Biden's Military Moves, Political Accountability, and Media Dynamics

Can President Biden's military decisions reshape the global geopolitical landscape? We explore the implications of lifting restrictions on military aid to Ukraine, including long-range missiles, and the potential risks of escalating tensions with Russia. Delve into the complexities of Biden's executive powers and the National Security Council's influence on decisions impacting NATO. We also ponder the strategic gamesmanship that might be at play, with speculation about Biden's moves potentially complicating matters for any future Trump administration.

The conversation then turns to the dynamic world of political appointments and accountability. With President Trump's strategic and swift appointments, we examine concerns over transparency and document security in Washington. With fears of legal repercussions looming, what does this mean for figures in the political arena, and how might it influence the justice system? Engaging discussions reveal the public's desire for accountability and the importance of maintaining integrity in political processes.

Experience a lively discussion on the evolving relationship between media and the president-elect, the resurgence of patriotism within sports, and a sneak peek into Elsa Kurtz's "Welcome to Chance" series. Dive into the complexities of voting security, media relationships with Trump, and the cultural impact of sports figures on national pride. With a mix of political insight, cultural commentary, and literary excitement, this episode promises to engage and entertain.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Elsa Kurt Show with Clay Novak.
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And now it's time for the show.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hey friends, it is the Elsa Kurt Show with Clay
Novak.
We are back for another week ofmayhem, fun, mischief, I don't
know All of the things.
How are you doing, clay?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm good I am.
As folks might notice, I'm onthe road.
I'm actually in a hotel down inAustin, texas.
I am attending a charitycelebrity shoot for the Green
Beret Foundation with my newteam that I'm working with
G-Code, a tactical company outof North Carolina.
So I'm on the road and happilyhave time in my schedule to
continue recording with you.

(00:50):
Oh, by the way, it's Tuesday asthe Brits say.
Tuesday, yeah, 3 pm Easterntime.
So again, that's our point ofreference.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, Don't come for us in the comment sections,
because you know we are sittingthere in the comments.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
We are.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right and I pipe in here and there.
So if you're, if you're talkingsmack, we might say something
back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
We're always there.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
We're always there, all of a nutcracker.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Proof, positive that it's just me, and you?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, exactly how many things y'all expect me to do at
once?
We're just going to pretendlike we didn't even see it.
There's not even the right one.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's not even where we're starting, it's not it's
not even where we're starting,there we go, there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Listen, you know it's amateur hour for Elsa today.
What do we need to do?
It is what it is, so youalready know what.
The what is that?
The second one?
Wait for it, just like we are.
Anyhow, we're talking aboutthis first.
Can I just say frickin' Biden,you know this frickin'
administration.
Are you kidding me?

(02:10):
Are you even kidding me?
You go ahead, run with this,please.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah.
So for those that aren'ttracking, president Biden,
current administration has had arestriction.
We've given Ukraine a lot of,not just money but a lot of
equipment and a lot of munitionsover the last couple of years
and you know there's some ofthem that have capability to
long range strike outside ofUkraine and into, you know,
russia itself.
We've had a restriction.
We'll give it to you, but youcan't attack into Russia with it
.
And and Sunday President Bidenwhether it's senility or I don't

(02:47):
know why, but he decided tolift that ban and I called it
the first time I heard aboutthis.
I called it and I said TuesdayWorld War Three starts.
And and that's exactly whathappened.
So overnight Monday night intoTuesday night, ukraine, local
Russian local time.
Tuesday night, ukraine, localRussian local time.

(03:08):
Ukraine launched, I think itwas five or six ATAKMs, which is
a long range missile into afacility, into Russia itself,
russia proper.
So, and Putin, you know now theUkrainians have not admitted it
, they also haven't denied it.
So that base, you may as welljust admit it, but they, you
know Russia said, based on datathey collected, you know that's
the system that was used.

(03:29):
It was provided by the UnitedStates and Putin's not happy, so
he is altering his, the Russianresponse threshold.
In other words, you know, ifthings like this continue to
happen, he has decided thatnothing is off the table, or at
least he's lowering the responsethreshold, and that includes
nuclear response.
So Belarus is now which istheir primary.

(03:51):
He said it.
If they're going to use nukes,that's probably where it's going
, and so he is lowering thethreshold.
So that is a warning not justto Zelensky and Ukraine, that's
a warning to NATO, that's awarning to the United States,
that's a warning to NATO, that'sa warning to the United States.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's a warning to the world in general.
Yeah, and he said this back inSeptember, made it very clear.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
If these things happen.
This is how we're going toperceive it and this is how we
would proceed.
Yeah, and he's sticking to it.
Yeah, but he reiterated it andhe essentially lowered that
threshold as a response Again,was not afraid to say this is
United States supplied equipment, munitions that did this.
They know it.
Now there hasn't been and Idon't know if you've seen this,
but there have been North Koreantroops on loan to Russia.

(04:39):
So there's an alliance that'sformed between North Korea and
Russia.
There are North Korean troopsthat have been moved in and
around Ukraine.
I don't know if they'veactually seen combat yet.
There is an alliance going onthere.
Now we haven't, and NATO hasn't, made any kind of reaction to
that.
That I have now, and you know Ithink we'll continue to do so
until about January 20th.

