May 1, 2025 • 48 mins
Don’t miss The America First podcast as they examine President Trump’s 100th Day in office and much more! In this impactful episode watch in-studio guest Michael Loftus flex his humor to highlight truth in media. Michael’s network StudioTST highlights the art and comedic community and his excitement to host his Stand Up Spotlight Show at The America First Warehouse later that evening. Comedian Kevin Downey Jr. of Real America’s Voice - Live from Studio 6B and host of The Kevin Downey Jr. show on LI News radio zooms in with the panel. Learn where to catch KDJ’s artistic genius LIVE in-studio Friday nights. The episode continues with an interview with Veteran and Retired Suffolk County Police Officer, Mike Simonelli to discuss his latest step in serving Americans - running for Smithtown School Board. Lisa and Mike hash out front-line education issues. Tune-In to our great panel of cohosts Joe the Box, Johnny Blanket, Lisa, & Stephanie who are excited to bring you REAL TALK, PATRIOTISM & TRUTH!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm John the Blanket, and I'm Steph Lege.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Morley Safer.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'm Lisa, and I'm Jonah Box.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Here at the America First Warehouse, the most patriotic venue
in all the land, and I will wrestle anybody that
tells me otherwise. We have so many great, great things
coming up with the America First movement. That's where I
feel like we belong. We have a super duper day today.
You know why, panel what it's the first hundred days
(00:35):
of our great President Donald Trump. And if you could
go back to that shot over there, because I'm gonna
show the world how we that's a good shot too.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I found this in the warehouse. Do you believe it?
Does this make us communist? Or does this make us
America First? Any comments on that down the line?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
This is and we are in the best venue for
this one hundred des the America First Warehouse, Joe the
Box bringing it to you live. We have all you
want for the America First platform.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And our president, what he's accomplished in one hundred days
is mind blowing. Two press conferences, the day is everything transparent.
I think I have cash Fortel whispering in my ears.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Over here. It's a great day to be an American.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Just he can't be whispering in your ear. He's busy
doing investigations that everyone is so ready for arrests and whatnot.
But we also have our cabinet, our beautiful cabinet of
this administration, having press conferences every morning bringing us live
updates what's going on in the country for real, not
fake news, real news.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I would like to introduce in the middle over here
a good, great friend of mine. His name is Michael
Loftus and you might see him on the Greg Guttfeld show.
I had happened to went to the same Army Navy
shurtplus store that he did this morning to get so
we could have matchup jackets. Michael is a fantastic patriot.
I've known him for many years. After Trump was first
(02:04):
got involved, Michael came into my life and.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We created cultural change. And this is what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
We're changing the culture, and Mike's gonna get more into it.
But we do that show tonight at the America First
Warehouse with all of our viewers and followers are very
familiar with, and tonight Michae will be performing with the
cast of characters and patriotic. Well, I guess they can
go on either side, but you won't do well if
he s thoughts smashing America.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know, America First. I'm pretty sure about that.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Michael Loft is my friend. Welcome to the show. How
you're doing, where'd you come from? Where you're going?
Speaker 7 (02:42):
It's great to be here. I love I love coming
down to the America First warehouse. Uh, it's it's all.
It's live events, it's a studio. We're creating all kinds
of content. Who and who couldn't love the red, white
and blue aspect of it all. It's fantastic. I was
just in Los Angeles doing shows, then in the city
(03:06):
last night was had a great time on the on
the Greg Guttfeld Show. And then tonight we're gonna be
doing It's a it's a comedy showcase. Some of the
funniest people on the East Coast will be right here
on this stage and just cracking wise. It's just woke, free,
good old school comedy, right remember when funny?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, not any but it's not an open mic night
for the love of God.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But to see his show though, we want to see
what's saying.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Oh yeah, I think we do have a few tickets left,
and it's gonna be We're gonna tape this and it
will be at Studio TST, which is Netflix for people
who love America.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Mike, I, I I have a.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Lot of insight scoop to what's going on, and I
uh understand what you want are trying to do. I
love for you to explain to the audience what is
Studio TA. How did that bounce off of your original platform?
Was really a sketch comedy like Saturda Night Live. But
funny if you recall.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Well the the two minute version of this is that
it was right in the beginning of the scandemic and
the lockdowns and everything. And I'd been approached because I
have a history of writing for TV shows in Hollywood
and movies and blah blah. So a group wanted to
do like a right leaning version of Saturday Night Live
(04:30):
sketch comedy. And so I'm like, here's some of the
hurdles that you're gonna have to get over, and it's
it's a giant it's a mountain of bs that you
have to cut through, and it's it's not an easy task.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
However, I met you Joe and you had.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
This wonderful studio facility, and I'm like, you know what,
we could try it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We could try it.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
So we put together a show and then we knew
it's not gonna be on Netflix, it's not gonna be
on Amazon. And at the time, remember what was that
platform it got unplugged. It was the social media.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
App Parlor Parlor.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
So Parlor had just been unplugged. So I'm like, okay,
so we have to buy our own computer servers. We
have to be able to stream this ourselves. We have
to be completely independent.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So we did all that.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
We did the shows here, Jim Brewer was on stage,
the crowd people just absolutely loved it. So I'm like, okay, well,
let's keep going. We'll keep doing more episodes of that
show tonight. And then it occurred to me because.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I'm a little slow.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I'm a little slow sometimes, but I'm like, we have
our own servers, we have our own platform, we have
our own website.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We should make this way bigger.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Because I was watching my friends, my friends in Hollywood
who couldn't get jobs anymore because they weren't DEI I
was watching the way movies were going. I was watching
what Disney was doing, what Netflix was doing, and I'm
like this, DEI, this woke agenda.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Is every where and it's not gonna go away. And
I know Trump was like, oh, you got to.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Close your dee. They're still doing it. They're just gonna
be less bald faced liars about it. They're going to
hide it a little better. So we started Studio TST.
Studio TST has that show tonight. We do events in Nashville.
We did a live streaming event with John Rich and
(06:25):
Cat Turd. We did Turdstock, which was just some of
the greatest talent in Las Vegas or Las Vegas in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And so now we're doing more stand up shows.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
We've got original movies, we've got short films, We're adding documentaries,
We've got stand ups from like before it was woke,
Ray Romano, Drew Carry, It's the best of the best.
So we're adding content to the platform all the time,
and we're just I just want to thank everybody for
(06:57):
their support, everybody for subscribing. You can sit around and
you complain about, Oh, I can't believe Disney did this,
I can't believe Warner Brothers did that. You can do
that from a sidelines, or you can jump in and
help us out and subscribe and support and tell your friends.
And that's how you make a real difference in the culture.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
You Know, what I think is most fascinating is how
the comedians have uprised and enlightened off voices.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
And I want to say thank you for that, Michael,
because it was necessary.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Everyone relies on comedians to kind of just lay back
and relax and enjoy ourselves and have this type of
entertainment that helps us to reflect on our own personal
faults sometimes, and it's wonderful. When the comedic community was
attacked under woke law, as we shall call it, it
really showed us a different side of what was happening.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
And I think it took the veil off of the truth,
and the.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Comedians came out in unity and expressed it in such
a beautiful, artistic manner.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Freedom of expression. Thank you, that's true.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
And I think Jerry sim Seinfeld was the first to
stop going to college campuses. He said, I can't do
my material and not ah and not get hackled on campus.
So he stopped at one point.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Correct it trickles up like I stopped doing colleges. You guys,
this has been building for a while. This didn't just
start a couple years ago. I stopped doing colleges in
two thousand and four because, yeah, people were I had
this kid who wrote a letters like I can't believe
(08:33):
that comedian would do that German accent and imply that
Germans were Nazis.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm like, dude, did you not There was a lunch lady.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
There was this German lunch lady and one of the
things like you get paid for doing the show at
the college, and then they also go, oh and we'll
give you lunch.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So they give you this little ticket. So after so
before the show, I'm going.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Through the lunch line to get like a little Danish
and a cup of coffee, and this lunch lady's like,
you must have your ticket, and I'm like, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The German lady going ticket, please ticket.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
So this guy wrote a letter of complaint is saying, oh,
the comedian was implying that all German people were Nazis,
and as a descendant of like.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Holy crap, this is not worth it.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
So yeah, it's been it's been building up for a
long time, and uh, for the longest time, there was
only a handful of comedians who had the cajones, you know,
to to criticize other administrations and and talk about what
was really going on.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And that was it was a it was a lonely
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I'll tell you what though.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Thank God for like a Charlie Kirk who goes right
into the Bellied Beast on a daily basis and you
could watch him. Yeah, real America voice as well. But yeah,
that was a closed up for any kind of right
information comedy or anything into the colleges. And now they
now they're not get any money anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Right, Well, the wonderful thing that happened because like I
was on the very first season of Red Eye, and
and people like Trump, just Trump and his courage and
for going on and facing all the adversity that he's faced,
Elon Musk for buying Twitter and going forward, and guys
like Greg Guttfeld make a huge difference because if you
(10:17):
lean to the right, you're just not allowed to participate
in Hollywood. You're just not They won't hire you, you
can't move forward. And that way they can have the
they used to have this illusion like oh, people on
the right aren't funny. If you lean to the right,
you just aren't funny. You're just not talented. And that's
why you're not in Hollywood. And that's what the great
thing about Gutfeld is, like, Okay, give Gutfeld a show.
(10:41):
Let America decide. And that's why he's got the number one,
you know program on late night. It's so thrilling to watch.
And so that's what we want to do with Studio
TSD is provide more entertainment for everybody who's like I
just want to laugh, I just want to be entertained.
I just want to listen to good music. Studio t ST.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I happen to be a member of Studio TST. What
yes I am? We accepted you? I was accepted.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I gotta look at our vetting prost.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I don't know how. I think it was did I
have a credit card? It was just did I have
a credit card? That's all I needed. And I and
you know, my wife is also a member. And I
found this out.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We got two subscriptions going on. He said, aren't we
watching the same channel?
