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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from War from Everywhere, USA. It's
Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayala Boom back at Action.
Hot Damn.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We are fired up for this hour of Fox Across America. Why, Jimmy, Why,
what's the big idea? Why you're so excited? It's because
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy is stopping buying. He's got a
new book out, he's got a little free time on
his hands thanks to the government shutdown, and he adds
a legitimate case to sue us for royalties because we
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play a lot of his soundbites on this show, especially
when we're talking about I don't know the Democrat party.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, in this hour, we'll go toe to toe with
John Kennedy, funniest guy in the Senate. I've never met him,
but I am an admirer from Afar. Oftentimes when I'm
on Sean Hannity's TV show, I'm watching John Kennedy before
me when I'm sitting in the pot in front of
the camera, and I'm usually racking up so selfishly. This
is a really exciting day for me, but I don't
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doubt it's a big win for you just the same
why because you got a straight shooter to talk to.
In politics, everybody does so much filibustering. Now, like did
you see Mom Donnie with Martha McCallum yesterday? That was
square dancing. It was just like, here's a what do
you think Hamas should do? Should we disarm Hamas well?
We just want New York City to be affordable.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That was the answer.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's what he actually said in response to you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Don't change the subject, just answer the question.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh no, he changed the subject. He didn't want to
answer the question. And that's so much of politics. And
one of the reasons I'll tell you this where I
straight up is for real, one of the reasons Trump
is winning, one of the reasons John Kennedy so popular,
and I do mean this about myself. One of the
reasons this show is doing so well not being arrogant. Okay,
I get on the air every day and say my
superpower is the fact that I don't have one. I
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get on the air every day and say like, hey,
I went to like community college, I drove a taxi.
I'm not the SMA artist guy in this conversation. How
many times have you guys emailed me a correction in
the last five years? Maybe a thousand? Okay, I'm just
being honest with you. Sometimes it's just nice to be
able to relax and trust what you're listening to as
a bargaining with you in good faith source of information.
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That's all you want. Nobody's gonna be perfect. We didn't
need these carefully curated soundbites that politicians were distilling for
the last one hundred and fifty years till Trump came
down the escalator and was like, Mexico is sending drug
dealers and rapists, and the rest I assume are good people.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And the rest I assume are good people.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's like funny in a way that doesn't quite make sense,
but it's kind of funny, you know. But Trump is
maybe conversationally flawed when it comes to the fact that
he throws a lot of wild pitches. I used to
say in Trump Won that sometimes he tweeted such psychotic
things that it almost seems strategic. Like do you remember
in the movie Bull Durham when the Kevin Costner character
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Crash Davis tells, uh, ePIE Calvin Nuke Lalush, the Timothy
Robbins character. The catcher comes out to the pitcher at
the mound and goes, do me a favor. Hit the
mascot with your next fastball, because real wind up, throw
ninety eight and hit the mascot.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What the hell did I know right now?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So he looks at him like I'm throwing a fastball
and hitting the mascot. He's like you no, no, don't do
it because it's gonna make them nervous. They're gonna be uncomfortable,
they're gonna be unorthodox. They're not gonna know how to
dig in. And sometimes I used to think that was
Trump's Twitter stop, because once in a while it'd be
like things would be running good and he would just
tweet Mika Brezenski showed up at my house badly bleeding
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from a face left when the hand exactly and you're like,
wait what, And now the news secle was like, it's
kind of crash. Then a president talks that way and
it's it's nuts. But the point is it was so
unorthodox that it made him hard to fight because he
was on convention in a lot of ways. If you
were to take it further in sports, he's like Andrew Galatta.
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There was a Polish fighter, Andrew Galatta, who's a pretty
good heavyweight, but he got disqualified from a lot of
fights because he'd head butt you. He'd punch you in
the nuts, hit you in the back of the head,
all the things you're not supposed to do when you
come to the center of the ring, and new and
Mills Lane is like, don't do this, this, and this. Well,
Andrew Galatta would immediately do all of it right, you
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get disqualified. But that's Trump. He does a lot of
unconventional things. Charlemagne brought it up earlier in the week.
I want to play it for you one more time
because it really does set up the conversation we're going
to have with Senator Kennedy really well. Because the thing
about Senator Kennedy is he's often telling you jokes that
might be a real cutting down of who he's making
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fun of. But jokes only work, Okay, punchlines only work
if the setup is true. Condo, Okay, if the setup
is true, people agree with your logic, they'll laugh at
the punchline. But if you say something not true, oftentimes
they're not going to laugh at the punchline. Say the
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moon is made of cheese. Okay, and now you have
a punchline. You know, if the punchline is not about
you being wrong, then the joke isn't going to work.
But if the punchlinees like it's made of cheese and
here's a joke to go with it, half the room goes, wait,
but it's not made of cheese. Why did they Why
are we laughing at them? That's comedy. There's a logic
behind every joke.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know. They say this like every joke is based
in some kind of a truth.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But here is Charlamagne talking about the unorthodox style of
communicating and how Trump killed the traditional language of politics.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Clip sixteen.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible. Trump shows me
what presidents can do if they want to do it.
Donald Trump shows me what can be said if you
are willing to say it. It's not about what can't
be done, it's about who has the political will to
do it. I don't want to hear peep from Democrats
about nothing until they get the balls to say what's
really on their mind in regards to this country, in
this world. Trump doesn't care if it sounds ridiculous. Trump
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doesn't care if it makes sense. It's no political correctness whatsoever.
As I've been saying for years, the language of politics
is dead and Donald Trump killed it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Bang.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Listen to Charlemagne, but he's telling you the truth. Trump's
superpower and this is where he has helped the world.
As we were putting a greater emphasis on what you
said than what you did, and it's really dangerous.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay. I wrote a New York Times bestselling book.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's called Cancel Culture Dictionary, and the whole point of
the book was that we were retraining society to become
kind of like virtue cops. Get out of bed in
the morning, find us something that's wrong that's unjust pointed out,
and we'll all tweet till that person's fired. Oh that
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comedian's jokes. He should be punching up. Comedians should never
be punching down. No, no, no, they should just be punching funny. Okay,
Don Rickles punched in every direction. He looked out into
the crowd, made fun of everybody there. Some of them
are rich, some of them were poor. That wasn't the point.
The point was laughter. And we started to create this
culture where what you said carried more weight than what
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you did. And it was problematic because again, we were
like firing comedians for jokes they told at comedy shows.
We weren't even ant. Wait, this guy said what at
the Des Moines Funny Bone, Like, what were you there?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did you like it? Up?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Said you get no, No, I was. I just watched it
on the internet an hour ago. I was on the
toilet before I got in the shower in the morning.
And yeah, apparently people are mad about this, so I'm
gonna get mad too, and I'll get a bunch of
likes and the guy will get fired.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We'll all feel like we did something heads the world
that would happen. Okay, when we started to focus on
what people said, we created this era of slacktivism, not activism.
Slacktivism you go after superficial things, get them canceled, and
walk way feeling like you delivered some type of substantive
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betterment to society.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Not even close.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Think about Native American mascots for a minute. Native American mascots. Okay,
Native Americans have the shortest life expectancy in America. They
have the highest rates of heart disease and literacy and
the largest percentage of a population living beneath the poverty
line Native Americans. Now, when you go out and you
whack the Washington Redskins, something Native Americans had donated to
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the NFL, mind you, so we're all on the same page.
