Hammer and Nigel Highlights: Weekend Show Ep.55

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ever in Nigel presents.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It depends upon what the meaning of the word is.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Is this anything.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
You buy?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
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Indiana reuniting hoosiers with over one million dollars in unclaimed
property every single week, ever damn week, fast, easy and
free to search on the telephone Indiana Unclaimed dot gov.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
And again hat tip to anybody that got that weird
Science Reference yes talked about this earlier. Eight point eight
earthquake hit Russia yesterday, tsunami warning evacuation for the coasts
of the Hawaiian Islands. I stayed up late last night
watching this stuff because I'm a weather nerd. When the
higher waves were expected to hit. There was a reporter

(00:57):
that was live in Waikiki and was surprised to find
out that people staying in the higher floors of the
hotels we're having tsunami parties.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Oh it's kind of wild to see all these people here,
I can tell you. At the hotels there are lots
of people on their balconies checking out what is.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Supposed to have come.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
But yeah, everyone's just kind of anxiously awaiting to see
what's gonna come.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
And you can see I.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Think you can hear a lot of people yelling in
the background, lots of people front row seats here to
see to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Actiously awaiting the tsunami.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
And yeah, that's kind of it.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
It sounds like a Rick Flair convention back there.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Who I would be crapping my pants if I were
on vacation in Hawaii and all of a sudden the
tsunami alarm went off. Whatever that sounds like. I look,
there were people walking. You've seen footage of They were
walking directly up to the water on boat ramps, even

(02:06):
though they'd been worn several times to evacuate the beaches.
People are stupid, yes, but I guess nobody died. It
wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be.
And I think maybe they're desensitized a little bit in
Hawaii since they got that that emergency message on their
cell phones that incoming inbound nuclear missiles from North Korea

(02:28):
or you're.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
On their way. I forgot about me.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
They might be a little desensitized the whole warning system there. Yeah,
the last time we had this, the nuclear missiles were
coming from North Korea, so maybe that's maybe that has
something to do with it.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I totally forgot about that. Imagine you're on your dream
vacation show, maybe your honeymoon, and your phone starts vibrating
and shaking incoming missiles from North Korea and it turns
out to be like it was just somebody hit the
wrong but right a mistake. Well, they do this in Florida, though,

(03:05):
Like they have hurricane parties. I know friends that lived
out there. Yeah, I have friends.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
If it's not a you know, Cat five or something,
they'll board up the windows, they'll get a big, fully
stocked bar, and they're going to ride that thing out. Man,
Is this anything? A pastor and his wife from Denver
were arrested for running a cryptocurrency scam where they solicited
three point four million dollars from people. They use the

(03:31):
money to do home renovations. Here is the pastor talking
about what they did with the money.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
The charges are that Caitlyn and I pocketed one point
three million dollars, and I just want to come out
and say that those charges are true.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Out at that one point three half a million.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Dollars went to the IRS and a few hundred thousand
dollars went to a homy model that the Lord told
us to do.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
The Lord told me to do.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
He'd been praying, he'd been heavily praying over this remodeling decision,
and the Lord told him to scam his congregation out
of three and a half million dollars.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Like, if you're God and this guy's praying to you, like,
could you see God say, Hey, look what I want
you to do? And I'm God here, Like what I
want you to do is I really want you to
use all the talents I've given you and bambooz who
your congregation and giving you millions of dollars so you

(04:27):
can do that bathroom reno renovation.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
You know, I don't think God would give that message. Well,
I don't blame it be a pastor. I'm no Joel
ostein over here, but I find it hard to believe God. Nigel,
by the way, this is God because I always identify myself.
I want you to rip off as many people as
you can fix your crapper. God out. I don't think

(04:55):
that's how it works. God out. But this brings us
to great eight moments in pastor history.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
No.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
One of my favorites is the Missouri pastor who is
very upset at how cheap the folks are that go
to his church because they didn't buy him the watch
that he wanted for Christmas. See that's how I know
you steal poor bro.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
Busted and disgusted because of how you've been honoring me.
I'm not worth your McDonald's money. I'm not worth your
red lobster money. I ain't worth your Saint John Nick.
Y'all can't afford it. No how I ain't worth y'all,
Louis Vatan, I ain't worth your praduc I'm not worth
your Gucci. You can buy a Movado watch in Sam's Yes,

(05:38):
and y'all know half for one last year.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Here it is the whole way in August.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
I still ain't got it.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Y'all ain't saying nothing.

Speaker 7 (05:45):
Let me kick down the door and talk to my chief,
sons and daughters.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Geez, I don't want to hear no more.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Excuse about what y'all can't afford. You can't afford it
because you don't see the value here.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'm over, y'all. I'm over your cheap expressions. You can
buy a Burretto watching SAMs. You can. That was amazing.
Last one? Here is this anything. A Massachusetts woman was
attacked by a raccoon on her own property and she

(06:14):
says that creatures have become monsters. Here's Katherine, they become monsters.

Speaker 8 (06:21):
It flew at me from several different directions, and all
I could do.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Was scream, help me, help me.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
This is a nightmare. I kept saying it to myself
because I couldn't find any other words. I just encountered
a monster.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, I read a little bit about this. Catherine needed
to be patched up. She's okay after the attack. I
would assume I would think that she would get a
series of rabies shots.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Right now. That sound that we heard at the beginning,
what was that the raccoon or was that Catherine?

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Do it?

Speaker 8 (06:56):
Do it? They become monsters?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
I think it was Catherine. I think it was Catherine
giving her impression of what a monstrous raccoon sounds like.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
We have, like I think under our back deck in
our backyard. I think we have two raccoons living under there.
And I walked out one night or no, I was
watching from a sliding glass door. There was a deer
and two raccoons feeding, like eating on our grass, and

(07:26):
I kind of did this. I to try to scare
him and the deer and the two raccoons looked at
me like I was an a hold. They turned around
and looked at me like okay, And then in Unison
turned around and started eating our grass again. And it
was only after he opened the sliding glass door that

(07:47):
they all took off.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
If a deer could give a middle finger, that's what
he would have gave you.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
At that point, he just looked at me like, okay,
what are you going to do about it? Yeah, that's
what the twin raccoons were doing too. They looked at me,
and again in Unison turned around and started feeding off
our grass again.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't know what to do. It's the Hammer and
Nigel Show.

Speaker 9 (08:14):
You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel Show.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
This is awesome.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
My name is Nigel Chase and Hammer right over there
with a very special guest on the hotline.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
It is on like Donkey Kong Baby. This Friday is
a new venue in Greenwood, Mad Hatter Shows, an events
center and pop in the Cherry of It Man. The
very first performer is John Schneider, actor singer, My man,
how are you?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
That's how I am?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
There we go man, I love it, baby Bo Duke.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
I hope I didn't blow your speakers out.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
No, man, that's awesome. That's awesome. One thing that I
think is really cool. And anybody that follows you know,
we're a news talk station. We're into this kind of stuff.
You are somebody that's not afraid to speak your mind.
If we follow you on social media, we know where
you stand politically. Last election cycle, man, you talk, you
caught a lot of hell from people for being a

(09:14):
Trump supporter. Is that right?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah? But those people don't count.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
So I mean, I think it's great.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Are afraid? Yeah, I don't understand that. I don't understand.