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Hone?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
You and I.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's hilarious, But Mike Loft is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He's bringing Culture's bringing cultural trains change right here at
the America First Warehouse.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Come tonight at seven o'clock. We got a few seats left.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I'm sure we're gonna squeeze you in for a night
of incredible comedy. Mike Loftus will be here with Michelle Fox,
who was some of my other buddies.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Oh, Kevin Downey Junior is gonna be on the show.
He's a funny character.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We're gonna be back in five seconds.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We're coming back to Kevin down You're gonna be joining
us at the America First.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Welcome back to the America First Podcast. My goodness, what
a morning, What a day? I was told five four
three two one. That's what I heard, my friend.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
God bless you.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
You know what I hear the control room. I go,
I'm like a I'm like a mouse. We've got a
guest joining us. He's gonna be on the stage here later.
You can hear him on on the radio. You can
see him on live from Studio six B, and you'll
see him right here on stage, cracking wise with the
very best one, Kevin Downey Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
How's it going, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Bud, Hey buddy, how you guys doing Thanks for having
me on cracking wise, that's good. That's good. Right, I'll
be doing my little skits.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Do you hate that when people come up to you
as a comedian and they're like, oh, here's when you
can use in your little skit. Oh you just you
just want to punch him, but I understand that's against
the law.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Yeah, and it's usually the most racist thing you've ever heard.
Heard this from my granddaddy. You can use it if
you want to. He used to be it. He used
to be an exalted cyclops.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I remember when oh, who is the guy that Biden
loved the KKK guy?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:16):
That was Robert bird Bird from West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
I remember when when Facebook there was a meme going
around uh and it was uh freakin Joe Biden holding
up Bird's hand and they go, oh, yeah, yeah, bird
Bird was the exalted Uh he was a grand dragon
in the kk He was a grand dragon. And Facebook
would go, oh, that's fake news, that's false. And yeah,
(13:39):
he wasn't a grand dragon. He was an exalted cyclops.
That's what That's what their problem was.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's not that he was in the KKK. You got
his title wrong.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
I love that fact checking. This is completely false.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Right. He wasn't a grand dragon. You get out of here.
He was a exalted cyclops. We're not gonna let you
Sully the name of Robert Byrd. So you had a
great show last night.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
We were we were coming in from the city and uh,
in the spirit of self destruction, we were watching your
show in the car on the way out here.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
To the America First Warehouse. How long? How long have
you been doing the Studio six B show?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It was awesome, you know what.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
I was always just sort of a fill in guy
for a while, and then now I'm just on every
Friday live at the America First Warehouse in front of people.
And then we've got the steak truck outside.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, baby, that's steakhouse rankies.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh yeah, that's pretty good stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We have the bar too.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I think we got a bars open. Uh you know,
you get in here. I don't know when we open
up the doors.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
See, this is what I love.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
This is what I love about how like television is
changing and viewership is changing and people can.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Just joy this.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
They can watch on their TVs, they can watch on
their phones their iPads, but you can like have a.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You can have a steakhouse.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You can have a bottle of booze on with you.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
I remember as a kid, you would watch the Dean
Martin roast, you know, and he'd be like, are they
really drinking?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That's whoo. They're edgy, you know, And now you guys
are just getting hammered.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
We don't like to waste any time, Mike. We like
to put it into big gea. Yeah you know that.
Kevin Downey Junior.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I gotta tell you, my man, you on a regular
radio show, and I have been on the show a
handful of times, and I would if you get the opportunity, Mike,
because I think the promotion for each other is very important.
But he's got quite an influence. People from all over
the country were calling you. So your radio is reaching
I don't know one guy from Kentucky and you know
(15:50):
with some other states. Is that from radio? Is it
from studio TSB? What are you getting that front?
Speaker 10 (15:57):
So I'll be honest, Joe. Some of that is from
thirty six years of stand up comedy, because I've been
all over the joint. Some of it is from me
writing at PJ Media, but a lot of it is
from people who watch live from Studio six B.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Did you live out of your car when you were
traveling around the country.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
You know, I I'll tell you this, there was one
point where I didn't have an apartment for eight months.
I just went gig to gig to gig. I may
have slept in a couple of Walmart parking lots because
they have the twenty four hour bathroom. Well, but that
may have happened a few times. But yeah, what it was.
You know what, it was a great eight months. It
was a great eight months. I was just free, nothing
to do but comedyter Saturday night gig and now you've
(16:36):
got you've got to be somewhere else in two days.
And then you get in the car and you turn
on the radio and drive. I didn't miss a moment
of Rush Limbaugh for eight solid months. It was great.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I gotta ask you this, so so as a road
comic to road comic, and I know we've we've traveled
back and forth across the country. What was the place
that surprised you? What were you like, Oh, this gig
is good and suck and then you were like blown
away by how like the response that you got.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
So in the late nineties, there was no internet yet
that I mean that we had to speak of really
maybe so maybe's the mid nineties. I was doing a
gig in Ozark, Alabama, really sports bar, and I was
the stage was a ping pong table. This is gonna
(17:27):
be a hillbilly fest. This is gonna suck. But they
couldn't have been nicer. And it was one of those
gigs where uh well, they bought me so many shots.
I ended up heaving most of them in the in
the little wooded area next to the waffle house. They
are out two am oh right, very prideful.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That's great though.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
It's great when you get those surprises, and I think
that helps probably with with your your your TV show
and your radio show, when you realize that, like, people
are fantastic throughout the country and there's always going to
be the surprise. I remember I started I started my
stand up career in Ohio and one of my first
(18:06):
gigs was in like Lexington, Kentucky, and I'm like, oh boy,
here we go and it crushed like the best, some
of the best people ever. And it's like you just
realize you can't have these preconceived notions because people are
pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Ever Reware.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Absolutely, man, I'm not my model now is either I'm
going to have a great gig or a great story.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
That's awesome, nice, you know, Kevin, the great thing we're
talking about.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Thank you, Michael, before I want to thank you as well.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
So the comedians, they're always hoping, right, I'll land that
TV show, I'll get this now this day and age
and a lot of things to cancel culture. You each
have a medium, right the podcasts have come out and
you're able to have a voice that you've never had before.
Explain that process, how that transition occurs, and how it
empowers your art even more.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Wow, great question, Thank you. I'll tell you this. Let
me give you the back end of that. And I'm
sure Michael has come into this too. Where you get
to a gig and they say, hey, we've got a local, uh,
we've got a YouTube guy. He's gonna he's gonna sell
out the place on the Thursday, and yeah, we'll have
you middle And the YouTube guy can't do time. He
(19:15):
may draw people, but he's got nothing to say, and
he can't follow someone like a comedy veteran like myself
or Michael. They can't follow that. But what we can do. Now,
we can harness, rumble and YouTube if they don't kick
us off. You don't need to move to a New
York City or California to make it anymore. No matter
(19:36):
where you are, if you can build a crowd through
YouTube or what have you, even Twitter, then suddenly that
gives you the power. You can go to the clubs
and say, hey, I'm going to sell seven hundred tickets
over the next four nights and I want this much money.
And then you do it and you make money. But yeah,
the rules of all change. You don't have to move
to a coastal city anymore to make it. Make it
(19:56):
sort of yeah, it is.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
It is truly the wild West, and the rest of
the country is kind of playing catch up to this,
this new reality of like anybody can reach billions of
people through the Internet, and and what Hollywood used to have,
they used to have, Oh we have, we have the
(20:19):
means of distribution. You make your thing, and you make
your show in our studio, will put it out. We
will be the arbiters of what is good and what
is popular. And then we can have Facebook and Twitter,
you know, massage the algorithm and make this unreality seem real.
And that's the exciting thing about you know, life today,
(20:40):
the the the guardrails are off and just good things
can just rise to the surface. And that's that's the
exciting thing really about about Studio TST and all the
stuff that you guys are doing here at the America
First Warehouse. It's it's a fantastically exciting time to be
in show business.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
The absolutely, yes, Kevin, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Joe to box here.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
You will be here on Friday night with us at
Studio six B Live, and you're gonna be here every
Friday night as we continue this process. So I want
people to know that Friday night they can come in
at seven o'clock enjoy the show here at the America
First Warehouse. After the show, they'll be able to shake
(21:27):
hands and talk to you right now. Absolutely, Oh yeah,
it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
This is this is Joe. We've waited a long time
to have a party. I mean, Joe Biden's gone. You
couldn't have a real party with him in office. But
now that Trump is back, We've got Friday nights in
the American First Warehouse. We're gonna bang out the show.
I'm not going anywhere for the next two hours. As
long as that party is going, I'm gonna be here too,
saying hi to people hanging out, maybe even having a
bourbon or two.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Who knows well's I wanted to make sure that you
know that the people are gonna come in. I want
the people to know too. When they come here, they'll
be able to to interact one on one with these
great comedians and with these people that have gotten their
butts kicked for the whole last four or five So
did I. By the way, keV, so because you supported
MAGA was the reason why they shut you down a lot? Right?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Do you find that still around a lot of it?
Speaker 10 (22:18):
So that's a great question too, Thanks Joe. I'll be honest,
I lost a ton of money coming out coming out
loud and proud for Trump back in twenty sixteen. People
just stop booking.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Me and.
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Well, all right. So I may or may not have
allegedly been in Washington, DC on January sixth. I someone
offered me a gig is here it's John Decker's birthday,
he's that White House correspondent for ABC. Do you want
the gig? And I was like, you better google me,
you better google me, And they're like, oh, geez, yeah,
(22:54):
you can't have this gig. So I lost a ton
of money. But I'll tell you, Joe, this is turning around,
especially in places that aren't full of commy pinko stains.
All Right, these these roadhouse gigs that I do in
the Midwest, those are great. I just did two fundraisers
for firehouses in Pennsylvania. Great cause we get paid for that.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
So I'm going to where the people who want to
see me are. I'm dodging, like, I'm not gonna go
back to I don't know, let's say, uh, let's say Chicago,
someplace where they don't really like me. I'm just avoiding
those venues and those markets, and I'm sticking to where
the people. And keep in mind, Trump one bigger than
people think. It's almost everywhere you go now that isn't
(23:41):
New York City, LA, or maybe Seattle, You're gonna find
real Americans who want to who want to laugh, and
they're not gonna be uptight. I think you just offended me.
