9-24-25 - 8am - Apple Postpones Show and Trump at the UN

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Can you explain to me how Alex Jones got sued
for hundreds of millions of dollars for what he said
and how the First Amendment didn't protect him?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Thank you. I can, but I need to think about it.
Uh So, let me.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Let me make a note and I'll try to do
that because it's that that's a very good question. There
a couple of news stories I just want to briefly
touch on. I want to act like a news station
for a moment. So earlier this week there was there
were a couple of outages, ground stops. Uh ATC had

(00:50):
some failures, just a lot of stuff where once again
airlines came to a halt. United saw a ground stop
where all planes were briefly held across the continental United States,
and I think up into Canada too. Then you had

(01:12):
at I forget whether it was Brussels or Amsterdam, one
of the two. You had another ground stop because of
what suspected or actually was I'm not sure which.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Of drones flying over.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Just a little weird and whether it's the sign of
cyber terrorism, cyber attacks, or it's the sign of decaying infrastructure, or.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's all of the above.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I don't know, but it just seems that this country
is crumbling, absolutely crumbling. Rick Instrum that you know from family,
the instrument, pastries and things.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
He posted on X.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yesterday or day before that he had just spent a
considerable amount of time in driving around in Wyoming and
that the roads in Wyoming are significantly different from the
roads in Colorado, and not in a good way, by
the way, and I'm reminded that of every single day
coming to work, just crumbling infrastructure wherever you work another

(02:34):
and I don't have much detail. I just saw that Jimmy,
who fills in with me, fills in for me occasionally,
had posted on X yesterday that the do Better Denver
account on Instagram and X. In fact, I think all
of her platforms she's taken down. She's just deleted them.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I haven't talked to jim or anybody else, so I'm
really curious as to why. But they've all been taken down.
And that according to Jimmy, who talked to her directly,
is that any accounts that you see currently on X
or anywhere else about do Better Denver, that those are
all fake accounts and it's not the original.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's not her.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about,
do better. Denver was an Instagram and x account predominantly
that originally the administrator alone was posting pictures of homelessness, crime,
drug addiction that they would find as they went about

(03:40):
their business around town. And then it became a crowdsourcing effort,
and it really was disheartening and disgusting just how much crime, homelessness,
drug abuse, everything you can possibly imagine goes on primarily
within the city and County of Denver, but truthly, all

(04:01):
up and down the Front Range were come on. Chamber
of Commerce, were a crabhole city, and you keep supporting
the crabhole democrats that make us into a crabhole city,
and it just keeps getting that way. Then the third
news item I'm gonna touch on briefly is this shooting
that you may or may not have heard occurred at
the Ice facility in Dallas this morning. At least three

(04:25):
people were shot during the incident, all of whom were
detainees and Ice custody. Now, when Dragon I saw that Chiron,
we were both like, oh my god, you know, please
don't let it be ICE agents that got into a
gunfight with detainees. Here's what I find. One victim was
confirmed dead at the scene. Two others were transported to

(04:48):
the hospital with a gunshot wounds, reported to be in
critical condition. No ICE agent or officers were injured. The
suspected shooter, white male, identified by cops as firing from
an elevated position, described in some news reports as a

(05:10):
sniper on a rooftop or an adjacent nearby building, firing
into the ICE facility sally Port area from a few
hundred yards away. He died apparently from a self inflicted
gunshot wound to the head as law enforcement approached the scene.
Motive unknown. Oh, I'm sure it's a right wing that job.

(05:34):
I'm sure it's maga.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
No, I have no idea what it was, and of
course nothing would surprise me whatsoever entrigue. It occurred somewhere
between six forty and seven o'clock Central time. Uh, that's
that's all I can find about it. That's all I
know about it right now.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Apple TV.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, let's left wing activists and the media. But I
repeat myself, the cabal, they're all up in arms this morning,
and it's not because of Jimmy Killed, They've got to
have something to be up in arms about. Apple TV.
Apple plus TV, to be technically correct, has decided to

(06:20):
delay the premiere of a new show starring Jessica Chastain
titled The Savant. Deadline reports over on X the release
of Apple TV The Savant has been put on hold.
The decision comes three days before the thriller starring Jessica
Chastain was slated to premiere on on the streamer on

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streaming September twenty six. I find this interesting because kind
of like ABC's ABC Disney's move to suspend and then
put Jimmy Kimmel air, I think this decision by Apple Corp.

