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it at seven minutes after the hour. Welcome to Wednesday,
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Jonathan Rumy will be with us later in the show,
And it happened to Joe Pegg's one of my favorite
talk guys, and it also happened to Sean Farrash aka
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Friday with forty seven. It's the latest irrational acts of
terrorism from the far left, and it's called being swatted.
And that's when somebody makes a prank phone call to
nine one one saying, my next door neighbor just shot
his wife. He's threatened to shoot out, and then the
SWAT team busts down your door. So you're just sit
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and having a nice quiet evening and all of a sudden,
your house is surrounded by you know, SWAT members with
high performance rifles. It's terrifying terrorism, pure and simple. We'll
talk to Sean about what it's like to live through
that and what being swatted is. That's of all the
things the left is doing, Yeah, burning Tesla's, burning charging stations,
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this is the most despicable thing they're doing. And that
that really is. You know, I said this to and
we used to have what we call daily conversations with
Davids Andadi. I guess they're more like wc's now with DZ,
but listen in their original plan and they conditioned us
carefully with Antifa and Black Lives Matter. They were preparing
(02:17):
an insurrection. And I said to David, if it looks
like they can't win and get power back, what makes
you think they wouldn't go back to that playbook. There
is a reckless, crazy, violent, irrational resistance rising all the
way to the Supreme Court. We got to break this
down for the listeners and then ultimately get at how
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does all this fighting among themselves, dying on hills that
can't be won, going to impact their performance in the
midterm election because they got a very little short period
of time to correct being this out of step with
the American people. So first thing's first. Good morning David
and the resistance you see it rising. Good morning, gentlemen,
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and to all your wonderful listeners. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Thank you again Michael for having the courage to create
this crazy new model of radio where we just talked
to each other instead of shouting all day long.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, I did scream earlier when I was accused of
being a jinx. I can't help, but the Cubs can't
beat a seven hundred billion dollar lineup, the Dodgers that
put together.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Let's bring up that sore wound. It's two friends. Okay,
this is like two guys walking to a bar. They've
been friends for a long long time and both of
them have the same problem. Their team never wins the
World Series. They're in it together, the Cubs and the Indians.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That one day, that one day I saw Jesus has
to be over and it turned out to be the
day the sun never came up in Cleveland. Yes, it
is a It is a factory of sadness in Cleveland.
There's no question about it. There is behind every head
line of the story. Let's go to Chief Justice Roberts
rebukes Trump and the GOP rhetoric about impeaching judges.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, well, Chief Justice Roberts should never have been the
chief Justice period.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's the bottom line. Should have been Anthony and Scalia.
Roberts should never have been placed there.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That was a Republican mistake, period and of conversation, Roberts
is a person who is more concerned about his reputation
in the media and with the American people than he
is about the Constitution. I would say that to his
face if I had the opportunity to do so, mister
Chief Justice, and it wouldn't be with all due respect,
because that position is not worthy of respect. Well, I
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want to jump in and say, with all the chaos
in America over what's a boy, what's a girl?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
What is marriage? I mean a lot of this chaos,
the birth of this chaos starts with him.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, Gavin News, we can take even just take something
that's almost neutral now in conversation, which is when roberts
cast the deciding vote to save Obamacare by calling what
was clearly a be attacked and rewriting the law from
the bench.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That's unconscionable.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It has to do more with him being a political
force and the court is a force, and that's that's
where his mindset is, and that's not where the Court belongs.
So we got a problem with John robertson he goes
way way way back.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
What about this issue? Zoom and what do you think
the play is? This is his play is history.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He now has the opportunity to interject himself and his
court to a position where they are making the outcomes,
and they are in a position of resistance. They are
resisting the administration, not based on constitutional authority, because if
they were worried about constitutional authority, they would tell all
these underlying judges get back on your side of the
constitution and let the administration do what it's going to do.
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If there's litigation that's going to come forward, let it
come forward. But you should not be the initiators. You
shouldn't be the allies. You shouldn't be playing.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So we have these power we have these power plays.
And you know, Democrats irrational, violent fighting amongst themselves in
pure obstruction mode. The most prevalent relevant part of their
party is the extreme left, and they'll be there again
in the primaries when the more reasonable Democrats are not
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and they're going to put forth somebody like an AOC,
just like they did Bernie Sanders. At the end of
the day, you can blame the people that are elected,
but it's the people that are electing them that are
the problem. So let's look at this kind of sensibly.
I mean, you've been following this like no one else has,
and that is Americas since the dawn of television. And
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we had a couple of really electric people early like
John F. Kennedy. There became this worship of the presidency.
Also out of line with the Constitution. In other words, suddenly,
and I go back to the children of Israel, who
God never intended to have a physical king, and they
couldn't resist their urge, so they got one, and they
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got a bad one, and then he found them a
kid on a field to be a better one. We
kind of made a king out of the presidency. We
tend to have a worship of the presidency. And then
at some point, I think culture basically said, I don't
know right, I don't know wrong. There is no Bible,
there is no God, there is no moral authority. So
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at the end of the day, the president is king
and the Supreme Court is God. Isn't that our problem?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay, that's a walking, talking, living meme, and it's right
on point.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I mean, that's the root of the problem. Not
John Robertson, obviously he's going to come out against this. Yeah,
it really is.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The problem is that it used to be that we
the people were the definition of the American government exactly.
Now we look at the institutions and the personalities and
we pretend that they define reality.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And that's a bad position for us to be in
as a country. So are we the problem for John Roberts,
are we the problem or Barack Obama or Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Well, let's put it this way, John Roberts isn't the solution,
but we are.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The problems are what they are. We're the solution.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And that's when we begin to function with courage and
understand that the people are always going to be lying,
and the people who lie lose.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's the key.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The people who are looking for the truth of constitutional government,
who are looking for the truth of the principles of
the Declaration, We've got to be careful that we aren't
the liars. It's easy to get over the line in
the passion, it's easy to get over the line and
the affection and the reaction.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But the people who lie lose.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And that's where the left is vulnerable because they make
it up as they go along, because they're reactionary.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
David said. I he's the CEO of the American Policy
round Table, he's host of the Public Square, heard on
two hundred stations, and he joins this weekly as our
senior contributor. The Reagan Revolution I think was very much
about Ronald Reagan. I look at the Trump Revolution, and
while he was the courage that burst. The it does
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seem to be more grassroots, more bipartisan, and more American.
So we have a cultural reawakening and a political revolution
going back to the people, and now the Democrats are
ready to really start on the front line of resistance.
Doesn't that put them on the wrong side of history?
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It truly does. Michael.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'm thinking of my dear friend Amity Schlays, who was
at the time we first met with the Wall Street
Journal and she was covering the.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
School choice case for the Nation.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
She flew in and we had breakfast together because she
was covering the story and at that time it was
emanating out of Ohio and under the United States Supreme Court.
At the time, she was writing her book The Forgotten Man.