They liked the redskins. They wanted the representation. And it
wasn't about mocking a skin color. A redskin was a
brave who was given the highest honor in battle, which
is to paint your face red and lead the tribe
onto the war field. That's what a red skin was.
So understand, woke white people showed up and we're like,
I'm here to help the Native Americans. Are you doing
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anything about the heart disease? No, the poverty, No, the literacy, no,
the diabetes, no, the alcoholism, no, the life expectancy. No,
We're gonna change the halftime show. It's what we're gonna do.
I mean, come on, man, And you understand it was
not activism. It was slacktivism. And when you made the
change to the Redskins name, society moved on as if
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we had delivered some type of progress on behalf of
Native Americans, like we accept you guys can all do
better now you're fine, Like play the Throne room from
the end of Star Wars and give everybody a metal
who changed the halftime show? Okay, slacktivism tearing down statues.
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What is a tearing down a statue of a two
hundred year old guy do for a community? Does it
improve test scores, lower crime rates, make housing more for
of course not so. If you don't like what the
guy stood for, put a plack up next to the statue,
reminding them that while at the time he was popular,
today it's a little controversial because I promise you you
don't change the quality of anybody's life by changing what
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a pigeon takes a dump on in the park. Okay,
that's what a statue is. Ninety percent of a statues
contribution to society is being a BUCkies for pigeons, cleanest
rest rooms on the highway come on down so that
the statue isn't going to sell you a chocolate covered
grit and a Santa onesie where you have a beaverhead
like the one we got BUCkies. But the point is
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that was dangerous. Okay. Think of the era of cancel
culture and outrage culture and saying the wrong thing meant
you gone. And it's not to say there shouldn't be
consequences for speech. If you say something horrible and a
corporation doesn't want to be associated with the backlash, they
have every right to fire you. That's not violating your
First Amendment rights. Like so many people got wrong. People
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were say.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's a first Amendment. It's not a First Amendment thing.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay, the First Amendment does not protect you from the
company you represent getting manned. It protects you from the
government throwing you in jail. That is the first Amendment.
So to get that out of the way. But the
second biggest problem there is when you really make conversation
the focus of everyone's ire, oftentimes you overlook action. I
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was telling you this about Kanye West. Kanye West tweets
insane thing. He gets high, eats a couple of percocets,
and they do interviews and he's like, oh, this will
be fun.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We'll have Kanye on. He starts praising.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Hitler and telling you who he wants to kill, and
it's unacceptable, and of course companies are going to distance
himself from him, and they're not gonna want him around anymore.
So Kanye West is banned from going to the Grammys,
okay because of his speech, But Chris Brown beat up
Rihanna so bad she had to be hospitalized. He was arrested,
and guess what he did a year later, He went
to the Grammys and won a Grammy, Like, dude, do
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you not get the what you do has to be
a little more important than what you say and it's
not the same. Speech shouldn't have consequence, as I said.
But that's where Trump coming along has really changed the
compass in America because Trump says all the things politicians
would traditionally get fired for. But people don't care anymore
because they're so sick of politicians who say the right
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thing and do the wrong thing that they'd rather have
a guy who talks crass and gets the hostages back
from Israel than a guy who doesn't want to press
for a ceasefire because half is part of supports Hamas
and he doesn't want to lose the vote at the
Ivy League college kids. Okay, Biden will say the right
things if he can get through the teleprompter in one try,
But is he doing any of the right things? Of course, not.
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They let twenty one million people across the border illegally.
Five hundred thousand kids got sex trafficked. Okay, three hundred
thousand people dot a fin. Okay, that's not the right thing.
The guy cleaning it up might say some of the
wrong things, but if he's doing the right thing, it's
the only thing you should focus on.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Bang there it is Fox across America.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But Jimmy Flow one segment away from Louisiana Senator John
Kennedy his new book How to Test Negative for Stupid
and Why Washington Never Will.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Country is being destroyed by stupid people, by very stupid people.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I mean, well, the good news right now is those
stupid people aren't spending any extra money because the government's closed.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The bad news is when.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The government reopens, they have to spend all of that
money with additional interests, so your tax dollars go up.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Banks, big government witnesses.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It is a crazy time in politics, man, It's not
the craziest time.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
There's been wild upheaval in society in the sixties and
the civil rights and the Vietnam era and all that,
you know, insanity that's gone on. But the point is
in the modern moment, In the modern moment we live in,
you now have this new thing called social media where
everybody is just an influencer with a side hustle in Congress.
And that's what's really changed the game dramatically for me
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is I now watch these people a lot more than
I used to, and you start to see things that
you can unsee. You go like, oh, this guy's a scam.
One of them is Obama. This is this sucks for me.
I want to tell you this. You know when you
have that moment, okay, your whole life, you hear your
dad say like, shut the door, you know the heat's on,
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and then one day you yell at your kid, you
go shut the door, the heats on, and you go,
oh my god, I just crossed that threshold.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm now on the other side of that exchange. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The heart of this one for me is a guy
who covers politics for a living is Barack Obama. Because
when Obama was running for president, I was a cab driver.
When Obama was running for reelection, I was a cab driver. Okay,
So I was the guy listening to radio hosts criticize
this man. So I hate when I have to get
on the radio and do it myself, because I feel
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like I've hit that moment of you know, shut the
door the hates on, you know, and that's what happens
with somebody like Barack Obama. Okay, but stick with me
because he might not like what I'm about to tell you.
Obama is a just a shameless race baiting grifter, A
shameless race baiting grifter. Why do I say that to you?
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And I don't want to get you worked up.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And manned Obama?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But here I am, all these years later from Cabby
to the guy on the radio and the TV being
like fregging Obama.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I can't believe this guy. I don't see you doing
any better in the booty department.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Fine, but if you remember, during a twenty twenty four election,
Obama famously famously did chy did black men at an
event for not supporting the black woman. Hey, hey, hey,
I don't want to hear about the brothers not turning
out for a sister. You gotta vote for Kamala because
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she's black. Do you remember this? It was in It
was actually in early September of twenty twenty four. I
don't want to hear about the brothers not turning out
to vote. We got a sister on the ballot. You
gotta vote for the sister. You're like, WHOA, all right?
It sounds like identity politics. Doesn't sound merit based, it's
not ideal. But what actually makes it worse is Barack
Obama just cut two advertisements for Abigail Spanberger and she's
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running against the black woman win. Some seers, what a fraud.
So in September, it was you better vote for the
black lady. You gotta vote. You're black, You vote for
the black lady. That's how it works. Black got black lady.
You don't have a choice here. You vote for the
That's how it works. You have a problem figuring out
whether you're for me or Trump, and you ain't black.
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That was Obama too. You have a problem figuring out
if it's for Kamala or Trump, then you ain't black.
Of course you vote for common. If a black lady's
on the ballot, black men have to vote for her. Well, Obama,
a black man just endorsed the white lady, Abigail Spamberger,
who won't denounce Jay Jones, the guy who's the Attorney
general candidate who got caught in a text exchange, fantasizing
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about putting two bullets in his opponent's head and killing
his kids, saying, the only way these people will ever
move on policy is if they feel pain.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
He said that, I mean, dude, garbage like you just
makes me sick.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And you've all heard the winsome sears back and forth
where she can't get a response out of her Abigail Spamberger,
white lady. Not that it matters, the behavior matters, the
qualifications matter. But the point is Obama, who was out
there saying you gotta vote for the black lady, now
out there in the same breath saying you gotta vote
for the white lady.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I mean, I'm you know.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You gotta vote for guys, the person you think can
do the job. And you don't have to vote for
the person the media plays up as a hot new sensation.