(04:59):
Right Hope and pray is that itdoesn't get out of hand before
then.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right and of course you know why did Biden do this?
Right, and that's exactly what Iwas going to say, you know.
You know, us Americans, on theright side of things, can only
come to, or have only come to,one conclusion, and that's the
conclusion I also come to thatthis was deliberate, to you know
, to basically hand a disasterover to Trump and say here you

(05:37):
go, you deal with it, yourproblem.
And you know, essentiallysaying a big fat F you to
America, to everyone, to theworld, to the world saying I
don't care if we blow it all up,you know, through Putin,
basically don't care, don't care, we lost.
Now, you know, instead of justlike a kick in the sand and
going home taking your ball andgoing home, no, we're just going

(05:59):
to blow it all up.
I mean, that's the way I'mtaking it.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, so I think it's a.
You know President Trumpobviously is not a fan of NATO,
and you know those of us thathave worked in and around NATO.
It's not that we're not a fanof our NATO partners.
Like I've worked with somegreat militaries from around the
world in NATO operations, a lotof us are not fans of NATO as a

(06:25):
concept because the UnitedStates has carried the load on
this for so long and, truthfully, we've spent a lot of money,
spent a lot of money into NATO,committed a lot of money to NATO
that we'll never get back andthe return hasn't been what we
expected.
So I think there's a andPresident Trump's not a fan.
He's threatened to walk us outof NATO multiple times.
There's been a threat from theNATO Secretary General not that
long ago that said he would kickthe United States out of NATO.
Feel free, buddy, but I thinkmy gut on this is that President

(06:49):
Biden is trying to commit NATO,not just Ukraine, but he's
trying to escalate the war tothe point where NATO as a whole
is committed to this sosignificantly that one they
can't afford to kick us out,which they wouldn't do anyway,
but also that we he believesthat we would not walk away from
NATO in the middle of this.

(07:10):
Now, I think it's.
I think he's read it completelywrong.
I really do.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
What a surprise.
What a surprise.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, I don't think president Trump would have any
hard feelings looking at thisentire thing, telling Putin and
Zelensky listen, you've got, youknow, 96 hours, knock it off
whatever.
It is Right, right.
And if not, I think he, I thinkhe would happily walk away, I
think he would happily withdrawAmerican troops, cut off
American funds, cut off Americansupplies and walk away from the

(07:38):
entire thing and say, hey, nato, this is your problem and leave
it at that.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
And listen.
It's not like Trump and histeam are sitting back, you know,
just watching the clock andwaiting for it to be their turn
before they handle it.
They're already working on this.
They're already you know,there's no question about it.
Now I do have a question that Isaw posed on well, probably on
X, I think that's where I saw itthat I did not see or get the
answer to how did he do this, hebeing Biden?

(08:03):
How did he do this without theapproval of Congress or
basically anyone?
That was a pretty, that lookslike a pretty unilateral
decision there to do that.
Where did that come from?
And who had to approve it, ifanyone, for him to go ahead and
do that?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
So my guess, is they pulled in the National Security
Council as a whole?
Is they pulled in the NationalSecurity Council as a whole?
And the way these things tendto work are a work backwards.
In other words, what's theproblem we're trying to solve?
So the real question is, itgoes back to why did he do this?
Right?
If the solution is to prevent aUS withdrawal from NATO, or if

(08:40):
the solution is to commit NATOwholeheartedly into this, then
they work their way backwardsand they say well, how do we get
to point B when we're sitting,you know, from point A?
And one of the recommendations,probably from the National
Security Council, was well, sir,if we just lift the ban and we
allow Zelensky to do what he'sgoing to do, you know, and he
fires into Russia, you know, andthen Putin's going to retaliate

(09:03):
, and then it's going toescalate, and then NATO is going
to be forced to commit.
They probably war game thisentire thing out.
You know, from the diplomacyside, from the security side,
from obviously the straight, youknow, military side, and and I
you know, it's entirely possible.
This is how this happened.
It's not necessarily, I don'tthink he needs congressional
approval to do that.
I don't believe that that waspart of it, I think, when we

(09:28):
gave.
I would imagine and I'd have togo back and look deep into this
but in the agreement to fundall of this, was that a
stipulation from Congress?
I don't know.
If it was a stipulation fromCongress, then the National
Security Council, the House andSenate Armed Services Committees
would get involved and have avote.
But if it wasn't and it wasn'ton paper somewhere, then he can

(09:53):
make those decisions and there'snothing really.
Congress can do about it.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Right and again.
With what?
Less than two months,approximately two months left.
I think there is so much.
Don't give a hoot.
Oh, there's that you know don'tgive a hoot about any of it, and
they're just going buck wild,buck, wild, yeah.
And just you know making anykind of ruling that they want
and denying things.

(10:15):
And you know doing all thatkind of does.
Take us into that one.
You caught a sneak peek of guys.
You caught the sneak peek ofwhat we're talking about.
But these recess appointments,you know you had Mitch McConnell
.
You know when he's actuallyable to formulate a sentence
instead of just freezing up oncamera like an awkward turtle,
you know say nope, you can't doit, to which you know everyone

(10:35):
else is basically saying yeah,you can, yeah, you can.
And you know the proof of thatis really with let's see.
So I have I just happen to havethe list the following
presidents used the recessappointment power Ronald Reagan
240 recess appointments.
Bill Clinton 139.
George HW Bush 77.
George W 171.

(10:57):
Barack 32.
And thus far, donald Trump zero.
But yeah, he says there's Biden.
Yeah, he's not.
I'm sure he's in there, but Idon't have him as as being one.
But there's no doubt that hedid.
I think it was just probably anoversight with whoever came up

(11:17):
with this list.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
But yeah, yeah.
So I think you know, I think acouple of things are going to
happen.
I think President Trump, withall good intentions, is going to
try and get through as manyappointments as he possibly can
through due process.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
As long as it's not drawn out, as long as it's not,
you know, um a a, you know, apredetermined outcome before
they even.
You know, and you know who I'mtalking about, it's Hegseth and
Gates are the two everybody'sgot issues with, although I
think there will be more outthere.
I think you know, and we'regoing to talk about him in a
little bit but Kennedy at HHS, Ithink, is probably going to get

(11:50):
some pushback, but I think thetwo big ones are Gates and
Hegseth.
So, as long as it's not apredetermined outcome, like we
know, they're not going to makeit through confirmation before
they even start.
And I think President Trump isgoing to try to do this through
the proper process, because I,you know, he, he doesn't, he
doesn't want to be seen in thesame vein, in the same light as