She was the first one to enter into that dialogue
to bring it back, the notion being that America has
always been about the people who are forgotten, which are
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the ones who do all, as Jimmy Stewart would say,
all the living and dying and praying and paying in
this country.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We the people are still looking for answers that are
real because we're living in reality. Our political institutions have
lost touch with what it means to be a normal
working person. Don't care what color you are, don't care
what your creed is. The question is you got to
survive out here.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We did.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Our political institution is far, far, far away. That's the
underpinning of this is the extension between reality where we
all have, for example, the fact that we, the working
people of the United States of America pay all the taxes. Well,
those people up in Washington just spend the month.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's why I wanted to play that clip of Chucky
Schumer in the View for you yesterday. He's basically saying,
I mean, they're all for government is good, government is great?
Government is the answer. And oh, how weird we are
on the right that we think it's our life, our
liberty are hard work. I mean, we the people our money.
By the way, I would love to read Chuckie Schumer
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with John F. Kennedy I had to say about the
morality of taxation. But that aside. All right, we did
a journey of discovering the five o'clock hour. God help
you if you were up and listening and you're wondering
why America is all for doge and so this particular
piece of research asked the simple question, what percentage of
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government spending of your tax dollars is wasted or wasted?
Less than ten percent, ten to twenty five percent, twenty
six to fifty percent, fifty one to seventy percent, which
got a healthy number. By the way, can you imagine
if seventy five percent of our tax dollars are being wasted?
And they might be seventy six percent of the American
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people believe ten to twenty five or twenty six to
fifty percent of our tax dollars are being wasted. That's
how And by the way, this isn't even partisan. Yeah,
sixty four percent of Republicans said the government's wasting more
than twenty five percent, but so did fifty two percent
of independence even forty four percent of Democrats. I mean,
this is a hill they can't win. It's a hill
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that was never a hill in the past. I could
play you countless sound of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
and Joe Biden all speaking against waste and making it
clear to the American people when we make these cuts,
we're cutting the waste which delivers more money to the
people in the programs that you think are important for
those who need, and of course they're doing all the
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opposite narratives, but they're dying on hills that they can't
win on. That's what's so And listening to that podcast
with Gavin Newsom and coach Timmy, they're not done. They're
going to continue to fight for DEEI. They're going to
continue to fight for spending in waste and demonizing.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And you just launched a term that I want to
recover here and get right up to the front. You
use the words the morality of taxation. That is a
very important term. We need to do. Like t shirts
need to happen right now, the morality of taxation, what
is right and what is wrong in regards to taxation.
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If those turns into debate on the morality of taxation,
the history of taxation, the effectiveness of taxation, this country's
going to change because if people ever find out the truth,
it's all over.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chno. David Zinati's
joining us, our senior contributor, and we're talking about all
this in fighting with the Democrats, their search for a
message and a messenger and of course their tactic of resistance,
and it's on the rise. And it's on hills that
not just obstruct the Republicans and Donald Trump Breelon Musk,
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but the will of the American people. How does this
dangerous game play out in a midterm election that really
starts in less than a half six months.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh yeah, and the truth is it's already started. Yeah.
One of the key players in all of this are
going to be the money players for the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They will be.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The Democrats can go out and sup all they want,
like a bunch of young adolescents deciding who's going to
control the playground. But then the power players show up
and start writing the checks and then changes everything. It
depends on where the power players, where Soros and the
billionaire cartel decide to play. Their big problem right now
is as long as Doge is focused and telling the truth,
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that these guys have got a problem because there's enough evidence,
an avalanche of evidence to prove that that poll that
you talked about is correct. The American people are right
about fifty percent of what's going on shouldn't be right, and.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We're paying for it.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That is an indictment that will roll for ten years
if they tell the truth. If they don't go reactionary,
So they got a big problem, Michael. So the only
way they lose the midterms is if the Republicans refuse
to field quality candidates.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So the problem has been career politicians that were never intended,
controlled by lobbyists and money and interest. What's interesting about this, though,
is where will they side? You know, Soros usually isn't
dumb and he's gotten away with a lot. Will they
side with the sensible Democrats are the ones that say
we're not resisting enough.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, two years to four years doesn't matter to them
because they have a world domination plan.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I mean they're going to be around for a while.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well they might layload to twenty eight and try to
take the whole piece. And they're also now in a
position of having the counter because the other guys have
the wheel. They're counting on the people right now in
the administration making mistakes. That's what they're counting on. Yeah,
well it's not been a good bet for them so
far as as far as the resistance goes. Remember, they
still hold the heights the bad guys in regards to
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the massive media.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What's left of it. Although they're all trying to start podcasts,
including Ted Cruz, who's starting a podcast and a radio show.
None of them could read the tea leaves. They were
all on the dead journalistic legacy media for the campaign.
Now they're all trying to create their own podcast world,
which the lesson should have been, go on Joe Rogan's show,
not try to create your own or yours or your
(15:53):
morning show. Yeah, or your morning show. But the Michelle
Obama one looks like it's one and done. Go figure.
All right, resistance is on the rise. We'll keep an
eye on it. You're on the road, so I don't
know if we're going to have you tomorrow if there's
if there's a will, there's a way. If not, we'll
talk to you next week or sooner. Conditions weren't.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Thanks for.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Breton Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And my morning show is your Morning show with Michael
del Joino. Hi.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It's me Michael. Your Morning show can be heard live
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this is Mary.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Hey all of you March madness guys who think you're
smart because your pick's got through the elite eight.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I'll tell you the really smart guys right now.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Are at the hobby lobby and the home goods store,
because that's where all the ladies are right now getting
ready for the spring decorating season.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Here's your pickup line. I usually get my mom a
front door wreath for Easter. Which one do you think
she'd like? Golden, have a great day. Also, I'm building
a shed for all my rescue animals. I don't know.
I'm so glad I'm married and don't have to do
all that. Here's my question at home depot to a woman,
where is the doorknobs? Because I don't know where anything
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is there? Thanks Mary, always good to have you a
part of the show. Tomorrow, by the way, we got
Jesus on. We'll be talking to Jonathan, a roomy who
was Lonnie Frisbee and Jesus Revolution, Jesus and the Apostle.
That's going to be a fun visit. And in moments
from now, Sean Farrush on what it's like to live
through the terrifying leftist harassment of being swatted. Don't miss
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that it's coming up in seconds. National correspondent Roy O'Neil
is here to report what has been learned from the
phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. I mean,
I hope nobody thought it was going to be done
in one phone call. But at least it's a good start.
That's kind of my read. What cheers Rory. Yeah, it's
a bit narrow, narrower than we had hoped.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I suppose Ukraine has agreed to this thirty day ceasefire,
but President Putin's response was, well, we'll agree maybe to
thirty days without attacks on infrastructure and energy production. So look,
it's a start, right, and this is going to be
something I think that's more for the long haul. I
think that anyone who thought that this would be over
(18:26):
quickly that might have been a bit too optimistic. President
Zelensky had a press conference a short time ago with
the leader from Finland. President Zelensky said he's got a
phone call with President Trump lined up for later today.