You don't have to vote for the guy who has
that hot topic presidency that yes, we can hope and
change presidency of Obama, because what that ultimately creates is
a media that's reluctant to criticize the popular guy for
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fear that they're going to alienate you and use lose viewership.
So that air quote, popular guy gets to send fifty
billion dollars to a ran and embolden the biggest state
sponsor of terrorism in the world. And oh, by the way,
nuke our healthcare system. That's how effective Obama was as
a president. Sixteen years later, and the government shut down
because of his healthcare policy. Think about the insanity of
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that ella, And this is a big damn deal. Joining
us now on the show a mated voyage for a
superstar senator from the great State of Louisiana, author of
the new book How To Test Negative for Stupid, A
man far too classy for this program. His publicis put
him up to it. Say hello to Senator John Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Hello, sir.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jimmy, how are you man?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
This is a big deal for me. I want you
to know this.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well, thank you for having me. It's my honor to
be here.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, I will tell you that here on the se.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Had nothing else to do.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You had, you could have hosted the show today.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I could have took off.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I got all the time you need, man, I got
days weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
They brought you on to talk book. I could have
talked to you about Elvis the moon landing. We could
have got somewhere.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
We can read the Bible to each other.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well we may, so let me throw one piece of
high praise at you. When we were putting the rundown
together today, one of my overseers here at Fox. You know,
I do this show in a shock collar, so if
I go off the rail, you get like three thousand
vaults in the neck. And you you know, the only
that's the only way Sean Hannity will have me on
a show.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
He lets you do whatever you want. I get zapped.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But we're sitting here, we're prepping the show, and someone
said to me, you know, Senator Kennedy funniest man in
the Senate, which I agree with, but I have to
caveat it because being the funniest guy in the Senate
is like being the hottest girl on the view, is
it not?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Sir? Oh, you said that. I didn't Jimmy, but it
was a good one one man.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So talking about things people say, because I want to
get to the book. Are you following your prolific success
on TikTok? I have a sixteen year old son, and
you have become like a like a TikTok superstar.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You might as well be a rapper.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I don't know how to describe you, but you're massive
in all of these other communities.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Are you taking stock at any of that? And there's
a reason I ask I.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Can't use TikTok. They won't let me. The Senate won't
let me use it because we passed the bill at
balling it. Now. The President, I think, is negotiating something
with with my dancing almost on TikTok. But I had
it on my I on my iPad and they made
me take it off.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
If you're listening on the radio, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy's
on the line jokingly calling someone a Nazi, which I
only want to point out because if I don't say
you're joking, they'll think I'm interviewing a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, I understand, man, I understand.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
The TikTok kids love you.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And the reason I mentioned this is because you may
or may not know this, But on this show, which
is heard on about two hundred radio stations across the country,
we happen to play a lot of sound clips that
might sound familiar to you.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Can I play one of them for you?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Just one Okay, here you go.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Since a big debate right now, as we have Mom
Donnie running for mayor, here is a constant discussion for
us revolves around supporting the police.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You might be familiar with this one.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Look if you hate cops just because of the cops,
the next time you get in trouble, caw, crackhead. Did
you catch that I cut a commercial in my reelection.
I've gotten so much trouble, Jimmy. Everybody hated it. Accept
the voters.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Boom, that's what's up.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So the question was, since you got us here, do
we owe you royalties for this?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No? Man, not you, not you. I'm honored that you
would play it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh well, that's that's a big deal. If if you'll.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Give me a minute, I'm going to walk down the
hall to HR and try to get my job back.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
If you need an agent, you just let me know.
We'll get you a pay raise in a car out
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I don't know, because the government is a notorious for
paying people right now, So I don't know if this
sounds so sweet, but I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I'll take it all right. So give me this the book?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
How the test negative for stupid and why Washington never will?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I love this so much?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Is it based in the fact that we're fighting a
lot of the wrong battles, like the compass is broken
in Washington?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Is that the jump off of this?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yes, I want to people to understand, Jimmy, what it's
really like from the outside. Are from the inside. As
bad as it looks from the outside, you just you
wouldn't believe it from the inside. It's not a policy book,
per se. It's a story book. Now. I use stories
to make my points about policy. But the story some
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of them are are bizarre, some of them are funny,
all of them are true. I tell stories about working
with President Trump, about meeting President she about the forty
five minutes I spend with President Biden. I talk about
the crews and Grassley and Shumer and just about every
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member of the Senate. I think the book. I believe
the book will make people think, probably make you laugh
a little bit, may make you day drink. But it's
all true. And I want people to understand why in Washington,
d C. Normal is just a on the drawer because
I hear it all the time, people saying that, can
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it really be that crazy, and I tell them, yes,
common sense up here is illegal.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It gets stopped by a cop.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Talking to Luis, I had a Senator John Kennedy the
book how to Test Negative or Stupid?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You wanting to tell you personally?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Okay, as a guy who hosts a Saturday night TV show,
and I'm frequently on Sean Hannity's show after you a
lot of times, and of course I meant him, Oh,
come on, man, well if you've seen me, if you've
seen me, you have doubled my ratings. That matters, Thank you.
But let me give you this because I went on
tour with Sean this summer. We did a thing called
Punchlines and Patriots and it was a stand up in
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a Q and A and it was a lot of fun.
But I can tell you the genuine best laugh you've
ever gotten out of him, and I only know this
from watching his reaction, is you said, AOC is the
reason we have directions on the shampoo bottle. Now he
I know when a joe hits him because he's a
great laugh and he really genuinely loves to laugh.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And I love that about Sean.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But sometimes if your next level him, he kind of
gets hitting away. It's like when a boxer's knees buckle.
And I do believe that goes on your Greatest Hits album.
There will go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
If you'll say, I remember when that happened. I was
doing that show with Lindsay and with John Thune and uh,
sean kind of hit me. I left left field. He said, Okay,
the last word goes to Kennedy. What do you think
about congresswoman? Okay, show cortees. So I just said what
came to mind. I don't hate anybody, Jimmy, I'm like you.
(24:37):
I don't hate anybody. I look for grace wherever I
can find it. And the congresswoman, uh is entitled to
her opinion. But she's crazy. Uh. She thinks she thinks
she can land on the sun if you go at night.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
She does.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I don't doubt this. Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
If you remember last week, we had this controversy because
she was saying Steven Miller was four foot ten and
he's five foot ten. And I wanted to point out,
as I was a former New York City cab driver,
her being off by a foot is not as bad
as the time she was off by forty miles when
she said she grew up in the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Exactly the Footmoe I think. And then she had to
apologize because she didn't want to offend the short people.
You know, don't I don't. Look, if I didn't know better,
I would think that Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez was a Republican plant.