(12:12):
this current administration,which is to do everything
underhanded right To bypasseverything you know, do it
through executive order orwhatever you know thing they do.
So I think he's going to tryand push him through, but I do
think that he will not hesitateto get the folks into position
that he wants.
Yeah, if he feels that that'sthe only way to do it.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, right, yeah, and I think you're right.
You know, of all the ones thathave been put forward, there's
just a handful at the momentthat are getting the biggest
resistance or pushback.
But you know who is also to saythat they're just not going to
based on how they're behavingnow, that they're not going to
just for spite.
You know, fight against everysingle one, so I guess that'll

(12:50):
determine right.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Sure yeah, they could tank everybody.
I mean, I couldn't believe itthe other day that you know he's
talking about.
I don't remember if it's thewhatever it is, the director or
the secretary or whatever it is,whoever, whatever the title is,
that runs the VA.
Oh right, his nominee is aformer Air Force chaplain, right
, which I don't know the guy Imean, but conceptually right, a

(13:13):
chaplain, I think, is a greatmore so even than a doctor,
because a chaplain is going tolook at, you know, let's treat
the person holistically right,Not just the medical, not just,
you know, the chaplain.
I think the chaplain in him isgoing to have a different kind
of take on that, which I love,um, and the fact that he's, you
know, military chaplain ishelpful, um, but you know they

(13:34):
may push back on that guy, yeahWell, yeah, I mean, you know you
have mass threats of you knowquitting, you know under hedge,
hedge Seth I can never say hislast name.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
You know if he's a if he's a player.
If he goes into our world goingto quit, good, you're making it
easier.
Go Bye, see you know quit yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't see that happening.
I really, really don't.
But I and I've said this I'mnot, you know, I don't think
he's the right pick there's, youknow it's nothing against him.
It's really President Trump,you know, in my opinion, not
making a great decision.
Nothing against Pete, but Ithink he's in over his head.
I think Gates we talked abouthim last week, but you know some

(14:13):
of these other nominations thatyou know he's hot and heavy,
right he's been.
He hasn't slowed down inpicking.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, no, I think there was even another one today,
even I don't know who, but therewas another one today.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
I think, yeah, I think I saw two Commerce.
I think he named Commerce today.
That's what it was.
Yeah, and he's just going tokeep doing it.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh yeah, he's not wasting any time.
I think he plans on havingevery single possible detail in
place for day one, day one.
It is going to be such a flipDay one.
It is going to be such a, youknow, a flip.
Forget turning the page.
This isn't going to be a pageturn, this is going to be burn
that book and start a whole newone, and it's going to be epic.

(14:52):
I think your stuff better beout of the office on
inauguration day.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
There's not going to be a trend.
You know there might be ahandoff of a continuity book or
something, but your stuff betterbe out.
Yeah, what do you?
What do you think?
How do you think the right, the?
How do you think the Dems aregoing to like?
You know, play this?
How do you do you think they'regoing to like have convenient,
as they tend to do, convenientmemory loss and, and you know,

(15:17):
rail about all this, even thoughit's completely hypocritical?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh yeah, well, didn't so didn't Mike Johnson correct
me?
If I didn't, so didn't MikeJohnson correct me?
Didn't Mike Johnson basicallysay don't you throw away a damn
thing.
I want every document, record,paper, everything you know.
And then, of course, that ledto the the you know post that
they were like franticallyshredding stuff in the White
House, think you know, laughingabout it, but I do think that's

(15:45):
the case they are.
They are just going to get ridof every possible thing that
they can that puts them in anykind of negative light.
Um, or that proves everythingthat we've been saying all along
.
They're going to work theirdamnedest to to make it
disappear as much as possible,which is, you know, close to
impossible, just um, so it'smore going to be, I think, a
matter of which things are yougoing to spend your time on, to
prosecute or to find or to doanything about?

(16:07):
You know that'll be the case.
What are the most importantthings here to be pressing on
and not letting go?
And I hope that list is big andwide and long.
Because accountability you know, we said this last week, we
talked about that.
I want to see the accountability.
I want to see these people whoare in, you know, flagrant
violation of every law, everyethics and moral code.
I want to see these people whoare in flagrant violation of
every law, every ethics andmoral code.

(16:27):
I want them brought to justice.
I don't want leniency, I don'twant kindness, I don't want the
olive branch, I don't want anyof it, and I know somebody is
going to comment it's not veryChristian of you, elsa.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
It's Old Testament.
Yeah, Listen my friends.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Jesus flipped tables.
It was a righteous anger, andmay I be so bold to say that I
think I am filled with righteousanger and contempt for them.
So, yeah, no mercy.
Sorry, I was watching Cobra Kaiand it just got me, yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
There is a lot of discussion about documents being
destroyed.
I've heard that even out of DODat the Pentagon, which is
interesting.
Oh, by the way, just failedtheir seventh audit in a row.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Convenient how that was kind of kept on the down low
.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, $850 million unaccounted for.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
But they want us to account for $600 in our PayPal
account.
Right, you know, I mean shut upyou scumbags.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
So there's that I have heard that, in anticipation
of Matt Gaetz and Department ofJustice, there are a lot of
people who are putting attorneyson retainer and not like legal
advice kind of attorneys, likedefense attorneys, yeah.
They're going to need it Ifyou're a lawyer right now and

(17:48):
you're in the beltway and you'rea criminal defense attorney.
You are about to make a ton ofmoney.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, so there is a lot of that going on, and I
think I saw a cool thing thismorning.
So I don't know if you've everseen it, but in Colombia yeah,
colombia, or maybe it's ElSalvador they have these super
max prisons, and I'm talkinglike 40,000 inmates, wow, like

(18:19):
massive cages, right.
And oh, by the way, punishmentslike they take away mattresses,
punishments like they reduceyou to two meals a day of beans
and tortillas.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
And it's not like here.
They can't sue if there's ahole in their sock.
Yeah Right, no.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
So this is where MS-13 is being housed, right and
the murder rate, you know, wentfrom like the highest in the
world to safer than the UnitedStates per 100,000 people.
And the picture and it was,people thought it was AI.
But Matt Gaetz's wife has comeout and said this is not AI.
He is standing, matt Gaetz isstanding in the very well
polished by the prisoners mainhallway, main corridor of this

(18:57):
prison and it's like thismessage of criminals better be
prepared because the hammer'scoming.
So I think that sort ofmessaging is, you know, breeding
a lot of fear of retribution.
You know which.
Again, I know where you stand.
I am.
I am less inclined.
There are some people thatdefinitely need to go to jail.

