March 26, 2024 • 21 mins
The other day, The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, deputy director of our Socialism Research Center, was a guest on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM560 in Chicago. He's a regular guest on that fantastic program and talked with Shaun about George Soros' purchase of a slew of conservative radio stations across America. Is he buying these stations because he wan't to suppress any speech that counters the leftist agenda and public narrative? Have a listen to find out.
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Jim Lakely (00:00):
This is the Heartland Daily Podcast. The
other day, the HeartlandInstitute's Donald Kendall,
deputy director of our SocialismResearch Center, was a guest on
the Sean Thompson show on AM 560in Chicago. Donnie's a regular
(00:21):
guest on that fantastic program,and he talked with Shawn about
George Soros' purchase of a slewof conservative radio stations
across America. Is Soros buyingthese stations because he wants
to suppress any speech thatcounters the leftist agenda and
the public narrative? Have alisten to find out.
Announcer (00:39):
From the streets of Melrose Park to the trading
floor of the Merc, he's foughtfor every dollar he's ever
earned. And now, with personalliberty and our system of
capitalism under assault inAmerica. He's here to seize back
our rights from the governmentwith a cigar in one hand and a
copy of the declaration ofindependence in the other. He's
(01:01):
Sean Thompson, and this is theSean Thompson Show. This looks
like a job for
Shaun Thompson (01:11):
Boy, that gerbils. New propaganda. Any
squirrel? 3rd right Nazi? GeorgeSoros' work for the Nazis
probably explains odyssey.
We're gonna discuss exactly howwe can stop socialism with the
host of In the Tank podcast andstopping socialism TV, Donald
Kendall from the HeartlandInstitute. Donald, how are you?
Donald Kendal (01:31):
I am doing fantastic. How are you doing
today, good sir?
Shaun Thompson (01:35):
Oh, I love it. I love exposing these rat corrupt
bastards and the smarmy oneswith the feminine sons for for,
family like George Soros whenthey bought Odyssey, 220
stations, radio stations aroundthe country. I think there's 7
in Chicago, WBBM, and a coupleof stupid ones.
Donald Kendal (01:54):
Yes. Yes. Right. Picking them up on the cheap
too. It seems like this isactually kind of part of a, a
larger plan of George Soros too.
You know, I'm sure that the waythat he would put it, it's just
like diversifying his assets.Surely, there's no political
implications of all of thesemoves, but he's picking up all
these different media, related,outfits It's all over the place
(02:17):
over the past several years, andthis is the latest one and might
be his biggest gambit yet.
Shaun Thompson (02:22):
Well, how does the Quantum Fund, which is what
his entity is that's been usedto implode such currencies as
the British pound and some othernations around the world, how
does the Quantum Fund buy anAmerican radio oligarch like
Odysee without beingscrutinized? I mean, after all,
the Quantum Fund isn't anAmerican company. It's never had
(02:44):
any SEC regulation. We don'treally know where the money
comes from other than GeorgeSoros and his son with the
painted fingernails and toenailsproving that Uma Thurman is in
fact or I mean, Uma Aberdeen isin fact a lesbian.
Donald Kendal (02:57):
Right. Right. Yep. Well, George Soros has got
a whole web of different,organizations, from, you know,
nonprofit ones like the OpenSociety Institute, who is Soros
Fund Management, and which is aninvestment company. So he's got
a whole bunch of differentoperations.
So surely there's all sorts ofdifferent flush fund activity.
(03:20):
But because he has such, tiesinto the media, I was looking at
one report from the mediaresearch, institute, which where
they were talking about how hehas donated 100 of 1,000,000 of
dollars to all sorts ofdifferent organizations. 253
separate organizations that allhave a role in influencing the
media in one way or another.This you know, the all different
(03:44):
web of of groups, including thecommittee to protect
journalists, all sorts of them.But they all have ties to these
different people, whether it'sLester Holt with NBC Nightly
News or different people fromCNN.
Shaun Thompson (03:56):
Very own.
Donald Kendal (03:56):
CBS, Face the Nation, Washington Post, NPR,
PolitiFact, Associated Press,Reuters. So he's got this whole
web of different people that,are indirectly or even sometimes
directly, being paid by certainoutfits, aligned with George
Soros. So it almost creates alittle bit of a shield for him
(04:18):
where it's like, you know what?Maybe he's doing something,
maybe he's not. We're not evengonna look into it because, you
know, there's some money comingtrickling down into our pockets
from all of this.
Shaun Thompson (04:27):
That's interesting when you really
think about what's beenhappening, especially when it
comes to mergers andacquisitions lately because,
that seems like a lot when youhave print media, you have
investments in TV stations andpeople like you were just
saying, and now you haveinvestments in talk radio and
other venues. I mean, that wouldbe something that you think the
(04:47):
SEC would be like, wait aminute, this seems to be a
conglomerate that almost seemslike a monopoly and they're
taking on very strategictargets. But it you know,
because it's obviouslyredundant. I mean, why would you
go after talk radio stations orI think he has sports in there,
which makes sense because sportsstations suck. But it it it it
it it seems like the SEC wouldbe involved in this.