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I mean she is. She's clearly the leader of the
party because she's the leader of the Luon wing of
her party, and the Moon wing of her party is
in control, and they've got every other Democrat scared to death,
including Senator Chuck Schumer. And that's going to continue to
be the case until the relatively saying Democrats go to
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Amazon and buy spine online. And they don't want to
do that, and they don't want to stand up to
AOC or to the OWD wing. So you know, you
reap what's your soul? Man?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
So are you telling me that if I'm going to Vegas,
I should bet the over thirty five days on the shutdown?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Amen? Brother, We're going to be shut down. Awhile, And look,
this is not complicated. A couple of weeks ago, on
a two CE, our country was just kind of rocking along.
We're minding our own business. Our budget ran out at midnight,
but that was cool because we were talking to the
Democrats about a short term extension while we negotiated a
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new budget. And Sumar comes up and says, wait a minute,
I'm going to vote and tell all my people to
vote to shut this sucker down unless you give us
one point five to three dollars and we'll tell you
how to spend. Wow. Well, you know, I mean, our
heads snapped back, and uh, I think I told the
(27:07):
press my mama didn't raise a fool, and if she did,
it was one of my brothers. I wasn't about to
vote for that, and the Republican was and and uh
uh President Trump wasn't gonna support it. And that's why
we're in a shutdown. We haven't asked for a damn thing.
All we have asked for is to keep government open.
Why we negotiate a budget and uh and Shupar wants
(27:31):
all this stuff, you know, dream Weaver is what I
told said to Chuck the other day. He said, why
need this? I need that? And I said, dream Weaver, man,
you don't put down the ball. We're just gonna stay
shut down.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And I haven't seen any side of budget on their end,
any sign of that. Are there Democrats quietly behind the
scenes that realize this is a fool's errand and they
just don't have the guts to speak out?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Of course, Democrats do a better job sticking together than
Republicans in the Senate. As I've said before, Republicans were
kind of independent thinkers. We've got some free range chickens
that kind of wander off on you and you got
to go catch them. I've been a free range chicken
myself before. But the Democrats pretty much do what their
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they're told by Senator Schumer up to a point. But
I've got a lot of Democratic colleagues that think this
is a mistake. They think it it's hurting the country.
But like them, they are scared of the socialist wing
of the Democratic Party, which is in control. I mean,
and they're in control, Jimmy, They're about to elect the
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socialist mayor of New York. I never thought I would
see the day.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, that one blows my mind. As a guy who
works in TV, they always tell me we need to
avoid carbs, but I never expected to be standing in
a breadline.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know this is amen, and you know I wouldn't
vote for him, But mom, Donnie's going to win that thing. Yeah,
his only competition is Guomo, and I can read a poll.
Gulomo's did his pride Chicken man, you can't win that race.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
He also probably killed off a lot of his supporters
during COVID. But I don't want to get sidetracked.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, I'm not going to touch that one.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Good job, give me one more.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Okay, question about the book how to test negative for stupid.
We're talking to Louis Ana Senator John Kennedy. When you
comes to meeting with people like you talked about meeting
with Trump, meeting with Biden and Schumer and Chuck Rasseley
and everybody in between, do the most successful people have
an efficiency to them. I'm very curious about this because
I'm always told people who get things done just start
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doing it before you even propose what you need to do.
Is that the difference between Trump and other people that
traditionally been in positions of power like this, Well.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Trump, Trump's very efficient, and he doesn't believe in He
doesn't believe in committees. When I have I don't call
the president every week, but I've got his cell phone number,
and every time I call him, he either picks up
or he calls him back. Within six hours. We generally
work out whatever issue we have there on the phone.
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He'll make a decision. He's not afraid. He's a good
business person. A good business person won't catch things this way.
If I've got ten decisions to make today, I'm gonna
make all ten. Six or seven of them I'll get right.
One of them I can go back and fix, and
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the other two I'll just get wrong. But back in
the eight out of ten ain't bad. And that's he's
very decisive, and that's what we've been missing. President Biden,
on the other hand, bless his heart. You know he
couldn't finish the sentence without taking a nap. It was sad.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Would you would you say if we were ranking the
worst presidents in history that Jill Biden would be near
the bottom.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I hate to say it, but yes, because I think
history will look back and realize that a lot of
what the Biden administration did, while he's personally responsible for it,
he didn't make the decision. I used to get ash
all the time by my people back in Louisiana, who's
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really the president because we don't believe it's President Biden.
They see President Biden on TV talking like he's from
out of space, and they say he can't be present.
Who's the president? I tell him, whoever's got control of
that TELEPROMPTU. The President just goes up there and he
reads it, and I think it's five or six ages
in his family, and they're the real president of the
United States. And I think President Obama had an enormous
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amount of influence.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
It sure reads that way, especially when he's as bitter
as he is about Trump getting the hostages back, because
you could see that Obama didn't. He actually didn't mention him.
He couldn't give him credit. And on some level that
just has to be a slight to him.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
No, it is, and and they see what President Trump did,
Why did we get the hostages back? It's not complicated
because of President Trump. Unlike President Biden. I'm loud Israel
to slap a moss and slap his has blah to
Pluto is He'll just knock them living crap out of
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And then President Trump turned around and hit Iran so
hard the Eyatola was calling at bones and these these
were our enemies, and they were supposed to be so strong,
strong on the force rategy. Don't miss with his baa
or run or our moss. Well, Israel, the and the
and and President Trump did mess with him, knocked him
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into a new zip code. And they said, hey, you
don't know Moss. You know we what do you want?
And Trump said, getn't release the hostage hostages. Of course
they did it. And if they don't turn over their weapons. Uh,
President Trump is going to turn turn israelis.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Again a man.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Last question, then you mentioned you mentioned you have the
president's cell phone. I would never ask for a cell
phone number, but could you get me Malania's number.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I do not have Mlania's numbers. I will. I'll send
you the president's phone number, and you know you can
call him up late at night. Think there some Halloween
jokes or something. Senator Kenny probably answered Jimmy thing about him,
and he may take you. Look once he gets your
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cell number, Jimmy, he'll be calling you a tripper in
the morning. He's like a stray dog. If you feed
him one, you can't get rid of me. Man, you're
killing me.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Man, listen, I thank you for some time today. I'm
going to get off before I'm on a government watch list.
But Senator Kennedy, you're the man.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Thanks, Jimmy, You're a rockstar. Man.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I'll take it. You're the best.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Take care the Great Louisiana. Senator John Kennedy. The book
How to Test Negative for Stupid. Buy eight copies or
You're dead to me?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Sure hanging well the ninth on Fox across America.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
It is time to give out our participation trophy before
we do, Max roundup applause for Senator John Kennedy. Fantastic,
and he had some choice comments about our girl AOC.
She's so dumb she thinks you can land on the
sun if you go at night.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Mister, trophy has to go to AOC.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Here it is her saying air should be drinkable. Clip six.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Sick of talking about these horse races, and we're sick
of leaders who only want to spend their time talking
about that instead of talking about real issues that affect
our lives, instead of talking about healthcare, instead of talking
about wages, instead of talking about having air that's drinkable, What.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Sir, hold on air that's drinkable just a bit outside.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
The trophy goes to AOC Max fair. I think that's
more than fair, all right.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And the revelation of the day was from Senator Kennedy
who said he might be able to get me Malania's
phone number here you so tune in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Jenny Fail is on the show. Maybe is my wife,
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I don't know what you heard in this interview, but
the show's over, Pay up and get out.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
This has been a podcast from wor
This is a podcast from War from Everywhere, USA. It's
Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayala Boom back at Action.