(19:18):
I'm less inclined to, you know,eye for eye in a lot of cases,
but, but accountability isimportant.
But I think Matt Gaetz, again,is one of the.
You know he is the guy and heis the guy that Trump wants.
You know, my favoritegirlfriend, megyn Kelly, made a
great, made a great statementabout why Gaetz, and she's 100%

(19:41):
right.
She's like listen, they wentout, doj went after Trump is,
you know, for the last eightyears, they every, you know, and
oh, by the way.
It's people that you know.
It started when he was still inoffice and it was started by
people that he put into positionand he, you know, and all of
these people turned on him.
So why wouldn't he grab themost loyal of loyal soldiers to
put into DOJ?
And that guy is Matt Gates.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
He's been consistent and you know, and he has been.
You know whether someone agreesor disagrees.
He has been the victim of theirwitch hunts as well.
You know this wholeinvestigation into him that was
dropped and then they pick itback up again and you know, and
their playbook is the same oneevery time.
Well, let's accuse him ofsexual assault.

(20:24):
You know that's the playbookthey keep using over and over
again because it works, itpaints the picture, it taints
the person that they're tryingto destroy.
And you know anybody can accuseanybody of anything and that's
part of the problem.
You know there was a time.
I am 100 percent, always, always, all for the protection of

(20:47):
actual victims of crimes andassault and all of those things.
But I despise and as shouldanyone, I despise anyone who
lies about that for gain, youknow, for any reason, for any
reason whatsoever, and we knowthat that has been weaponized
and there's no accountability tothose people for doing that,

(21:07):
you know.
So there has to be a point herethat if you're going to accuse
somebody of something so serious, so damaging you know, career
ending, life destroying youbetter be able to back it up.
I don't want to hear that.
30 years ago, you know, hetouched my shoulder and I felt
violated, and now I'm going tosue and win and get you know
millions of dollars.
No, enough of that, so yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Yeah, it's been going on for decades.
I mean, it goes.
You know that that sort ofthing and the reason you know
how it's evolved and gotten tothe point where we're at with
Gates is, you know you could goback and it probably started
even before this, but the firstthat I remember in my lifetime
was Anita Hill and and you knowright, you know, and the whole
thing you know, with ClarenceThomas and his, you know

(21:50):
appointment to the Supreme Court, and then it's just rolled
Kavanaugh on like it's just beena thing.
So, yeah, no, it is that Right.
And you know the Me Toomovement, you know, for all of
the good that it did do, youknow there's a lot of damage
done at the same time.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people's lives got destroyed
wrongly and unfairly and therewas never, certainly never, an
apology.
You know, at the very least, anapology never happened.
None of these people who werefalsely accused and were proven
to have been falsely accused,none of them were ever handed an
apology or a retraction oranything.
They just went up whatever.

(22:24):
Next, who are we going todestroy next?
Yeah, and and you've, you'vegot the.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
You know you've still got oh, whatever, next, who are
we going to destroy next?
Yeah, and you've got the.
You know you've still got like.
You've still got Democratsclaiming Project 2025.
Right, they're still using thatcrap.
So you know that they're usingthis, which gets back to the
point of you know the recessappointments.
You know President Trump,having been a victim of this,
obviously is probably lookingfor the ways to avoid that.

(22:47):
For people like Gates, yeah,right, right, and so listen, you
know he wants to get him in.
He knows that there's a badreputation.
He knows that there's someinvestigations.
He knows that more are coming.
I think there was an accusationeven yesterday or maybe even
this morning.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
I'm sure, and I'm sure, more will come out to more
will come out, and yeah,president Trump knows they're
coming, so screw it.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Why not do the recess appointments and just avoid all
of it and just get around it?
So, yeah, I think he's going toget the team that he wants,
with probably 90 to 95%.
I think there'll be one or twothat just aren't going to make
it for whatever reason, andthat's okay.
But I think he is.
I think he's going to use therecess appointments where he
needs to and he's going to gethis team.
Yeah, for good or for better orfor worse, he's going to get
the people that he wants.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
So there was a it's a I don't know maybe like a year
ago, sometime during this yearmaybe, there was a brief
interview clip of Matt Gates andhe had said some choice words,
I don't know in some hearing orsomething regarding I think it
was actually like regardingabortion or something, and he
said something a little fresh.
You know, he said somethingabout, you know, most of these

(23:52):
women that are advocating for itare ugly, essentially, or you
know something along those lines.
He said something.
It was a little petty, a littlechildish maybe, sure, but when
he was asked about it, thereporter said you know, well,
what do you say to the peoplewho you offended with that and
what do you say to the peoplewho who you offended with that?
And his response was beoffended, which I loved.
I loved the response.
There's no backing down.

