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SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
The year is over.
Top 10 uh subjects that weranted about in 2025.
Uh, Stuart and I, when westarted this, you know, during
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COVID from five years ago, wedidn't think we'd be doing this
all the time.
But let me tell you, we've beenvery consistent doing this
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, noonEastern.
We've been coming to you and wethank you so much for the tens
of thousands of views andlisteners and people and all
that.
And we want to thank you fromthe bottom of our hearts.
Um, we do this, we make no moneyon this, but I gotta tell you,
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I've had plenty of conversationswith people over the years,
Stuart, of like, wow, you guysare really thank you for
bringing these to the fore, andwe do appreciate that.
And so when we look back at2025, we really our stories fell
into 10 buckets.
And we're gonna go in throughthis.
It's not necessarily your top10.
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It may not be the top 10 thatCNN's gonna put out.
You're pretty much sure it's notgonna be the MSNBC version of
top 10, and it certainly won'tbe the Fox version, but it is
the Rant Network's version ofour top 10.
So if you've never been herebefore, then you'll understand
that what we're gonna talk aboutis really where we've signed for
the last year the subjects, themacro subjects that really
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rocked and rolled 2025.
And so, my friend StuartBrisgale, who's in Florida, and
I'm in Montreal, Canada, we dothis three times a week Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, noon Easternconsistently is when we
broadcast.
And so while some of ourepisodes might be prerecorded,
and why some of our stuff willbe live, it doesn't matter.
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We're still shooting from thehip and going through all the
subjects that you know impactedus in 2025.
So this is episode one of three.
So if you're you're ready tolisten for the next one, um, be
ready because we've gotourselves a rocking fun time to
go back down memory lane.
But you know, Stuart, I'm gonnastart start our our our show at
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um number 10.
Um, we were a little bit sort oftaken by surprise that there's
good there was a new dude in theVatican, and we were also
surprised how much the worldreally cares for a new pope.
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Story tells our sh that was ourstory for number 10.
SPEAKER_01 (02:35):
The new Pope of the
Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo,
Robert Francis Privot waselected by the College of
Cardinals.
The conclave was held, just soyou know, on my birthday, May
8th, following the death of PopeFrancis earlier in the spring.
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Robert Francis Privos acceptedthe 267th new Pope with rising
white smoke, the Sistine ChapelSean.
You know, a new Pope representsmore than just a leadership
change, it represents thedirection.
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The church faces intensepressure to mirror modern
political trends whilemaintaining their doctrine.
Leadership isn't always aboutappeasing every audience, it's
about clarity, consistency, andmoral confidence.
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The decision made now willsignal the church and the moral
anchor it is to the millions ofChristians around the world.
The direction isn't justdecoration either, and which
David and I talked about.
It's not a rebrand that Davidcan do very well, and it's not a
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reset button for publicrelations, it's a signal.
The signal is the broaderChristian world and culture, and
it's extremely excreasinglydemand rather than bending its
standards because it's beingpersecuted once again around the
world.
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It's not a question about atheoretical theoretical, it's
actually currently happening inthe world.
You have to agree on morality,anthropology, politics, and the
definition of truth.
Those are the cornerstones ofthis new church, David.
If we talk about doctrine andcontinuity.
SPEAKER_00 (04:45):
Hold on, let me give
you a comment about the Pope,
okay?
Because like we we talked aboutit.
It was one of our most popularepisodes, Stuart.
You know what was interestingthough?
First of all, the firstAmerican.
Yep.
Big Chicago Cubs fan, by theway.
I mean, the Pope, big baseballfan.
And there was of two situationshere, Stuart.
You know, right, you saidkeeping up the tradition, but
also adapting to the modernsociety.
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And one story, which one thingsthat didn't that went really
well underreported was a promisewas made to the indigenous
population of Canada to returnmany of the artifacts that was
stolen from them for centuriesfor centuries by the by the
Catholic Church and by the Pope.
And they were returned recently,actually, Stuart, um, to
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tremendous awe by the indigenouspopulation here in Canada.
They were they founded a form ofreconciliation, which is what
the church has started underFrancis in a way, and went
forward with Pope Leo.
But one thing, when I saytradition, that hasn't changed
is the depths of anti-Semitismstill running deep inside the
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church.
And I'm wondering if Pope Leoisn't going to get his head, you
know, rattled a little bitbecause the church under Pope
John Paul II moved away from itsanti-Semitism and wanted to
create a greater rapprochementwith the Jewish community.
And yet recent popes havedecided to rekindle many of the
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tropes in the past.