Speaker 9 (09:27):
I mean, if you if you believe in something, you
should you should speak it now. I don't beat people
over the head they say you have to believe the
way I believe. That's what the liberals do. I just say, look,
this is how I feel about this. This is how
I feel about that. You know, if you're with me,
then great. If you're not, then you know that's okay.
Uh So people do know where I stand. So, folks,

(09:49):
if you're coming to the show on Friday, and I
hope you are, it's going to be a lot of fun.
Matt Hatter's a brand new event center. Uh, the building
has been there for a while, but this is a
this is a new thing that's.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Going on there. And I am the one act.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
The first act, otherwise as the guinea thing, I'm the
guinea thing.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, I'm going to break it in. And but if
you if you are it's if you are not in
line with me, then it's okay. You can come, but
please be quiet.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, it's almost like we can be adult about this thing, John,
We can be adults about this.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, we can, Yeah, we can.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
What did you think, John, What did you think when
there were certain streaming networks and things like that that
would take Dukes of Hazard off the air because of
the general lee and what it happened.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Everybody, everybody, you know.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
The weird thing about that whole deal is that the
television show is off the air, but you can find
that god awful movie anytime you want.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
It's weird. Well yeah, yeah, when.

Speaker 9 (10:56):
That first came out, somebody gosh, I was doing way
back when I think it might have been a you know,
I can't even call them major networks anymore because all
the all the minor networks are getting better ratings than them. Yeah,
but one of the major networks said, hey, what did
you think about the Dukes of Hazard movie? And I said, well,
you know, I think it would have to be better

(11:17):
to suck.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Right, Yeah, you know, a strong letter to follow. Right.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's just so I swear, Dukes of Hazzard is just
one of those shows that transcends. I mean, it's been
decades and generations. And I grew up being pissed off
at my parents because they would make me go to
bed in the middle of the show when it aired,
because that.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Was my bedtime of the show.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
I know it was, but it was my bedtime, and
I would get so enrage and so that's why I
would blame you.

Speaker 9 (11:51):
It would have been it would have been kinder of
your parents to say, no, you're going to bed before
it starts.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, or we're letting you stay up an extra half
hour when.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
The Boy and Vance came on, he went to bed early.
That's how it worked.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
That was that's right.

Speaker 9 (12:05):
That's when that's when your mean parents said, okay, you
can watch the whole show, and you're.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Like, no, jod, how many people try to impress you
by diving through the window of their car, like if
they see you somewhere and they're like, hey, watch this.
How many people dive through the window.

Speaker 9 (12:22):
We went we went to uh, you know, we live
in Madison. We went to lunch up on the hill.
That's what we call it, you know, we who live
down on Main Street talk about up the hill. And
they there was a woman. I don't know how old
she was. You know, I am the age where I
think all people sixty.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Are older than me.

Speaker 9 (12:39):
So I thought she was like eighty, and she might
have been fifty seven, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
But she was a little bitty thing.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
And she said, I mean she was Nancy Reagan small,
and she said she told me this story about how
somebody she saw General Lee and she said, I'm going
through that damn window.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
And they said, no, you're not. You can't even you
can't even see over the door lock. And she said, no,
I'm doing it.

Speaker 9 (13:01):
And she told me the story about how she jumped
through the window. And I said, how'd you get out?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
She said, how do you think the same damn way
I got it.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
I'm gonna ask you a very basic question, and this
is probably something and this is somebody that watched dukes
of hazard as a kid, and still if it's on
somewhere now, I will still leave it on. Why was
why were the doors welded shut?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, we generally was a NASCAR. You know, we had
a NASCAR.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Okay, yeah, we had our Well.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
We wanted it to be a NASCAR because we always
wanted it. Whenever we talked about we wanted to one
day be on the circuit, we meant we wanted to
be on the NASCAR circuit. So in those days, you
could show up. You could kind of like you could
show up to a drag race. You you bring it,
you drive it there, and you race it. So the
general lee always had to be ready to be raced.

(13:48):
Should we make you know, through qualifying. So it's legitimate
why the doors were welded shut. I loved how it
aggravated Uncle Jesse. You know, she had to climb in
the wind. He said, one of these days, I'm gonna
I'm gonna cut those doors open.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
I loved it. It was a special.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Time, man, It was a wonderful time. And Daisy Duke
helped a lot of us kids get to n I'm
telling you, you.

Speaker 9 (14:13):
Know, if you go to UH, if you go to
to Red book to get a pattern for shorts. One
of the kinds of shorts listed are Daisy Dukes, so
it's a it's a totally legitimate kind of shorts.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's great.

Speaker 9 (14:27):
They got that wrong on the on that god awful
movie as well. You know they weren't when I see
Daisy never wandered around with the pockets of her jeans
hanging out. I mean, that just doesn't that just doesn't
work for me.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
That was the biggest complaint about Daisy was it is
those parts the only complaint.

Speaker 9 (14:45):
There are no complaints about Daisy. You know, she could
drive almost as well as me. I don't know if
she could shoot a bow and arrow there out.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Uh this Friday, Man, the Big Show. Matt had her
shows and event center in Greenwood. What's a what's the
big show going to be? Like?

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, I'm gonna do a bunch.

Speaker 9 (15:05):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
It's so funny to me.

Speaker 9 (15:06):
I've had twenty nine albums and five number one songs.
Every time I sing anywhere, somebody comes up and says,
you know.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Did you just start singing? I didn't know you sang.
I think, yeah, that's that's like so telling Willie you
didn't know he smoked. So I'm gonna do I'm gonna.

Speaker 9 (15:25):
Do a bunch of the a bunch of number one
songs that were mine, by the way, you know my
number one songs. I'm gonna do some songs that I
grew up listening to, just a bunch of great music.
And if they have I'm not sure if they're gonna
have the audio like the screen behind me. If they do,
then it'll have some things like a scene from Tom Wolf,

(15:48):
Pat and I with our our screen test. It'll have
a scene with Johnny Cash and I in stagecoach. It
might even have me on the mass singer is the Doughnut.
You know, there's gonna be a bunch of It'll be
a little a little broader. But if not, you know,
I'm the kind of guy that that if if the
technology doesn't work out, then I'll just play my guitar,

(16:09):
light a candle and we'll have a good time.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
You know, when I was a little kid watching your show,
I never in a.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Million years, and I.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Know I'm almost I make you lave John He's going
full pet on you, but clown.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
I just I'm saying I never would have thought in
a million years I'd be talking to Bo Duke. When
I was a kid, were the real star of the show.
Let's be on, you were the star of the show.
And I just I can't. I'm starstruck right now. Man,
I really am.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
John Well, I'm honored to be part of your memories.

Speaker 9 (16:43):
I'm honored to be anybody who talks about the Dukes,
they invariably say, you know, I grew.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Up watching that.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
It's my favorite time with my grandparents, or you know
that was that was a time where, you know, before
taxes and before Biden, where life was good, you know,
or you know when when Clinton was just a governor somewhere,
and and uh, it's great to be part of I've
never had anybody come up and say, you know, I

(17:10):
just hated that show.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
It made me a bad person. Good this doesn't happen.

Speaker 9 (17:17):
And so I'm I'm like, I am so honored to
be part of your life, to be part of your memories,
to be part of all these all these folks.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
It just it makes me happy.

Speaker 9 (17:27):
Uh, you know, because I had my heroes and I
got to meet a couple of them and it was
it was good.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
You know. I'm I'm a fan. So for someone who
grew up.