(24:12):
So, and the reason I bring thatup is because, as you know, as
we're talking about this and asI'm thinking about it, you know
to the people who are saying,well, people are afraid, you
know, people are worried, peopleare afraid, be afraid, be
afraid.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
There's no, there's, yeah, there's nothing in this
world that guarantees you frombeing offended or afraid, right?
No one has a responsibility toprotect you from that.
That is not how life works ingeneral, let alone, you know,
people think they have a rightto that, somehow like it's a
constitutional right.
No, that's not how it works.
You want to be offended?
That's a you problem, that'snot a me problem, right, yeah,

(24:45):
so, yeah, we've.
You know the pendulum swung waytoo far, and good for Gates for
saying that.
You know, rubio did the samething.
Some lady in the hallway askinghim about, you know, innocent
kids being killed by theIsraelis, and he turned around
and he went after her and hesaid you know, somebody was
recording on the phone.
He looked at me, said you'rerecording this, right, make sure
you post this.
And he said listen, this isHamas's fault, you know, if they

(25:08):
want, you know, and she's likewell, so you're saying you don't
care.
He's like I don't, it's not.
That's not what I'm saying.
It's not that I don't care, butI'm telling you it's not the
Israelis' fault, it's Hamas'sfault.
They started this.
They start on October 7.
So I think we've got a new.
With all these appointmentscoming in.
We've got a new attitude of youknow you don't have to like it

(25:29):
and I don't care if you like itor not, but this is the way
things are in the world and thisis the way we've got to operate
.
So there's a significant changecoming in the messaging from
our federal government, which Iam all for.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Absolutely Same.
And you know, and the messageisn't just for Democrats, that
message is for the rhinos rightnow too.
You are not on board if you arenot upholding the things that
the people want upheld, which isthe Constitution.
Simply put, if you're not doingit, there's the door, you're

(26:01):
out.
So I again, I echo you I loveit, I love it.
The power is getting given backto the people and I'm so
exhausted with all theknuckleheads out there saying
you know he's going to be adictator.
See, it's already started.
Well, listen, if being adictator means that he's, you
know, reverting rights back tothe states that belong to the

(26:21):
states to begin with, dictateaway, sir, dictate away.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Come on, those are the same people that call him a
racist and a misogynist and youknow.
Go ahead and look at hiscabinet and what it looks like
right now all the informantshe's made so far and you tell me
that he is a racist and amisogynist Right.
Keep going with it.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I you know over the past year or so I've declined
getting into these conversationswith people in person and in
real life.
Of course I get into it all thetime on social media and
whatever, but in real life Ideclined, usually because it's
so pointless, it's so silly.
You just get in these circulararguments and they hear nothing.
And now I'm kind of in thatmode where I'm like bring it,

(27:01):
please ask me, tell me what'sgoing on right now so we can
have a nice little conversationabout it.
But, yeah, very calmly andpolitely, of course.
Of course you know, oh, let'smove on to our next one, another
great, great, great one.
How about that?
The joy that I feel right now?

(27:24):
This is exactly what we werehoping for, or at least I know
that's what I was hoping for.
Rfk Junior Department of healthand human services.
Amen, amen, and.
And listen, you know peopleassume and I get this all the
time you know when you uh praisesomeone or you applaud them for
their, you know whatever it isthat they're doing, that you
automatically are like youidolize them.

(27:45):
You know your idol, you knowyour, your God, your King, their
Trump or your King, in thiscase, uh, kennedy, it's like no,
I know the guy's faults.
I know his flaws.
I, you know.
I know Trump's as well.
Um, it's not about that.
It's about the job he's gettingtasked to do and his ability to
do it, and I personally feelextremely confident in his

(28:06):
ability to to do this job.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, he is round peg , round hole, like for this, for
HHS.
And again, you know, presidentTrump knows who he is right,
what his background is, knowswho he is as a person.
He didn't give him any moreleeway or any more you know
access to anything than where hethought he could be most useful
, which is HHS, right, he didn'tmake him the SEC DEF, he didn't

(28:30):
make him the SEC state.
He didn't put him in any ofthose places because they do
have a divergence in beliefs,except here, right, except at
HHS.
So round peg, round hole.
I think it's a greatappointment.
He's already taking shit forthis, not President Trump, but
Kennedy.
I don't know if you saw theMcDonald's on the airplane thing
right, oh yeah.
Yes, you know, I think everybodyknows by now president Trump on

(28:51):
Trump force one.
You get on Trump force oneafter a meeting or an engagement
or whatever.
It's loaded with McDonald's.
It's his favorite things to eat.
He loves it.
There's burger, you know,cheeseburgers, and McNuggets and
fries for everybody, right, yep, yep.
So there's a picture of Trump,trump jr, donald Jr and Elon and

(29:11):
they're all eating McDonald's,they're holding it up and
they're smiling and everybody'slike, oh, mr Healthy, and oh, I
guess we're going to makeAmerica healthy again on Tuesday
or after this is over.
And it's like people listen,come on.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
He's not taking away your fast food.
Calm down.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
He's not taking away your fast food, calm down.
He's not taking anything awayfrom anybody.
What he's trying to do is oneget the poison out of our
processed foods.
Yeah, right, and the fruitloops thing is the best, like
that's the best example there is, yeah, where he showed, you
know, the ingredients ofcanadian fruit loops, american
fruit loops, yeah, and you know,just, I'll just talk about the
colors.
Right, that's, that's thesimplest thing.
The colors in Canadian fruitloops are from blueberries and

(29:51):
carrots.
Right, that's where the colorscome from.
In America, it's red dye,number five, or yellow, yellow
dye blue, blah, blah blah.
It's all chemical, whereaseverything on the Canadian it's
all natural right, and that'swhat he's trying to do with our
food and good for him and goodfor us.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Like, why in the world?
Why are you fighting this?
Like, are you mad?
You know, you listen toyourselves.
You're mad that he's going totake chemicals and toxic
ingredients that are poisoningour bodies, our children's
bodies and minds, making them,you know, literally mentally
slow and decreasing theircognitive abilities, their

(30:27):
health slow and decreasing theircognitive abilities, their
health, even if right, yeah,listen.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Even if the science says that all that stuff is okay
, even if the science says that,why would you do a chemical
versus a natural?
If there's no difference, whywouldn't you do the natural?
Why would you choose thechemical?
Why?

Speaker 5 (30:47):
would you say well that's what I want my cereal.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, why would you choose?
Like you know, you're handedtwo, two boxes of Fruit Loops
and one says has six ingredientsand the other one has 76
ingredients, and you know mostof what you can't even pronounce
, I mean.
To me, the answer is simple I'mgoing to choose the one with
the six ingredients and not theother one.