(05:09):
But then again, maybe I'm justpasse, and maybe I'm just too
suspicious of a government thatwould, you know, bend over, for
George Soros.
Donald Kendal (05:18):
Could you imagine? I mean, just think
about the the stink that wasraised when Elon Musk, purchased
Twitter, now called x. Like, ifif Elon Musk were to try to pull
off the same thing and buy thecontrolling shares of, the 2nd
largest radio company out therethat controls all of these
different stations, surely,there would be all sorts of, you
(05:38):
know, criticism and and makingsure that he checked every
single, box that was possiblynecessary. Because, of course,
they would be looking into him.But because George Soros kinda
plays the left wing game andhe's involved in every single
thing from media matters toplanned parenthood to all these
different DA races across thecountry, that he's, you know,
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he's just given a free pass withall of this.
Shaun Thompson (06:02):
I mean, it's it's Donald, it is it is
outrageous what's going on. Ittruly is outrageous. And none of
it could happen without the thethe blessing of a corrupt
government. And, you know, it'sfunny that this happens because
my one of my producers, thelovely Squirrel Hands, just told
me that the FCC sent aquestionnaire to our station to
find out, you know, who how manytransvestites we have here and
(06:23):
whatnot. So I I said that my Iwas transgender, and I want them
to fill me out astransgendering.
My real birth name was Sheila,and I just wanna show one of
these fascist pigs mytallywacker to see if they
believe I'm really a man. Butwhat do you think is the move?
Could this any of this happenwithout the government
cooperation to the Nazicollaborator known as George
Soros?
Donald Kendal (06:43):
Oh, man. I would be just absolutely shocked if we
if I heard even a whiff of themdoing some regulatory checkup on
the the validity of a move likethis. I would be absolutely
floored if there was any levelof, you know, validating these
types of moves. But the theother thing that, you know, we
have to make sure to talk aboutis that well, there's there's a
(07:04):
couple of things. One is we knowthat talk radio is historically
a very conservative medium, whenit comes to news dissemination.
So him kind of getting involvedin this just kinda seems out of
the ordinary. And all of thestations, you know, 220 stations
nationwide, big markets, NewYork City, Chicago, LA, they're
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host to a lot of very notableleading conservative voices out
there. So it it seems to bepretty conflict, you know, right
on
Shaun Thompson (07:36):
We don't have any competition. We're the only
one in Chicagoland. I mean,really, if you if you take a
look around the dial, they'reall they're all collaborators
with the Democrat, Marxist mafiaas I see it, but it's
interesting to see what theirplan of attack is. I mean, after
all, nobody listens to them.Their stations suck.
So what exactly is his reasoningfor purchasing this? Because the
reason he was able to buy it isbecause they go bankrupt. Right?
Donald Kendal (08:00):
Mhmm. Yeah. I I see. I kinda wonder if that's,
you know, it's almost likewhatever, effectiveness these
radio stations do have, I'm surethat there are gonna be actions
taking place under newmanagement that reduces the
amount of effectiveness of thesenew stations. Maybe that
includes putting in moremoderate voices or, you know,
maybe we have to, you know,maybe we have to balance the the
(08:23):
the messaging that are on thesestations or anything like that.
Obviously, this is justspeculation, but I wouldn't put
it past them. But the otherthing that we also have to keep
in mind is that, there is a lotof these radio stations, very
notable ones that are insidethese, areas that are gonna be
in very important swing statesin the upcoming election. We're
talking about certain stationsin Las Vegas. We're talking
(08:46):
about certain stations inPhiladelphia and Pittsburgh. So,
you know, if all of those arenow, you know, which were used
to be bastions of conservativethoughts are all gonna be
switching over to some GeorgeSoros branded, media or
something like that right beforethe election.
That seems like it'd be could bepretty important.
Shaun Thompson (09:04):
So I know this is pretty fresh. Right? I mean,
the the news came out about,
Donald Kendal (09:08):
it's
Shaun Thompson (09:08):
squirrel gave it to me about 11 days ago or so.
Is it a done deal? Does anythinghave to happen here? Because I I
I say this to you because a lotof companies have gone from
public to private. It's moreadvantageous to go private when
you have a totalitarian corruptgovernment like the one Joe
Biden represents.
So a a lot of companies havealready gone private. So is this
(09:28):
deal done? Did, the SEC and theFCC and all of the fascist
government entities sign off onthis?
Donald Kendal (09:36):
Yeah. Yeah. So this is also something that came
across my desk, you know, a weekor so ago. And and since then,
I've been looking it up everycouple of days to see, because I
just have this little bit ofhope that maybe, you know, we're
threatened about nothing andit's all gonna fall apart. And,
you know, maybe the, the initialreporting was was a little bit
(09:56):
more overblown than it was.