Take it back.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
We have a few seconds left, Kevin. I can't wait
to see it tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Where can people reach you at your website and get
us out of here for the commercial.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
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Speaker 5 (24:12):
B sach keV, Welcome back to the America First Warehouse
Tune in Tuesdays. We have an awesome panel here today
and we're going to bring you a segment for this
portion on education. What's going on with Trump's executive orders.
He had six of them passed this week, bringing up
to his one hundred day mark, and some of those
we're going to talk about.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
We're going to bring up on the screen as at
number five. If you don't mind, We're.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Going to talk about Trump's executive orders, six of them signed.
Number one universities reporting foreign aid. We had Trump come
down hard on Harvard, and we just understand that they
have renamed their DEI department Community and Campus Life. Now
will that stop them by changing the name? Well, two
billion is on the line.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
So let's hope. So second up is accreditation, no more DEI.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
So when a school is up for accreditation and they're
being evaluated, they have to make sure that those components
have been removed from the accreditation process number three HBC
used the historically black universities and colleges.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Trump comes through again on his second.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Term, being sure to create a commission within the White
House to assist them for greater reach than we have
AI and education putting America first again by making sure
that students are prepared on the global level for what
is coming at us in artificial intelligence. And then we
have disparate theory discipline that making sure that that gets
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removed in the way that teachers can now discipline in
the classroom.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Fabulous.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
And last, but not least, missing from this chart so
we could take it down, is the accredit of the
bringing back apprenticeships. He's making a new focus on trade schools.
We need them back and we need our students to
begin to learn trades. We're super psyched about that. So
bringing us further into what's going on in education, we
hear Huckle she's crying about how the state New York
(26:01):
right here is having issues with the budget. However, hard
and the legislators have finally seemed to come to some
agreement on this two hundred and fifty billion dollar budget,
crying that the state has robbed them of so much
fun of the federal government has robbed them with so
much funds. If she would just comply with dy and
stopped trying to shove it down our students' throats and
in on departments of health, then perhaps we can have
(26:23):
a better budget. But going into the school system and
talking about all of these great changes. We have an
amazing guest on today. He's also been a co host
panel here. It's Mike Simonelli, retired Army officer, retired Suffolk
County Officer, and the author of Justified Deadly Force.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Mike, thank you for joining.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
Hello Lisa America first Warehouse team. Great to see you guys.
Thanks for having me. It's great to be retired twice.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
It's wonderful to have you on.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Mike.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
You do amazing work.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
I want to say thank you again for serving our country,
serving our community, and now you're putting your foot in
the ring to serve all local school boards. You're running
for a school board recent Smithtown.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Is that correct?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
It sure is.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I'm running alongside Karon Richardi and alcafora We are the
conservative choice for Smithtown.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
It's wonderful, Mike.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You just heard me reel out the six executive orders.
What are your thoughts on those implementations.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Oh, it is great to see what President Trump is
doing one executive order after another. We're talking specifically about
disparate impact. We know, Okay, Kathy Hoko's crying now, but
Cuomo and the Democrats weren't crying back when Obama had
threatened to withhold federal funding if schools didn't start using
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their disciplinary policies in a desperately impacting way, saying that
they can only do it according to like racial quotas.
So rather than going according to how students are misbehaving,
making their fellow students threatened for their lives, their safety,
they didn't want schools enforcing discipline on certain races above
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their percent of the population. And what they found, a
study showed that schools were burying these incidents. So once
Trump was elected in his first term, he got rid
of this disparate impact, and then in twenty twenty three
Bien brought it back. So now we're going full circle
to where it should be, which is just like American values,
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based on your actions, not your race, not your gender,
what you do and be held responsible and not punish
everybody else either by neglecting to do your responsibility as
a school and keep those children safe, or feeling that
you're worried about hurting people's feelings. Because his numbers are statistics,
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you are.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Right on target.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I will say this.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Let me share this brief story with our audience as well.
When I was an educator in a local school district
here in.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Suffolk, had a student who thought it would be funny
to be consistently lafer klass. So I made sure I
like that door wants that bell rang, and he had
to be respectful about the time frame. So afterwards had
to go down, you know, speak to the social worker
because he had to go and get a pass to.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Come to class. Oh, you can't do that. Yeah, I
can't do that to him. Can't l lock out of
the classroom or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
So I said, well, what's the issue?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
You know? Oh, he's you know, of a certain race
and color, and that's really mistreatment and so forth and
so on.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
So I said, okay, no problem. I called his house.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I said, well, if I can't keep him out that,
I'm going to talk to the mom or the dad
or whomever may be there, the guardian, And sure enough
he comes into school the next day and he says, oh,
missus A. He said, I never expected you to call
my house. I promise I'll never be laid again. I said, oh, really, him,
what's this change? He goes, my mom's in the military.
He said, I can't make mistakes like that. I said,
(29:52):
oh really, and I thought to myself, Wow. The social
worker said that he probably has this home.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Life that to teach him how to be on time.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That is literally what the social work of his telling
the teachers that we have to understand that these children
come from these exactly this disparate theory type of thing. Meanwhile,
once his mother found out she was strict, there was
no disparacy that this woman had rules and it worked
out great. So to your point, you are exactly one
hundred percent right. Meritocracy is what Linda McMahon used while
(30:25):
Trump was signing those executive orders, and can you speak
further to what is happening exactly that made you want
to run?
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Well, having served spent my life protecting the country the county,
I saw firsthand with you.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
We go back to twenty twenty full disclosure.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Shattlefield is really in the classrooms for our children's minds
and President Trump knows that the greatest threat to our
country isn't being invaded by Russian and Chinese forces, it's
the being attacked from within by woke radicals using our
freedoms to spread more and socialism. And in our schools,
they're doing this under the trojan horses of dei zrt Sel,
(31:10):
where children are taught to see themselves as victims or
presses based on their race, and now in the ever
arranging emerging the ray of genders and sexualities. So it's
great seeing President Trump at his executive orders with the accreditation,
making those accreditors base the program and the university on
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what they're teaching on, fact on science, on how it's
going to add value to them to get a real
job versus I think twenty five percent of those graduating
with bachelors can't find a job that's going to pay
to make up for their student loans, and I think
forty percent for masters. But here, and you wouldn't think
you'd find this kind of stuff in Smithtown, which is
(31:53):
a very conservative Republican stronghold.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Because there was a Newsday article I thought we will
wipe privilege smith Town?
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Was that wrong? I thought there was okay, just saying
go ahead, hold on.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Here's here's I'm jumping in here because it's driving me crazy.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
So when is the election? What we gotta we gotta
make sure we get you elected. Bro, What when's the
big day?
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Big day is May twenty, day twentieth.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Everybody mark it down, tackle it on your calendar, call
your friends, because this is one hundred and ten percent correct.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Before can you throw up that flyer from Mike real fast?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Want to get it up to just in case, let
everybody know who his compadres are here. Yup, we have
Richardi cafora seminar.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
They always do it.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
They have these elections on the craziest days and everybody's like,
oh that happened.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I didn't even know.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
They think it's gonna be in November with everything else,
and it's oh this it's traditionally it's on May thirty,
May twenty.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
If everybody get up vote landslide.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
We got to take our schools back, Mike, Mike, jodaph
Box here.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I live in Smithtown. I saw your signs on side
of the road. I would love you to put the
biggest sign you got at my address.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You know where I am at.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
They come around the corner, they'll see my flags, they'll
see your sign. Now, what I did noticed, Mike, is
that you and you had said earlier that you are
on the conservative platform. Why are you not a Republican candidate.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Well, we're saying we're the Conservative choice. I am a Republican,
but we're running to take the politics out of schools.
There should be no activism in our schools. But unfortunately,
what we've seen, because this the election is not during
a typical November time, the parties do not get involved.
Republican Party, the Conservative Party. However, the strong the strongest arm,
(33:54):
the enforces of the Democrat Party, the teachers Union, they
are out in full force for school boarders. And what
we see is they are running the show and typically
their candidates get elected. So I am naturally what I
believe in America. First, secure borders, no DEI, no radical
(34:14):
transgender meritocracy. Those things shouldn't be political. That should be
in our schools. Yes, academics first and always right.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
And Mike, we know right that the LGBT Network also
through their hat in the ring, saying they were going
to enforce a bunch of candidates back a bunch of candidates,
Uh to you know, quiet down any people who were
against this you know movement. However, the head of that
network himself has a very shady past. I understand that uh,
(34:42):
millions of dollars in state contracts were removed from Kilmnick
due to some unability or inability to properly process his
budget and so forth and so on improve where he
was spending the money. Uh, there is a lot of
concern about a comment he had made at a school
board meeting last year or so that the words mom
(35:02):
and dad should be removed.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
From educational ameinas. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
So, I you know, there is a lot of fear
too that this man uses you know, children and students
to his benefit, pushing GSA clubs and want not more
for his own interests in expanding his reach and his power.
Speaker 9 (35:27):
When you're referred to was twenty twenty three comps a quak.
He said that the mom and dad, those those words
shouldn't be used, which is similar to the National Coming
Out Day pledge that he had put in schools including Smithtown,
where kids would go on a QR code and then
agree to you know, not use hetero statements like boyfriend, girlfriend, husband,
(35:51):
wife and use day in hype of words.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Instead amazing, amazing.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I believe the children are off you.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
We gotta get you elected, buddy, May twentieth. That's the
day that's right around the corner. People need to get
fired up. Get a bee in your bonnet, put a
burr in your saddle.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Right, we'll be right back. Thanks Mikey, thank you.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
We're Chardie Cuffour.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We are back here at the America First Warehouse on
the American First podcast.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Rather redundant. I want the message to be clear.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
It's only American five, it's only Earth, it's only America First. Hey,
we got some unbelievable things happening here at the warehouse
starting tonight. I think the doors open at seven o'clock.