Speaker 9 (17:38):
Being a fan of Boston Space and John Wayne and
Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. To actually have someone that
says they're a fan of mine. What an amazing honor
that is.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
We appreciate your time.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Man, I'm gonna end it with the ihas. That all
right and turn it down. You're ready. Here we go.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
See John Schneider, Ladies and gentlemen. It's the Hammer and Knight. Man.
I I didn't even know we still had this sound bite,
but I think we're going to use it. We are
going to check in and discuss America's battle I will
show against COVID nineteen No, I mean at this moment are.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Three you know, I don't know cares now you big
finish nights because.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Of a doctor from Stanford says that quote the aggressive
mandate of the COVID vaccines has been a bad idea Stanford,
you think five years late to the party now.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Mandate for COVID vaccines or a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
So if you remember, the World Health Organization claimed that
the COVID jabs prevented fourteen point four million deaths in
the first year alone, some estimating up to twenty million.
Is that right. However, new research by Stanford at Inford
and a group of Italian doctors that were part of

(19:18):
this study revealed that the true number is probably closer
to like two to two and a half million, so
twenty to two and a half million. The team of
scientists and doctors estimated that nine out of ten prevented
deaths were in the over sixties category, while it only
saved two hundred and ninety nine people under the age

(19:40):
of twenty and eighteen hundred between the ages of twenty
and thirty globally.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
So basically, yeah, if you were in your sixties or seventies,
it was a therapeutic drug, not a vaccine, not a shot.
It was a shot, but not Basically if your sixties,
it could have lessened the effect. It gave you a
puncher's chance to beat the thing. Now, look, I'm not
a doctor. Notige No, if you're not a doctor.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
We've asked Alison to play a doctor before and all
she did was take us to HR. But I don't
think it takes a rocket scientist to wait five years
to say, yeah, young people, these vaccines were worth.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
And nobody's getting these vaccines. Nobody's getting these boo boosters.
I think, I mean, I think we I don't know.
I hear advertisements for them. If there's therapeutics, that's one thing.
If it's like tamiflu, If you have COVID and they
have something that can lessen the effects of the effects

(20:43):
of COVID, that's fine. But a vaccine ain't gonna do crap.
And we knew that from the very beginning. I said,
when this whole thing started, I wasn't scared of COVID.
I was scared of the government's reaction and people's to COVID.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
And it turned out to be true my fears. Really,
you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Yes,
two weeks to shot in the curb turned into people
losing their jobs.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
And then they told us the vaccine was going to
not only stop people from getting COVID, it was going
to it was going you know, you were gonna live forever, essentially.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Joe Biden, Rachel Maddow, all of the good time party boys.
Oh yeah, they looked at us, right into our faces
on television. The virus stops with each jab yep, narrator,
No it didn't. Oh crap, And this is a Stanford study. Right,
Stanford's a smart school, man, Stanford is a smart school,

(21:47):
But I don't think it should have taken five years
for their elite team of doctors to say, yeah, it
turns out that healthy people really uh weren't affected by
the uh the vaccines at Allie, I really regret get again,
I do too. I do, And I mean good for
Rob Kendall because, yeah, he was in a different place
than we were at his time in of life. He

(22:08):
fought it too, and Nail because he was single and
he didn't have kids. We had a family, and we
were told we were going to lose our jobs if
we did not get the job. Now, I liked working
for MS Communications. Jeff Smullian's always been a great boss
to us, mainly because he leaves us alone. But that
was the one thing that drove me nuts, having to

(22:29):
get a job against my will for fear of losing
my job as the provider of my family.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Remember, we had to come down to the lobby every day,
like we were lucky enough to still be able to
come to work during the heat of COVID.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Right, but we had to put our faces in front
of this what was it temperature scanner?

Speaker 4 (22:49):
It was an iPad that took your temperature.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
I don't think it worked. No, it took green for me.
Every time we could have walked in here, just pasty, white, pale,
sweat porn from our head, like you could see the
COVID germ on our face and it would pass you
through like it's just all theater, right, like most of
the COVID rules. Sure, that's what it was. It was

(23:14):
all theater. I did I did end up getting Did
you have COVID? Did you?

Speaker 10 (23:18):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I had it. I got it on vacation once.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Okay, Yeah, Alison claims I gave it to her.

Speaker 11 (23:27):
All I'm saying was years ago, years ago, two days
before Christmas, you came down with COVID, and two days later,
Jerry Lopez, who was filling in for Hammer, and I
both got COVID.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
I mean, you don't know the maths. I did come
down with COVID because you were the first person in
America to have COVID.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
That that's right in twenty nineteen, in October and twenty
nineteen zero, so sick.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's why I ask.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Alex Bearnson, who is a friend of the show who
talks about COVID, was one of the first dissenters and
question and looked at the data. I thought COVID was
here earlier than December of twenty nineteen October. I got
so sick in twenty nineteen. I was out for ten days.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
I threw you out of the studio.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yes, that's right, that was yes, you threw me out
of the studio because I was I was I was
trying to kind of and I was sitting here shaken
and I was sweating, and you go get the f
out of here, and you didn't see me for ten days,
and then you had to go on. You went on vacation,

(24:37):
and then I thought, okay, I'm better, I'm back. And
then our boss pulled me into the side studio goes,
are you sure you're still okay?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Because you look like shit. I'll never forget that. So
I think COVID was here before, and it's all because
of you. You were the lesson. You went to the
wet market, you bit. Wasn't that the theory right? The
wet market theory? Yeah, it could possibly be that China
screwed up and even though we funded them, they released

(25:08):
it on purpose. It's people biting a bat in a
wet market. I would think about all the lies we
were told. I'm know we're running light.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Here, but oh, Nancy Pelosi going down to China Town
in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Nothing to see here. No, And if you had any
sort of doubt with that, you got all these butts
sniffers on social media calling you a grandma killer. Excuse me,
I really don't see how this mask made in China
that doesn't do anything. Why I have to put it
on when I go to a restaurant, but take it
down when I eat and if I stand up and

(25:42):
sit down, there are different rules. Oh, you want to
kill grandma?

Speaker 4 (25:46):
In this study now saying oh, the JEBS saved twenty
million dollars twenty million people.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh no, actually maybe saved.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Two million people over the age of sixty.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Okay, right, It's almost as if healthy people were going
to be fine and everybody overreacted because it was an
election year and they thought they could tie it to Trump.
Interesting tenfoil hat presents.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
It depends upon what the meaning of the word is.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Is this anything.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
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in Indiana, reuniting Hoosiers with over one million dollars in
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
Again hat tip to anybody that got that. Weird Science
reference yes talked about this earlier eight point eight earthquake
hit Russia yesterday, tsunami warning evacuation for the coasts of
the Hawaiian Islands up late last night watching this stuff
because I'm a weather nerd when the higher waves were
expected to hit. There was a reporter that was live

(27:09):
in Waikiki and was surprised to find out that people
staying in the higher floors of the hotels were having
tsunami parties.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Oh it's kind of wild to see all these people here,
I can tell you. At the hotels there are lots
of people on their balconies checking out what is supposed
to have come. But yeah, everyone just kind of anxiously
awaiting to see what's gonna come. And you can see,
I think you can hear a lot of people yelling
in the background, lots of people front row seats here

(27:43):
to see to watch actiously awaiting the tsunami, and uh yeah,
that's kind of it.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Sounds like a rick Flair Convention back there. Woo.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
I would be crapping my pants if I were on
vacation in Hawaii and all of a sudden the tsunami
alarm went off. Whatever that sounds like. I look, there
were people walking. You've seen footage of They were walking
directly up to the water on boat ramps, even though
they'd been worn several times to evacuate the beaches. People