And it's still it's really sadto see, Stuart.
So here's hoping the Pope mighthave a different vision in 2026.
SPEAKER_01 (06:19):
You know, well said,
but you know what?
As this top 10 keeps rolling,I'm gonna go on to the next
topic.
Segment number two or numbernine.
What happened to ouruniversities?
Universities were a topic thatDavid and I rattled week after
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week.
They were once designed anddesignated to be everything to
teach young adults how to thinkand not what to think.
That distinction used to besacred by educators like David's
mother, my wife.
And today the education systemis barely recognizable.
SPEAKER_00 (07:01):
David.
You know what, Stuart?
It's a we we talked about whathappened in our universities,
but I think your point is muchmore valid, is what happened to
our education system, whereteachers have decided that
they're going to decide for youas a parent what's right and
wrong, where universities arebringing in radicalism into the
classroom.
Now, I I know that these a lot,you know, a lot of people told
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me, have you noticed that theprofessors in a lot of the
classrooms were also theprotesters of the 1960s?
Sure, I kind of get that.
And I do teach at a university,and I've seen many of them, and
I've heard them and I've talkedto many of them.
But when you're importing in thehaters, when you're importing
in, you know, thanks to massiveamounts of funding by radical
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states, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,other countries that have
promoted, that wanted a chair,that wanted a department, that
wanted to spread this hate.
It's incredible to see thedepths of what's going on.
China has paid a lot of moneyinto universities.
And it took Donald Trump tothreaten them.
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If you're still, if you rememberat the beginning of the year,
Donald Trump threatened them,sued them.
Harvard had to come back sort ofon its hands, and he didn't want
to prove they wanted to showthem that they were superior to
the government and they knewbetter than the government.
They're not protecting students,they're not protecting ideology,
they threw out conservatives,they've promoted free speech on
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this side, and then on thisside, they condemn it.
The hypocrisy at universitieswas off the charts, and on top
of it all, the notion of debate,gone, pissed away.
Our universities are no longer aplace.
You know, the the I think thebest line I heard was, you know,
the Ivy League is now the poisonIvy League.
SPEAKER_01 (08:49):
Yeah, poison Ivy.
Yep.
You know, it's not conditioning,it's not sorry, it's
conditioning, not educating.
And just so you know, studentsaren't stupid, they adapt
quickly.
They learn which opinions aresafe, which words are triggers,
and positions which rewardapproval.
So self-censorship repeats withcomply.
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It's not intellectual growth,it's the conditioning.
You know, the U.S.
military did in the 30s, 40s,50s, 60s, and even 70s all kinds
of psychological experiments, alot of them in universities and
mental institutions.
Listen, let's just keep itsimple on this topic.
High tuition, mounting debt, andthe credibility of the
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credentials of the poison ivyand many other institutions in
America and the West aredefinitely coming to question.
And that's why that is numbernine on our most proud moments,
because the moment of educationbecomes enforcement, it stops to
be education.
SPEAKER_00 (09:55):
Well, Stuart, now
let's move over to number eight.
And to me, this is somethingthat is it ties into the whole
university is why are so manypeople supporting terrorism?
I mean, we've seen since October7, 2023 that what terrorism can
do.
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And most recently on BondaiBeach in Sydney, Australia, we
see what terrorism can do.
Terrorism is defined as creatingfear in society by the use of
violence, whether it's verbal orphysical.
And yet, so many in the Westhave embraced it as a resistance
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movement.
SPEAKER_01 (10:38):
Stuart, I I listen
supporting terrorism doesn't
emerge from compassion, itemerges from moral erosion.
Another key topic that you and Irattled all year long.
When violent actors are reframedas misunderstood, and civilians
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are treated as collateral tonarrative clarity.
That's the line that's beenintentionally blurred by the
academia, the media, and let'snot forget, the political elite.
A society unwilling to clearlycondemn terrorism eventually
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loses the ability to offenditself ethically or practically.
So this episode that we'rerattling on now is why so many
people support terrorism.
You know, it doesn't begin witha bomb or bullet, as many of our
rants were about.
It becomes the moment violenceis softened and reframed or
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explained with a shift of moralresponsibility, blaming the
victim as the cause of thereason why the attack happened.
That shift began, I don't know,in the late 80s, early 90s.
And once clarity replaces thequalification, the essential
break will be restored.
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But until then, terrorism willcontinue.
The speed of approval will onlyhasten, and there will be no
hesitation but to watch it erodeour society more.
SPEAKER_00 (12:22):
You know what,
Stuart?
It's amazing.