The bar opens at six thirty. As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
We got Frank Steakhouse outside. I'm pretty sure we got
that going on.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
And we have Mike Loftus here, my buddy coming in
with a bunch of his great patriot Yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
They have to be.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
If you're not a patriot, don't bother coming in. All right,
So I guess I'll killed. Is that more than half
the country? I don't think so. It's less than twenty percent.
They lie it to us all the time, all the time.
This weekend doesn't end. This Key's going on Friday night
sly from Studio six B with a live audience here
at the Warehouse. We expect to have about one hundred
(37:13):
to two hundred people, very similar to tonight, Mike.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
We're rocking and rolling.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
People got to come in and see what a great
voice and a great message we have for you. Culture
comes true here at the America First ware House. Then
we're gonna end it on Sunday with a little car show.
I think I'm gonna have to start up my Corvette
nineteen eighty black nineteen eighty Corvette America first true spoke
Rims with the Meriti tops. You might remember that that
(37:39):
was me back in nineteen eighty four. I got it
back again. I'm back again, back to the future with it.
And Johnny Boy go to him over there. Tell me
about your car, Johnny, seventy.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Nine Corvette, same color and they had when I was younger.
So it's an honor and blessed that we got those
beer boys, you know. And also Nelson Medina with his
signature work on it to America first Castro on Sundays at.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
The same it's at Saint Patrick's in Smidtown. And you
know what, Mikey, I'd like to hang your sign over
my car saying to vote for you on May twentieth.
That's a great opportunity for us, and I love the
way Mike Loft has brought it to the table.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
We gotta get this man elected.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
We gotta stop the insanity and get back to some reality,
like our great president is doing all right. I think
we got the events. If I missed anything, go online
and check it out tonight. It's more important than anything, right, Michael.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
It's just gonna be fun, right, Just let's have a laugh.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
It's gonna be comic after comic after comic, uh, and
it's all gonna be just a wonderful evening of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
You'll have a great time. You'll laugh, you'll cry.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
From laughing from laughing.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah, you might even pee a little.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
We won't tell anyone, right, Yeah, you get your pp pair.
I want to tell you this though.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
From the Joe Biden Traditional Library.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
The Empty Suit, I will tell you this.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
We have a lot of great things happening, and the
reason why we're so excited is because Donald Trump is
celebrating one hundred days today.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Is it today or tomorrow's one?
Speaker 6 (39:15):
I believe it's tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
He can't get a lot done in twenty for hours.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
That's right. He has a rally in Michigan tonight, So
if anyone wants to watch that, I believe Rap will
be hosting that tonight.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, you can watch it on Real America Voice because
America First Ware else is powered up by Real American Voice. Unfortunately,
you cannot watch that show Tonight's comedy Tonight, Mike.
Speaker 10 (39:33):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You cannot?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Well you can't. You can come here and watch it live?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, you come here? Can you watch it live?
Speaker 7 (39:41):
And then you go to Studio TST dot com and
you can you can watch it there. Or maybe you
want to watch a feature film, Maybe you want to
watch a music special. Maybe you want to see episodes
of that show tonight and go what this is way
better than Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
We got it all at Studio TST.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
The powerhouse of Mike Loft is what he brings to
the table. And tonight you're gonna, I mean, you're gonna
be laughing so hard. I think we should get some
pp pads, they might be left from the pandemic. I
think we had a couple of them left over over
there one hundred days. Anybody got a comment, what's their
favorite hundred day thing? Mine's the border of its closed.
Thank you, President Trump. And Tom Holman behind me.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Did you see his press conference yesterday morning with Caroline
Levett live at the press room? Was amazing and then
someone asked him why is he so passionate about this?
And really you have to watch him talk about how
he was in law enforcement for his entire career, and
how closing this border and what it meant to stopping
the fentanyl, to stopping the trafficking of human beings. They're
(40:44):
rape trees with children's and women's underwear. To hear the
truth that the cabinet members and everyone working with this
administration giving the truth about what happened to people that
came across this border that no corporate media will ever
talk about. And really that's where the sin of it
all is that we've kept the truth from the people
and now they know it for themselves.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
That is one hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
I saw Tom Holman's reaction regarding the women and the
abuse that occurs on the trail, and I'll call it.
I said it before and i'll call it again, the
modern day Trail of tears is really what's happening. This
is a forced migration. It's orchestrated, and we see so
much hypocrisy about it. The Catholic charities had contributed to
it greatly. It was receiving money usaid. So you'll have
(41:28):
the liberals US need to move people around tents, and
you'll see the liberals saying how much they hate you know,
Krisiani Ona religion, who did this?
Speaker 8 (41:35):
Oh, it's judgmental Catholicism.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
As this, But they were okay with Catholic charities bringing across,
you know, families or children on accompanied miners. Which was
another thing that they found in DOGE was there was
eleven paid for legal organizations, nonprofits that were hired just
to represent the twenty six thousand unaccompanied miners that came
(41:58):
in across the border. This is horrendous to all the
twenty six thousand children were separated from their parents and
their homeland and brought here and even though they should
be represented, that's understandable, but let's take that money and
try to re connect these children with their families.
Speaker 8 (42:15):
It's insane.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
Okay, So I'm jumping in real quick. Tommy Holman has
been a powerhouse. That guy's moving with purpose. Donald Trump
is moving with purpose. Elon Musk, here's the surprise, frickin.
How great has Marco Rubio been? That guy came off
the bench like Babe Ruth. So here's what has to happen.
Speaker 10 (42:36):
Now.
Speaker 7 (42:36):
The GOP needs to step up, Like these executive orders
are great, but the GOP we need to turn this
stuff into law. It should be working like a conveyor belt.
Don't forget everybody. This is what drives me crazy. They
were ready to throw Trump in jail. They were throwing
Maga people in jail like they were arresting them and
(42:59):
throwing they were the j sixers.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
We have to move with purpose. It's the GOP.
Speaker 7 (43:05):
Now, we got to get this stuff passed into law
because you don't get a lot of chances like this.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Our country was going down the toilet. We have a
little bit of a respite.
Speaker 10 (43:16):
We have it.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
We okay, we can catch our brother. What is the problem.
We have the house. We have Nancy Pelothi, Nanty Pelothi.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
We'd have a majority of just one person and they
changed fricking healthcare forever. So we need to get in
there and twist some arms. Let people know how pissed
off we still are. We're not relaxing. I got my
foot on the gas. Baby, let's go, Mike, have an idea.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
If it wasn't for President Donald Trump, one hundred days
of lives that he saved. Yes, I didn't even have
account for that with Defend and all. I think it
was over seventy thousand of the year that died from it.
So these families that aren't going to have to go
through that pain. Thank God for Donald Trump and what
he's done with the border, and forget about everything else,
which doesn't even shadow that.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
But he's an amazing guy.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Makes me upset to listen to Fox News and here
Brett yumsaid, he did a great job on a boarder,
but other things are they're worried about, you know, because
there's so many questions and not sure I know one.
They were in the best hands we've ever been in
this country. Thank go up with Donald Trump. Thank you
Jesus for Donald Try.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Well, bit media will always want to phrase the narrative
so that we always have a little bit of hesitation.
We can't be one hundred percent in well America. First,
we're one hundred percent in and we understand that there's
gonna be a little bit of pain, short, short lived.
But once we get over these hurdles, these tariff wars
and everything else that's going on, we're gonna be great.
Speaker 10 (44:31):
But you know what that is.
Speaker 7 (44:32):
It's like going to the gym, right, you know, like, oh,
I'm a little sore, but now that's how your muscles
are gonna grow.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
I think America is into it.
Speaker 7 (44:42):
It's like, yeah, it's gonna be a little tough, but
boy man, we're making better cars here in America. We're
making this during during the frickin' lockdown. I remember when
we couldn't even get like penicillins in this country.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
That's what you're done for. You're a joke of a
nation if you can't do basic meta. We don't need
to manufacture steel in America.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
What do he needs steel for?
Speaker 6 (45:04):
How we're doctors not talking about the shortage of medicine
even we're at the peak of it. If India and
China holds back the raw material, right.
Speaker 8 (45:13):
We can't make it.
Speaker 7 (45:14):
Penicillinar give you a penicillin, but if you need puberty blockers,
we're putting those in the horse juice.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
They got millions of those.
Speaker 5 (45:22):
Those are things exactly came out of congressional hearing during
this pandemic. But also back to your point about getting
these things into law, that's one of those things. We
need to make sure that the medicine and the priorities
that we need in our country are made into law.
We're at the hundred day mark. Trump has only five
laws passed, whereas I think Biden had eleven already at
this point, and in his first term, I think he
(45:44):
heard about twenty three. Trump byde they were minor, minor,
and we need to get the ball rolling in movie.
Come on, Mike Johnson, step up.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
I don't know what's going on with the Republican Party,
but I got to tell you I had worked my
butt off and I went and got signify to be
a committee man in the town of Smithtown.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Maybe we'll bring Mike back in. I talked him about that.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I was rejected to even run though you didn't even
get a chance to be.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
On the ballot. I'm not really sure where I went,
but I was rejected. I'm like me.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
I haven't got rejected since my wife on our first day,
so it's very hard for me to take this okay,
But I am okay with it because I'm gonna let
everybody know that Mike Simonelli and the board of we
want from our education because you know they don't want me.
Because the first thing I would probably do is cancel
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the library, close it down. I would close the library down,
take that thirty six million dollars, and I would put
it back to the people that can't afford to wash
the side of the house. The mill dwarf is very
upsetting to watch what's happening. And even in the town
of Smithtown, they want to buy big. I want to
build apartment complex for affordable housing. How about a single
family home? That's what I would like to bring to
(46:57):
the table.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yeah, well, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
Even New York City you can see the city of Yes,
you can see it. In Westchester County. This is what
rob Astorino in the County of Westchester fought against. It's
being able to build all of these multi apartment facilities
where we do have single family homes.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
Now, oh yeah, we see that happening right now.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Huge crisis in Huntington that looking to build three thousand
more apartment sees are unaffordable. We had fifteen hundred in
run Konkama as well. And it's all about you will
own nothing and be happy.