(31:10):
But you know, these people arelike, you know.
You know, and the biggest thingand this is always a complaint
from people including myself itis really disgusting and
inexcusable that it is moreexpensive to eat healthy than it
is to not.
It is more expensive to eathealthy than it is to not.

(31:33):
So, you know, that is somethingI believe, I hope and I believe
that he will change.
You know, it should not cost me, you know, three times the
amount for the same amount ofgroceries, and the only
difference being my groceriesare filled with healthy
ingredients and fresh fruits andvegetables and you know all of
those things that should not becosting twice as much.
So, you know, give our farmersa lot more freedom, incentives
and and help in farming.

(31:55):
Make that, you know, make beefgreat again.
You know, whatever you know,let's get back to.
Let's just get back to where wecame from, and that's always
the thing right.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, and and again.
You know you could take that astep further and say that the
less healthy foods that arecheaper and therefore exploiting
poor people.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes, absolutely, you know that's always right.
That's always their thing.
Well, you know the underservedcommunities, so let's serve them
better, let's serve them better.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, let's not fill them full of chemicals.
Let's make natural foodsaffordable.
Let's make that the norm andget rid of the chemical crap.
Oh, by the way, just to add incase you didn't see this or hear
this, I know you're not a fan.
I am less than a fan of AlecBaldwin.
I think he's one of the worsthuman beings on the planet, but

(32:43):
he impersonated Kennedy onSaturday Night Live this past
week.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
And it went over like a lead balloon.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Oh snap, Really.
Did I ever tell you that hefollowed me on Instagram?
Really?
Yeah, Is that the weirdestthing ever?
Or his people, you know?
Whoever runs his account?
Yeah, I um which is reallyfunny because I've made a couple
of videos about him that arenot kind, not friendly.
Yeah, weirdest thing I had tolike research it.
I'm like, is this really hisaccount or a dummy account?
No, it was really him.

(33:09):
So, hi, alec, I'm not followingyou back.
First of all, I'm going to passon that.
Yeah, well, that's good to know, good to know.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
The tide has turned.
He was impersonating, he wasmaking fun of President Trump.
No president is immune.
I'm not saying anybody withinthe government is immune, but
when you start making fun ofpeople because of a disability
or part of the way that youimpersonate them is their
disability, without theirconsent, without their being on
board with it, like that's andagain, alec Baldwin doesn't need
help.
You know, losing friendsbecause he's Alec Baldwin, but

(33:49):
that was pretty bad.
I mean, that was bad.
It's pretty, pretty nasty.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
And I think, and so ironic from them, from the left.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
He's such a piece of garbage.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
He is pure garbage, can't stand everything that guy
does.
Yeah, but yeah, how about that?
Well, I'm excited, I'm thrilledabout everything that they plan
to do and you know, I thinkhonestly and I think I've said
this before, I'll say it againthe most exciting part about all
of this is that it can actuallyhappen.

(34:23):
Obstacle that they could put inhis way.
So he was always going to beduring that presidency, you know
, in some ways a lame duckpresident, because they would
never let things get get pastthat needed to get past this
time around.
Wow, what a different ball game.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
What a different ball game we're playing Incredible,
yeah, I think.
I think we need to startpopularizing the out of the way,
get out of the way, you know,kind of moniker, cause that's
really what the first two yearsof this is going to be about.
Right, get out of the way.
It's not just Dems, you said itbefore.
It's the rhinos too.
I think the message frompresident Trump, his team, the
Republican party, the realRepublican party, needs to be
get out of the way.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't try and be a roadblock,
because it's going to turn outpoorly.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Don't be the one.
Clock because it's going toturn out poorly.
Don't be the one.
Don't be the toe in the road,whatever you want to say get out
of the way and I think thatthat needs to be.
You know, I'm going to proposethat hashtag that you got you
take that hashtag and run withit.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
I love it.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it.
I'll credit you with it, though.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Make t-shirts of it right, stay tuned, guys.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
That'll be the next T-shirt I put out in my merch
store.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Don't worry, I'll give you a cut.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Clay.
Oh, all right, We'll move on tothe next one.
Let's play Clay.
What in the heck and heck?

Speaker 3 (35:39):
So thankfully the governor, because I think
Shapiro is going to run in fouryears, if not president then
definitely vice president, butShapiro is going to be on the
ticket run in four years, Ithink he, if not president then
definitely vice president, butShapiro is going to be on the
ticket somewhere in four years.
So he's playing his cards, he'splaying the long game.
He stepped in.
For those of you that aren'ttracking, pennsylvania is still
counting frigging ballots andthere's two counties or three
counties, I think it's, maybeit's Berks, bucks and Lancaster

(36:01):
counties are counting votes and,oh, by the way, outwardly
openly admittingly, and you know, don't give a flip counting
votes that aren't supposed to becounted, in violation of a
ruling from the state SupremeCourt, right?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
And if you don't believe us, here it is in our
own words More in this country,and people violate laws anytime
they want.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
So for me, if I violate this law, it's because I
want a court to pay attentionto it for me, if I violate this
law, it's because I want a courtto pay attention to it.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Well then, I mean, see you in jail, honey.
Yeah, so they're continuing tocount ballots and this is about
the Casey seat in the Senate andso they're counting right in
ballots that had improper datesor dates empty slot, where
people didn't date it.
So it's all about the dating onthat ballot, these counties,

(36:56):
and really determined by thestate election board.
I think those three idiotssitting up there said count them
anyway, even though the stateSupreme Court said state Supreme
Court determined no after thelast election.
And then, oh, by the way, afterthese people outwardly said
we're doing it anyway, theyreiterated it and said we have
already made a determination,we're not doing this again.
You're in violation of thestate Supreme Court.
And they basically said wedon't care.