We might have some more negotiations happening this weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Here's a clever way to say it. If Donald Trump
can negotiate this and get this done, he will have
earned that Nobel peace price that he'll probably get. The
most concerning thing that I saw was when Putin called
for an end of all military aid to Ukraine. One
it signaled what I talked about yesterday, which is if
he doesn't think that Donald Trump is anything like Joe Biden,
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he knows what he's dealing with here. But he also
knows that Donald Trump probably doesn't like all this blank
checks that have been going to Ukraine without the accountability
where all the money has gone. So he wanted to
pick on that. But if he tries to stand his
ground saying you got to cut off the key to
avoiding an escalation is cut off all a to Ukraine.
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That's simply something the president can't provide, I mean, because
that's an essence necessary to keep the Ukrainian side of it.
But the thought that he's even talking, I think is
a great tell that ultimately Vladimir Putin knows he's not winning,
he can't win, and he's looking for a way to
get out. And so I think there's tells on both sides.
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But there's a lot of work to be done. We
just got to be grateful that they're willing to talk,
at least at this point.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Right.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
We heard from President Trump with that interview with Laura
Ingram last night saying a did not come up in
their phone call even though it went on for almost
a couple of so it's a bit of a wait
and see. And look, President Zelensky had that Oval Office
meltdown essentially over this idea of you know, you can
sign whatever you want. Putin will drag you along sign
something and then break that Leviva and then the President
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Zelensky says, I just want to make sure you guys
are here meeting the US and NATO and Europe.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I want to make sure you.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Guys are here to back me up when Putin does
break the deal, which is sure certain.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Is going to happen sooner or later, whether it's a
year or a decade. And that's why it's a key
to holding the Ukraine side that Donald Trump can't give up.
So maybe that's why Putin's starting with it, because that
it's got a cave from there and he'll get onto
a demand that's a little bit more reasonable. Butch and Sonny,
you are finally home. And I know that it's a
big deal here because Butch is a native of Murphy's Burg,
(20:47):
which is just outside of Nashville and went to Tennessee Tech.
But I mean, that was an extraordiny but you know,
one of the most fascinating things in the coverage, and
Fox did, by the way to their credit, and I
can't stand Fox. You know, with the exception of maybe
on show, they made the point that this extended stay,
there's some good that can come from this because ultimately,
(21:08):
if we're going to Mars, we got to get to
where we can feel comfortable they can make the nine
month journey to Mars, the nine months in Mars, and
the nine month journey home. So one of the good
things that will come is this was longer than expected,
and that's good for what we need to learn from
extended stays in space. But boy, I bet they're glad
to be home well.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
And it's also all about contingencies, right, I Mean, the
whole idea of this commercial crew program was to find
two companies that could provide rocket passenger services up and
down to the International Space Station. SpaceX has been highly
successful at it Boeing's attempt at it has fallen short.
But because there are two companies, there was one there
to step in and pull the rescue mission. And that
(21:49):
was the whole plan in this all along, which is
why they had two competing companies for this service.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You couldn't have asked for a better without a hitch
return and splash down. I mean, even the other like
a Disney movie, even staged with dolphins surrounding the capitule.
Even Flipper showed up there in the gulf of event.
It was a beautiful sign. I know you loved it,
and I was watching it as you were. All right, Ry,
great reporting today. We'll talk again tomorrow, all right. So
(22:15):
I just saw the story on This is a news
magazine for radio industry called Inside Radio, and one of
the headlines is it has now happened to Joe Paggs,
who is a syndicated talk show. He's also and this
will become more relevant in our conversations. He's very good
(22:41):
about using clips on Twitter. It's a suspicion of mine,
but syndicated talk show with Joe Paggs survives a harrowing
swat incident, and that made me think of Sean Farage. Now,
Sean is also known as Friday with forty seven, So
I'm going to acknowledge first that this is who does
(23:01):
our Friday with forty seven segment. And it's not just
a stellar impersonation. It's almost a channeling. There's nobody that
does President Trump like Sean Farrosch. But out of character,
I want to talk to the human being along with
his beautiful young wife, who had a pure and simple
an act of terrorism committed against him by the extreme
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far left. And it's called swatting. Sean first and foremost
a big part of this show from launch every Friday.
Welcome to a Wednesday. And first start with what swatting is,
because when you first texted me, I had no idea
what it was, and he said, I just got swatted,
and I thought, well, he finally went too far with
his wife. That's not at all what it is. Tell
him what swatting is.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
First of all, I guess I'm not going to call
you pizza boy this time.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
We'll do that.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
We'll do it on Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But by the way, you do text and call me
pizza boy every now and then, as you you.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Know it is true. It is true. I bumped into
so many people. We were like, we love your spots
on with pizza boy. What my name is? Really stuck?
It was really funny.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Slotting swatting is is very scary. I've heard about it
for years. It's happened to Marjorie Taylor Green, It's happened
to timpoole some of these really big name you know,
people who are known on and off the internet. And
you know, it's not just reserved for conservatives.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It happens a lot in the gaming community.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
You'll get a lot of kids who are playing Call
of Duty and they have, you know, some sort of
gun or what looks to be weapon in the background because.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's part of their gaming setup. And then they get swatted,
and you know, it's the whole thing. It's like a prank, but.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It's not funny.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So on Thursday evening.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
We had a long day. My wife and I were
pulling down a fence that we had. We just bought
a house in Murphysboro about a month and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We started we were pouring out a fence. I was shot.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I fell asleep for about twenty minutes, and in that
twenty thirty minute period, Apparently the cops came. So my
wife woke me up and said, she said, Sean, there's
cops in the yard with guns. And I had found
out that morning that several prominent conservative voices on X
the X platform were swatted the night before, and I said, oh, wow,
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we're being swatted.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
She had no idea what that was. I thought it
was a JA six situation, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Feared that I was gonna get ripped out of the house,
even though there were pardons.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
That's not what's going through her mind.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
So, you know, heavily armed police, Rutherford County Sheriff their
department responded and there were guns trained on our house.
I've never been in that position before. I have never
been on the barrel side of a gun right every
time I've handled.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
The firearm, and they always tell you never point your
gun in something they don't intend to shoot.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So, you know, I knew that one wrong move could
be a very wrong move. So we just said listen.
I told her, I said, here's what's going to happen.