Speaker 8 (47:24):
It's antan thank all right.
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We love this country. Thank you, Donald Trump. First hundred
days the greatest time of my life.
I'm John the Blanket, and I'm Steph Lege.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Morley Safer.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'm Lisa, and I'm Jonah Box.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Here at the America First Warehouse, the most patriotic venue
in all the land, and I will wrestle anybody that
tells me otherwise. We have so many great, great things
coming up with the America First movement. That's where I
feel like we belong. We have a super duper day today.
You know why, panel what it's the first hundred days
(00:35):
of our great President Donald Trump. And if you could
go back to that shot over there, because I'm gonna
show the world how we that's a good shot too.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I found this in the warehouse. Do you believe it?
Does this make us communist? Or does this make us
America First? Any comments on that down the line?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
This is and we are in the best venue for
this one hundred des the America First Warehouse, Joe the
Box bringing it to you live. We have all you
want for the America First platform.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And our president, what he's accomplished in one hundred days
is mind blowing. Two press conferences, the day is everything transparent.
I think I have cash Fortel whispering in my ears.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Over here. It's a great day to be an American.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Just he can't be whispering in your ear. He's busy
doing investigations that everyone is so ready for arrests and whatnot.
But we also have our cabinet, our beautiful cabinet of
this administration, having press conferences every morning bringing us live
updates what's going on in the country for real, not
fake news, real news.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I would like to introduce in the middle over here
a good, great friend of mine. His name is Michael
Loftus and you might see him on the Greg Guttfeld show.
I had happened to went to the same Army Navy
shurtplus store that he did this morning to get so
we could have matchup jackets. Michael is a fantastic patriot.
I've known him for many years. After Trump was first
(02:04):
got involved, Michael came into my life and.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We created cultural change. And this is what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
We're changing the culture, and Mike's gonna get more into it.
But we do that show tonight at the America First
Warehouse with all of our viewers and followers are very
familiar with, and tonight Michae will be performing with the
cast of characters and patriotic. Well, I guess they can
go on either side, but you won't do well if
he s thoughts smashing America.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know, America First. I'm pretty sure about that.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Michael Loft is my friend. Welcome to the show. How
you're doing, where'd you come from? Where you're going?
Speaker 7 (02:42):
It's great to be here. I love I love coming
down to the America First warehouse. Uh, it's it's all.
It's live events, it's a studio. We're creating all kinds
of content. Who and who couldn't love the red, white
and blue aspect of it all. It's fantastic. I was
just in Los Angeles doing shows, then in the city
(03:06):
last night was had a great time on the on
the Greg Guttfeld Show. And then tonight we're gonna be
doing It's a it's a comedy showcase. Some of the
funniest people on the East Coast will be right here
on this stage and just cracking wise. It's just woke, free,
good old school comedy, right remember when funny?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, not any but it's not an open mic night
for the love of God.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But to see his show though, we want to see
what's saying.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Oh yeah, I think we do have a few tickets left,
and it's gonna be We're gonna tape this and it
will be at Studio TST, which is Netflix for people
who love America.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Mike, I, I I have a.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Lot of insight scoop to what's going on, and I
uh understand what you want are trying to do. I
love for you to explain to the audience what is
Studio TA. How did that bounce off of your original platform?
Was really a sketch comedy like Saturda Night Live. But
funny if you recall.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Well the the two minute version of this is that
it was right in the beginning of the scandemic and
the lockdowns and everything. And I'd been approached because I
have a history of writing for TV shows in Hollywood
and movies and blah blah. So a group wanted to
do like a right leaning version of Saturday Night Live
(04:30):
sketch comedy. And so I'm like, here's some of the
hurdles that you're gonna have to get over, and it's
it's a giant it's a mountain of bs that you
have to cut through, and it's it's not an easy task.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
However, I met you Joe and you had.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
This wonderful studio facility, and I'm like, you know what,
we could try it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We could try it.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
So we put together a show and then we knew
it's not gonna be on Netflix, it's not gonna be
on Amazon. And at the time, remember what was that
platform it got unplugged. It was the social media.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
App Parlor Parlor.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
So Parlor had just been unplugged. So I'm like, okay,
so we have to buy our own computer servers. We
have to be able to stream this ourselves. We have
to be completely independent.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So we did all that.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
We did the shows here, Jim Brewer was on stage,
the crowd people just absolutely loved it. So I'm like, okay, well,
let's keep going. We'll keep doing more episodes of that
show tonight. And then it occurred to me because.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I'm a little slow.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I'm a little slow sometimes, but I'm like, we have
our own servers, we have our own platform, we have
our own website.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We should make this way bigger.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Because I was watching my friends, my friends in Hollywood
who couldn't get jobs anymore because they weren't DEI I
was watching the way movies were going. I was watching
what Disney was doing, what Netflix was doing, and I'm
like this, DEI, this woke agenda.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Is every where and it's not gonna go away. And
I know Trump was like, oh, you got to.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Close your dee. They're still doing it. They're just gonna
be less bald faced liars about it. They're going to
hide it a little better. So we started Studio TST.
Studio TST has that show tonight. We do events in Nashville.
We did a live streaming event with John Rich and
(06:25):
Cat Turd. We did Turdstock, which was just some of
the greatest talent in Las Vegas or Las Vegas in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And so now we're doing more stand up shows.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
We've got original movies, we've got short films, We're adding documentaries,
We've got stand ups from like before it was woke,
Ray Romano, Drew Carry, It's the best of the best.
So we're adding content to the platform all the time,
and we're just I just want to thank everybody for
(06:57):
their support, everybody for subscribing. You can sit around and
you complain about, Oh, I can't believe Disney did this,
I can't believe Warner Brothers did that. You can do
that from a sidelines, or you can jump in and
help us out and subscribe and support and tell your friends.
And that's how you make a real difference in the culture.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
You Know, what I think is most fascinating is how
the comedians have uprised and enlightened off voices.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
And I want to say thank you for that, Michael,
because it was necessary.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Everyone relies on comedians to kind of just lay back
and relax and enjoy ourselves and have this type of
entertainment that helps us to reflect on our own personal
faults sometimes, and it's wonderful. When the comedic community was
attacked under woke law, as we shall call it, it
really showed us a different side of what was happening.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
And I think it took the veil off of the truth,
and the.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Comedians came out in unity and expressed it in such
a beautiful, artistic manner.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Freedom of expression. Thank you, that's true.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
And I think Jerry sim Seinfeld was the first to
stop going to college campuses. He said, I can't do
my material and not ah and not get hackled on campus.
So he stopped at one point.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Correct it trickles up like I stopped doing colleges. You guys,
this has been building for a while. This didn't just
start a couple years ago. I stopped doing colleges in
two thousand and four because, yeah, people were I had
this kid who wrote a letters like I can't believe
(08:33):
that comedian would do that German accent and imply that
Germans were Nazis.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm like, dude, did you not There was a lunch lady.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
There was this German lunch lady and one of the
things like you get paid for doing the show at
the college, and then they also go, oh and we'll
give you lunch.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So they give you this little ticket. So after so
before the show, I'm going.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Through the lunch line to get like a little Danish
and a cup of coffee, and this lunch lady's like,
you must have your ticket, and I'm like, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The German lady going ticket, please ticket.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
So this guy wrote a letter of complaint is saying, oh,
the comedian was implying that all German people were Nazis,
and as a descendant of like.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Holy crap, this is not worth it.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
So yeah, it's been it's been building up for a
long time, and uh, for the longest time, there was
only a handful of comedians who had the cajones, you know,
to to criticize other administrations and and talk about what
was really going on.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And that was it was a it was a lonely
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I'll tell you what though.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Thank God for like a Charlie Kirk who goes right
into the Bellied Beast on a daily basis and you
could watch him. Yeah, real America voice as well. But yeah,
that was a closed up for any kind of right
information comedy or anything into the colleges. And now they
now they're not get any money anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Right, Well, the wonderful thing that happened because like I
was on the very first season of Red Eye, and
and people like Trump, just Trump and his courage and
for going on and facing all the adversity that he's faced,
Elon Musk for buying Twitter and going forward, and guys
like Greg Guttfeld make a huge difference because if you
(10:17):
lean to the right, you're just not allowed to participate
in Hollywood. You're just not They won't hire you, you
can't move forward. And that way they can have the
they used to have this illusion like oh, people on
the right aren't funny. If you lean to the right,
you just aren't funny. You're just not talented. And that's
why you're not in Hollywood. And that's what the great
thing about Gutfeld is, like, Okay, give Gutfeld a show.
(10:41):
Let America decide. And that's why he's got the number one,
you know program on late night. It's so thrilling to watch.
And so that's what we want to do with Studio
TSD is provide more entertainment for everybody who's like I
just want to laugh, I just want to be entertained.
I just want to listen to good music. Studio t ST.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I happen to be a member of Studio TST. What
yes I am? We accepted you? I was accepted.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I gotta look at our vetting prost.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I don't know how. I think it was did I
have a credit card? It was just did I have
a credit card? That's all I needed. And I and
you know, my wife is also a member. And I
found this out.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We got two subscriptions going on. He said, aren't we
watching the same channel?
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Hone?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
You and I.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's hilarious, But Mike Loft is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He's bringing Culture's bringing cultural trains change right here at
the America First Warehouse.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Come tonight at seven o'clock. We got a few seats left.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I'm sure we're gonna squeeze you in for a night
of incredible comedy. Mike Loftus will be here with Michelle Fox,
who was some of my other buddies.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Oh, Kevin Downey Junior is gonna be on the show.