(07:06):
Kind of heralds a fairly significant shift in American culture.
And let me explain why. Let's go back in time
to November six, two thousand and one. I happen to
remember this pretty distinctly because of, well, what had happened
in September of two thousand and one, and because of

(07:30):
my involvement of September eleven, two thousand and one, what
happened in November sixth, two thousand and one. That's the
date in which the counter terrorism drama starring Keefer Sutherland,
twenty four premiered on Fox. Brighten'd you watch?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
I did not, but I had family members that absolutely
love that.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Sho oh my god. I was.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
West Wing and twenty four totally hooked on. The first
season had already been filmed. It was in the can,
like they say, when the attacks at nine to eleven
took place about seven weeks earlier, but the timing of
the premiere of twenty four gave what might have turned

(08:16):
out to be just another TV drama a pretty special
significance in American culture. I was immediately hooked, and I
consumed every episode throughout the show's nine season run, but
early on in the first season, because you've got to remember,

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I'm getting briefed by the CIA every morning, every evening,
sometimes throughout the day. So my politically intel oriented brain
began to notice that the terrorists that were portrayed on
the production, by the producers and the writers at twentieth

(09:01):
Century Focus didn't look or sound anything like the actual
terrorists who we saw bring down the World Trade Center towers, murdering,
you know, some three thousand Americans in the process. As
a matter of fact, throughout the show's nine season duration.
The terrorists never did turn out to be Islamic extremists,

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not one single time. Every season featured at least a
one or two episode plot line, which, if you were
voracious consumer like I was, you would think, oh, I
bet this time these TV terrorists were going to have
some connection with the reality that I'm living through. But nope,

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never turned out that way. Always turned out to be
just another tangent, and the real terrorist masterminds invariably turned
out to be.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Some right wing white guy that was still.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Don't get me wrong, I recognize it by I was
still consumed by this series because the way it was produced.
You know, it was a twenty four hour reason was
called twenty four hours because it was essentially a twenty
four hour period in which every episode took place and
it was realistic except for the terrorists or always right

(10:18):
wing nut jobs, right wing white guys. Well it's Hollywood,
and demonizing right wing white guys.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Well that's a prerequisite, right, I mean, that's kind of
what you gotta do.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Indeed, I think you'd have a hard time identifying and
I don't remember every single episode, but if I went
through and saw a description of every single episode, over
nine seasons. I'd probably have a hard time identifying any
single episode of any of the myriad terrorsts focused crime
dramas that have, you know, come out of Hollywood since

(10:52):
nine eleven took place. Do any of them ever really
feature Islamic radicals, is lawless as the bad guys? I
just don't remember. Maybe there is, and I can see
that they certainly could be. I just can't think of
one off the top of my hip. Okay, that's the
historical context. Now fast forward to The Savant. The actress

(11:17):
Chantayne Chastain portrays just a regular American woman. She has
got these keen powers of observation and perhaps even some precognition,
and then it allows her to anticipate domestic terrorist acts
and then help track down the bad guys after they've acted.

(11:39):
It was set to premiere this Friday. Apple decided to
postpone it in light of the Charlie Kirk assassination. An
Apple spokesperson in a statement to Variety, after careful quote,
after careful consideration, we have made the decision to postponed

(12:00):
The Savant. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to
releasing the series at a future date. Now some dude
named Aramid Canuboo writing over it. Variety slams this decision
by Apple in an op ed, calling the move a

(12:21):
shocking decision, claiming that it offers another chilling example of
how business giants are running scared of the Trump administration
and bowing to pressure before the pressure even exists.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Got that?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
So this guy is already claiming that the boogeyman, Donald
Trump is it's his fault for the shutdown of this premiere,
while admitting the fact that nobody and the Trump administration
has looked a finger to pressure Apple to do anything
to delay the show. So what's the real reason that
why Apple made this move if it wasn't being pressured

(12:59):
by Donald Trump? Or now see Brendan Carr can't do it.
I mean, I suppose he could say something. But it's
Apple TV. Yes, it's not on the public spectrum, it's
on your streaming, it's coming across the interwebs. All you

(13:19):
really need to know about this is contained in this
dumbasses description of the theme of the show.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
He writes.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Based on Cosmopolitans twenty nineteen article, Is it possible to
stop a mass shooting before it happens? The savant follows
Jody Goodwin, that's the actress. Chestain, a top secret investigator
and a veteran who, as an employee of the fictional
anti hate Alliance, infiltrates online hate groups in an effort

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to stop large scale attacks of domestic terrorism. The series,
adapted by Melissa James Gibson, is based on the real
woman profile in the Cosmopolitan story, but carefully conceals her
identity on the show. Jody lives in a Cincinnati suburb
and her husband, Charlie, who is black. I don't know

(14:15):
why that's important, is deployed overseas. End of what he wrote.
You get that. So the plots of the episodes will
involve Chastain and her intrepidant, no doubt very left wing
fellow members of this fictional anti hate alliance going after
online hate groups. Now, let's combine current with history. Given

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the history of the plot lines contained in twenty four
and all the other counter terrorism focused crime drama that
you've seen over the past what thirty years? Now, why
do you think the political orientation of every hate group
in every episode of this new Apple show will be?

Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
I can hazard a guess. They're all going to be
classic right wing white supremacists, hate groups led by, of course,
uniformly white males, probably Proud Boys. They'll have some new monocracy,
the Proud Boys. It'll be the Happy Boys. It'll be
something like that. Okay, well, well, maybe one hundred percent

(15:24):
leftist writers might toss in a right wing you know,
chicking an episode or two to create that. That'll be
the balance that they look for in their way of thinking. Yeah,
they make them all white and make them all men,
but throw in a white woman at every once in
a while. But for the most part, the bad guys
in the show, well I with without any doubt in

(15:48):
hind mine, are going to look like the dominic chricater
our despicable corrupt media the Cabal have drawn of Charlie
Kirk and all the others at Turning Point USA. And
we know in advance what literally none of the bad
guys in the single episode of this new Apple show
will be. They're not going to be left wing transgender

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lunatics and their boyfriends, you know, like the actual domestic
terrorists that killed Charlie Kirk and his own boyfriend and
all those chat groups they participated in that reality and
for no other reason, is probably why Apple chose to
postpone this new crime drama. It's just too soon for

(16:34):
a bit of pure anti white male propaganda like this,
and they don't want to lost you know, subscribers, which
undoubtedly would take place, you know, maybe not after the
first episode.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
And I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
I don't know whether they were to release the entire
series at once so we can all binge it or
you know, once a week like they often.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Do, which drives me batty.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
I want to watch it when I want to watch it,
But I bet that's why. So that kind of like
the decisions by next Darn Sinclair to continue boycotting and
Jimmy Kimmel alive, I think this represents a significant shift
in our culture, just maybe just in the short run.
Maybe it won't last more than you know, maybe a

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couple of months. But whether the shift can be maintained,
you know, for a longer term, I don't know, but
we will find out when sometime probably next year, if
Apple decides that the coast is clear and proceeds to
air The Savant and then just go back to demonizing
white males and Trump supporters, the cabal and.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
You don't think this doesn't influence Now, I'll watch it.
He won't influence me.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh, I'll watch it, depending on how good it is.
But those that will consume it on the left, it
just reinforces their already held beliefs. Hey, it's good talk
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to the United Nations. Now, you can call me a
nut job or an alarmist, but the incident at the

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United Nations yesterday in which an escalator from the basement
of the main building to the first floor suddenly just
stopped working have you ever had that happen to you
You're you're on an escalator, or you're just stepping onto
an escalator and then it stops, or you're halfway up. Well,
that's exactly what happened as the first lady and the

(21:41):
president right behind her stepped onto it. Now, I don't
think it's anything to be laughed off. I watched the
video and the I was one concerned about. I know,
security inside the United Nations building is already pretty tight,
but there was one agent directly behind the president, but

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on the other escalators, which obviously have been cleared, but
there was nobody there, which means there was nobody in
the line of fire. And that just kind of bugged me.
So I think this is a very very big deal,
and I think it should result in a major investigations
of the cause and to the potential security issues that raised.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
And I'm not dumping on the Secret.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Service here, although I do still have a question about
why were the not agents at least going up the
other escalators as he went up. Now, Poet has got
a few chuckles out of the incident. At the top
of his speech, all I got from the UN was
a broken escalator and a bad teleprompter. But guess what,

(22:44):
I think there's every reason to believe that the escalator
wasn't broken at all, and that it was intentionally shut
off by employees of the United Nations. Matter of fact,
the president himself and that despicable you in General Secretary
Gutari's was caught on a hot mic afterwards speculating that

(23:06):
the cause was sabotage. Now it's it's a three minute clip,
and I don't want to play it all, but I
will just tell you. They walk into a green room
of sorts for Trump to sign the guest book, and
then they're gonna sit down and hold a press conference.
And during that conversation, Trump talks about you know, well,

(23:26):
I'm used to it. This kind of stuff happens all
the time, and Gaeta says, we will try to find out.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Who did it.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
You can see in the clip that Trump was also
kind of suspicious about his teleprompter failing to function at
the top of the speech. Now, I think that almost
certainly was a chicking you know what, feces stunt pulled
off by the UN staff. Following the event, White House

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Press Secretary Caroline Levitt came out and she reminded us,
and she reminded the White House Press Corps that The
Times of London had predicted the escalator sabotage. Sunday, she
posted on x after talking to the media, if someone

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at the United Nations intentionally stopped the escalator as the
President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to
be fired and investigated immediately. The Times reported this on Sunday. Interesting.
I didn't read the London Times on Sunday. I'm busy
doing other stuff, The Times reported, in a story about

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the upcoming clip.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
To Mark quote to Mark Trump's.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Arrival, United Nations staff members have joked that they may
turn off the escalators and elevators and simply tell him
they ran out of money, so that he has to
walk up the stairs.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Oh got it.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Now, if you watch the video, they're walking toward the escalator.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
To what you can find. If Michael says, go here
dot com, she steps.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
They're walking up now. I do see I do see agents,
not on the stairs, but I see agents on this
to the right. There are agents to the left on
the stairs, and there is the White House photographer and
what appears to be an agent in front of him.