They're gonna call us somebody, probably because she said, why
are they here?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I said, somebody probably called in.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
What they do is they call it so gruesome crime
inside of your home in my case, according to what
they told me, and I'm getting the nine one one
call soon somebody called them, pretending to be me or
someone who knows me, and said that I killed both
of my parents and was preparing to commit suicide by
comp if they entered the home, which immediately puts the officers,
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you know, at risk, because you know, they think they're
going to have a gun pointed at them.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It's us at risk. But I told them, look, that's
not what's going on. That's not true.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
We're willing to demonstrate that that's not true. Just give
us instructions, we'll.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Follow them, and then we'll sort this out, you know, afterwards.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But you know, we had to stay completely totally calm
because one jumpy want one little jump, and it could
cause uh, it could cause a big problem.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So, by the way, this is day, this is day,
this day, this is days later. In the moment, can
any of us imagine what the level of fright and
terror would be. You've got armed officers surrounding your home
with guns pointing out. I mean, I just can't imagine
the adrenaline. And you handled it so calmly. I mean,
(27:09):
I don't know that I would have been that good.
So the phone rings. Now our officers as aware of
swatting as you are, I mean did they because at
that at the point, at the point you answered the phone,
they think it might be true, right right.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
So basically here our sheriff's office, they knew about swatting.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
As a whole, like they've heard of it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
One of the one of the officers who stood with us.
So when we came out of the house, we had
to come out with our hands up. It was a
whole thing again, and there are officers in the house
the front and the back guns are up. So we
just walked over slow and he sat as you know,
I got padded down, my wife got patted down, and.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Then we sat down on the neighbor's driveway when.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
The house was cleared. He said, this may be one
of those swatting incidents. I'm thinking he knows about the
recent you know rise that's going.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Across the country.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
They didn't know that this was a trend going across
the country. They said, why do you think this happened
to you? And I still told them to take a
look at the back of my truck. I've got Trump
stickers all over the thing, right, I mean, I said,
I'm shy about who I voted for and who I support,
and that's how I am online, and that's why you
guys are here. And you know, I started telling them
about all these these different incidents that were happening across
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the country. But no, the only choice you have in
that situation is to be calm, you know, when that's
your only published very my heart was pound.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And my wife was servius. I mean, but but you can't.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
You don't have room at that point to start asking
questions or start you know, getting angry, you know, because
they're they're pointing things.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
So it's just my mind.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Was, Okay, let me show these officers the most efficient
way possible and be as low maintenance as possible that
we are not a threat.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So the guns come down and then we could talk
about it, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And so that's what we did.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
You know, it's exactly who we did, and now we're
working on finding out who did it.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
It's not going to be easy.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
He that were working out finding out working on finding
out who did because it is domestic terrorism and it's
not just us. Okay, this type of call has never happened.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
In this neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
We talked to a lot of our neighbors. They say,
we've never seen a response like this. There are children
on our block who we see every day.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
The sun's out.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They're out on scooters, out on bicycles, they're playing basketball,
they're playing tang, they're having fun outside.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
They couldn't do that last Thursday evening because the road
was blocked because cops were walking up and down the
block with guns.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
So now these kids, wasn't it. What's type of a
neighborhood that they think they live in? Yeah, no, it's
har answer that question.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Sean farrash aka Friday with forty seven out of character.
He was swatted, as many conservative personalities have been. It's
a horrifying thing to go through. Your home is surrounded
by swat teams with high powered rifles pointed. You're in
a negotiation situation. It's it's just awful. I also hate
what this is, you know, for I don't want our
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law enforcement to ever take these kinds of not seriously.
There ought to be very severe consequences for people doing this.
Why is it so hard to figure out who's doing it?
We'll continue with Sean Farage aka Friday with forty seven
when Your Morning Show continues next this is Your Morning
Show with Michael Del Trono. We're talking with Sean Farrage
(30:20):
aka Friday with forty seven, out of character today because
he was swatted by the extreme left. You know, probably
the first question a lot of our listeners have, Sean
is how did they know your number to call you?
And that was a lot better than busting down the door.
And then why is it so hard to trace where
these calls originate?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, I think whoever called.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
In the slant also found a way to get my
phone number because they gave when ironically, when pizzas were delivered,
I became pizza boy for the last couple of days.
But when pizzas got delivered, those pizza places.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Had my number. Also I didn't order from them, so uh,
you know, so.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Whoever called it in and was being a jerk with
the rogue pizza orders had my number. I believe they
gave it to the police and uh, and and they
called me, which was great because instead of them pounding
on the door, and now it's like, well, if I
open this door too fast, you know, things bad things
can happen. They called me and told me everything that
was going on, So, uh, I think they got my
(31:24):
number from the people who called in the slot, which.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Uh, you know, it was was better than having the
door broken down.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
But I think it's difficult to find these these people,
and I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Know how difficult necessarily it is.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I mean, we found all the Jay sixers pretty quick,
but you know, I feel like it's difficult to find
these people because they're in some sort of room we're
building or whatever, and there's probably multiple layers of masking.
There's probably a VP and there's a spoof phone number.
They may be calling over voice, you know, voice over internet,
(31:56):
so that can be kind of masked and and blurred.
But there are so many people now who have been hit,
and the attacks have been in basically the exact same fashion,
you know, swatting, the same type of gruesome call, and
then the pizza and the names on the pizza order,
you know, who the orders for, have all been identical.
So there's either one person doing this to a number
(32:18):
of individuals in the country, or it's a group that's
working together.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And using the same style.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
So you know, there's a level of it being somewhat centralized.
That may make it easier to attract than most.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Why do you think you were targeted? I mean, Joe
PEG's a conservative talk show host. I know he does
a lot of video clips on Twitter. Have all the
people that I mean, first of all, everyone that's being
targeted in this latest group seems to be conservative. It
seems to have ties to X, which maybe you know
from melon musk obsession to those that post on X.
(32:49):
I mean, why you, I guess is the broad question.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
I don't know the answer as to why I was picked,
other than you know, the earlier aims of those who
got swatted. Folks like Nick Sorter, folks like gun th Eagleman,
those are huge accounts on X, and I'm friendly with them.
I'm in there replies a lot, we talk a lot.
So it may just be that those are targets number one.
And then they went down into the into the replies
(33:15):
and got inspiration from anybody else who's interacting with them,
and that's meant to essentially.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Not just detect the person, but destabilize their platform. I
don't want to talk.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I don't want to interact to this account, so I
don't because I don't want to be swatted next kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
None of us care. I mean, we're clearly obviously you know, rattled.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
By it, but we're not going to back down. A
lot of us are unapologetic in our views. You know,
just look at Joe PAGs for an example. He's a
good friend and he's a nice, nice enough guy, but
you know he's also very very dug into his positions.
He's outspoken, you know, that's just that's his brand. So
a lot of us are are like that. They don't
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like it.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I can't think of anything more horrific than what you
and your wife went through. I thank god every day
since that it went calmly. I thank god for that
Rutherford Sheriff's Department and swat team that handled it perfectly.
And this is terrorism, pure and simpole. I simple Red
was wondering if it had anything to do with them
actually thinking you really were Donald Trump. But Sean farrash
(34:17):
Our aka Friday was forty seven. We'll talk to you
on Friday, and I thank god you're safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
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And it happened to Joe Pegg's one of my favorite
talk guys, and it also happened to Sean Farrash aka
(01:14):
Friday with forty seven. It's the latest irrational acts of
terrorism from the far left, and it's called being swatted.