I when we grew up, people woret-shirts of Che Guevara,
resistance, baby, resistance.
They wore t-shirts of FidelCastro, resistance, baby.
This is what we thought.
And then as we grew up, werealized those are not
resistance movements, those areradicalism, a move towards a
different society.
There's this whole belief thatwhere we live today is a mess.
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And when we get into topicnumber seven, we'll we'll touch
about that in a second.
But here's the thing which isamazing is that the people that
they believe this is not thatthey're they're blinded to
believe that this is the rightform of resistance.
That if bringing in Hamas, yeah,wearing Hamas headbands, wearing
a kafia, you're saying, Oh, thisis resistance.
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But what you're doing is you'repromoting something that you
truly do not understand, and youknow, people being sheep and not
wanting to do the homework andresearch, understanding it, are
just want to be part of a crowd.
And the growing numbers arethere now.
Stuart, let's not ignore thefact also that there were
bazillions, I'm saying thousandsof paid actors who went in there
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and did this and created thismovement, and yet people bought
into it thinking, yeah, this isgood.
But you know how many timespeople would go over to them and
say, So what are you supporting?
And you they go, Oh, we're we'rein for the river to the sea.
Well, which river, which sea?
Uh you know, do you support allthere's genocide?
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Oh, they're all the cliches werethrown out on one side.
They bought into the propaganda,Stuart.
They bought into this notion,and you know what?
It didn't, and if you go back toour number nine, where we said,
What happened on universities?
You heard it in the media, yousaw it in social media, you
heard the politicians, you heardthe university professors.
So it has to be true thatterrorism is good.
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I'm floored, Stuart.
SPEAKER_01 (14:20):
All right, let's
move on to the last one of this
episode.
And I love this title because itdoes, it seems to get and creep
into almost every single episodeof 25.
The Dems have gone berserk.
The modern Democratic Partyincreasingly struggles with
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internal gravity, like littleDebbie, little short girl, or
crazy AOC.
It's the loudest sanction pullpolicy towards extreme and
alienation uh of its internalcombustionable engine, the
Democratic Party.
Public safeties are dismissed,borders are reframed as cruel,
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and economic consequences arebrushed aside for good slogans.
Over time, the voters arestarting to notice it isn't
about the party's label, it'sabout whether or not there's any
governance in the DNC.
SPEAKER_00 (15:19):
David, I know you
like talking about it.
You know, I gotta tell you, theDem's gone gone crazy.
And let's go, let's rememberwhat they did, right?
They shut down the governmentfor a record number of days.
They blamed the Republicans whodid it and said, How dare you,
how dare you, how dare you, andthen they went out and did it.
Why?
Over the Affordable Care Act,supposedly, and all these other
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crazy lunatic programs.
You know, we'll talk about inour in our last episode about
the impact of Donald Trump, butlet me go back to the beginning
of the year when they talkedabout USAID and we talked about
Doge, and we talked about allthese things, and they exposed
all these democratic programsand exposed all the fallacies,
and they went, You dare nottouch that.
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What billions of dollarssiphoned into fucked up programs
that the Democrats put in place?
No, no, don't don't you daretouch those programs.
That they've said that they carefor America, but on the other
hand, they bring into the partyradical socialists who want to
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change the fiery fabric that isthe United States.
What we're seeing is theDemocrats are now polarized more
than ever.
The party that showed for manyyears how united they were, no
matter what, is being torn inpart in two.
And we'll talk about New YorkCity in another episode.
But the Mamdani impact, bringingin guys like Mamdani, attracting
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haters and detractors andanti-Americanists is is is off
the charts nuts.
And when they have the worstpart of it all is that they all
suffer from Trump derangementsyndrome.
Not all, because John Fettermanhas called out his own party and
how stupid and crazy they are.
The most recent one, GovernorWaltz, when he with the Somali
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you know fraud situation, whenwe see Gavin Newsom in
California, who cares more abouthis greased hair than the price
of gas.
It's unbelievable what they madeyou believe.
Even in those democratic mayors,city by city, sitting there
willing to allow an you know, nofunding to police, increased
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crime, sanctuary cities, andDonald Trump had to send in the
National Guard into some ofthese places to bring in order.
And the Dems are saying, evenoh, and I forgot about ICE,
let's go attack ICE agents.
From Jiminy Cricket Crockett,whatever her name is, to AOC, to
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the rest of these Dems.
You simply need to checkyourself into the local hospital
for a psych evaluation.
And David, that closes.
That's it.
Those are just four of our topten.
We got six more.
Two more episodes.
Have a great