(37:16):
And now the governor, shapiro,has come out and said state
Supreme Court made adetermination, this is the law
of the state of Pennsylvania,the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
, and this is what we're goingto follow, the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and this is whatwe're going to follow.
Now I don't know where it'sgone beyond that, but Shapiro
has weighed in because, again, Ithink he is playing the long
game and I think he's planningfor four years from now.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
You know the big statementscoming from that side is that?
Well, you know, we basicallyhave to, you know, pivot to
something else.
We need to do thingsdifferently.
Yeah, you need to stop beingcheating scumbags, because we're
catching you and we're not.
You know, we're never going tolet what happened happen again,

(38:00):
and this election was proof, youknow.
So they're on notice.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah, and listen.
Four years ago, Pennsylvaniawas the state, this was the
problem, Right, Right, and.
And the Democrats all turnedaround and said no, you just got
to take it at face value,that's just the way it is.
Everybody's just got to acceptthat, you know.
Now, four years later, when itdoesn't go their way, now it's
like oh well, this, we've got todo this and we've got to change
this, and blah, blah, blah.
So again, hypocrisy that we'reall aware of.
That we all anticipate.

(38:25):
I've said it keep the receiptsbecause there's fraud going on.
I would bet a paycheck they'reprinting ballots right now.
Oh sure, sure, no doubt 100%trying to change the outcome of
that election.
They're not alone, but they'rethe most egregious of all of
this, but it's still going on.
There are still five seats inthe house that haven't been

(38:49):
settled yet.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yep, they're trying like heck man.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
And listen, I get it.
Some of this is mandatoryrecounts, Right?
Yeah, that's fine.
Right, the Delta is like onepercent, it depends, right, but
some of them, you know there'san incurrence for an automatic
recount If that's what's goingon.
Fine, if you've like this goingon.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
You have a whole different set of problems.
Just sit there with yourmicrophone in your face and just
announce it.
What you're doing is like wow,that is a level of arrogance and
stupidity all wrapped in one.
And not only do I hope sheloses her job, I hope she
actually gets charged.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
So we'll see she loses her job.
I hope she actually getscharged.
So I'm going to proposesomething else, and I've
advocated for this for a while.
I state elections and below,right, state level elections and
below, in your state.
I don't give a crap what you do.
You want to do it over theinternet If you think that they
can.
You know, if the statedetermines that's how they want
to do it, fine.

(39:47):
I firmly, firmly believe thefederal government should set a
standard for federal elections.
Yeah, that cannot be altered bythe states.
Period.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
This is the method of voting.
These are the timelines forvoting For federal election for
your state.
I don't care.
Yeah, for federal election.
This is how it's going to go.
These are the standard.
You know.
Whatever it is, whatever methodit is I don't care if it's with
crayons, but if they, whateverthe voting method is, it's
standard across every state.
The timelines are the sameacross every state and they

(40:20):
don't have the ability to alterthat because it's a federal
election, Right?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
It's not a state election federal election, right
, not a state election, yeah,right, yeah, I mean, technically
, anything that comes as adirective or a law from the
federal government should be thesame in every state, right,
like that should always be the amatter of course that that's
the case, um, you know, and it'sa matter of just enforcing that
, I think, and I'm sure, easiersaid than done when you're in
blue States, you know, but yeah,yeah, no, you're, you're

(40:48):
absolutely right.
So I hope they're listening toyou, clay.
They better do what Clay said.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
I get Tucker fired again.
I don't know Like I, just youknow it's gotta be, better.
We're at a point now and I knowI'm not a fan of getting rid of
the electoral college, which Iknow a lot of people are but we
can do it.
It can all be done better.
And we're at a pointtechnologically where it should
be done better, and I don't careif that means again if every

(41:13):
single person has to go in anddo it by hand.
Whatever it is, there's got tobe a better way than what we're
doing now.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
I'm an absolute fan of convenience, but there are
some things that I willdefinitely willingly happily go
without a convenience.
You know, go through thetrouble of and, and this is a
hundred percent one of them.
No, no problem, I'll wait inthe line, great analogy.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
I heard this one the other day, never heard this
before.
Great analogy how often do mostpeople buy a new car?
Four years, five years, right,same as an average election
cycle.
You've done this, I've done it.
How long does it take from thetime you step on the lot to the
time you drive away with a newcar?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
How long are?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
you there?
Yeah, five hours, probably sixhours sometimes.
Finance paperwork, test drives,you know this and that, blah,
blah, blah blah.
It takes forever, it takes awhole day, right, whole day, and
we're complaining about votingfor our federal leadership.
That takes less time than itdoes to buy a car.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Yeah, Everybody suck it up, Toughen up, folks Toughen
up.
We can do it, we must, and Ithink that's, you know, the best
way to.
You're never going to 100percent eliminate cheaters and
cheating because they always aretrying.
You know, for as much as you'retrying to make everything right
and and correct and just, andyou know there's always going to
be people fighting against that.

(42:31):
But when you limit theiroptions and their, their
opportunities, you know it'sjust obvious, right, Right yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Vegas.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
What are your odds?
Yeah, let's talk about the oddshere.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Yeah, and talk about the security to keep you from
cheating.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yes, yes, ids, ids, all of it.
Yeah, no question about it.
So and I think that's going tobe the case going forward with a
Trump administration coming inand making things, you know,
making things right again,simply, you know a little spicy,
a little dash of common sense.
Yeah, just a dash would be good.
Oh, absolutely.

(43:07):
Oh, let's talk about these,these jokes.
So, uh, morning, joe, joeScarborough and Mika Brzezinski
uh, did their.
I just you know know, let'sjust watch it and then we'll
talk about it.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
From political leaders to regular citizens
deeply dismayed by several ofPresident-elect Trump's cabinet
selections, and they are scared.
Last Thursday we expressed ourown concerns on this broadcast
and even said we wouldappreciate the opportunity to
speak with the president-electhimself, to speak with the
president-elect himself.
On Friday we were given theopportunity to do just that.