And that's when somebody makes a prank phone call to
nine one one saying, my next door neighbor just shot
his wife. He's threatened to shoot out, and then the
SWAT team busts down your door. So you're just sit
(01:35):
and having a nice quiet evening and all of a sudden,
your house is surrounded by you know, SWAT members with
high performance rifles. It's terrifying terrorism, pure and simple. We'll
talk to Sean about what it's like to live through
that and what being swatted is. That's of all the
things the left is doing, Yeah, burning Tesla's, burning charging stations,
(01:57):
this is the most despicable thing they're doing. And that
that really is. You know, I said this to and
we used to have what we call daily conversations with
Davids Andadi. I guess they're more like wc's now with DZ,
but listen in their original plan and they conditioned us
carefully with Antifa and Black Lives Matter. They were preparing
(02:17):
an insurrection. And I said to David, if it looks
like they can't win and get power back, what makes
you think they wouldn't go back to that playbook. There
is a reckless, crazy, violent, irrational resistance rising all the
way to the Supreme Court. We got to break this
down for the listeners and then ultimately get at how
(02:37):
does all this fighting among themselves, dying on hills that
can't be won, going to impact their performance in the
midterm election because they got a very little short period
of time to correct being this out of step with
the American people. So first thing's first. Good morning David
and the resistance you see it rising. Good morning, gentlemen,
(02:58):
and to all your wonderful listeners. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Thank you again Michael for having the courage to create
this crazy new model of radio where we just talked
to each other instead of shouting all day long.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, I did scream earlier when I was accused of
being a jinx. I can't help, but the Cubs can't
beat a seven hundred billion dollar lineup, the Dodgers that
put together.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Let's bring up that sore wound. It's two friends. Okay,
this is like two guys walking to a bar. They've
been friends for a long long time and both of
them have the same problem. Their team never wins the
World Series. They're in it together, the Cubs and the Indians.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That one day, that one day I saw Jesus has
to be over and it turned out to be the
day the sun never came up in Cleveland. Yes, it
is a It is a factory of sadness in Cleveland.
There's no question about it. There is behind every head
line of the story. Let's go to Chief Justice Roberts
rebukes Trump and the GOP rhetoric about impeaching judges.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, well, Chief Justice Roberts should never have been the
chief Justice period.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's the bottom line. Should have been Anthony and Scalia.
Roberts should never have been placed there.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That was a Republican mistake, period and of conversation, Roberts
is a person who is more concerned about his reputation
in the media and with the American people than he
is about the Constitution. I would say that to his
face if I had the opportunity to do so, mister
Chief Justice, and it wouldn't be with all due respect,
because that position is not worthy of respect. Well, I
(04:32):
want to jump in and say, with all the chaos
in America over what's a boy, what's a girl?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
What is marriage? I mean a lot of this chaos,
the birth of this chaos starts with him.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, Gavin News, we can take even just take something
that's almost neutral now in conversation, which is when roberts
cast the deciding vote to save Obamacare by calling what
was clearly a be attacked and rewriting the law from
the bench.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That's unconscionable.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It has to do more with him being a political
force and the court is a force, and that's that's
where his mindset is, and that's not where the Court belongs.
So we got a problem with John robertson he goes
way way way back.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
What about this issue? Zoom and what do you think
the play is? This is his play is history.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He now has the opportunity to interject himself and his
court to a position where they are making the outcomes,
and they are in a position of resistance. They are
resisting the administration, not based on constitutional authority, because if
they were worried about constitutional authority, they would tell all
these underlying judges get back on your side of the
constitution and let the administration do what it's going to do.
(05:46):
If there's litigation that's going to come forward, let it
come forward. But you should not be the initiators. You
shouldn't be the allies. You shouldn't be playing.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So we have these power we have these power plays.
And you know, Democrats irrational, violent fighting amongst themselves in
pure obstruction mode. The most prevalent relevant part of their
party is the extreme left, and they'll be there again
in the primaries when the more reasonable Democrats are not
(06:14):
and they're going to put forth somebody like an AOC,
just like they did Bernie Sanders. At the end of
the day, you can blame the people that are elected,
but it's the people that are electing them that are
the problem. So let's look at this kind of sensibly.
I mean, you've been following this like no one else has,
and that is Americas since the dawn of television. And
(06:36):
we had a couple of really electric people early like
John F. Kennedy. There became this worship of the presidency.
Also out of line with the Constitution. In other words, suddenly,
and I go back to the children of Israel, who
God never intended to have a physical king, and they
couldn't resist their urge, so they got one, and they
(06:57):
got a bad one, and then he found them a
kid on a field to be a better one. We
kind of made a king out of the presidency. We
tend to have a worship of the presidency. And then
at some point, I think culture basically said, I don't
know right, I don't know wrong. There is no Bible,
there is no God, there is no moral authority. So
(07:19):
at the end of the day, the president is king
and the Supreme Court is God. Isn't that our problem?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay, that's a walking, talking, living meme, and it's right
on point.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I mean, that's the root of the problem. Not
John Robertson, obviously he's going to come out against this. Yeah,
it really is.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The problem is that it used to be that we
the people were the definition of the American government exactly.
Now we look at the institutions and the personalities and
we pretend that they define reality.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And that's a bad position for us to be in
as a country. So are we the problem for John Roberts,
are we the problem or Barack Obama or Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Well, let's put it this way, John Roberts isn't the solution,
but we are.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The problems are what they are. We're the solution.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And that's when we begin to function with courage and
understand that the people are always going to be lying,
and the people who lie lose.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's the key.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The people who are looking for the truth of constitutional government,
who are looking for the truth of the principles of
the Declaration, We've got to be careful that we aren't
the liars. It's easy to get over the line in
the passion, it's easy to get over the line and
the affection and the reaction.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But the people who lie lose.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And that's where the left is vulnerable because they make
it up as they go along, because they're reactionary.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
David said. I he's the CEO of the American Policy
round Table, he's host of the Public Square, heard on
two hundred stations, and he joins this weekly as our
senior contributor. The Reagan Revolution I think was very much
about Ronald Reagan. I look at the Trump Revolution, and
while he was the courage that burst. The it does
(09:01):
seem to be more grassroots, more bipartisan, and more American.
So we have a cultural reawakening and a political revolution
going back to the people, and now the Democrats are
ready to really start on the front line of resistance.
Doesn't that put them on the wrong side of history?
(09:21):
It truly does. Michael.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'm thinking of my dear friend Amity Schlays, who was
at the time we first met with the Wall Street
Journal and she was covering the.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
School choice case for the Nation.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
She flew in and we had breakfast together because she
was covering the story and at that time it was
emanating out of Ohio and under the United States Supreme Court.
At the time, she was writing her book The Forgotten Man.