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Above or ahead of the president on the working escalator.
Then as they proceed and walk to that same escalator
that the agent's on, boom. I mean, Milania gets maybe
two of the of the steps up and it comes
to complete halt. Now what bugs me about it is afterwards,

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obviously there's press to the President's right, there's somebody walking
up the steps. To the president's right slightly ahead of him.
There's someone on the steps again, as I said, to
the left of him. The White House photographer is to
the left of him and slightly ahead of him so
that he can get photos as the President the first

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lady go up the escalator and then it stops and
for one Mississippi, two, Mississippi, three, Mississippi four seconds. They
then start to walk slowly up the steps with the
agents behind them now on the staircase and on the
upper floors. Now I know they've cleared it, bet Still

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it presents a vulnerability and is Ralph Basham, the head
of the Secret Service, told me one time when I
ask why do you do all these extraordinary things that
seem unnecessary, and he says, because we can. His answer
to me was, because we can, and we want to
eliminate every risk that we see, every possible risk that

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we can imagine we want to eliminate. When we watch
that video at Michael says, go here dot com, you
can you can see just exactly how exposed the first
lady and the President are. Had any deranged leftists like
I don't know, Ryan Ruth or the dirt bag that
was it Butler Pennsylvania, or just any nutjob employee who

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managed to get inside that room with a weapon, it
was a stationary target. Now, whether this is true or not,
I don't know, but I've always watched things like this
and thought, oh, test run for a future event. Maybe
not that same escalator, but presidents go up escalators all

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the time, to ballrooms and hotels, office buildings, all sorts
of places where they go up an escalator. Now, regardless
of the reasons, it's still a despicable act. It's a
real problem which demands a serious investigation by the Secret Service,
the State Department, and the Department of Justice, because if
indeed this was I know it was a joke, but

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it's a big deal, as is any security event where
the president is concerned. It's not funny, it's not to
be laughed off with the Shrugler's Secret Services shoulder. Trump
was extremely gracious with guitarists when they met afterwards. I'm
not sure I would have been so. I think Trump

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and his senior people ought to at least, at the
very least beef up his security operations. And I'd have
a look at the Advanced Team, because the Advanced Team
should have known about the joke from the New York Times.
And this escalator issue raises a really serious question about

(28:57):
the adequacy of the event dance team's work, and they're
on site.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Presence, Michael.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
The Secret Service is so pathetic. I mean, first, your
police officers could look over a scene and say, wait,
there's a saucepa here, and there's sauce by here. I mean,
if Trump gets through this four years without getting murdered,
it'll be a miracle.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Let's not play at all on the Secret Service. There's
an entire event it's called in fact, there's an office
called White House Office of Advance, and this is the
Advanced Team, and it's comprised of all the different units
Secret Service. It's the White House Political Office, it's the
you know, whatever organizations that might be involved, like you know,

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the Department of fund Land Security and that White House
Advanced Team. Prior to an event, even a sudden event
like oh, suddenly I'm going to go somewhere tomorrow, they
get on the plane, they go out to Andrews and
get on the plane that night and they're there fixing
stuff and scouting everything and securing everything before the President

(30:04):
shows up and while they're flying if it's a short
notice thing, but normally they they have more time than that.
The CIA and the FBI have a separate unit that
scour all of the intel both even things that are
in the public domain, like this Times of London story

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about joking about stopping the escalator. That's serious enough that
that's something the White House Advanced Team would be checking into.
And the fact they didn't, or they didn't have someone
like technically watching the operators of the escalator or wherever
the emergency stop is, I think is a security failure,

(30:49):
an absolute security failure. And if you watch that video,
Trump for at least four seconds is a sitting duck,
an absolute sitting duck. And it really bugs me that
people just kind of laughing. In fact, Dragon was telling
me that Jim Pisaki was over. I assume she was

(31:09):
on MSNBC ripping about it how Trump was lacking out
at the UN. No, he made a joke about it.
Now in private, he told Gatarists that, you know, do
you think that may have been sabotage? I didn't play
it because it's like a four minute clip, but he's
very seriously asking do you think that was sabotage? I
think Gataris says, well, you know, we have any problems,

(31:31):
and Trump's like, well, probably was, but I'm used to it. Well,
I don't want him to be used to it. That's
what the Advanced Team is for, and that's what the
Secret Service is for. Right talking about crumbling infrastructure? What
else is crumbling in this country?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Good grief,