But, so far, I haven't seenanything like that. So far, it
seems like it's just a matterof, you know, the the proper
boxes being checked. And oncethey officially go into
bankruptcy and all of that, it'sjust gonna immediately transfer
over. That's what it looks liketo me. But, you know, I'm still
I don't I don't think it's adone deal quite yet, but, you
(10:17):
know, I'm not necessarilyholding my breath as gonna
Shaun Thompson (10:19):
Well, I'll tell you what, Donald. I learned this
a long time ago. Hope is forguys that bet on horses. It
doesn't really put, put commasin the bank account. So I hope
that, and ironically, the doubleentendre is intended.
I I hope that we know soonerrather than later because the
reality is a a lot of mischiefcan go down in the next 8
months. And when you see thatthe information flow of the
(10:43):
absolute fact that Joe Biden isa traitor, we've got $40,000
that we know know has beenconfirmed by his brother that he
stroked the check from theChinese Communist Energy
Company. I mean, this is very,important that this information
be controlled because you havekeep the morons out there
thinking there's still aDemocrat versus a a bad evil
(11:03):
Trump and a good Republicanparty. Right? So they need to
pro promote this lie that JoeBiden represents.
Donald Kendal (11:10):
Oh, sure. Yeah. And, you know, and and the idea,
you know, somebody listening tothis and hearing my speculation
about them maybe changing the,the the kind of the makeup of
these stations in the lead up tothe election. I even said that,
you know, it's speculation on mypart, but they might write that
off as just like, oh, that'skind of seems conspiratorial.
But if you look into GeorgeSoros, and I know that it's kind
(11:31):
of hard because they don't talkabout him in the media.
But if you actually look intohim and kind of see his
practices when it comes to anyone of these things, whether
it's media control with mediamatters and all this different
stuff, or these DA races thathe's been somewhat popular, you
know, trying to get theseradical DAs and all of these,
major cities across the UnitedStates. Yeah. Like, he is very
underhanded. Yes. Oh, true.
(11:53):
Exactly. He is very underhanded.They he specifically funds these
very radical people in theprimaries when the race is a lot
cheaper knowing that if they getthat radical into the general
election, there's no way thatthe Democrat is gonna lose to a
Republican in Chicago. So it'sit's he's buying these things
for pennies on the dollar. It'svery underhanded.
(12:14):
So to think that he's not gonnado that in radio is just naive.
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Shaun Thompson (13:39):
I'd like to know exactly what the process was for
him purchasing a distressedcompany like Odysee. I mean,
first of all, was it exposed? IsAudacy publicly traded? What
happened to the stock? Is it ahostile takeover?
What happens to the people whoown stock? And then I'm I'm you
know, curious to know on thedetails because this once again
smells like an inside, trader,an inside deal. Right? I mean,
(14:01):
he's able to to just buy the thebankruptcy. Was it a bidding
process?
Who was next in line? Was theresomebody? You know, this is what
Democrats do. They lie and theycheat and they steal. So it's
crucially important tounderstand he's been interwoven
with the Democrat mafia sincethe eighties.
I mean, I remember when I was akid and he imploded the British
pound. It was a scandal at thetime. And the only way that he
(14:24):
got away from it is the same wayBill Gates rebuilt his
reputation through a PR firm. Hehired a PR firm. He went out
there.
He did a lot of interviews, someof which are coming back to bite
him where he admits tocollaborating with the Nazis
against his fellow Jew. And it'sreally, something that people
should be aware of, but now thathe controls the media, I guess
(14:44):
it doesn't matter. Right?
Donald Kendal (14:46):
Yeah. And and, you know, to to answer your
question, it seems like he's hasa knack for this sort of thing.
This is kind of buying for,pennies on the dollar when it
comes to media outlets. Oneexample sitting in front of me
of, George Soros, backed groupbuying up Vice Media for
$350,000,000 after it wentbankrupt.
Shaun Thompson (15:07):
I love that story.
Donald Kendal (15:08):
Media outlet that was valued once at
$6,000,000,000. So that is ahuge discount that, he got that
one for.
Shaun Thompson (15:16):
Well, Vice Media is a very inter I had it on the
board yesterday. Honey Bunny'sprobably throwing stuff at me
right now. I had it on the boardyesterday. It's a really
interesting story because thatguy was gonna be the he was
gonna take over Fox. Right?
It was a I I believe he's out ofCanada, if I'm not mistaken.
Correct, Vice News? And healways wrote the stories with
(15:43):
kind of a slant. He and and itwas funny because he pretended
in the beginning that he wasactually gonna be, unbiased,
just give you the fact and giveyou the news. And for a while,
he did it in his magazine, butwhen he got the television,
going, he really went hardcoreMarxist sympathizer.
And, that just imploded rightbefore your eyes. So you're
(16:05):
telling me George Soros boughtthis as well?
Donald Kendal (16:08):
Yep. Yep. Absolutely. He bought, that's
like I said, the Odysee thing, abunch of other examples here. He
in in just a couple of yearsago, he bought the Latino Media
Network, which was composed of18 different Spanish language
speaking stations, across Ithink a lot of them were in
Florida.