Hot Damn.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We are fired up for this hour of Fox Across America. Why, Jimmy, Why,
what's the big idea? Why you're so excited? It's because
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy is stopping buying. He's got a
new book out, he's got a little free time on
his hands thanks to the government shutdown, and he adds
a legitimate case to sue us for royalties because we
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play a lot of his soundbites on this show, especially
when we're talking about I don't know the Democrat party.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, in this hour, we'll go toe to toe with
John Kennedy, funniest guy in the Senate. I've never met him,
but I am an admirer from Afar. Oftentimes when I'm
on Sean Hannity's TV show, I'm watching John Kennedy before
me when I'm sitting in the pot in front of
the camera, and I'm usually racking up so selfishly. This
is a really exciting day for me, but I don't
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doubt it's a big win for you just the same
why because you got a straight shooter to talk to.
In politics, everybody does so much filibustering. Now, like did
you see Mom Donnie with Martha McCallum yesterday? That was
square dancing. It was just like, here's a what do
you think Hamas should do? Should we disarm Hamas well?
We just want New York City to be affordable.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That was the answer.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's what he actually said in response to you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Don't change the subject, just answer the question.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh no, he changed the subject. He didn't want to
answer the question. And that's so much of politics. And
one of the reasons I'll tell you this where I
straight up is for real, one of the reasons Trump
is winning, one of the reasons John Kennedy so popular,
and I do mean this about myself. One of the
reasons this show is doing so well not being arrogant. Okay,
I get on the air every day and say my
superpower is the fact that I don't have one. I
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get on the air every day and say like, hey,
I went to like community college, I drove a taxi.
I'm not the SMA artist guy in this conversation. How
many times have you guys emailed me a correction in
the last five years? Maybe a thousand? Okay, I'm just
being honest with you. Sometimes it's just nice to be
able to relax and trust what you're listening to as
a bargaining with you in good faith source of information.
(02:19):
That's all you want. Nobody's gonna be perfect. We didn't
need these carefully curated soundbites that politicians were distilling for
the last one hundred and fifty years till Trump came
down the escalator and was like, Mexico is sending drug
dealers and rapists, and the rest I assume are good people.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And the rest I assume are good people.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's like funny in a way that doesn't quite make sense,
but it's kind of funny, you know. But Trump is
maybe conversationally flawed when it comes to the fact that
he throws a lot of wild pitches. I used to
say in Trump Won that sometimes he tweeted such psychotic
things that it almost seems strategic. Like do you remember
in the movie Bull Durham when the Kevin Costner character
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Crash Davis tells, uh, ePIE Calvin Nuke Lalush, the Timothy
Robbins character. The catcher comes out to the pitcher at
the mound and goes, do me a favor. Hit the
mascot with your next fastball, because real wind up, throw
ninety eight and hit the mascot.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What the hell did I know right now?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So he looks at him like I'm throwing a fastball
and hitting the mascot. He's like you no, no, don't do
it because it's gonna make them nervous. They're gonna be uncomfortable,
they're gonna be unorthodox. They're not gonna know how to
dig in. And sometimes I used to think that was
Trump's Twitter stop, because once in a while it'd be
like things would be running good and he would just
tweet Mika Brezenski showed up at my house badly bleeding
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from a face left when the hand exactly and you're like,
wait what, And now the news secle was like, it's
kind of crash. Then a president talks that way and
it's it's nuts. But the point is it was so
unorthodox that it made him hard to fight because he
was on convention in a lot of ways. If you
were to take it further in sports, he's like Andrew Galatta.
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There was a Polish fighter, Andrew Galatta, who's a pretty
good heavyweight, but he got disqualified from a lot of
fights because he'd head butt you. He'd punch you in
the nuts, hit you in the back of the head,
all the things you're not supposed to do when you
come to the center of the ring, and new and
Mills Lane is like, don't do this, this, and this. Well,
Andrew Galatta would immediately do all of it right, you
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get disqualified. But that's Trump. He does a lot of
unconventional things. Charlemagne brought it up earlier in the week.
I want to play it for you one more time
because it really does set up the conversation we're going
to have with Senator Kennedy really well. Because the thing
about Senator Kennedy is he's often telling you jokes that
might be a real cutting down of who he's making
(04:46):
fun of. But jokes only work, Okay, punchlines only work
if the setup is true. Condo, Okay, if the setup
is true, people agree with your logic, they'll laugh at
the punchline. But if you say something not true, oftentimes
they're not going to laugh at the punchline. Say the
(05:07):
moon is made of cheese. Okay, and now you have
a punchline. You know, if the punchline is not about
you being wrong, then the joke isn't going to work.
But if the punchlinees like it's made of cheese and
here's a joke to go with it, half the room goes, wait,
but it's not made of cheese. Why did they Why
are we laughing at them? That's comedy. There's a logic
behind every joke.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You know. They say this like every joke is based
in some kind of a truth.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But here is Charlamagne talking about the unorthodox style of
communicating and how Trump killed the traditional language of politics.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Clip sixteen.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible. Trump shows me
what presidents can do if they want to do it.
Donald Trump shows me what can be said if you
are willing to say it. It's not about what can't
be done, it's about who has the political will to
do it. I don't want to hear peep from Democrats
about nothing until they get the balls to say what's
really on their mind in regards to this country, in
this world. Trump doesn't care if it sounds ridiculous. Trump
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doesn't care if it makes sense. It's no political correctness whatsoever.
As I've been saying for years, the language of politics
is dead and Donald Trump killed it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Bang.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Listen to Charlemagne, but he's telling you the truth. Trump's
superpower and this is where he has helped the world.
As we were putting a greater emphasis on what you
said than what you did, and it's really dangerous.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay. I wrote a New York Times bestselling book.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's called Cancel Culture Dictionary, and the whole point of
the book was that we were retraining society to become
kind of like virtue cops. Get out of bed in
the morning, find us something that's wrong that's unjust pointed out,
and we'll all tweet till that person's fired. Oh that
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comedian's jokes. He should be punching up. Comedians should never
be punching down. No, no, no, they should just be punching funny. Okay,
Don Rickles punched in every direction. He looked out into
the crowd, made fun of everybody there. Some of them
are rich, some of them were poor. That wasn't the point.
The point was laughter. And we started to create this
culture where what you said carried more weight than what
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you did. And it was problematic because again, we were
like firing comedians for jokes they told at comedy shows.
We weren't even ant. Wait, this guy said what at
the Des Moines Funny Bone, Like, what were you there?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did you like it? Up?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Said you get no, No, I was. I just watched it
on the internet an hour ago. I was on the
toilet before I got in the shower in the morning.
And yeah, apparently people are mad about this, so I'm
gonna get mad too, and I'll get a bunch of
likes and the guy will get fired.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We'll all feel like we did something heads the world
that would happen. Okay, when we started to focus on
what people said, we created this era of slacktivism, not activism.
Slacktivism you go after superficial things, get them canceled, and
walk way feeling like you delivered some type of substantive
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betterment to society.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Not even close.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Think about Native American mascots for a minute. Native American mascots. Okay,
Native Americans have the shortest life expectancy in America. They
have the highest rates of heart disease and literacy and
the largest percentage of a population living beneath the poverty
line Native Americans. Now, when you go out and you
whack the Washington Redskins, something Native Americans had donated to
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the NFL, mind you, so we're all on the same page.