(28:21):
are stupid, yes, but I guess nobody died. It wasn't
as bad as they thought it was going to be.
And I think maybe they're desensitized a little bit in
Hawaii since they got that that emergency message on their
cell phones that incoming inbound nuclear missiles from North Korea
or they're on their way.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I forgot about me.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
They might be a little desensitized the whole warning system there. Yeah,
the last time we had this, the nuclear missiles were
coming from North Korea, so maybe that's maybe that has
something to do with it.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I totally forgot about that. Imagine you're on your dream cashow,
maybe your honeymoon, and your phone starts vibrating and shaking
incoming missiles from North Korea and it turns out to
be like it was just somebody hit the wrong button, right,
a mistake. Well they do this in Florida, though, Like

(29:16):
they have hurricane parties. I know friends that lived out there. Yeah,
I have friends.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
If it's not a you know, Cat five or something,
they'll board up the windows. They'll get a big, fully
stocked bar and they're going to ride that thing out. Man,
is this anything? A pastor and his wife from Denver
were arrested for running a cryptocurrency scam where they solicited
three point four million dollars from people. They use the

(29:42):
money to do home renovations. Here is the pastor talking
about what they did with the money.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
The charges are that Caitlin and I pocketed one point
three million dollars, and I just want to come out
and say that those charges are true. Better that one
point three half a million dollars went to the irs
and a few hundred thousand dollars went to a homy
model that the Lord told us to do.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
The Lord he had been praying, he'd been heavily praying
over this remodeling decision, and the Lord told him to
scam his congregation out.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Of three and a half million dollars. Yeah, like if
you're God.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
And this guy's praying to you, like could you see
God saying, Hey, look what I want you to do?
And I'm God here, Like what I want you to
do is I really want you to use all the
talents I've given you and bambooz who your congregation and
giving you millions of dollars so you can do that
bathroom reno renovation.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
You know, I don't think God would give that message. Well,
I don't believe it. A pastor. I'm no joel ostein
over here, but I find it hard to believe God. Nigel,
by the way, this is God because I always identify myself.
I want you to rip off as many people as
you can fix your crapper. God out. I don't think

(31:07):
that's how it works, God out, But this brings us
to great moments in pastor history.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
No.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
One of my favorites is the Missouri pastor who is
very upset at how cheap the folks are that go
to his church because they didn't buy him the watch
that he wanted for Christmas.

Speaker 7 (31:25):
See that's how I know you steal, poor bro busting
and disgusting because of how you've been honoring me. I'm
not worth your McDonald's money. I'm not worth your red
lobster money. I ain't worth your Saint John Nick. Y'all
can't afford it? No how I ain't worth y'all, Louis Vatan,
I ain't worth your Prada. I'm not worth your Gucci.
You can buy a Movado watch in Salem's. Yes, and

(31:50):
y'all know half for one last year here it is
the whole way in August. I still ain't got it.
Y'all ain't saying nothing. Let me kick down the door
and talk to my chief sons and daughters.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Geez, I don't want to hear.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
No more excuse about what how can to afford to
afford it? Because you don't see the value hean.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I'm over, y'all.

Speaker 12 (32:06):
I'm over.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Don't cheap expressions. You can buy a Bravedo watching Sam's,
Yes you can. That was amazing. Last one? Here is
this anything? A Massachusetts woman was attacked by a raccoon
on her own property and she says that creatures have

(32:27):
become monsters. Here's Catherine, they become monsters.

Speaker 8 (32:32):
It flew at me from several different directions, and all
I could do was scream.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Help me, Help, me, this is a nightmare.

Speaker 8 (32:40):
I kept saying it to myself because I couldn't find
any other words. I've just encountered a monster.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Yeah, I read a little bit about this. Catherine needed
to be patched up, She's okay. After the attack, I
would assume I would think that she would get a
series of rape shots right now.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
That sound that we heard at the beginning, and what
was that the raccoon or was that Catherine?

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Do it?

Speaker 8 (33:07):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (33:08):
They become monsters? I think it was Katherine. I think
it was Catherine giving her impression of what a monstrous
raccoon sounds like.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
We have, like I think under our back deck, in
our backyard, I think we have two raccoons living under there.
And I walked out one night or no, I was
watching from our sliding glass door. There was a deer
and two raccoons feeding, like eating on our grass, and

(33:38):
I kind of did this I could try to scare him,
and the deer and the two raccoons looked at me
like I was an a hold. They turned around and
looked at me like okay, and then in unison turned
around and started eating our grass again. And it was
only after I opened the sliding glass door that they

(33:58):
all took off.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
If a deer could give a middle finger, that's what
he would have gave you. At that point, he just
looked at me like, Okay, what are you gonna do
about it?

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yeah, that's what the twin raccoons were doing too. They
looked at me and again in Unison turned around and
started feeding off our grass again.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
I don't know what to do. It's the Hammer and
Nigel show.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
It's the Hammer and Nigel weekend show called ninety three
WYBC Hammer. According to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics,
AI is going to cost some people jobs in the
next few years. Should we go through Indiana's top three

(34:45):
jobs most in danger of being replaced by AI.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
They've got this broken down state by state, and these
are the three jobs in Indiana in the most danger.
Go ahead, well, cashiers hardest hit.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Seven thousand plus jobs set to be lost in payrolls
expected to plummet by two hundred and five million dollars
statewide by twenty thirty three. I mean, we're already seeing
self checkout lines.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Right, so in the next eight years. It's been on
for years though, but they're saying this report in the
next eight years, you're going to see even less cashiers.
That's a bummer, because I think cashiers offer I'd rather
have a cashier. I would too, especially at the grocery store. Man.
I'm looking at the list here. General office clerks are

(35:38):
second and nurse practitioners are third on the list of
jobs expected to be eliminated by AI by twenty thirty three.
I'm with you in the cashiers man. Now, I get
the express area. If you've got like a bottle of
soda and a candy bar and a couple things, all right,

(35:59):
fine by it being by boom. But if I got
a big cart full of stuff, like if I'm shopping,
like I got a twenty year old and a seventeen
year old in my house, which I do, I get
a lot of friggin groceries. I ain't trying to do
all that by myself. Let me go back to nurse practitioners.
I think those are expected to gain. Actually, I think

(36:22):
healthcare is gaining. Oh okay, okay, if we.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Look at that. If you look at that number, health
care is what you want to be. In cashiers not
so much. But yeah, you're right if you are. If
you've got a grocery card full of stuff. Yeah, I
want a cashier to do all that stuff, right, like
if you get ten items or less.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, right, it's easy. I understand the express area, but
some places it's all just automated. Now, which I know
this sounds like old man yelling at the cloud. If
you want me to do all the work, then that's fine.
But I want to discount, just like you get a
discount with your Kroger card or whatever. If I have

(37:05):
to be the one that scans everything, there should be
a code that I enter where I get five percent
off my groceries. I don't think that's asking too much.
I don't. And now there's a lot of people that
feel like saving cashiers is important, and here to talk
about that is AI, AOC talking about how AI is

(37:28):
taking away cashier positions.

Speaker 13 (37:30):
I have major concerns about artificial intelligence taking over for cashiers.
I think a lot of charities raise money that way.
Just a week ago, I was at Walmart and the
cashier asked me if I wanted to donate a dollar
to end world hunger. I said absolutely, because I had
no idea we were that close to ending it, of course,
And who was going to answer our questions. Like when

(37:53):
I went to the pet store to buy bird seed
and I asked the cashier how long does it take
for birds to grow? She looked at me right in
the eyes and said a while.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
And cashiers are so thoughtful.