She was the first one to enter into that dialogue
to bring it back, the notion being that America has
always been about the people who are forgotten, which are
(09:52):
the ones who do all, as Jimmy Stewart would say,
all the living and dying and praying and paying in
this country.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We the people are still looking for answers that are
real because we're living in reality. Our political institutions have
lost touch with what it means to be a normal
working person. Don't care what color you are, don't care
what your creed is. The question is you got to
survive out here.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We did.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Our political institution is far, far, far away. That's the
underpinning of this is the extension between reality where we
all have, for example, the fact that we, the working
people of the United States of America pay all the taxes. Well,
those people up in Washington just spend the month.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's why I wanted to play that clip of Chucky
Schumer in the View for you yesterday. He's basically saying,
I mean, they're all for government is good, government is great?
Government is the answer. And oh, how weird we are
on the right that we think it's our life, our
liberty are hard work. I mean, we the people our money.
By the way, I would love to read Chuckie Schumer
(10:54):
with John F. Kennedy I had to say about the
morality of taxation. But that aside. All right, we did
a journey of discovering the five o'clock hour. God help
you if you were up and listening and you're wondering
why America is all for doge and so this particular
piece of research asked the simple question, what percentage of
(11:15):
government spending of your tax dollars is wasted or wasted?
Less than ten percent, ten to twenty five percent, twenty
six to fifty percent, fifty one to seventy percent, which
got a healthy number. By the way, can you imagine
if seventy five percent of our tax dollars are being wasted?
And they might be seventy six percent of the American
(11:37):
people believe ten to twenty five or twenty six to
fifty percent of our tax dollars are being wasted. That's
how And by the way, this isn't even partisan. Yeah,
sixty four percent of Republicans said the government's wasting more
than twenty five percent, but so did fifty two percent
of independence even forty four percent of Democrats. I mean,
this is a hill they can't win. It's a hill
(11:58):
that was never a hill in the past. I could
play you countless sound of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
and Joe Biden all speaking against waste and making it
clear to the American people when we make these cuts,
we're cutting the waste which delivers more money to the
people in the programs that you think are important for
those who need, and of course they're doing all the
(12:19):
opposite narratives, but they're dying on hills that they can't
win on. That's what's so And listening to that podcast
with Gavin Newsom and coach Timmy, they're not done. They're
going to continue to fight for DEEI. They're going to
continue to fight for spending in waste and demonizing.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And you just launched a term that I want to
recover here and get right up to the front. You
use the words the morality of taxation. That is a
very important term. We need to do. Like t shirts
need to happen right now, the morality of taxation, what
is right and what is wrong in regards to taxation.
(12:58):
If those turns into debate on the morality of taxation,
the history of taxation, the effectiveness of taxation, this country's
going to change because if people ever find out the truth,
it's all over.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chno. David Zinati's
joining us, our senior contributor, and we're talking about all
this in fighting with the Democrats, their search for a
message and a messenger and of course their tactic of resistance,
and it's on the rise. And it's on hills that
not just obstruct the Republicans and Donald Trump Breelon Musk,
(13:31):
but the will of the American people. How does this
dangerous game play out in a midterm election that really
starts in less than a half six months.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh yeah, and the truth is it's already started. Yeah.
One of the key players in all of this are
going to be the money players for the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They will be.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The Democrats can go out and sup all they want,
like a bunch of young adolescents deciding who's going to
control the playground. But then the power players show up
and start writing the checks and then changes everything. It
depends on where the power players, where Soros and the
billionaire cartel decide to play. Their big problem right now
is as long as Doge is focused and telling the truth,
(14:11):
that these guys have got a problem because there's enough evidence,
an avalanche of evidence to prove that that poll that
you talked about is correct. The American people are right
about fifty percent of what's going on shouldn't be right, and.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We're paying for it.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That is an indictment that will roll for ten years
if they tell the truth. If they don't go reactionary,
So they got a big problem, Michael. So the only
way they lose the midterms is if the Republicans refuse
to field quality candidates.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So the problem has been career politicians that were never intended,
controlled by lobbyists and money and interest. What's interesting about this, though,
is where will they side? You know, Soros usually isn't
dumb and he's gotten away with a lot. Will they
side with the sensible Democrats are the ones that say
we're not resisting enough.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, two years to four years doesn't matter to them
because they have a world domination plan.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I mean they're going to be around for a while.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well they might layload to twenty eight and try to
take the whole piece. And they're also now in a
position of having the counter because the other guys have
the wheel. They're counting on the people right now in
the administration making mistakes. That's what they're counting on. Yeah,
well it's not been a good bet for them so
far as as far as the resistance goes. Remember, they
still hold the heights the bad guys in regards to
(15:29):
the massive media.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What's left of it. Although they're all trying to start podcasts,
including Ted Cruz, who's starting a podcast and a radio show.
None of them could read the tea leaves. They were
all on the dead journalistic legacy media for the campaign.
Now they're all trying to create their own podcast world,
which the lesson should have been, go on Joe Rogan's show,
not try to create your own or yours or your
(15:53):
morning show. Yeah, or your morning show. But the Michelle
Obama one looks like it's one and done. Go figure.
All right, resistance is on the rise. We'll keep an
eye on it. You're on the road, so I don't
know if we're going to have you tomorrow if there's
if there's a will, there's a way. If not, we'll
talk to you next week or sooner. Conditions weren't.
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Speaker 5 (16:42):
Hey all of you March madness guys who think you're
smart because your pick's got through the elite eight.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I'll tell you the really smart guys right now.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Are at the hobby lobby and the home goods store,
because that's where all the ladies are right now getting
ready for the spring decorating season.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Here's your pickup line. I usually get my mom a
front door wreath for Easter. Which one do you think
she'd like? Golden, have a great day. Also, I'm building
a shed for all my rescue animals. I don't know.
I'm so glad I'm married and don't have to do
all that. Here's my question at home depot to a woman,
where is the doorknobs? Because I don't know where anything
(17:22):
is there? Thanks Mary, always good to have you a
part of the show. Tomorrow, by the way, we got
Jesus on. We'll be talking to Jonathan, a roomy who
was Lonnie Frisbee and Jesus Revolution, Jesus and the Apostle.
That's going to be a fun visit. And in moments
from now, Sean Farrush on what it's like to live
through the terrifying leftist harassment of being swatted. Don't miss
(17:46):
that it's coming up in seconds. National correspondent Roy O'Neil
is here to report what has been learned from the
phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. I mean,
I hope nobody thought it was going to be done
in one phone call. But at least it's a good start.
That's kind of my read. What cheers Rory. Yeah, it's
a bit narrow, narrower than we had hoped.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I suppose Ukraine has agreed to this thirty day ceasefire,
but President Putin's response was, well, we'll agree maybe to
thirty days without attacks on infrastructure and energy production. So look,
it's a start, right, and this is going to be
something I think that's more for the long haul. I
think that anyone who thought that this would be over
(18:26):
quickly that might have been a bit too optimistic. President
Zelensky had a press conference a short time ago with
the leader from Finland. President Zelensky said he's got a
phone call with President Trump lined up for later today.