They liked the redskins. They wanted the representation. And it
wasn't about mocking a skin color. A redskin was a
brave who was given the highest honor in battle, which
is to paint your face red and lead the tribe
onto the war field. That's what a red skin was.
So understand, woke white people showed up and we're like,
I'm here to help the Native Americans. Are you doing
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anything about the heart disease? No, the poverty, No, the literacy, no,
the diabetes, no, the alcoholism, no, the life expectancy. No,
We're gonna change the halftime show. It's what we're gonna do.
I mean, come on, man, And you understand it was
not activism. It was slacktivism. And when you made the
change to the Redskins name, society moved on as if
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we had delivered some type of progress on behalf of
Native Americans, like we accept you guys can all do
better now you're fine, Like play the Throne room from
the end of Star Wars and give everybody a metal
who changed the halftime show? Okay, slacktivism tearing down statues.
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What is a tearing down a statue of a two
hundred year old guy do for a community? Does it
improve test scores, lower crime rates, make housing more for
of course not so. If you don't like what the
guy stood for, put a plack up next to the statue,
reminding them that while at the time he was popular,
today it's a little controversial because I promise you you
don't change the quality of anybody's life by changing what
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a pigeon takes a dump on in the park. Okay,
that's what a statue is. Ninety percent of a statues
contribution to society is being a BUCkies for pigeons, cleanest
rest rooms on the highway come on down so that
the statue isn't going to sell you a chocolate covered
grit and a Santa onesie where you have a beaverhead
like the one we got BUCkies. But the point is
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that was dangerous. Okay. Think of the era of cancel
culture and outrage culture and saying the wrong thing meant
you gone. And it's not to say there shouldn't be
consequences for speech. If you say something horrible and a
corporation doesn't want to be associated with the backlash, they
have every right to fire you. That's not violating your
First Amendment rights. Like so many people got wrong. People
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were say.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's a first Amendment. It's not a First Amendment thing.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay, the First Amendment does not protect you from the
company you represent getting manned. It protects you from the
government throwing you in jail. That is the first Amendment.
So to get that out of the way. But the
second biggest problem there is when you really make conversation
the focus of everyone's ire, oftentimes you overlook action. I
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was telling you this about Kanye West. Kanye West tweets
insane thing. He gets high, eats a couple of percocets,
and they do interviews and he's like, oh, this will
be fun.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We'll have Kanye on. He starts praising.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Hitler and telling you who he wants to kill, and
it's unacceptable, and of course companies are going to distance
himself from him, and they're not gonna want him around anymore.
So Kanye West is banned from going to the Grammys,
okay because of his speech, But Chris Brown beat up
Rihanna so bad she had to be hospitalized. He was arrested,
and guess what he did a year later, He went
to the Grammys and won a Grammy, Like, dude, do
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you not get the what you do has to be
a little more important than what you say and it's
not the same. Speech shouldn't have consequence, as I said.
But that's where Trump coming along has really changed the
compass in America because Trump says all the things politicians
would traditionally get fired for. But people don't care anymore
because they're so sick of politicians who say the right
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thing and do the wrong thing that they'd rather have
a guy who talks crass and gets the hostages back
from Israel than a guy who doesn't want to press
for a ceasefire because half is part of supports Hamas
and he doesn't want to lose the vote at the
Ivy League college kids. Okay, Biden will say the right
things if he can get through the teleprompter in one try,
But is he doing any of the right things? Of course, not.
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They let twenty one million people across the border illegally.
Five hundred thousand kids got sex trafficked. Okay, three hundred
thousand people dot a fin. Okay, that's not the right thing.
The guy cleaning it up might say some of the
wrong things, but if he's doing the right thing, it's
the only thing you should focus on.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Bang there it is Fox across America.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But Jimmy Flow one segment away from Louisiana Senator John
Kennedy his new book How to Test Negative for Stupid
and Why Washington Never Will.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Country is being destroyed by stupid people, by very stupid people.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I mean, well, the good news right now is those
stupid people aren't spending any extra money because the government's closed.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The bad news is when.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The government reopens, they have to spend all of that
money with additional interests, so your tax dollars go up.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Banks, big government witnesses.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It is a crazy time in politics, man, It's not
the craziest time.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
There's been wild upheaval in society in the sixties and
the civil rights and the Vietnam era and all that,
you know, insanity that's gone on. But the point is
in the modern moment, In the modern moment we live in,
you now have this new thing called social media where
everybody is just an influencer with a side hustle in Congress.
And that's what's really changed the game dramatically for me
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is I now watch these people a lot more than
I used to, and you start to see things that
you can unsee. You go like, oh, this guy's a scam.
One of them is Obama. This is this sucks for me.
I want to tell you this. You know when you
have that moment, okay, your whole life, you hear your
dad say like, shut the door, you know the heat's on,
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and then one day you yell at your kid, you
go shut the door, the heats on, and you go,
oh my god, I just crossed that threshold.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm now on the other side of that exchange. Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The heart of this one for me is a guy
who covers politics for a living is Barack Obama. Because
when Obama was running for president, I was a cab driver.
When Obama was running for reelection, I was a cab driver. Okay,
So I was the guy listening to radio hosts criticize
this man. So I hate when I have to get
on the radio and do it myself, because I feel
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like I've hit that moment of you know, shut the
door the hates on, you know, and that's what happens
with somebody like Barack Obama. Okay, but stick with me
because he might not like what I'm about to tell you.
Obama is a just a shameless race baiting grifter, A
shameless race baiting grifter. Why do I say that to you?
(14:41):
And I don't want to get you worked up.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And manned Obama?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But here I am, all these years later from Cabby
to the guy on the radio and the TV being
like fregging Obama.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I can't believe this guy. I don't see you doing
any better in the booty department.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Fine, but if you remember, during a twenty twenty four election,
Obama famously famously did chy did black men at an
event for not supporting the black woman. Hey, hey, hey,
I don't want to hear about the brothers not turning
out for a sister. You gotta vote for Kamala because
(15:13):
she's black. Do you remember this? It was in It
was actually in early September of twenty twenty four. I
don't want to hear about the brothers not turning out
to vote. We got a sister on the ballot. You
gotta vote for the sister. You're like, WHOA, all right?
It sounds like identity politics. Doesn't sound merit based, it's
not ideal. But what actually makes it worse is Barack
Obama just cut two advertisements for Abigail Spanberger and she's
(15:37):
running against the black woman win. Some seers, what a fraud.
So in September, it was you better vote for the
black lady. You gotta vote. You're black, You vote for
the black lady. That's how it works. Black got black lady.
You don't have a choice here. You vote for the
That's how it works. You have a problem figuring out
whether you're for me or Trump, and you ain't black.
(15:58):
That was Obama too. You have a problem figuring out
if it's for Kamala or Trump, then you ain't black.
Of course you vote for common. If a black lady's
on the ballot, black men have to vote for her. Well, Obama,
a black man just endorsed the white lady, Abigail Spamberger,
who won't denounce Jay Jones, the guy who's the Attorney
general candidate who got caught in a text exchange, fantasizing
(16:21):
about putting two bullets in his opponent's head and killing
his kids, saying, the only way these people will ever
move on policy is if they feel pain.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
He said that, I mean, dude, garbage like you just
makes me sick.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And you've all heard the winsome sears back and forth
where she can't get a response out of her Abigail Spamberger,
white lady. Not that it matters, the behavior matters, the
qualifications matter. But the point is Obama, who was out
there saying you gotta vote for the black lady, now
out there in the same breath saying you gotta vote
for the white lady.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I mean, I'm you know.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You gotta vote for guys, the person you think can
do the job. And you don't have to vote for
the person the media plays up as a hot new sensation.