But, yeah. So he's just buyingup these things just hand over
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fist.
Shaun Thompson (16:32):
He's not gonna fire the weather girls, is he?
Because if he fires the weathergirls I mean, that's the the the
great report in all of the worldis the is the Latin weather So
so it's it's it's interestingwhen you think about what are
the options you have out there?I mean, how much longer until he
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just I mean, does he have to buyanything else? Hasn't the media
successfully propagandized thedim wooden diapers as you see
him staggering around? I mean,he's clearly convalescing.
Is it even necessary, or or isit nothing to be worried about
because it's so redundant?
Donald Kendal (17:10):
Yeah. You know, I feel like this has less to do
with kind of magnifyingmagnifying the the voice of just
kind of the left in general andmore about nullifying the voice
of the right in the in thecouple of key areas that we
still are able to get to, youknow, conservative, messages out
in. So I think that that thathas more to do with that. But
(17:32):
again, like and this is kind ofa thematic of a lot of the
segments that come on your showto talk about. It's just these,
like, the the machinations ofall of these kind of global
elitist types from the KlausSchwab's over at Davos and the
World Economic Forum to GeorgeSoros and the Open Society, is
that they often are doing thesebig grandiose sorts of things
(17:53):
just so far under the radar thatthey're not talked about on the,
you know, nightly news oranything like that, the front
page of, you know, Fox orsomething along those lines.
And that is why, you know, Icome on your show to talk about
these things because I thinkthey deserve a lot of attention.
And, I'm glad that you, you'reasking on to talk about it.
Shaun Thompson (18:10):
I think we have to really adopt what I've been
calling them for for over adecade, the 4th Reich. You know,
it's I don't think it's acoincidence that Klaus Schwab is
the son of the flamethrowermanufacturer for the 3rd Reich.
He is. He's his son. GeorgeSoros on an interview with 60
minutes that I I I am hoping youlook up.
If you haven't seen it, I'm sureyou might have, where he admits
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that he worked for the 3rdReich. When you look at the
Ukraine and Stefan Bandera andIgor Kolomoisky, all
collaborators with the ideologyof the Azov Nazis, this is truly
a 4th Reich. The only differenceis they're not as bold as they
were in the 3rd Reich, andthey're doing it through the
back channels. And they weresmart this time because they
(18:53):
bribed very specific politicianson both sides. And the the
problem I have is if they're notas audacious as they were in the
3rd rank, can we fight them backwhen they finally reveal
themselves, or will it be toolate?
Will that agenda of the takeoverbe too late? And that's kind of
where this piece of odyssey fitsin. It doesn't make any sense
(19:14):
other than to just keep the thethe the people calm as the
takeover is happening.
Donald Kendal (19:20):
Mhmm. Yeah. You know, your question is probably
the question of our of ourlifetimes, honestly. And that
that's kind of the battle thatwe're in, is to recognize,
acknowledge, push back againstall of this sort of stuff. But,
I mean, you're you're absolutelyright.
And you can see kind of the theagenda of all of this being
played out by all of thesedifferent organizations at at
(19:42):
the George Soros, Klaus Schwab,World Economic Forum, web has
their fingers in. Most notablyin the in recent history is
these kind of extreme DAs andthe lengths that they're going
to, you know, take out DonaldTrump at his knees. So I mean,
that's just one example ofprobably a 1,000 that are
currently going on at the sametime.
Shaun Thompson (20:00):
How old is this rotten son of a dog that he is
the devil's cousin, GeorgeSoros? Isn't he in his nineties?
Donald Kendal (20:07):
You know, I'm gonna Google that because I'm
very
Shaun Thompson (20:09):
old this rat bastard is. In the meantime, we
are too old to cry, so let'shave a little fun. I will bet
you 5 American dollars, thatreally is only worth 2 from when
I remember it, that Jimmy Carteroutlives George Soros. You want
a piece of that action, kid?
Donald Kendal (20:26):
Poof. Well, George Soros is currently at 93
years young. Oh. Jimmy Carter isthe only
Shaun Thompson (20:33):
vasectomy reversed. He's going out on
Tinder this weekend. I'll takeCarter for $5. You want George
George Soros?
Donald Kendal (20:40):
I'll I'll yeah. I'll put my money on George
Soros, I think. Although he waskinda stuttering and stammering
at a recent, press thing that hewas doing some conference, and
people were thinking that thatmight have been a sign against
his health, but I don't know.Clocks like this just keep
ticking.
Shaun Thompson (20:53):
Come on. He's Lucifer's cousin. In the
meantime, you are DonaldKendall. Thank you so much for
everything at In the Tankpodcast on Sopping Socialism TV.
I know you're at Heartland, butwhere do you prefer the people
keep an eye on you?
Donald Kendal (21:04):
Yeah. Heartland.org for sure. You you
can look at all of our work onthere, on YouTube. If you go and
and look up so stoppingsocialism TV, you'll find in the
think podcast. We do that everyweek.