He's a funny character.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We're gonna be back in five seconds.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We're coming back to Kevin down You're gonna be joining
us at the America First.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Welcome back to the America First Podcast. My goodness, what
a morning, What a day? I was told five four
three two one. That's what I heard, my friend.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
God bless you.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
You know what I hear the control room. I go,
I'm like a I'm like a mouse. We've got a
guest joining us. He's gonna be on the stage here later.
You can hear him on on the radio. You can
see him on live from Studio six B, and you'll
see him right here on stage, cracking wise with the
very best one, Kevin Downey Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
How's it going, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Bud, Hey buddy, how you guys doing Thanks for having
me on cracking wise, that's good. That's good. Right, I'll
be doing my little skits.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Do you hate that when people come up to you
as a comedian and they're like, oh, here's when you
can use in your little skit. Oh you just you
just want to punch him, but I understand that's against
the law.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Yeah, and it's usually the most racist thing you've ever heard.
Heard this from my granddaddy. You can use it if
you want to. He used to be it. He used
to be an exalted cyclops.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I remember when oh, who is the guy that Biden
loved the KKK guy?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:16):
That was Robert bird Bird from West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
I remember when when Facebook there was a meme going
around uh and it was uh freakin Joe Biden holding
up Bird's hand and they go, oh, yeah, yeah, bird
Bird was the exalted Uh he was a grand dragon
in the kk He was a grand dragon. And Facebook
would go, oh, that's fake news, that's false. And yeah,
(13:39):
he wasn't a grand dragon. He was an exalted cyclops.
That's what That's what their problem was.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's not that he was in the KKK. You got
his title wrong.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
I love that fact checking. This is completely false.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Right. He wasn't a grand dragon. You get out of here.
He was a exalted cyclops. We're not gonna let you
Sully the name of Robert Byrd. So you had a
great show last night.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
We were we were coming in from the city and uh,
in the spirit of self destruction, we were watching your
show in the car on the way out here.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
To the America First Warehouse. How long? How long have
you been doing the Studio six B show?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It was awesome, you know what.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
I was always just sort of a fill in guy
for a while, and then now I'm just on every
Friday live at the America First Warehouse in front of people.
And then we've got the steak truck outside.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, baby, that's steakhouse rankies.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh yeah, that's pretty good stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We have the bar too.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I think we got a bars open. Uh you know,
you get in here. I don't know when we open
up the doors.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
See, this is what I love.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
This is what I love about how like television is
changing and viewership is changing and people can.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Just joy this.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
They can watch on their TVs, they can watch on
their phones their iPads, but you can like have a.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You can have a steakhouse.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You can have a bottle of booze on with you.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
I remember as a kid, you would watch the Dean
Martin roast, you know, and he'd be like, are they
really drinking?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That's whoo. They're edgy, you know, And now you guys
are just getting hammered.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
We don't like to waste any time, Mike. We like
to put it into big gea. Yeah you know that.
Kevin Downey Junior.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I gotta tell you, my man, you on a regular
radio show, and I have been on the show a
handful of times, and I would if you get the opportunity, Mike,
because I think the promotion for each other is very important.
But he's got quite an influence. People from all over
the country were calling you. So your radio is reaching
I don't know one guy from Kentucky and you know
(15:50):
with some other states. Is that from radio? Is it
from studio TSB? What are you getting that front?
Speaker 10 (15:57):
So I'll be honest, Joe. Some of that is from
thirty six years of stand up comedy, because I've been
all over the joint. Some of it is from me
writing at PJ Media, but a lot of it is
from people who watch live from Studio six B.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Did you live out of your car when you were
traveling around the country.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
You know, I I'll tell you this, there was one
point where I didn't have an apartment for eight months.
I just went gig to gig to gig. I may
have slept in a couple of Walmart parking lots because
they have the twenty four hour bathroom. Well, but that
may have happened a few times. But yeah, what it was.
You know what, it was a great eight months. It
was a great eight months. I was just free, nothing
to do but comedyter Saturday night gig and now you've
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got you've got to be somewhere else in two days.
And then you get in the car and you turn
on the radio and drive. I didn't miss a moment
of Rush Limbaugh for eight solid months. It was great.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I gotta ask you this, so so as a road
comic to road comic, and I know we've we've traveled
back and forth across the country. What was the place
that surprised you? What were you like, Oh, this gig
is good and suck and then you were like blown
away by how like the response that you got.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
So in the late nineties, there was no internet yet
that I mean that we had to speak of really
maybe so maybe's the mid nineties. I was doing a
gig in Ozark, Alabama, really sports bar, and I was
the stage was a ping pong table. This is gonna
(17:27):
be a hillbilly fest. This is gonna suck. But they
couldn't have been nicer. And it was one of those
gigs where uh well, they bought me so many shots.
I ended up heaving most of them in the in
the little wooded area next to the waffle house. They
are out two am oh right, very prideful.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That's great though.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
It's great when you get those surprises, and I think
that helps probably with with your your your TV show
and your radio show, when you realize that, like, people
are fantastic throughout the country and there's always going to
be the surprise. I remember I started I started my
stand up career in Ohio and one of my first
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gigs was in like Lexington, Kentucky, and I'm like, oh boy,
here we go and it crushed like the best, some
of the best people ever. And it's like you just
realize you can't have these preconceived notions because people are
pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Ever Reware.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Absolutely, man, I'm not my model now is either I'm
going to have a great gig or a great story.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
That's awesome, nice, you know, Kevin, the great thing we're
talking about.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Thank you, Michael, before I want to thank you as well.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
So the comedians, they're always hoping, right, I'll land that
TV show, I'll get this now this day and age
and a lot of things to cancel culture. You each
have a medium, right the podcasts have come out and
you're able to have a voice that you've never had before.
Explain that process, how that transition occurs, and how it
empowers your art even more.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Wow, great question, Thank you. I'll tell you this. Let
me give you the back end of that. And I'm
sure Michael has come into this too. Where you get
to a gig and they say, hey, we've got a local, uh,
we've got a YouTube guy. He's gonna he's gonna sell
out the place on the Thursday, and yeah, we'll have
you middle And the YouTube guy can't do time. He
(19:15):
may draw people, but he's got nothing to say, and
he can't follow someone like a comedy veteran like myself
or Michael. They can't follow that. But what we can do. Now,
we can harness, rumble and YouTube if they don't kick
us off. You don't need to move to a New
York City or California to make it anymore. No matter
(19:36):
where you are, if you can build a crowd through
YouTube or what have you, even Twitter, then suddenly that
gives you the power. You can go to the clubs
and say, hey, I'm going to sell seven hundred tickets
over the next four nights and I want this much money.
And then you do it and you make money. But yeah,
the rules of all change. You don't have to move
to a coastal city anymore to make it. Make it
(19:56):
sort of yeah, it is.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
It is truly the wild West, and the rest of
the country is kind of playing catch up to this,
this new reality of like anybody can reach billions of
people through the Internet, and and what Hollywood used to have,
they used to have, Oh we have, we have the
(20:19):
means of distribution. You make your thing, and you make
your show in our studio, will put it out. We
will be the arbiters of what is good and what
is popular. And then we can have Facebook and Twitter,
you know, massage the algorithm and make this unreality seem real.
And that's the exciting thing about you know, life today,
(20:40):
the the the guardrails are off and just good things
can just rise to the surface. And that's that's the
exciting thing really about about Studio TST and all the
stuff that you guys are doing here at the America
First Warehouse. It's it's a fantastically exciting time to be
in show business.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
The absolutely, yes, Kevin, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Joe to box here.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
You will be here on Friday night with us at
Studio six B Live, and you're gonna be here every
Friday night as we continue this process. So I want
people to know that Friday night they can come in
at seven o'clock enjoy the show here at the America
First Warehouse. After the show, they'll be able to shake
(21:27):
hands and talk to you right now. Absolutely, Oh yeah,
it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
This is this is Joe. We've waited a long time
to have a party. I mean, Joe Biden's gone. You
couldn't have a real party with him in office. But
now that Trump is back, We've got Friday nights in
the American First Warehouse. We're gonna bang out the show.
I'm not going anywhere for the next two hours. As
long as that party is going, I'm gonna be here too,
saying hi to people hanging out, maybe even having a
bourbon or two.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Who knows well's I wanted to make sure that you
know that the people are gonna come in. I want
the people to know too. When they come here, they'll
be able to to interact one on one with these
great comedians and with these people that have gotten their
butts kicked for the whole last four or five So
did I. By the way, keV, so because you supported
MAGA was the reason why they shut you down a lot? Right?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Do you find that still around a lot of it?
Speaker 10 (22:18):
So that's a great question too, Thanks Joe. I'll be honest,
I lost a ton of money coming out coming out
loud and proud for Trump back in twenty sixteen. People
just stop booking.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Me and.
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Well, all right. So I may or may not have
allegedly been in Washington, DC on January sixth. I someone
offered me a gig is here it's John Decker's birthday,
he's that White House correspondent for ABC. Do you want
the gig? And I was like, you better google me,
you better google me, And they're like, oh, geez, yeah,
(22:54):
you can't have this gig. So I lost a ton
of money. But I'll tell you, Joe, this is turning around,
especially in places that aren't full of commy pinko stains.
All Right, these these roadhouse gigs that I do in
the Midwest, those are great. I just did two fundraisers
for firehouses in Pennsylvania. Great cause we get paid for that.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
So I'm going to where the people who want to
see me are. I'm dodging, like, I'm not gonna go
back to I don't know, let's say, uh, let's say Chicago,
someplace where they don't really like me. I'm just avoiding
those venues and those markets, and I'm sticking to where
the people. And keep in mind, Trump one bigger than
people think. It's almost everywhere you go now that isn't
(23:41):
New York City, LA, or maybe Seattle, You're gonna find
real Americans who want to who want to laugh, and
they're not gonna be uptight. I think you just offended me.
Take it back.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
We have a few seconds left, Kevin. I can't wait
to see it tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Where can people reach you at your website and get
us out of here for the commercial.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Oh thank you. Go to Twitter at KDJ Radio Show,
that's where everything happens. I put all my stuff up there.