You don't have to vote for the guy who has
that hot topic presidency that yes, we can hope and
change presidency of Obama, because what that ultimately creates is
a media that's reluctant to criticize the popular guy for
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fear that they're going to alienate you and use lose viewership.
So that air quote, popular guy gets to send fifty
billion dollars to a ran and embolden the biggest state
sponsor of terrorism in the world. And oh, by the way,
nuke our healthcare system. That's how effective Obama was as
a president. Sixteen years later, and the government shut down
because of his healthcare policy. Think about the insanity of
(17:43):
that ella, And this is a big damn deal. Joining
us now on the show a mated voyage for a
superstar senator from the great State of Louisiana, author of
the new book How To Test Negative for Stupid, A
man far too classy for this program. His publicis put
him up to it. Say hello to Senator John Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Hello, sir.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jimmy, how are you man?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
This is a big deal for me. I want you
to know this.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well, thank you for having me. It's my honor to
be here.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, I will tell you that here on the se.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Had nothing else to do.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You had, you could have hosted the show today.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I could have took off.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I got all the time you need, man, I got
days weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
They brought you on to talk book. I could have
talked to you about Elvis the moon landing. We could
have got somewhere.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
We can read the Bible to each other.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well we may, so let me throw one piece of
high praise at you. When we were putting the rundown
together today, one of my overseers here at Fox. You know,
I do this show in a shock collar, so if
I go off the rail, you get like three thousand
vaults in the neck. And you you know, the only
that's the only way Sean Hannity will have me on
a show.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
He lets you do whatever you want. I get zapped.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But we're sitting here, we're prepping the show, and someone
said to me, you know, Senator Kennedy funniest man in
the Senate, which I agree with, but I have to
caveat it because being the funniest guy in the Senate
is like being the hottest girl on the view, is
it not?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Sir? Oh, you said that. I didn't Jimmy, but it
was a good one one man.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So talking about things people say, because I want to
get to the book. Are you following your prolific success
on TikTok? I have a sixteen year old son, and
you have become like a like a TikTok superstar.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You might as well be a rapper.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I don't know how to describe you, but you're massive
in all of these other communities.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Are you taking stock at any of that? And there's
a reason I ask I.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Can't use TikTok. They won't let me. The Senate won't
let me use it because we passed the bill at
balling it. Now. The President, I think, is negotiating something
with with my dancing almost on TikTok. But I had
it on my I on my iPad and they made
me take it off.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
If you're listening on the radio, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy's
on the line jokingly calling someone a Nazi, which I
only want to point out because if I don't say
you're joking, they'll think I'm interviewing a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, I understand, man, I understand.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
The TikTok kids love you.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And the reason I mentioned this is because you may
or may not know this, But on this show, which
is heard on about two hundred radio stations across the country,
we happen to play a lot of sound clips that
might sound familiar to you.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Can I play one of them for you?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Just one Okay, here you go.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Since a big debate right now, as we have Mom
Donnie running for mayor, here is a constant discussion for
us revolves around supporting the police.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You might be familiar with this one.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Look if you hate cops just because of the cops,
the next time you get in trouble, caw, crackhead. Did
you catch that I cut a commercial in my reelection.
I've gotten so much trouble, Jimmy. Everybody hated it. Accept
the voters.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Boom, that's what's up.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So the question was, since you got us here, do
we owe you royalties for this?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No? Man, not you, not you. I'm honored that you
would play it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh well, that's that's a big deal. If if you'll.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Give me a minute, I'm going to walk down the
hall to HR and try to get my job back.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
If you need an agent, you just let me know.
We'll get you a pay raise in a car out
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I don't know, because the government is a notorious for
paying people right now, So I don't know if this
sounds so sweet, but I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I'll take it all right. So give me this the book?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
How the test negative for stupid and why Washington never will?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I love this so much?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Is it based in the fact that we're fighting a
lot of the wrong battles, like the compass is broken
in Washington?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Is that the jump off of this?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yes, I want to people to understand, Jimmy, what it's
really like from the outside. Are from the inside. As
bad as it looks from the outside, you just you
wouldn't believe it from the inside. It's not a policy book,
per se. It's a story book. Now. I use stories
to make my points about policy. But the story some
(22:20):
of them are are bizarre, some of them are funny,
all of them are true. I tell stories about working
with President Trump, about meeting President she about the forty
five minutes I spend with President Biden. I talk about
the crews and Grassley and Shumer and just about every
(22:42):
member of the Senate. I think the book. I believe
the book will make people think, probably make you laugh
a little bit, may make you day drink. But it's
all true. And I want people to understand why in Washington,
d C. Normal is just a on the drawer because
I hear it all the time, people saying that, can
(23:05):
it really be that crazy, and I tell them, yes,
common sense up here is illegal.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It gets stopped by a cop.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Talking to Luis, I had a Senator John Kennedy the
book how to Test Negative or Stupid?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You wanting to tell you personally?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Okay, as a guy who hosts a Saturday night TV show,
and I'm frequently on Sean Hannity's show after you a
lot of times, and of course I meant him, Oh,
come on, man, well if you've seen me, if you've
seen me, you have doubled my ratings. That matters, Thank you.
But let me give you this because I went on
tour with Sean this summer. We did a thing called
Punchlines and Patriots and it was a stand up in
(23:41):
a Q and A and it was a lot of fun.
But I can tell you the genuine best laugh you've
ever gotten out of him, and I only know this
from watching his reaction, is you said, AOC is the
reason we have directions on the shampoo bottle. Now he
I know when a joe hits him because he's a
great laugh and he really genuinely loves to laugh.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And I love that about Sean.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But sometimes if your next level him, he kind of
gets hitting away. It's like when a boxer's knees buckle.
And I do believe that goes on your Greatest Hits album.
There will go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
If you'll say, I remember when that happened. I was
doing that show with Lindsay and with John Thune and uh,
sean kind of hit me. I left left field. He said, Okay,
the last word goes to Kennedy. What do you think
about congresswoman? Okay, show cortees. So I just said what
came to mind. I don't hate anybody, Jimmy, I'm like you.
(24:37):
I don't hate anybody. I look for grace wherever I
can find it. And the congresswoman, uh is entitled to
her opinion. But she's crazy. Uh. She thinks she thinks
she can land on the sun if you go at night.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
She does.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I don't doubt this. Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
If you remember last week, we had this controversy because
she was saying Steven Miller was four foot ten and
he's five foot ten. And I wanted to point out,
as I was a former New York City cab driver,
her being off by a foot is not as bad
as the time she was off by forty miles when
she said she grew up in the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Exactly the Footmoe I think. And then she had to
apologize because she didn't want to offend the short people.
You know, don't I don't. Look, if I didn't know better,
I would think that Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez was a Republican plant.