Shaun Thompson (21:15):
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you making
time.
Donald Kendal (21:17):
Thank you for being having me on.
Shaun Thompson (21:19):
We'll be back with your calls and comments.
This is the Heartland Daily Podcast. The
other day, the HeartlandInstitute's Donald Kendall,
deputy director of our SocialismResearch Center, was a guest on
the Sean Thompson show on AM 560in Chicago. Donnie's a regular
(00:21):
guest on that fantastic program,and he talked with Shawn about
George Soros' purchase of a slewof conservative radio stations
across America. Is Soros buyingthese stations because he wants
to suppress any speech thatcounters the leftist agenda and
the public narrative? Have alisten to find out.
Announcer (00:39):
From the streets of Melrose Park to the trading
floor of the Merc, he's foughtfor every dollar he's ever
earned. And now, with personalliberty and our system of
capitalism under assault inAmerica. He's here to seize back
our rights from the governmentwith a cigar in one hand and a
copy of the declaration ofindependence in the other. He's
(01:01):
Sean Thompson, and this is theSean Thompson Show. This looks
like a job for
Shaun Thompson (01:11):
Boy, that gerbils. New propaganda. Any
squirrel? 3rd right Nazi? GeorgeSoros' work for the Nazis
probably explains odyssey.
We're gonna discuss exactly howwe can stop socialism with the
host of In the Tank podcast andstopping socialism TV, Donald
Kendall from the HeartlandInstitute. Donald, how are you?
Donald Kendal (01:31):
I am doing fantastic. How are you doing
today, good sir?
Shaun Thompson (01:35):
Oh, I love it. I love exposing these rat corrupt
bastards and the smarmy oneswith the feminine sons for for,
family like George Soros whenthey bought Odyssey, 220
stations, radio stations aroundthe country. I think there's 7
in Chicago, WBBM, and a coupleof stupid ones.
Donald Kendal (01:54):
Yes. Yes. Right. Picking them up on the cheap
too. It seems like this isactually kind of part of a, a
larger plan of George Soros too.
You know, I'm sure that the waythat he would put it, it's just
like diversifying his assets.Surely, there's no political
implications of all of thesemoves, but he's picking up all
these different media, related,outfits It's all over the place
(02:17):
over the past several years, andthis is the latest one and might
be his biggest gambit yet.
Shaun Thompson (02:22):
Well, how does the Quantum Fund, which is what
his entity is that's been usedto implode such currencies as
the British pound and some othernations around the world, how
does the Quantum Fund buy anAmerican radio oligarch like
Odysee without beingscrutinized? I mean, after all,
the Quantum Fund isn't anAmerican company. It's never had
(02:44):
any SEC regulation. We don'treally know where the money
comes from other than GeorgeSoros and his son with the
painted fingernails and toenailsproving that Uma Thurman is in
fact or I mean, Uma Aberdeen isin fact a lesbian.
Donald Kendal (02:57):
Right. Right. Yep. Well, George Soros has got
a whole web of different,organizations, from, you know,
nonprofit ones like the OpenSociety Institute, who is Soros
Fund Management, and which is aninvestment company. So he's got
a whole bunch of differentoperations.
So surely there's all sorts ofdifferent flush fund activity.
(03:20):
But because he has such, tiesinto the media, I was looking at
one report from the mediaresearch, institute, which where
they were talking about how hehas donated 100 of 1,000,000 of
dollars to all sorts ofdifferent organizations. 253
separate organizations that allhave a role in influencing the
media in one way or another.This you know, the all different
(03:44):
web of of groups, including thecommittee to protect
journalists, all sorts of them.But they all have ties to these
different people, whether it'sLester Holt with NBC Nightly
News or different people fromCNN.
Shaun Thompson (03:56):
Very own.
Donald Kendal (03:56):
CBS, Face the Nation, Washington Post, NPR,
PolitiFact, Associated Press,Reuters. So he's got this whole
web of different people that,are indirectly or even sometimes
directly, being paid by certainoutfits, aligned with George
Soros. So it almost creates alittle bit of a shield for him
(04:18):
where it's like, you know what?Maybe he's doing something,
maybe he's not. We're not evengonna look into it because, you
know, there's some money comingtrickling down into our pockets
from all of this.
Shaun Thompson (04:27):
That's interesting when you really
think about what's beenhappening, especially when it
comes to mergers andacquisitions lately because,
that seems like a lot when youhave print media, you have
investments in TV stations andpeople like you were just
saying, and now you haveinvestments in talk radio and
other venues. I mean, that wouldbe something that you think the
(04:47):
SEC would be like, wait aminute, this seems to be a
conglomerate that almost seemslike a monopoly and they're
taking on very strategictargets. But it you know,
because it's obviouslyredundant. I mean, why would you
go after talk radio stations orI think he has sports in there,
which makes sense because sportsstations suck. But it it it it
it it seems like the SEC wouldbe involved in this.
(05:09):
But then again, maybe I'm justpasse, and maybe I'm just too
suspicious of a government thatwould, you know, bend over, for
George Soros.