My website's coming back up soon. At KDJ Radio Show.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
B sach keV, Welcome back to the America First Warehouse
Tune in Tuesdays. We have an awesome panel here today
and we're going to bring you a segment for this
portion on education. What's going on with Trump's executive orders.
He had six of them passed this week, bringing up
to his one hundred day mark, and some of those
we're going to talk about.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
We're going to bring up on the screen as at
number five. If you don't mind, We're.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Going to talk about Trump's executive orders, six of them signed.
Number one universities reporting foreign aid. We had Trump come
down hard on Harvard, and we just understand that they
have renamed their DEI department Community and Campus Life. Now
will that stop them by changing the name? Well, two
billion is on the line.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
So let's hope. So second up is accreditation, no more DEI.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
So when a school is up for accreditation and they're
being evaluated, they have to make sure that those components
have been removed from the accreditation process number three HBC
used the historically black universities and colleges.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Trump comes through again on his second.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Term, being sure to create a commission within the White
House to assist them for greater reach than we have
AI and education putting America first again by making sure
that students are prepared on the global level for what
is coming at us in artificial intelligence. And then we
have disparate theory discipline that making sure that that gets
(25:33):
removed in the way that teachers can now discipline in
the classroom.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Fabulous.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
And last, but not least, missing from this chart so
we could take it down, is the accredit of the
bringing back apprenticeships. He's making a new focus on trade schools.
We need them back and we need our students to
begin to learn trades. We're super psyched about that. So
bringing us further into what's going on in education, we
hear Huckle she's crying about how the state New York
(26:01):
right here is having issues with the budget. However, hard
and the legislators have finally seemed to come to some
agreement on this two hundred and fifty billion dollar budget,
crying that the state has robbed them of so much
fun of the federal government has robbed them with so
much funds. If she would just comply with dy and
stopped trying to shove it down our students' throats and
in on departments of health, then perhaps we can have
(26:23):
a better budget. But going into the school system and
talking about all of these great changes. We have an
amazing guest on today. He's also been a co host
panel here. It's Mike Simonelli, retired Army officer, retired Suffolk
County Officer, and the author of Justified Deadly Force.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Mike, thank you for joining.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
Hello Lisa America first Warehouse team. Great to see you guys.
Thanks for having me. It's great to be retired twice.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
It's wonderful to have you on.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Mike.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
You do amazing work.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
I want to say thank you again for serving our country,
serving our community, and now you're putting your foot in
the ring to serve all local school boards. You're running
for a school board recent Smithtown.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Is that correct?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
It sure is.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I'm running alongside Karon Richardi and alcafora We are the
conservative choice for Smithtown.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
It's wonderful, Mike.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You just heard me reel out the six executive orders.
What are your thoughts on those implementations.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Oh, it is great to see what President Trump is
doing one executive order after another. We're talking specifically about
disparate impact. We know, Okay, Kathy Hoko's crying now, but
Cuomo and the Democrats weren't crying back when Obama had
threatened to withhold federal funding if schools didn't start using
(27:41):
their disciplinary policies in a desperately impacting way, saying that
they can only do it according to like racial quotas.
So rather than going according to how students are misbehaving,
making their fellow students threatened for their lives, their safety,
they didn't want schools enforcing discipline on certain races above
(28:03):
their percent of the population. And what they found, a
study showed that schools were burying these incidents. So once
Trump was elected in his first term, he got rid
of this disparate impact, and then in twenty twenty three
Bien brought it back. So now we're going full circle
to where it should be, which is just like American values,
(28:25):
based on your actions, not your race, not your gender,
what you do and be held responsible and not punish
everybody else either by neglecting to do your responsibility as
a school and keep those children safe, or feeling that
you're worried about hurting people's feelings. Because his numbers are statistics,
(28:46):
you are.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Right on target.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I will say this.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Let me share this brief story with our audience as well.
When I was an educator in a local school district
here in.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Suffolk, had a student who thought it would be funny
to be consistently lafer klass. So I made sure I
like that door wants that bell rang, and he had
to be respectful about the time frame. So afterwards had
to go down, you know, speak to the social worker
because he had to go and get a pass to.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Come to class. Oh, you can't do that. Yeah, I
can't do that to him. Can't l lock out of
the classroom or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
So I said, well, what's the issue?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
You know? Oh, he's you know, of a certain race
and color, and that's really mistreatment and so forth and
so on.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
So I said, okay, no problem. I called his house.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I said, well, if I can't keep him out that,
I'm going to talk to the mom or the dad
or whomever may be there, the guardian, And sure enough
he comes into school the next day and he says, oh,
missus A. He said, I never expected you to call
my house. I promise I'll never be laid again. I said, oh, really, him,
what's this change? He goes, my mom's in the military.
He said, I can't make mistakes like that. I said,
(29:52):
oh really, and I thought to myself, Wow. The social
worker said that he probably has this home.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Life that to teach him how to be on time.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That is literally what the social work of his telling
the teachers that we have to understand that these children
come from these exactly this disparate theory type of thing. Meanwhile,
once his mother found out she was strict, there was
no disparacy that this woman had rules and it worked
out great. So to your point, you are exactly one
hundred percent right. Meritocracy is what Linda McMahon used while
(30:25):
Trump was signing those executive orders, and can you speak
further to what is happening exactly that made you want
to run?
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Well, having served spent my life protecting the country the county,
I saw firsthand with you.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
We go back to twenty twenty full disclosure.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Shattlefield is really in the classrooms for our children's minds
and President Trump knows that the greatest threat to our
country isn't being invaded by Russian and Chinese forces, it's
the being attacked from within by woke radicals using our
freedoms to spread more and socialism. And in our schools,
they're doing this under the trojan horses of dei zrt Sel,
(31:10):
where children are taught to see themselves as victims or
presses based on their race, and now in the ever
arranging emerging the ray of genders and sexualities. So it's
great seeing President Trump at his executive orders with the accreditation,
making those accreditors base the program and the university on
(31:31):
what they're teaching on, fact on science, on how it's
going to add value to them to get a real
job versus I think twenty five percent of those graduating
with bachelors can't find a job that's going to pay
to make up for their student loans, and I think
forty percent for masters. But here, and you wouldn't think
you'd find this kind of stuff in Smithtown, which is
(31:53):
a very conservative Republican stronghold.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Because there was a Newsday article I thought we will
wipe privilege smith Town?
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Was that wrong? I thought there was okay, just saying
go ahead, hold on.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Here's here's I'm jumping in here because it's driving me crazy.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
So when is the election? What we gotta we gotta
make sure we get you elected. Bro, What when's the
big day?
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Big day is May twenty, day twentieth.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Everybody mark it down, tackle it on your calendar, call
your friends, because this is one hundred and ten percent correct.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Before can you throw up that flyer from Mike real fast?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Want to get it up to just in case, let
everybody know who his compadres are here. Yup, we have
Richardi cafora seminar.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
They always do it.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
They have these elections on the craziest days and everybody's like,
oh that happened.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I didn't even know.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
They think it's gonna be in November with everything else,
and it's oh this it's traditionally it's on May thirty,
May twenty.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
If everybody get up vote landslide.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
We got to take our schools back, Mike, Mike, jodaph
Box here.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I live in Smithtown. I saw your signs on side
of the road. I would love you to put the
biggest sign you got at my address.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You know where I am at.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
They come around the corner, they'll see my flags, they'll
see your sign. Now, what I did noticed, Mike, is
that you and you had said earlier that you are
on the conservative platform. Why are you not a Republican candidate.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Well, we're saying we're the Conservative choice. I am a Republican,
but we're running to take the politics out of schools.
There should be no activism in our schools. But unfortunately,
what we've seen, because this the election is not during
a typical November time, the parties do not get involved.
Republican Party, the Conservative Party. However, the strong the strongest arm,
(33:54):
the enforces of the Democrat Party, the teachers Union, they
are out in full force for school boarders. And what
we see is they are running the show and typically
their candidates get elected. So I am naturally what I
believe in America. First, secure borders, no DEI, no radical
(34:14):
transgender meritocracy. Those things shouldn't be political. That should be
in our schools. Yes, academics first and always right.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
And Mike, we know right that the LGBT Network also
through their hat in the ring, saying they were going
to enforce a bunch of candidates back a bunch of candidates,
Uh to you know, quiet down any people who were
against this you know movement. However, the head of that
network himself has a very shady past. I understand that uh,
(34:42):
millions of dollars in state contracts were removed from Kilmnick
due to some unability or inability to properly process his
budget and so forth and so on improve where he
was spending the money. Uh, there is a lot of
concern about a comment he had made at a school
board meeting last year or so that the words mom
(35:02):
and dad should be removed.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
From educational ameinas. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
So, I you know, there is a lot of fear
too that this man uses you know, children and students
to his benefit, pushing GSA clubs and want not more
for his own interests in expanding his reach and his power.
Speaker 9 (35:27):
When you're referred to was twenty twenty three comps a quak.
He said that the mom and dad, those those words
shouldn't be used, which is similar to the National Coming
Out Day pledge that he had put in schools including Smithtown,
where kids would go on a QR code and then
agree to you know, not use hetero statements like boyfriend, girlfriend, husband,
(35:51):
wife and use day in hype of words.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Instead amazing, amazing.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I believe the children are off you.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
We gotta get you elected, buddy, May twentieth. That's the
day that's right around the corner. People need to get
fired up. Get a bee in your bonnet, put a
burr in your saddle.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Right, we'll be right back. Thanks Mikey, thank you.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
We're Chardie Cuffour.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We are back here at the America First Warehouse on
the American First podcast.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Rather redundant. I want the message to be clear.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
It's only American five, it's only Earth, it's only America First. Hey,
we got some unbelievable things happening here at the warehouse
starting tonight. I think the doors open at seven o'clock.
The bar opens at six thirty. As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
We got Frank Steakhouse outside. I'm pretty sure we got
that going on.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
And we have Mike Loftus here, my buddy coming in
with a bunch of his great patriot Yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
They have to be.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
If you're not a patriot, don't bother coming in. All right,
So I guess I'll killed. Is that more than half
the country? I don't think so. It's less than twenty percent.