Speaker 13 (38:05):
Like when I went to Walgreens to buy some condoms
and the cashier asked me if I needed a bag.
I said, nah, my boyfriend usually just turns off the lights.
So I'm all for saving the cashiers now, if you
will excuse me, I'm trying to pass legislation where we
only use lowercase letters because capitalism is bad.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
AI AOC out. That's AOC talking about AI taking away
the position of cashiers. Bravo.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Let's do some legal stuff, legal stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Crime punishment, judges, legal stuff, legal stuff.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
The Attorney General Todd Rakeita helping us out there. This
is pure Trump. I don't know if this is obviously
we're not lawyers. I don't know if this is legal
or not. But Trump says Beyonce and Oprah should be
prosecuted for endorsing Kamala Harrit during her campaign, and I

(39:10):
just don't know, Like on his social media stuff, I
just I never know if it's trolling or if it's
to get people talking. But in a truth social post,
Trump alleged that the Democrats paid Beyonce, Oprah, Al Sharpton
and others for endorsements, which he claims.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Is totally illegal all caps totally legal, isn't though?

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I mean, so the financial records Democrats are paying the
celebrities to come out.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
And if you look at the financial records from the
official presidential campaign, they show that Harris's team spent significant
funds on events featuring celebrity endorsers, but those expenses were
for support, staff, and production cost, not payments to the
celebrities themselves. This is from a New York Times report.

(40:07):
Trump previously called for a major investigation investigation and to
pro Harris celebrity endorsers, but no evidence was found of
illegal payments. Now keep in mind Trump's had his share
of celebrity endorsers as well, Kid Rock, Dana White, Haul Cogan,

(40:29):
Jason Alden, Brett Favre, comedian Tony Hinchcliff. But he's saying
that there's some shady numbers, some fuzzy math, as w
once said, going on with some of the big wigs
of the Dems, what was that thing would be?

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Wasn't there a thing with Beyonce and Kamala where like
they everybody showed up thought Beyonce was performing.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
And they thought Beyonce was gonna perform, but she just
walked out there, kind of pulled to Jimmy Dugan, waved
your little hat and brought up Kamala Harris and that
was it, thank you, leg of their own half the
people left, Like once Beyonce walked off the stage and
they realized they weren't going to get anything from the

(41:12):
single Ladies album or Cowboy Carter, they were like, screw this,
We're just stuck here with Kamala, bite me, prosecutor Brah.
Like the whole point of backer up is just to
get under their skin and pissed people off, right, Like
that's the whole point of this. And he can because
he's the President of the United States and he won

(41:35):
and that's what drives the nuts.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
So is it the same thing though, Like I'm sure
Tony Hinchcliffe was paid for that appearance that he made
where he made the Cuban joke and got into all
that truck didn't get in trouble, but it went viral I'm.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Sure all those guys got paid to show up.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
And do that.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
They're not doing that for free, are they. No, But
you have to make sure you document everything proper, right, Okay,
we paid Tony Hinchcliffe for this, and then to say that,
you know you're getting this big show and nobody's getting
any money for it. I don't know. The whole thing's weird.
Nothing's going to happen of it. If nobody is going
to jail for the Epstein stuff, I promise you Oprah

(42:16):
and Beyonce are going to be just fine, just fine.
More legal stuff yep Daylight, Oklahoma, Okay. Deputy in Oklahoma
was arrested for a dewey HM after he crashed his
patrol vehicle into a street sign. Now, the sheriff said
he's taking the situation seriously, but other than the drinking,

(42:40):
the guy's been a standout employee. Here's some more of
what the sheriff had to say about the incident.

Speaker 9 (42:46):
His performance with us has been an outstanding He had
a military career before that.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
He showed obvious signs of intoxication.

Speaker 9 (42:54):
You know, he admittedly said that he had taken ambient
and had drank alcohol after that.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Oh, so what do we do here? Yes, there was
a dewey he was driving drunk, but other than that,
he's a rock star, stand out employee. No, I don't
like to see cops make bad decisions like that.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
He also mentioned the Ambien and I have taken ambient
and uh, I have a prescription for Ambient. I don't
take it every night, but like, like it misses, like
if you mix even a little bit of alcohol with
that stuff, it affects you in a way that that
it's it's it's weird, man, I've done it. Not be honest,

(43:37):
stop beating around the bush. You've done it.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
How was it? I just fall asleep. I just fell asleep.
Which that sleep? Just beer? Okay, just beer.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
I would take an ambient and just finish my beer
and just fall asleep. But like, some people take that
stuff and wake up and don't even know they're awake
and eat a loaf of bread right in the middle
of the night. But the thing is, this guy was
in his patrol car. It wasn't like he was driving
his Prius taxpayer funded patrol car. Yeah, he got the

(44:10):
DUI in his patrol car. Yeah, you probably need some help.
I don't know, I don't know what the protocol is
with you know, should he be fired? Should he I
don't know. Maybe he is a problem, but yeah, if
you're taking ambient and then drinking and then driving your

(44:31):
patrol car, that's probably a fireble offense.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
And he crashed into a sign. It wasn't like he
was drinking and driving and he was like, I'm fine,
I'm a good drunk driver. No you're not. You crashed
into a sign. It's the Hammer and Nigel weekend show.

Speaker 12 (44:51):
A three percent of three percent better than expected.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Three percent better than expected. That's seeing me seed breaking
the news. Sorry, bad news for all the Trump haters
here in America listening right now, that we have solid
economics going on in this country. We have a solid economy.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Has anybody checked on a duel? Is he okay?

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Is he gonna be all right? We need to have
Mike hicks On debunk this myth that the economy is
doing well?

Speaker 3 (45:28):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Good economic news, good okay? Under President Trump? First six months,
first six or seven months going going very well. Apparently
the tariffs didn't put us into a deep depression like
all the predictions.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Maybe it'll happen later, Maybe it won't happen at all.
All I know is that the second quarter GDP report
is out and it's up three percent. Two point three
percent was the estimate. Here is ce NBC again, this
isn't Fox, this isn't Breitbart. C NBC just mocking the

(46:06):
crap out of Democrats like Elizabeth Warren after one good
report about the economy right after the other.

Speaker 10 (46:15):
The left and people that don't like the president and
don't want things to work, and you know, like I
can Center and Elizabeth war will come out and say,
inflation's out of control in the economy. Is this is
getting killed by what's happening by these tariffs, This three
percent with the market at new highs, and really we
haven't seen inflation, you know, go up. But none of

(46:36):
these things, none of these horrible things have happened. But
they still talk like it's happening.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
It's amazing.

Speaker 12 (46:42):
Well, the important there's an important lesson there. Don't pick
a congressman to be your money manager. That's what I
would say. But in the end, Congress has their own
reasons to point out certain things. And the Democrats, of course,
as you pointed out, really don't want to see the
current administration.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Have some success.

Speaker 6 (47:00):
But there's no doubt that this is some success.