Donald Kendal (05:18):
Could you imagine? I mean, just think
about the the stink that wasraised when Elon Musk, purchased
Twitter, now called x. Like, ifif Elon Musk were to try to pull
off the same thing and buy thecontrolling shares of, the 2nd
largest radio company out therethat controls all of these
different stations, surely,there would be all sorts of, you
(05:38):
know, criticism and and makingsure that he checked every
single, box that was possiblynecessary. Because, of course,
they would be looking into him.But because George Soros kinda
plays the left wing game andhe's involved in every single
thing from media matters toplanned parenthood to all these
different DA races across thecountry, that he's, you know,
(06:00):
he's just given a free pass withall of this.
Shaun Thompson (06:02):
I mean, it's it's Donald, it is it is
outrageous what's going on. Ittruly is outrageous. And none of
it could happen without the thethe blessing of a corrupt
government. And, you know, it'sfunny that this happens because
my one of my producers, thelovely Squirrel Hands, just told
me that the FCC sent aquestionnaire to our station to
find out, you know, who how manytransvestites we have here and
(06:23):
whatnot. So I I said that my Iwas transgender, and I want them
to fill me out astransgendering.
My real birth name was Sheila,and I just wanna show one of
these fascist pigs mytallywacker to see if they
believe I'm really a man. Butwhat do you think is the move?
Could this any of this happenwithout the government
cooperation to the Nazicollaborator known as George
Soros?
Donald Kendal (06:43):
Oh, man. I would be just absolutely shocked if we
if I heard even a whiff of themdoing some regulatory checkup on
the the validity of a move likethis. I would be absolutely
floored if there was any levelof, you know, validating these
types of moves. But the theother thing that, you know, we
have to make sure to talk aboutis that well, there's there's a
(07:04):
couple of things. One is we knowthat talk radio is historically
a very conservative medium, whenit comes to news dissemination.
So him kind of getting involvedin this just kinda seems out of
the ordinary. And all of thestations, you know, 220 stations
nationwide, big markets, NewYork City, Chicago, LA, they're
(07:26):
host to a lot of very notableleading conservative voices out
there. So it it seems to bepretty conflict, you know, right
on
Shaun Thompson (07:36):
We don't have any competition. We're the only
one in Chicagoland. I mean,really, if you if you take a
look around the dial, they'reall they're all collaborators
with the Democrat, Marxist mafiaas I see it, but it's
interesting to see what theirplan of attack is. I mean, after
all, nobody listens to them.Their stations suck.
So what exactly is his reasoningfor purchasing this? Because the
reason he was able to buy it isbecause they go bankrupt. Right?
Donald Kendal (08:00):
Mhmm. Yeah. I I see. I kinda wonder if that's,
you know, it's almost likewhatever, effectiveness these
radio stations do have, I'm surethat there are gonna be actions
taking place under newmanagement that reduces the
amount of effectiveness of thesenew stations. Maybe that
includes putting in moremoderate voices or, you know,
maybe we have to, you know,maybe we have to balance the the
(08:23):
the messaging that are on thesestations or anything like that.
Obviously, this is justspeculation, but I wouldn't put
it past them. But the otherthing that we also have to keep
in mind is that, there is a lotof these radio stations, very
notable ones that are insidethese, areas that are gonna be
in very important swing statesin the upcoming election. We're
talking about certain stationsin Las Vegas. We're talking
(08:46):
about certain stations inPhiladelphia and Pittsburgh. So,
you know, if all of those arenow, you know, which were used
to be bastions of conservativethoughts are all gonna be
switching over to some GeorgeSoros branded, media or
something like that right beforethe election.
That seems like it'd be could bepretty important.
Shaun Thompson (09:04):
So I know this is pretty fresh. Right? I mean,
the the news came out about,
Donald Kendal (09:08):
it's
Shaun Thompson (09:08):
squirrel gave it to me about 11 days ago or so.
Is it a done deal? Does anythinghave to happen here? Because I I
I say this to you because a lotof companies have gone from
public to private. It's moreadvantageous to go private when
you have a totalitarian corruptgovernment like the one Joe
Biden represents.
So a a lot of companies havealready gone private. So is this
(09:28):
deal done? Did, the SEC and theFCC and all of the fascist
government entities sign off onthis?
Donald Kendal (09:36):
Yeah. Yeah. So this is also something that came
across my desk, you know, a weekor so ago. And and since then,
I've been looking it up everycouple of days to see, because I
just have this little bit ofhope that maybe, you know, we're
threatened about nothing andit's all gonna fall apart. And,
you know, maybe the, the initialreporting was was a little bit
(09:56):
more overblown than it was.
But, so far, I haven't seenanything like that. So far, it
seems like it's just a matterof, you know, the the proper
boxes being checked. And oncethey officially go into
bankruptcy and all of that, it'sjust gonna immediately transfer
over. That's what it looks liketo me. But, you know, I'm still
I don't I don't think it's adone deal quite yet, but, you
(10:17):
know, I'm not necessarilyholding my breath as gonna
Shaun Thompson (10:19):
Well, I'll tell you what, Donald. I learned this
a long time ago. Hope is forguys that bet on horses. It
doesn't really put, put commasin the bank account. So I hope
that, and ironically, the doubleentendre is intended.