We might have some more negotiations happening this weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Here's a clever way to say it. If Donald Trump
can negotiate this and get this done, he will have
earned that Nobel peace price that he'll probably get. The
most concerning thing that I saw was when Putin called
for an end of all military aid to Ukraine. One
it signaled what I talked about yesterday, which is if
he doesn't think that Donald Trump is anything like Joe Biden,
(19:04):
he knows what he's dealing with here. But he also
knows that Donald Trump probably doesn't like all this blank
checks that have been going to Ukraine without the accountability
where all the money has gone. So he wanted to
pick on that. But if he tries to stand his
ground saying you got to cut off the key to
avoiding an escalation is cut off all a to Ukraine.
(19:24):
That's simply something the president can't provide, I mean, because
that's an essence necessary to keep the Ukrainian side of it.
But the thought that he's even talking, I think is
a great tell that ultimately Vladimir Putin knows he's not winning,
he can't win, and he's looking for a way to
get out. And so I think there's tells on both sides.
(19:47):
But there's a lot of work to be done. We
just got to be grateful that they're willing to talk,
at least at this point.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Right.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
We heard from President Trump with that interview with Laura
Ingram last night saying a did not come up in
their phone call even though it went on for almost
a couple of so it's a bit of a wait
and see. And look, President Zelensky had that Oval Office
meltdown essentially over this idea of you know, you can
sign whatever you want. Putin will drag you along sign
something and then break that Leviva and then the President
(20:14):
Zelensky says, I just want to make sure you guys
are here meeting the US and NATO and Europe.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I want to make sure you.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Guys are here to back me up when Putin does
break the deal, which is sure certain.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Is going to happen sooner or later, whether it's a
year or a decade. And that's why it's a key
to holding the Ukraine side that Donald Trump can't give up.
So maybe that's why Putin's starting with it, because that
it's got a cave from there and he'll get onto
a demand that's a little bit more reasonable. Butch and Sonny,
you are finally home. And I know that it's a
big deal here because Butch is a native of Murphy's Burg,
(20:47):
which is just outside of Nashville and went to Tennessee Tech.
But I mean, that was an extraordiny but you know,
one of the most fascinating things in the coverage, and
Fox did, by the way to their credit, and I
can't stand Fox. You know, with the exception of maybe
on show, they made the point that this extended stay,
there's some good that can come from this because ultimately,
(21:08):
if we're going to Mars, we got to get to
where we can feel comfortable they can make the nine
month journey to Mars, the nine months in Mars, and
the nine month journey home. So one of the good
things that will come is this was longer than expected,
and that's good for what we need to learn from
extended stays in space. But boy, I bet they're glad
to be home well.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
And it's also all about contingencies, right, I Mean, the
whole idea of this commercial crew program was to find
two companies that could provide rocket passenger services up and
down to the International Space Station. SpaceX has been highly
successful at it Boeing's attempt at it has fallen short.
But because there are two companies, there was one there
to step in and pull the rescue mission. And that
(21:49):
was the whole plan in this all along, which is
why they had two competing companies for this service.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You couldn't have asked for a better without a hitch
return and splash down. I mean, even the other like
a Disney movie, even staged with dolphins surrounding the capitule.
Even Flipper showed up there in the gulf of event.
It was a beautiful sign. I know you loved it,
and I was watching it as you were. All right, Ry,
great reporting today. We'll talk again tomorrow, all right. So
(22:15):
I just saw the story on This is a news
magazine for radio industry called Inside Radio, and one of
the headlines is it has now happened to Joe Paggs,
who is a syndicated talk show. He's also and this
will become more relevant in our conversations. He's very good
(22:41):
about using clips on Twitter. It's a suspicion of mine,
but syndicated talk show with Joe Paggs survives a harrowing
swat incident, and that made me think of Sean Farage. Now,
Sean is also known as Friday with forty seven, So
I'm going to acknowledge first that this is who does
(23:01):
our Friday with forty seven segment. And it's not just
a stellar impersonation. It's almost a channeling. There's nobody that
does President Trump like Sean Farrosch. But out of character,
I want to talk to the human being along with
his beautiful young wife, who had a pure and simple
an act of terrorism committed against him by the extreme
(23:22):
far left. And it's called swatting. Sean first and foremost
a big part of this show from launch every Friday.
Welcome to a Wednesday. And first start with what swatting is,
because when you first texted me, I had no idea
what it was, and he said, I just got swatted,
and I thought, well, he finally went too far with
his wife. That's not at all what it is. Tell
him what swatting is.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
First of all, I guess I'm not going to call
you pizza boy this time.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
We'll do that.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
We'll do it on Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But by the way, you do text and call me
pizza boy every now and then, as you you.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Know it is true. It is true. I bumped into
so many people. We were like, we love your spots
on with pizza boy. What my name is? Really stuck?
It was really funny.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Slotting swatting is is very scary. I've heard about it
for years. It's happened to Marjorie Taylor Green, It's happened
to timpoole some of these really big name you know,
people who are known on and off the internet. And
you know, it's not just reserved for conservatives.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It happens a lot in the gaming community.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
You'll get a lot of kids who are playing Call
of Duty and they have, you know, some sort of
gun or what looks to be weapon in the background because.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's part of their gaming setup. And then they get swatted,
and you know, it's the whole thing. It's like a prank, but.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It's not funny.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So on Thursday evening.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
We had a long day. My wife and I were
pulling down a fence that we had. We just bought
a house in Murphysboro about a month and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We started we were pouring out a fence. I was shot.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I fell asleep for about twenty minutes, and in that
twenty thirty minute period, Apparently the cops came. So my
wife woke me up and said, she said, Sean, there's
cops in the yard with guns. And I had found
out that morning that several prominent conservative voices on X
the X platform were swatted the night before, and I said, oh, wow,
(25:15):
we're being swatted.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
She had no idea what that was. I thought it
was a JA six situation, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Feared that I was gonna get ripped out of the house,
even though there were pardons.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
That's not what's going through her mind.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
So, you know, heavily armed police, Rutherford County Sheriff their
department responded and there were guns trained on our house.
I've never been in that position before. I have never
been on the barrel side of a gun right every
time I've handled.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
The firearm, and they always tell you never point your
gun in something they don't intend to shoot.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So, you know, I knew that one wrong move could
be a very wrong move. So we just said listen.
I told her, I said, here's what's going to happen.