Speaker 12 (47:03):
We're seeing more horse power, we're seeing better equities. Inflation,
Inflation really hasn't changed much in the last year or so.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
We were promised a recession. Niedge from all these experts,
you know, I want off. These are the same experts
like that woman who was the political expert before the
election that went to go by the champagne and gave
a big lecture to the kid that set the checkout aisle.
Like I wonder if these are the same type of
experts we're dealing with here, because all I know is

(47:33):
that with the reports that have been released, inflation lower,
GDP higher, and real wages up. I'll take that. That's
a fresh right there, I can get down with fresh.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Oh, this is Biden's economy. This is just this is
what's left over from the Joe Biden administration, finally coming
to fruition.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Right. Well, the first quarter the GDP was down a
little bit. Since we've gotten rid of Captain Harsniffer, things
have taken a little turn. Now will at last, I
don't know. I don't claim to be an expert on
the market here, right that's why we go to guys
like Bill Demery. But so far, so good. It is

(48:15):
what it is. The numbers have been pretty solid, even
though others have said, well, we're anticipating the bottom dropping out.
And this brings us to the Federal Reserve. Donald Trump
has been beating up on the head of the Federal
Reserve Jerome Powell for a while now wants him to
lower the rates. Update not gonna happen. Federal Reserve earlier

(48:39):
today announced that it will leave it's benchmark interest rate unchanged.
Jerome Powell leaves interest rates unchanged again at four point
five zero percent, despite the really good economic numbers that
were released earlier today yesterday, and they're real wage's number.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Did you see him in Trump going through I don't
know if it was a Federal Reserve or some building
that was being renovated and spending billions and billions of dollars,
and Jerome Powell, this little guy in a huge hard
hat look like Walter Mondale, took his head out of

(49:23):
his hat. Yeah, look, I mean the rates.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
My wife and I took advantage of those low rates
at the beginning of COVID and did some stuff to
our house and I get where the President's coming from.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
I just think it's interesting. There's cases to be made
on both sides. I think for this, but I understand
where Trump was coming from. It's like, hey, let's do this.
Let's get these rates down a little bit.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
More's chick start this economy here, give people some faith
and some hope. You're going to see the market react
in such a positive way. But at the same time,
you want your money to be worth something as well.
And plus counterpoint, Jerome Powell doesn't like him. Jerome Powell
hates Donald Trump, so he's in no hurry, no rush

(50:13):
to do him any solids anytime soon. We've got an
update night, Tell me if this moved the needle for you.
Just in, Former Vice President Kamala Harris has announced she
will not be running for the governor's seat in California.
Now I'm paraphrasing here, but nobody likes me is the

(50:35):
reason why. Again, those are my interpretations of her.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
Reason worked her way up there in California, thinks, so.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
She worked it pretty good. According to Willie Brown, prosecutor
EARL Senator Willie he jokes right themselves, we're talking about
Goony's characters. What are you thinking about the amount of
American badasses we have in this studio right now is outstanding.

(51:07):
And I'm not even talking about us. I'm Jason Hammer,
Big nightges here, but we've got a friend of the show,
Brian Alvi joining us. I'm how are you doing, guys man,
We're great, and I'm gonna let you introduce the guest
that you brought in. Well, when we talked about the
topic of, you know, the Army recruiting numbers and the
military and generals soaring up, I thought my buddy James

(51:29):
Copp would be so value added to this show. He
and I have been working together on a little project.
I'll let him speak to that.

Speaker 14 (51:35):
But James had this unbelievable career in the United States
Army that just and I'll let you speak to that.

Speaker 6 (51:41):
But we were talking about Green Beret.

Speaker 14 (51:44):
Special Forces, decorated combat veteran, diet Special Forces Dive School
commandant in Midwest.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
But what's your background for people that may just be
tuning in for the first time.

Speaker 14 (51:55):
I was a professional lawn dart for the United States Army.
You know, I fell out, brains landed and did you know,
stupid stuff almost said the sport.

Speaker 6 (52:03):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 14 (52:05):
I'm getting good at this, you know, uh, my career.
I'm proud of my career.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
I really am.

Speaker 14 (52:10):
But it just pales to compare to what this man
put in. It's it's amazing. I mean, you know, commandant
of the Special Forces Dive School, Key West and one
of the things he did because he did he just
loves his state and he loves this area.

Speaker 6 (52:25):
His last I was, like man, the toughest thing he
did in his military career.

Speaker 14 (52:30):
He came back for a couple of years and was
the battalion commander for army recruiting for this whole area.
So I thought, who better to talk to this topic
than James. But and then, like I said, him and
I do a lot. We'd like our bourbon. We brought
you some treats to class.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
James.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Well, look at that. We have to raise up a
glass here.

Speaker 14 (52:46):
In just a moment, bottle of well or twelve, So
you know, wow, show me up, James.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Let's dive into it here. We had a report a
couple of weeks back, may have even been about a
month or so ago, that recruiting was up. It is
since Donald Trump became the President and Pete Hegsath has
been installed as the Secretary of Defense. Why is that?

Speaker 15 (53:07):
I think there's a couple of reasons. I mean, obviously
the main one, people want to serve their country. They
want to be proud of it. It's it's a lot
easier to be proud of your country when you've got
a guy like Donald Trump, you know, as our president.
You don't have the woke agenda that we had for
the years. You know that I was unfortunately dealing with it.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Is that a big part of it? I mean, did
you have to read the book on white Rage?

Speaker 15 (53:31):
So so I'll say this. You know you were in
the Pentagon, Yeah, yeah, I'd spent two years there was
it was my penance for doing time down in Key West.
But you know, I'll say this that you don't join
the army because of a woke agenda. You join the
army to serve your country. You join the army because
you want to go out and make a difference, you know,

(53:52):
not only to your community, but to the country rit large.
So you know, when when you're looking at the the
advertisements that the by administration put out, those are not
things that bring young people in to join the Army,
the advertisements that we've got now, you know, the the
you know, for me, it was I want to do
more before nine am than most people do all day.

(54:13):
Like that was my that was my thing. Wow, you know,
be all you can be. You still remember that, you
still to this day. You know, those are the kind
of things that you go, Okay, that's why I want
to I want to be part of something better than myself.
And you do that in the United States Army. You know,
when you when you look at the sad state that
the Army was, you know, four years under Obiden, under Biden, right, yeah,

(54:35):
exactly right, you said, I mean, yeah, let's be honest.

Speaker 6 (54:38):
The last one was definitely Obiden.

Speaker 15 (54:39):
Yeah, absolutely, And you know under Obama the same thing.
You know, we as the military, our job is to
close with and destroy the nation's enemies. It's not it's
not climate change, it's not woke agenda. It is to train, equip,
move out, close with and destroy nation's enemies.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Bottom line. That's it.

Speaker 15 (54:58):
When you get away from that, then you're surprised that
people don't want to join.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
I'm sorry for me as a parent, like neither one
of my children are in the service, but had they
been somebody that wanted to do that, I would have
such concern about who their commander in chief would have been.
Joe Biden, especially after that botched Afghan withdrawal.

Speaker 14 (55:19):
Remember, my boys were in the military under him as
their commander in chief, and you know that didn't give
me the warmest of fuzzies in my gut, right, you know.
And when they both decided that their time was up
and they got out.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Because it seemed like he was incompetiti it, right, like
we could all disagree on dates. That's fine, yes, but
when you saw what happened with that botched Afghan withdrawal,
to me, that was you're not a serious person.

Speaker 15 (55:42):
So so to the point on that, you know, I
had a very good friend that I deployed with, you know,
and we we stayed the closest to friends his job.
After he and I were deployed together, he went into plans.
They spent countless hours coming up with an Afghan withdrawal plan.
I mean, he was you know, at Fort Bragg, thank
god his name or Brag again, but he was at
for Brag. They did, they had the plan. It wasn't like, oh,

(56:05):
you know, we didn't know what we were going to do.
It just came on too quick. No, it was a
deliberate and we're not doing this. They scrapped the plan.
You know, let's let's move to an area where there's
people all around us instead of staying out in an
airfield but there's nothing around. You know what, Nobody, you know,
from a military perspective, thought that.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
That was a great idea. Nobody.