I I hope that we know soonerrather than later because the
reality is a a lot of mischiefcan go down in the next 8
months. And when you see thatthe information flow of the
(10:43):
absolute fact that Joe Biden isa traitor, we've got $40,000
that we know know has beenconfirmed by his brother that he
stroked the check from theChinese Communist Energy
Company. I mean, this is very,important that this information
be controlled because you havekeep the morons out there
thinking there's still aDemocrat versus a a bad evil
(11:03):
Trump and a good Republicanparty. Right? So they need to
pro promote this lie that JoeBiden represents.
Donald Kendal (11:10):
Oh, sure. Yeah. And, you know, and and the idea,
you know, somebody listening tothis and hearing my speculation
about them maybe changing the,the the kind of the makeup of
these stations in the lead up tothe election. I even said that,
you know, it's speculation on mypart, but they might write that
off as just like, oh, that'skind of seems conspiratorial.
But if you look into GeorgeSoros, and I know that it's kind
(11:31):
of hard because they don't talkabout him in the media.
But if you actually look intohim and kind of see his
practices when it comes to anyone of these things, whether
it's media control with mediamatters and all this different
stuff, or these DA races thathe's been somewhat popular, you
know, trying to get theseradical DAs and all of these,
major cities across the UnitedStates. Yeah. Like, he is very
underhanded. Yes. Oh, true.
(11:53):
Exactly. He is very underhanded.They he specifically funds these
very radical people in theprimaries when the race is a lot
cheaper knowing that if they getthat radical into the general
election, there's no way thatthe Democrat is gonna lose to a
Republican in Chicago. So it'sit's he's buying these things
for pennies on the dollar. It'svery underhanded.
(12:14):
So to think that he's not gonnado that in radio is just naive.
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Shaun Thompson (13:39):
I'd like to know exactly what the process was for
him purchasing a distressedcompany like Odysee. I mean,
first of all, was it exposed? IsAudacy publicly traded? What
happened to the stock? Is it ahostile takeover?
What happens to the people whoown stock? And then I'm I'm you
know, curious to know on thedetails because this once again
smells like an inside, trader,an inside deal. Right? I mean,
(14:01):
he's able to to just buy the thebankruptcy. Was it a bidding
process?
Who was next in line? Was theresomebody? You know, this is what
Democrats do. They lie and theycheat and they steal. So it's
crucially important tounderstand he's been interwoven
with the Democrat mafia sincethe eighties.
I mean, I remember when I was akid and he imploded the British
pound. It was a scandal at thetime. And the only way that he
(14:24):
got away from it is the same wayBill Gates rebuilt his
reputation through a PR firm. Hehired a PR firm. He went out
there.
He did a lot of interviews, someof which are coming back to bite
him where he admits tocollaborating with the Nazis
against his fellow Jew. And it'sreally, something that people
should be aware of, but now thathe controls the media, I guess
(14:44):
it doesn't matter. Right?
Donald Kendal (14:46):
Yeah. And and, you know, to to answer your
question, it seems like he's hasa knack for this sort of thing.
This is kind of buying for,pennies on the dollar when it
comes to media outlets. Oneexample sitting in front of me
of, George Soros, backed groupbuying up Vice Media for
$350,000,000 after it wentbankrupt.
Shaun Thompson (15:07):
I love that story.
Donald Kendal (15:08):
Media outlet that was valued once at
$6,000,000,000. So that is ahuge discount that, he got that
one for.
Shaun Thompson (15:16):
Well, Vice Media is a very inter I had it on the
board yesterday. Honey Bunny'sprobably throwing stuff at me
right now. I had it on the boardyesterday. It's a really
interesting story because thatguy was gonna be the he was
gonna take over Fox. Right?
It was a I I believe he's out ofCanada, if I'm not mistaken.
Correct, Vice News? And healways wrote the stories with
(15:43):
kind of a slant. He and and itwas funny because he pretended
in the beginning that he wasactually gonna be, unbiased,
just give you the fact and giveyou the news. And for a while,
he did it in his magazine, butwhen he got the television,
going, he really went hardcoreMarxist sympathizer.
And, that just imploded rightbefore your eyes. So you're
(16:05):
telling me George Soros boughtthis as well?
Donald Kendal (16:08):
Yep. Yep. Absolutely. He bought, that's
like I said, the Odysee thing, abunch of other examples here. He
in in just a couple of yearsago, he bought the Latino Media
Network, which was composed of18 different Spanish language
speaking stations, across Ithink a lot of them were in
Florida.
But, yeah. So he's just buyingup these things just hand over
(16:31):
fist.
Shaun Thompson (16:32):
He's not gonna fire the weather girls, is he?