They're gonna call us somebody, probably because she said, why
are they here?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I said, somebody probably called in.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
What they do is they call it so gruesome crime
inside of your home in my case, according to what
they told me, and I'm getting the nine one one
call soon somebody called them, pretending to be me or
someone who knows me, and said that I killed both
of my parents and was preparing to commit suicide by
comp if they entered the home, which immediately puts the officers,
(26:24):
you know, at risk, because you know, they think they're
going to have a gun pointed at them.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
It's us at risk. But I told them, look, that's
not what's going on. That's not true.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
We're willing to demonstrate that that's not true. Just give
us instructions, we'll.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Follow them, and then we'll sort this out, you know, afterwards.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But you know, we had to stay completely totally calm
because one jumpy want one little jump, and it could
cause uh, it could cause a big problem.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So, by the way, this is day, this is day,
this day, this is days later. In the moment, can
any of us imagine what the level of fright and
terror would be. You've got armed officers surrounding your home
with guns pointing out. I mean, I just can't imagine
the adrenaline. And you handled it so calmly. I mean,
(27:09):
I don't know that I would have been that good.
So the phone rings. Now our officers as aware of
swatting as you are, I mean did they because at
that at the point, at the point you answered the phone,
they think it might be true, right right.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
So basically here our sheriff's office, they knew about swatting.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
As a whole, like they've heard of it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
One of the one of the officers who stood with us.
So when we came out of the house, we had
to come out with our hands up. It was a
whole thing again, and there are officers in the house
the front and the back guns are up. So we
just walked over slow and he sat as you know,
I got padded down, my wife got patted down, and.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Then we sat down on the neighbor's driveway when.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
The house was cleared. He said, this may be one
of those swatting incidents. I'm thinking he knows about the
recent you know rise that's going.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Across the country.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
They didn't know that this was a trend going across
the country. They said, why do you think this happened
to you? And I still told them to take a
look at the back of my truck. I've got Trump
stickers all over the thing, right, I mean, I said,
I'm shy about who I voted for and who I support,
and that's how I am online, and that's why you
guys are here. And you know, I started telling them
about all these these different incidents that were happening across
(28:18):
the country. But no, the only choice you have in
that situation is to be calm, you know, when that's
your only published very my heart was pound.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And my wife was servius. I mean, but but you can't.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
You don't have room at that point to start asking
questions or start you know, getting angry, you know, because
they're they're pointing things.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
So it's just my mind.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Was, Okay, let me show these officers the most efficient
way possible and be as low maintenance as possible that
we are not a threat.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So the guns come down and then we could talk
about it, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And so that's what we did.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
You know, it's exactly who we did, and now we're
working on finding out who did it.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
It's not going to be easy.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
He that were working out finding out working on finding
out who did because it is domestic terrorism and it's
not just us. Okay, this type of call has never happened.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
In this neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
We talked to a lot of our neighbors. They say,
we've never seen a response like this. There are children
on our block who we see every day.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
The sun's out.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They're out on scooters, out on bicycles, they're playing basketball,
they're playing tang, they're having fun outside.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
They couldn't do that last Thursday evening because the road
was blocked because cops were walking up and down the
block with guns.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
So now these kids, wasn't it. What's type of a
neighborhood that they think they live in? Yeah, no, it's
har answer that question.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Sean farrash aka Friday with forty seven out of character.
He was swatted, as many conservative personalities have been. It's
a horrifying thing to go through. Your home is surrounded
by swat teams with high powered rifles pointed. You're in
a negotiation situation. It's it's just awful. I also hate
what this is, you know, for I don't want our
(29:58):
law enforcement to ever take these kinds of not seriously.
There ought to be very severe consequences for people doing this.
Why is it so hard to figure out who's doing it?
We'll continue with Sean Farage aka Friday with forty seven
when Your Morning Show continues next this is Your Morning
Show with Michael Del Trono. We're talking with Sean Farrage
(30:20):
aka Friday with forty seven, out of character today because
he was swatted by the extreme left. You know, probably
the first question a lot of our listeners have, Sean
is how did they know your number to call you?
And that was a lot better than busting down the door.
And then why is it so hard to trace where
these calls originate?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, I think whoever called.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
In the slant also found a way to get my
phone number because they gave when ironically, when pizzas were delivered,
I became pizza boy for the last couple of days.
But when pizzas got delivered, those pizza places.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Had my number. Also I didn't order from them, so uh,
you know, so.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Whoever called it in and was being a jerk with
the rogue pizza orders had my number. I believe they
gave it to the police and uh, and and they
called me, which was great because instead of them pounding
on the door, and now it's like, well, if I
open this door too fast, you know, things bad things
can happen. They called me and told me everything that
was going on, So, uh, I think they got my
(31:24):
number from the people who called in the slot, which.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Uh, you know, it was was better than having the
door broken down.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
But I think it's difficult to find these these people,
and I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Know how difficult necessarily it is.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I mean, we found all the Jay sixers pretty quick,
but you know, I feel like it's difficult to find
these people because they're in some sort of room we're
building or whatever, and there's probably multiple layers of masking.
There's probably a VP and there's a spoof phone number.
They may be calling over voice, you know, voice over internet,
(31:56):
so that can be kind of masked and and blurred.
But there are so many people now who have been hit,
and the attacks have been in basically the exact same fashion,
you know, swatting, the same type of gruesome call, and
then the pizza and the names on the pizza order,
you know, who the orders for, have all been identical.
So there's either one person doing this to a number
(32:18):
of individuals in the country, or it's a group that's
working together.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And using the same style.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
So you know, there's a level of it being somewhat centralized.
That may make it easier to attract than most.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Why do you think you were targeted? I mean, Joe
PEG's a conservative talk show host. I know he does
a lot of video clips on Twitter. Have all the
people that I mean, first of all, everyone that's being
targeted in this latest group seems to be conservative. It
seems to have ties to X, which maybe you know
from melon musk obsession to those that post on X.
(32:49):
I mean, why you, I guess is the broad question.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
I don't know the answer as to why I was picked,
other than you know, the earlier aims of those who
got swatted. Folks like Nick Sorter, folks like gun th Eagleman,
those are huge accounts on X, and I'm friendly with them.
I'm in there replies a lot, we talk a lot.
So it may just be that those are targets number one.
And then they went down into the into the replies
(33:15):
and got inspiration from anybody else who's interacting with them,
and that's meant to essentially.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Not just detect the person, but destabilize their platform. I
don't want to talk.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I don't want to interact to this account, so I
don't because I don't want to be swatted next kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
None of us care. I mean, we're clearly obviously you know, rattled.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
By it, but we're not going to back down. A
lot of us are unapologetic in our views. You know,
just look at Joe PAGs for an example. He's a
good friend and he's a nice, nice enough guy, but
you know he's also very very dug into his positions.
He's outspoken, you know, that's just that's his brand. So
a lot of us are are like that. They don't
(33:54):
like it.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I can't think of anything more horrific than what you
and your wife went through. I thank god every day
since that it went calmly. I thank god for that
Rutherford Sheriff's Department and swat team that handled it perfectly.
And this is terrorism, pure and simpole. I simple Red
was wondering if it had anything to do with them
actually thinking you really were Donald Trump. But Sean farrash
(34:17):
Our aka Friday was forty seven. We'll talk to you
on Friday, and I thank god you're safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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