Speaker 15 (56:24):
But well, yeah, what wey I was saying giving up
the airpis to it's a that the whole thing was
a disaster. Absolutely absolutely, And when you look at things
like that and then you go, well, why are recruiting
numbers down? I'm sorry, but I can look right there

(56:45):
and say that's the reason. You know, young people are
not stupid. They look at at current events, they see
what's going on in the world, and they go, I
don't want to serve under a commander in chief that's
like that, I would say. You know, since since we
have you know, Donald Trump back in office and the
Army's made its mission early for the first time and
god knows how long. Uh so it's it's awesome to

(57:06):
see that. Uh you know, there there are other things
that are concerns obviously, you know, education and things like
that that the Army is still having to overcome, uh
to get those numbers. And they have, they've they've made
some some changes to how we bring folks in.

Speaker 9 (57:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
You know, the United States is overweight.

Speaker 15 (57:24):
The United States kids are coming out of school, they
don't know, you know, they can't pass basic tests.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Did they lower standards for a little while.

Speaker 15 (57:30):
So here's what they've done, you know, with regards to weight. Yes, okay,
So you so you say, okay, here's our standard for weight. Yes, okay. Well,
what the Army has done is gone, we don't have
enough people that the pool is not large enough to
draw from. So what we're going to do is we're
gonna say, okay, if you if you're over a bit,
we're going to send you down and uh and and

(57:52):
have you get you on good nutrition, have you work out,
you know, have you walk?

Speaker 6 (57:57):
You know what old drill Sartans used to call that, right.

Speaker 15 (57:59):
Like, yeah, I'll let you say that, Alison.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Make sure we treat this like call a roulette every
time I'm here. Curious now, yeah, what you called it?

Speaker 6 (58:11):
We we we we called it fat boy camp.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, that's something like that. It's still called that. But
so that's one. But you send them with fat boy Camp.

Speaker 15 (58:21):
They are going to work out, they're going to be
you know, most of these kids have been eating potato
chips for the last you know, eighteen years.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
But they want to serve their country.

Speaker 15 (58:29):
They want to be lifted. Was their xbox control exactly?
You know the coke can, right, So so they've done that.
Now Additionally, you know I talked about schools, right, So schools.
Schools are a big thing. The ASVAB you know, for
those that don't know, uh, it's basically an IQ test,
it's the entrance exam to get in the military. It
is basically an IQ test, but you have to understand
you know, basic math to be able to be tested

(58:50):
on it. If you don't know that, how can I
test you? And you don't know the basics. And some
of these kids are coming out of school with you know,
they just can't simply do the problem. So how can
I test your intelligence? Well that's the other thing that
they've done. They said, okay, well you're close enough, let's
take you in, let's train you, Let's let's give you
some more time so that you understand how this test works,

(59:11):
and we're going to teach you something.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
Now.

Speaker 15 (59:13):
The success rates for those seem to be pretty good,
you know, that's one of the positives is Yes, you
know Americans are overweight. Yes, our schools a lot of
times are failing kids. But the kids aren't stupid, they're
just overweight and they're undertrained. So if we can do that,
you know, we can get them in and also make
our mission.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
We've got our pal Bryant Alvi and studio Lieutenant Colonel
James cop here as well. I got a few minutes
left here. James, you mentioned earlier you've worked in the
Pentagon for a couple of years. Question, I have anybody
associated with Donald Trump feels like they've got a target
on their back, right because he's so dynamic one way

(59:54):
or the other. Pete Hegxit is kind of tied at
the hip with Donald Trump. There are some still there's
still are are some Biden holdovers at the Pentagon right now.
Should Pete heggsath be concerned about that?

Speaker 15 (01:00:05):
I'll say that that in the army, you know, overall,
there is there is still a current of the the
the woke, uh you know, going on.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
So I have a.

Speaker 15 (01:00:16):
I have a close friend that just graduated from the
War College and one of the things that he told
me that absolutely floored me is the number of people
and these are lieutenant colonels and and colonels. Uh, you
know that that will be brigade commanders. They will be
the pool that that you pulled general officers from. And
the large number of those folks that were you know,
went apoplectic when USA I D got shut down. That

(01:00:38):
that are just like this is the end of the
world that speaks volumes in itself. Absolutely absolutely, and I
was floored by him telling me that, I, you know,
Brian and I you know, we we worked with meat eaters.
You know, that's that's pretty much where we had had served.
And you know, you don't see an awful lot of that,
but the army is huge and there are people, you know,
with with differing inspectives all over. Now, some of those

(01:01:02):
people do rise to the top, and some of those people,
unfortunately have that core belief and and really I think
it's it's a long term, you know issue. When I
was in, you know, so I'm retired. When I was in,
I was a political and we should be as as
the military you know you you don't take a side

(01:01:23):
of a president. You don't take us a You swear
an oath to the to support and defend the Constitution
of the United States against all enemies for an in
domestic The bottom line is there are a lot of
people that are currently serving that are unhappy with the
current administration. I'm concerned about that, just based off what
my friend said.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
So, James, what's a meat eater? I've worked with a
beer drink.

Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
It's not a grass definite.

Speaker 15 (01:01:49):
That makes sense, that puts it into content. Yeah, pretty much.
It's the simplest answer is always the best.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
So, yeah, j you brought some beverages here along with Uh.
You got a pretty big announcement you want to make. Yeah,
I can roll man, Let's go, let's do it. Let's
do it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
So.

Speaker 15 (01:02:05):
Uh So I am running for State Senate District forty one.
That's uh, you know, southeastern Johnson County and uh and
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Speaker 13 (01:02:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
So, you know, I appreciate this Johnson County Man Hammer
and Nigel Country. We went down to the fair at
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Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
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Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
If you're from Beech Grove, like I feel like you
get invited to the cookouts there you go at Johnson County. Well,
we appreciate lion. Do I still get in. You're good,
you put in the work. Do you remember just boarding
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Speaker 6 (01:02:39):
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Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Okay, Well, well, I appreciate it.

Speaker 15 (01:02:42):
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Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
So definitely appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
Guys.

Speaker 15 (01:02:48):
Appreciate the opportunity to talk about the army. It's something
that I'm passionate about and to that. So let's enjoy
some weller here here, gentlemen, Thank you guys, Thank you
guys for your service.

Speaker 6 (01:02:57):
God bless and thank you for what you guys do
every day on this in their.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:03:03):
That's good, oh so good. When it touches the lips.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Again, you guys are awesome. You guys are bad asking you.
Thank you for your service and we appreciate you. Joving.
It's the Hammer and Nigel Show.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Are you okay with this?

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
Hammery's School District in Tennessee has made the controversial decision
to stop excusing absences with doctor's notes, what kids will
be marked present or absent, and will face punishment for
all absences. Here's the Director of schools talking about the

(01:03:45):
new rules.

Speaker 16 (01:03:46):
You could end up filling the great you could fill
the course. You're going to be to be petitioned to
court if you're not gonna participate in graduation. Get your
driver's license permit. And if you got the sniffles, that's fine,
you're going to have them when you go to work.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
One day.

Speaker 16 (01:03:57):
We've all gone to work sick and hurt and beat up.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Are you okay with this?

