01:18:47.000 Here, not being in office, not having to play by the rules.

01:18:50.000 Again, The Democrats don't have to play by the rules, but if I was in there, I assure you that every ethics investigation, every this would be long, whether I did anything or not.

01:18:57.000 If I said Merry Christmas, they'd say I'm being anti-Semitic.

01:19:01.000 It's just different rules.

01:19:04.000 Maybe one day, you never know.

01:19:06.000 Right now I'm not sure I want the day job.

01:19:08.000 I like the fight. I like being in there.

01:19:10.000 I like a lot of the stuff that the Republicans aren't really good at, like actually fighting and pushing back and being aggressive and pushing forward.

01:19:18.000 But I think I can do a lot of that without actually having me in office and probably can do...

01:19:23.000 A lot more. Jules Vernon 23 used to be brainwashed.

01:19:26.000 I think a lot of people were brainwashed.

01:19:28.000 Yeah, I was brainwashed. You know, I believe that the FBI, if they said something about General Flynn or me or, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia, there had to be some truth to it.

01:19:37.000 I mean, it's the FBI. You know, now I realize that those institutions are broken and corrupted.

01:19:42.000 And, you know, really, we got to start way over.

01:19:47.000 Again, and then we're making the distinction...

01:19:50.000 Between a broken leadership and door kickers and the guys doing the actual work that are good patriotic Americans.

01:19:56.000 There's many, and I see them because they come up to me and they're more pissed off than perhaps even I am about what's going on at these institutions.

01:20:02.000 They just also understand that they're helpless to do something.

01:20:05.000 If they say something, they'll be relegated to the island of Guam.

01:20:08.000 They'll never get a promotion. They'll lose their jobs and be on the shortlist for firing.

01:20:12.000 They can't exactly destroy their lives, their careers, their families, their ability to pay for their mortgages.

01:20:21.000 It's not that simple.

01:20:28.000 Many of them are still on our side.

01:20:30.000 We just got to get rid of the corrupt bureaucrats at the top.

01:20:32.000 And again, that's what Trump's going to do, and I think it's why they hate him so much.

01:20:38.000 So they're all complicit, Franklin 779, 100%.

01:20:42.000 100%.

01:20:45.000 No, I think that's true.

01:20:47.000 So, you know, I guess, guys, what I'm going to do, I'm going to switch over to locals.

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01:21:00.000 I'm going to try to do more of those.

01:21:02.000 You guys seem to like it as well.

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01:21:22.000 How can you impeach someone who isn't present?

01:21:25.000 Joe Biden did not win.

01:21:26.000 Boozer 20. That's a solid point.

01:21:29.000 I guess you can impeach other people in government.

01:21:31.000 Maybe you impeach him ex-post facto during his Senate times or VP times.

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Jason Whitlock is Fearless: Why Sports Media Went Woke, Plus Hunter Indicted and Apple Mocked for Bizarre Climate Sketch and Much More | TRIGGERED Ep.68

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