Because if he fires the weathergirls I mean, that's the the the
great report in all of the worldis the is the Latin weather So
so it's it's it's interestingwhen you think about what are
the options you have out there?I mean, how much longer until he
(16:54):
just I mean, does he have to buyanything else? Hasn't the media
successfully propagandized thedim wooden diapers as you see
him staggering around? I mean,he's clearly convalescing.
Is it even necessary, or or isit nothing to be worried about
because it's so redundant?
Donald Kendal (17:10):
Yeah. You know, I feel like this has less to do
with kind of magnifyingmagnifying the the voice of just
kind of the left in general andmore about nullifying the voice
of the right in the in thecouple of key areas that we
still are able to get to, youknow, conservative, messages out
in. So I think that that thathas more to do with that. But
(17:32):
again, like and this is kind ofa thematic of a lot of the
segments that come on your showto talk about. It's just these,
like, the the machinations ofall of these kind of global
elitist types from the KlausSchwab's over at Davos and the
World Economic Forum to GeorgeSoros and the Open Society, is
that they often are doing thesebig grandiose sorts of things
(17:53):
just so far under the radar thatthey're not talked about on the,
you know, nightly news oranything like that, the front
page of, you know, Fox orsomething along those lines.
And that is why, you know, Icome on your show to talk about
these things because I thinkthey deserve a lot of attention.
And, I'm glad that you, you'reasking on to talk about it.
Shaun Thompson (18:10):
I think we have to really adopt what I've been
calling them for for over adecade, the 4th Reich. You know,
it's I don't think it's acoincidence that Klaus Schwab is
the son of the flamethrowermanufacturer for the 3rd Reich.
He is. He's his son. GeorgeSoros on an interview with 60
minutes that I I I am hoping youlook up.
If you haven't seen it, I'm sureyou might have, where he admits
(18:33):
that he worked for the 3rdReich. When you look at the
Ukraine and Stefan Bandera andIgor Kolomoisky, all
collaborators with the ideologyof the Azov Nazis, this is truly
a 4th Reich. The only differenceis they're not as bold as they
were in the 3rd Reich, andthey're doing it through the
back channels. And they weresmart this time because they
(18:53):
bribed very specific politicianson both sides. And the the
problem I have is if they're notas audacious as they were in the
3rd rank, can we fight them backwhen they finally reveal
themselves, or will it be toolate?
Will that agenda of the takeoverbe too late? And that's kind of
where this piece of odyssey fitsin. It doesn't make any sense
(19:14):
other than to just keep the thethe the people calm as the
takeover is happening.
Donald Kendal (19:20):
Mhmm. Yeah. You know, your question is probably
the question of our of ourlifetimes, honestly. And that
that's kind of the battle thatwe're in, is to recognize,
acknowledge, push back againstall of this sort of stuff. But,
I mean, you're you're absolutelyright.
And you can see kind of the theagenda of all of this being
played out by all of thesedifferent organizations at at
(19:42):
the George Soros, Klaus Schwab,World Economic Forum, web has
their fingers in. Most notablyin the in recent history is
these kind of extreme DAs andthe lengths that they're going
to, you know, take out DonaldTrump at his knees. So I mean,
that's just one example ofprobably a 1,000 that are
currently going on at the sametime.
Shaun Thompson (20:00):
How old is this rotten son of a dog that he is
the devil's cousin, GeorgeSoros? Isn't he in his nineties?
Donald Kendal (20:07):
You know, I'm gonna Google that because I'm
very
Shaun Thompson (20:09):
old this rat bastard is. In the meantime, we
are too old to cry, so let'shave a little fun. I will bet
you 5 American dollars, thatreally is only worth 2 from when
I remember it, that Jimmy Carteroutlives George Soros. You want
a piece of that action, kid?
Donald Kendal (20:26):
Poof. Well, George Soros is currently at 93
years young. Oh. Jimmy Carter isthe only
Shaun Thompson (20:33):
vasectomy reversed. He's going out on
Tinder this weekend. I'll takeCarter for $5. You want George
George Soros?
Donald Kendal (20:40):
I'll I'll yeah. I'll put my money on George
Soros, I think. Although he waskinda stuttering and stammering
at a recent, press thing that hewas doing some conference, and
people were thinking that thatmight have been a sign against
his health, but I don't know.Clocks like this just keep
ticking.
Shaun Thompson (20:53):
Come on. He's Lucifer's cousin. In the
meantime, you are DonaldKendall. Thank you so much for
everything at In the Tankpodcast on Sopping Socialism TV.
I know you're at Heartland, butwhere do you prefer the people
keep an eye on you?
Donald Kendal (21:04):
Yeah. Heartland.org for sure. You you
can look at all of our work onthere, on YouTube. If you go and
and look up so stoppingsocialism TV, you'll find in the
think podcast. We do that everyweek.
Shaun Thompson (21:15):
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you making
time.
Donald Kendal (21:17):
Thank you for being having me on.
Shaun Thompson (21:19):
We'll be back with your calls and comments.
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