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
I'm not lighting up, Francis. If somebody has an actual
doctor's note, that should not count against them. Yeah, Like,
I'm sorry, but that's just how it works. Now, I
get it. You're right. When you get into the real world,
you know, if you have a doctor's appointment or whatever,
you have to take a PTO day or a vacation

(01:04:24):
day or whatever. That's fine. But these are kids in
school and some of them have to get physical, some
of them have to get checkups for various things. Lighten
up just a little bit there, Doogie Houser. Now, if
you really want to get a quack doctor, yes, then
let's go back a couple of years ago when COVID
was running rampant through this country. It was running rampant

(01:04:48):
through central Indie, and we decided to make Matt bar
Our quack doctor.

Speaker 16 (01:04:54):
The best way to be gronavirus is my drinking nine
to twelve glasses of gravy each day.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
See, I'd rather listen to Matt Bear than who is
it the director of schools in Tennessee saying your doctor's
note doesn't work here. Fine, I'm gonna go to school
with explosive diarrhea. I'm gonna cough, I'm gonna sneeze, I'm
gonna throw up on everybody. Rocky Top. There we go. Oh,
I forgot about that nine glasses of gravy? Was that

(01:05:23):
the advice? I mean, you could probably do eight, but
doctor Matt Bear really recommends nine.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
Speaking at Comic Con in San Diego, the creators of
South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, said all of
the stuff they put into a teaser trailer to promote
this season of South Park will not be seen. Here
is their reason why.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Back in like February, right, we made a They're like, oh,
we need to do a promo for the summer, like what, like, I.

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
Don't know what we're gonna do this summer, and they're like, no,
we need to make promo announced.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
That the shows are gonna come back. And we made a promo.
We did this thing Southburt's going back to the side and
showed a whole bunch of clips. We made it all
up just for the promo, like.

Speaker 15 (01:06:07):
And everybody was like, everyone's going to man those guys
they used to do you know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Now they're just frontloading shows and not gonn be top
of all anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Was like, you seriously think we went and made a
bunch of shows ahead of time and we're like banking
them for later, Like we've never done that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
So we just made something up and we're like, this
is what we're doing and we're not doing any of that,
none of that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Yeah, are you okay with this? It seems like they
make shows weaked week they do.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
I'm okay with this, And I relate to this because
when we go off the air, we have to record
a promo or a teaser what's coming up tomorrow on
The Hammer and Nigel Show. Our show is based off
the news cycle. Now, unless we've got like a crazy
interview or you know, one of our friends coming on
the show or something. We have no idea what we're

(01:06:54):
gonna be talking about, no clue. So that's why South
Park made this trailer back in Februar. It shows planes
crashing and a war with Canada, and none of that
stuff is going to be involved in this season because
they do their show week to week. I get it,
I get it. Let's do one more, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Athletics broadcaster Chris Carrey, who is the grandson of Harry
Carrey and son of Skip Carrey, had to apologize on
social media for making a huge misuge mistake while calling
a game on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
Hammer.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
Here is how it sounded when Lawrence Butler hit a
three run homer against the Astros. That was way left
of the foul pole, one.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Two pitch high in the air, deep to right. That
ball is foul for gone. That ball was absolutely launched
law dog posing them up at the dish. He knew
it off the bat. It was just it's still a
matter of how far so are you okay with? So

(01:08:04):
he had to apologize what happened there? Was it foul
or was it good? It was a total home run? Yeah,
it was completely fair. Was it close to being foul?
But I'm not okay with him having to apologize.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
Yeah, the guy, the announcer I had to apologize, totally
lost it in the lights.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
I'm sorry, no excuses, he posted on social media. He
said it on the broadcast. I lost it in the lights.
I thought it was going foul, I said foul. I
should have just waited. Okay, fine, that's not the worst
mistake in the world. Like ask Tom Brenneman, you know
about hot mikes and having to apologize on the air.
That's an apology. This, No, that's nothing. He's fine. Are

(01:08:43):
you okay with this?

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
A man in Florida was arrested after he assaulted a
golfer on a golf course because he thought he was
playing too slow.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Boy, I've been there. I hate playing behind slow people
on golf courses. So this guy, the guy multiple times
in the face, broke a bone beneath his eye. Here's
the other golfers commenting on the attack.

Speaker 16 (01:09:06):
If you're out here trying to be aggressive, you picked
the absolute wrong game to choose.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
You go.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
Do you like jiu jitsu or kuanfu or something, But.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
There's no need to be fighting out here.

Speaker 15 (01:09:18):
You can easily call the shop, somebody will come out
and speak to the person or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
In the case, but it should never turn to violence. Now,
correct me if I'm wrong here, Nuge. This is the
second story we've had in the last couple of months
about slow golfing leading to a brawl. Remember there was
a story about some other slow golfers and some dude
got real mouthy and he picked a fight with the dude,
the NHL guy right, who played professional hockey, and he

(01:09:47):
was the goon. He was like the tough guy on
the NHL squad, and he beat the hell out of
him and threw him in the water.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
There's nothing worse than playing behind slow golfers. I haven't
even been golfing this year. I anyway, I do love
the golf, but I just don't do it. It takes
up too much time. But playing behind guys that are
so slow, it's there's nothing worse. Now, this guy's right,

(01:10:13):
I mean, there's no reason to get violent, but to
beat the crap out of the dude.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
I mean, don't start. None won't be none. If you
start a fight, broke a bone beneath his eye, you
dan well be ready to defend yourself because if you're
starting it, the dude on the other end is going
to come at you two. But being behind slow people
in general, like if you're behind a slow person at
the grocery store and you're trying to get down an aisle,
or if you're at a ballgame or something, just being

(01:10:40):
behind slow people it's the worst. Now, I'm not a golfer,
but I've heard this multiple times. Slow golfers are a
big problem.

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
Are you okay with this? How fast could you eat
a one pound head of iceberg leten? The University and
University of Minnesota has a lettuce.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
Club boys save some chicks for the rest of US guys,
and an annual speed eating contest Go Ahead.

Speaker 17 (01:11:12):
Each lettuce is formally weighed before the competition begins. Then
participants must place their right hand on their lettuce and
recite the pledge'll couple. Then they start chowing down. To
show you finish the entire head, you have to stand up,
raise the stem and prove your.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Mouth is empty.

Speaker 17 (01:11:27):
The reigning champion, Nathan Thomas, crowned eep and his head lettus.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
That's more than of the record is two minutes and
thirty five seconds. Just to be clear, are you okay
with the lettuce eating contest at the University of Minnesota?

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Yes, I'm okay with this. Why not? Right, there are
all types of crazy get us Book of World Records things. Right,
We've got the world record for the most balloons popped
in sixty seconds, the world record for the most ridiculous things.
So why not have a lettuce club at the University

(01:12:04):
of Minnesota. Like, let us enthusiast, you finally found somebody
to communicate with. I don't know how many there are, yeah,
but even if it's just a small group, a lot
of lonely, let us enthusiasts finally found each other. Like,
I feel like, if you're somebody that's in the lettuce club, like,

(01:12:25):
that's who you have to marry, right, that's the person
for you. You've got a common interest in let us
to the point to where you've gone out of your way,
you've taken time, you've parked, you've signed waivers to join
a club to talk about how much you love let us.
I feel like, if you find somebody that loves let
us like that, you do everything in your power and

(01:12:46):
you put a ring on it. So yes, Amen, I'm
okay with this. It's the Hammer and Nigel show.