(25:39):
I mean she is. She's clearly the leader of the
party because she's the leader of the Luon wing of
her party, and the Moon wing of her party is
in control, and they've got every other Democrat scared to death,
including Senator Chuck Schumer. And that's going to continue to
be the case until the relatively saying Democrats go to
(26:03):
Amazon and buy spine online. And they don't want to
do that, and they don't want to stand up to
AOC or to the OWD wing. So you know, you
reap what's your soul? Man?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
So are you telling me that if I'm going to Vegas,
I should bet the over thirty five days on the shutdown?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Amen? Brother, We're going to be shut down. Awhile, And look,
this is not complicated. A couple of weeks ago, on
a two CE, our country was just kind of rocking along.
We're minding our own business. Our budget ran out at midnight,
but that was cool because we were talking to the
Democrats about a short term extension while we negotiated a
(26:44):
new budget. And Sumar comes up and says, wait a minute,
I'm going to vote and tell all my people to
vote to shut this sucker down unless you give us
one point five to three dollars and we'll tell you
how to spend. Wow. Well, you know, I mean, our
heads snapped back, and uh, I think I told the
(27:07):
press my mama didn't raise a fool, and if she did,
it was one of my brothers. I wasn't about to
vote for that, and the Republican was and and uh
uh President Trump wasn't gonna support it. And that's why
we're in a shutdown. We haven't asked for a damn thing.
All we have asked for is to keep government open.
Why we negotiate a budget and uh and Shupar wants
(27:31):
all this stuff, you know, dream Weaver is what I
told said to Chuck the other day. He said, why
need this? I need that? And I said, dream Weaver, man,
you don't put down the ball. We're just gonna stay
shut down.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And I haven't seen any side of budget on their end,
any sign of that. Are there Democrats quietly behind the
scenes that realize this is a fool's errand and they
just don't have the guts to speak out?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Of course, Democrats do a better job sticking together than
Republicans in the Senate. As I've said before, Republicans were
kind of independent thinkers. We've got some free range chickens
that kind of wander off on you and you got
to go catch them. I've been a free range chicken
myself before. But the Democrats pretty much do what their
(28:25):
they're told by Senator Schumer up to a point. But
I've got a lot of Democratic colleagues that think this
is a mistake. They think it it's hurting the country.
But like them, they are scared of the socialist wing
of the Democratic Party, which is in control. I mean,
and they're in control, Jimmy, They're about to elect the
(28:48):
socialist mayor of New York. I never thought I would
see the day.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, that one blows my mind. As a guy who
works in TV, they always tell me we need to
avoid carbs, but I never expected to be standing in
a breadline.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know this is amen, and you know I wouldn't
vote for him, But mom, Donnie's going to win that thing. Yeah,
his only competition is Guomo, and I can read a poll.
Gulomo's did his pride Chicken man, you can't win that race.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
He also probably killed off a lot of his supporters
during COVID. But I don't want to get sidetracked.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, I'm not going to touch that one.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Good job, give me one more.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Okay, question about the book how to test negative for stupid.
We're talking to Louis Ana Senator John Kennedy. When you
comes to meeting with people like you talked about meeting
with Trump, meeting with Biden and Schumer and Chuck Rasseley
and everybody in between, do the most successful people have
an efficiency to them. I'm very curious about this because
I'm always told people who get things done just start
(29:54):
doing it before you even propose what you need to do.
Is that the difference between Trump and other people that
traditionally been in positions of power like this, Well.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Trump, Trump's very efficient, and he doesn't believe in He
doesn't believe in committees. When I have I don't call
the president every week, but I've got his cell phone number,
and every time I call him, he either picks up
or he calls him back. Within six hours. We generally
work out whatever issue we have there on the phone.
(30:27):
He'll make a decision. He's not afraid. He's a good
business person. A good business person won't catch things this way.
If I've got ten decisions to make today, I'm gonna
make all ten. Six or seven of them I'll get right.
One of them I can go back and fix, and
(30:49):
the other two I'll just get wrong. But back in
the eight out of ten ain't bad. And that's he's
very decisive, and that's what we've been missing. President Biden,
on the other hand, bless his heart. You know he
couldn't finish the sentence without taking a nap. It was sad.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Would you would you say if we were ranking the
worst presidents in history that Jill Biden would be near
the bottom.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I hate to say it, but yes, because I think
history will look back and realize that a lot of
what the Biden administration did, while he's personally responsible for it,
he didn't make the decision. I used to get ash
all the time by my people back in Louisiana, who's
(31:41):
really the president because we don't believe it's President Biden.
They see President Biden on TV talking like he's from
out of space, and they say he can't be present.
Who's the president? I tell him, whoever's got control of
that TELEPROMPTU. The President just goes up there and he
reads it, and I think it's five or six ages
in his family, and they're the real president of the
United States. And I think President Obama had an enormous
(32:05):
amount of influence.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
It sure reads that way, especially when he's as bitter
as he is about Trump getting the hostages back, because
you could see that Obama didn't. He actually didn't mention him.
He couldn't give him credit. And on some level that
just has to be a slight to him.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
No, it is, and and they see what President Trump did,
Why did we get the hostages back? It's not complicated
because of President Trump. Unlike President Biden. I'm loud Israel
to slap a moss and slap his has blah to
Pluto is He'll just knock them living crap out of
(32:42):
And then President Trump turned around and hit Iran so
hard the Eyatola was calling at bones and these these
were our enemies, and they were supposed to be so strong,
strong on the force rategy. Don't miss with his baa
or run or our moss. Well, Israel, the and the
and and President Trump did mess with him, knocked him
(33:03):
into a new zip code. And they said, hey, you
don't know Moss. You know we what do you want?
And Trump said, getn't release the hostage hostages. Of course
they did it. And if they don't turn over their weapons. Uh,
President Trump is going to turn turn israelis.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Again a man.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Last question, then you mentioned you mentioned you have the
president's cell phone. I would never ask for a cell
phone number, but could you get me Malania's number.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I do not have Mlania's numbers. I will. I'll send
you the president's phone number, and you know you can
call him up late at night. Think there some Halloween
jokes or something. Senator Kenny probably answered Jimmy thing about him,
and he may take you. Look once he gets your
(33:53):
cell number, Jimmy, he'll be calling you a tripper in
the morning. He's like a stray dog. If you feed
him one, you can't get rid of me. Man, you're
killing me.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Man, listen, I thank you for some time today. I'm
going to get off before I'm on a government watch list.
But Senator Kennedy, you're the man.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Thanks, Jimmy, You're a rockstar. Man.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I'll take it. You're the best.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Take care the Great Louisiana. Senator John Kennedy. The book
How to Test Negative for Stupid. Buy eight copies or
You're dead to me?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Sure hanging well the ninth on Fox across America.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
It is time to give out our participation trophy before
we do, Max roundup applause for Senator John Kennedy. Fantastic,
and he had some choice comments about our girl AOC.
She's so dumb she thinks you can land on the
sun if you go at night.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Mister, trophy has to go to AOC.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Here it is her saying air should be drinkable. Clip six.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Sick of talking about these horse races, and we're sick
of leaders who only want to spend their time talking
about that instead of talking about real issues that affect
our lives, instead of talking about healthcare, instead of talking
about wages, instead of talking about having air that's drinkable, What.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Sir, hold on air that's drinkable just a bit outside.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
The trophy goes to AOC Max fair. I think that's
more than fair, all right.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And the revelation of the day was from Senator Kennedy
who said he might be able to get me Malania's
phone number here you so tune in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Jenny Fail is on the show. Maybe is my wife,
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I don't know what you heard in this interview, but
the show's over, Pay up and get out.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
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