They lie it to us all the time, all the time.
This weekend doesn't end. This Key's going on Friday night
sly from Studio six B with a live audience here
at the Warehouse. We expect to have about one hundred
(37:13):
to two hundred people, very similar to tonight, Mike.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
We're rocking and rolling.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
People got to come in and see what a great
voice and a great message we have for you. Culture
comes true here at the America First ware House. Then
we're gonna end it on Sunday with a little car show.
I think I'm gonna have to start up my Corvette
nineteen eighty black nineteen eighty Corvette America first true spoke
Rims with the Meriti tops. You might remember that that
(37:39):
was me back in nineteen eighty four. I got it
back again. I'm back again, back to the future with it.
And Johnny Boy go to him over there. Tell me
about your car, Johnny, seventy.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Nine Corvette, same color and they had when I was younger.
So it's an honor and blessed that we got those
beer boys, you know. And also Nelson Medina with his
signature work on it to America first Castro on Sundays at.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
The same it's at Saint Patrick's in Smidtown. And you
know what, Mikey, I'd like to hang your sign over
my car saying to vote for you on May twentieth.
That's a great opportunity for us, and I love the
way Mike Loft has brought it to the table.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
We gotta get this man elected.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
We gotta stop the insanity and get back to some reality,
like our great president is doing all right. I think
we got the events. If I missed anything, go online
and check it out tonight. It's more important than anything, right, Michael.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
It's just gonna be fun, right, Just let's have a laugh.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
It's gonna be comic after comic after comic, uh, and
it's all gonna be just a wonderful evening of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
You'll have a great time. You'll laugh, you'll cry.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
From laughing from laughing.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah, you might even pee a little.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
We won't tell anyone, right, Yeah, you get your pp pair.
I want to tell you this though.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
From the Joe Biden Traditional Library.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
The Empty Suit, I will tell you this.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
We have a lot of great things happening, and the
reason why we're so excited is because Donald Trump is
celebrating one hundred days today.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Is it today or tomorrow's one?
Speaker 6 (39:15):
I believe it's tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
He can't get a lot done in twenty for hours.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
That's right. He has a rally in Michigan tonight, So
if anyone wants to watch that, I believe Rap will
be hosting that tonight.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, you can watch it on Real America Voice because
America First Ware else is powered up by Real American Voice. Unfortunately,
you cannot watch that show Tonight's comedy Tonight, Mike.
Speaker 10 (39:33):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You cannot?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Well you can't. You can come here and watch it live?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, you come here? Can you watch it live?
Speaker 7 (39:41):
And then you go to Studio TST dot com and
you can you can watch it there. Or maybe you
want to watch a feature film, Maybe you want to
watch a music special. Maybe you want to see episodes
of that show tonight and go what this is way
better than Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
We got it all at Studio TST.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
The powerhouse of Mike Loft is what he brings to
the table. And tonight you're gonna, I mean, you're gonna
be laughing so hard. I think we should get some
pp pads, they might be left from the pandemic. I
think we had a couple of them left over over
there one hundred days. Anybody got a comment, what's their
favorite hundred day thing? Mine's the border of its closed.
Thank you, President Trump. And Tom Holman behind me.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Did you see his press conference yesterday morning with Caroline
Levett live at the press room? Was amazing and then
someone asked him why is he so passionate about this?
And really you have to watch him talk about how
he was in law enforcement for his entire career, and
how closing this border and what it meant to stopping
the fentanyl, to stopping the trafficking of human beings. They're
(40:44):
rape trees with children's and women's underwear. To hear the
truth that the cabinet members and everyone working with this
administration giving the truth about what happened to people that
came across this border that no corporate media will ever
talk about. And really that's where the sin of it
all is that we've kept the truth from the people
and now they know it for themselves.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
That is one hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
I saw Tom Holman's reaction regarding the women and the
abuse that occurs on the trail, and I'll call it.
I said it before and i'll call it again, the
modern day Trail of tears is really what's happening. This
is a forced migration. It's orchestrated, and we see so
much hypocrisy about it. The Catholic charities had contributed to
it greatly. It was receiving money usaid. So you'll have
(41:28):
the liberals US need to move people around tents, and
you'll see the liberals saying how much they hate you know,
Krisiani Ona religion, who did this?
Speaker 8 (41:35):
Oh, it's judgmental Catholicism.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
As this, But they were okay with Catholic charities bringing across,
you know, families or children on accompanied miners. Which was
another thing that they found in DOGE was there was
eleven paid for legal organizations, nonprofits that were hired just
to represent the twenty six thousand unaccompanied miners that came
(41:58):
in across the border. This is horrendous to all the
twenty six thousand children were separated from their parents and
their homeland and brought here and even though they should
be represented, that's understandable, but let's take that money and
try to re connect these children with their families.
Speaker 8 (42:15):
It's insane.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
Okay, So I'm jumping in real quick. Tommy Holman has
been a powerhouse. That guy's moving with purpose. Donald Trump
is moving with purpose. Elon Musk, here's the surprise, frickin.
How great has Marco Rubio been? That guy came off
the bench like Babe Ruth. So here's what has to happen.
Speaker 10 (42:36):
Now.
Speaker 7 (42:36):
The GOP needs to step up, Like these executive orders
are great, but the GOP we need to turn this
stuff into law. It should be working like a conveyor belt.
Don't forget everybody. This is what drives me crazy. They
were ready to throw Trump in jail. They were throwing
Maga people in jail like they were arresting them and
(42:59):
throwing they were the j sixers.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
We have to move with purpose. It's the GOP.
Speaker 7 (43:05):
Now, we got to get this stuff passed into law
because you don't get a lot of chances like this.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Our country was going down the toilet. We have a
little bit of a respite.
Speaker 10 (43:16):
We have it.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
We okay, we can catch our brother. What is the problem.
We have the house. We have Nancy Pelothi, Nanty Pelothi.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
We'd have a majority of just one person and they
changed fricking healthcare forever. So we need to get in
there and twist some arms. Let people know how pissed
off we still are. We're not relaxing. I got my
foot on the gas. Baby, let's go, Mike, have an idea.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
If it wasn't for President Donald Trump, one hundred days
of lives that he saved. Yes, I didn't even have
account for that with Defend and all. I think it
was over seventy thousand of the year that died from it.
So these families that aren't going to have to go
through that pain. Thank God for Donald Trump and what
he's done with the border, and forget about everything else,
which doesn't even shadow that.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
But he's an amazing guy.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Makes me upset to listen to Fox News and here
Brett yumsaid, he did a great job on a boarder,
but other things are they're worried about, you know, because
there's so many questions and not sure I know one.
They were in the best hands we've ever been in
this country. Thank go up with Donald Trump. Thank you
Jesus for Donald Try.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
Well, bit media will always want to phrase the narrative
so that we always have a little bit of hesitation.
We can't be one hundred percent in well America. First,
we're one hundred percent in and we understand that there's
gonna be a little bit of pain, short, short lived.
But once we get over these hurdles, these tariff wars
and everything else that's going on, we're gonna be great.
Speaker 10 (44:31):
But you know what that is.
Speaker 7 (44:32):
It's like going to the gym, right, you know, like, oh,
I'm a little sore, but now that's how your muscles
are gonna grow.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
I think America is into it.
Speaker 7 (44:42):
It's like, yeah, it's gonna be a little tough, but
boy man, we're making better cars here in America. We're
making this during during the frickin' lockdown. I remember when
we couldn't even get like penicillins in this country.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
That's what you're done for. You're a joke of a
nation if you can't do basic meta. We don't need
to manufacture steel in America.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
What do he needs steel for?
Speaker 6 (45:04):
How we're doctors not talking about the shortage of medicine
even we're at the peak of it. If India and
China holds back the raw material, right.
Speaker 8 (45:13):
We can't make it.
Speaker 7 (45:14):
Penicillinar give you a penicillin, but if you need puberty blockers,
we're putting those in the horse juice.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
They got millions of those.
Speaker 5 (45:22):
Those are things exactly came out of congressional hearing during
this pandemic. But also back to your point about getting
these things into law, that's one of those things. We
need to make sure that the medicine and the priorities
that we need in our country are made into law.
We're at the hundred day mark. Trump has only five
laws passed, whereas I think Biden had eleven already at
this point, and in his first term, I think he
(45:44):
heard about twenty three. Trump byde they were minor, minor,
and we need to get the ball rolling in movie.
Come on, Mike Johnson, step up.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
I don't know what's going on with the Republican Party,
but I got to tell you I had worked my
butt off and I went and got signify to be
a committee man in the town of Smithtown.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Maybe we'll bring Mike back in. I talked him about that.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I was rejected to even run though you didn't even
get a chance to be.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
On the ballot. I'm not really sure where I went,
but I was rejected. I'm like me.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
I haven't got rejected since my wife on our first day,
so it's very hard for me to take this okay,
But I am okay with it because I'm gonna let
everybody know that Mike Simonelli and the board of we
want from our education because you know they don't want me.
Because the first thing I would probably do is cancel
(46:37):
the library, close it down. I would close the library down,
take that thirty six million dollars, and I would put
it back to the people that can't afford to wash
the side of the house. The mill dwarf is very
upsetting to watch what's happening. And even in the town
of Smithtown, they want to buy big. I want to
build apartment complex for affordable housing. How about a single
family home? That's what I would like to bring to
(46:57):
the table.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yeah, well, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
Even New York City you can see the city of Yes,
you can see it. In Westchester County. This is what
rob Astorino in the County of Westchester fought against. It's
being able to build all of these multi apartment facilities
where we do have single family homes.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
Now, oh yeah, we see that happening right now.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Huge crisis in Huntington that looking to build three thousand
more apartment sees are unaffordable. We had fifteen hundred in
run Konkama as well. And it's all about you will
own nothing and be happy.
Speaker 8 (47:24):
It's antan thank all right.
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