(43:43):
Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago tomeet personally with
President-elect Trump.
It was the first time we haveseen him in seven years In this
meeting.
President Trump was cheerful, hewas upbeat, he seemed
interested in finding commonground with Democrats on some of
the most divisive issues.
And for those asking why wewould go speak to the
president-elect during suchfraught times, especially
between us, I guess I would askback why wouldn't we?

(44:06):
Five years of political warfarehas deeply divided Washington
and the country.
We have been as clear as weknow how in expressing our deep
concerns about President Trump'sactions and words in the
coarsening of public debate.
But for nearly 80 millionAmericans, election denialism,
public trials on January 6th,were not as important as the
issues that moved them to sendDonald Trump back to the White

(44:29):
House with their vote.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
So let me try and go down the line here of that whole
thing, from her facialexpressions right to her tone
and to her actual words, andthat was actually.
There's actually a long, it's alonger clip.
I just wanted to take out theparts that I took the most
umbrage with, basically thearrogance and the

(44:51):
self-importance of that entirestatement, and, by the way,
trump has already come out withhis own statement after.
It's like yeah, they come, theycame in here crawling,
basically Like I don't know whatshe's talking about or what
they're talking about, like thiswas some come to Jesus moment
between us.
Um, they came in begging andand groveling, basically, and
you know, and I I was willing tolisten and talk and have a
conversation, but like, let'sget it, don't get it twisted,

(45:14):
sweetheart.
The gist of it, you know.
But you know's the thing I willsay when I started watching it,
I tried to ignore the look onher face, which was full of
contempt and all of that, and Isaid, well, okay, so maybe this
is an olive branch.
What a dummy to actually thinkLike me, I'm calling myself a
dummy here what a dummy toactually think that this was
going to be like an olive branchmoment, a moment of saying,

(45:36):
listen, we were part of all ofthis divisiveness and toxicity
and all of those things.
No, it was 100% Trump and hisvoters and we're just I mean,
we're trying to do the rightthings.
She really ticked me off at theend there with saying that we
are election deniers and that,and I like how she emphasized

(45:58):
they voted or you voted him in,like you're accusing honey,
you're that's not an accusation,that's something I'm proud of
and I will take a bow for it.
Thank you, yeah, the wholething, and I'll tell you,
they're catching it.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
They're catching it from both sides.
Yeah, they are, so they'recatching it.
Obviously, you knowconservatives, republicans, you
know I can honestly tell you Ihave not in my entire adult life
watched more than 10 minutes ofMorning.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Joe, that was probably the extent.
That was probably the most I'veever watched of them.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
So not a fan.
Their ratings are ferocious andthey get worse every day.
So they're not getting any lovefrom Republicans, from
conservatives.
But they're also catching a lotof crap from the world of
journalism right.
Journalism right Very looselyused term for even speaking to
President Trump, which isabhorrent.

(46:49):
Like for anybody to criticizethem for even trying pretending
to be journalists and go talk toPresident Trump, you know.
So they're catching crap aboutthat.
Their own staff like there wasalmost a mutiny on the show.
They were so upset.
You know there's been who else?
You know some of the bigwigsacross entertainment John
Stewart gave them crap.

(47:10):
There's a bunch of people thathave gone after them about, you
know, even pretending to besomewhat unbiased journalists
and at least have a discussionwith president Trump.
But you're right, they wentthere, they kissed the ring
because they know for the nextfour years they're going to have
to deal with it.
So you know starting it offwith a firefight is not going to
do them any good.

(47:31):
And you know you're going tostart seeing they're.
They're the first ones, whichis why they're catching a lot of
crap right now, but they're notgoing to be the last ones.
You're going to start seeing alot more people, like you know,
joe Scarborough and company umreaching out to president Trump
to to get an interview or tohave a sit down with them or
whatever it is, because theyknow they can't do it without
him Like they're done withouthim.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, oh, absolutely.
I saw another one uh thismorning, I think it was, maybe
it was yesterday.
Uh, katie Couric was actuallyslamming Kamala.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Harris, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Slamming her and I'm like, wow, they're really coming
out now.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Yeah, answer the GD question was what you kept
saying.
Yes, she was going after theword salad thing yeah.
That was the biggest thing, andso, yeah, the gloves are coming
off.
I think, you know, this is alittle bit of eating their own.
You know which we're going tocontinue to see?
Oh, and that's that's a primeexample of them eating their own
.
Is Katie Kirk going after?
You know, vice president Harris?

(48:26):
So, um, yeah, it's we.
We said we've been talkingabout it.
We talked about it last weekand the week before.
Like you know what's next forthe Dems?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
And I, they, them, you know, eat their own,
basically, and in fight andbattle it out between each other
and and we just get to sit backwith our popcorn and and watch
the show and say I told you, Itold you so.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Well, and and you're seeing more of it, because even
the, even the um, the old guardsgetting hammered, like Nancy
Pelosi, has been getting punchedin the face in the media
regularly for the last two weeksRight, so nobody's protected.
Right now it's all up for grabsand it's it's pretty, it's
pretty entertaining to watch.
But again, scarborough andcompany are not going to be the
last ones.
You go see, try and make nice,nice with president Trump.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Yeah, nope, nope.
Like you said, that's just thebeginning.
They were the first ones there.
They're hit the hardest for itand I don't actually think
they'll recover from that, evenafter the other ones start
following suit and doing thesame thing.
They're always going to beremembered for the sellouts, or
the askers.
That's always going to be thething.
So, yeah, they did themselvesno favors whatsoever and I can't

(49:35):
say I'm sorry for it.
I think they deserve what theyget.
You get what you get and Ican't say I'm sorry for it.
I think they get what you getand you don't get upset.
Yeah, it is what it is.
Speaking of battles and coolthings to watch, how about that?
Wow, what a scene.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Let's pause this for a second.
You probably didn't, you're nota night owl, but the night
before the MMA fights was theTyson Paul fight.
I stayed up for the whole thing.
The undercard, the undercardswere great.
They were great fights.
The judging was terrible and meand my best friend, who'd been
following boxing for years andyears, you know back and forth
like number one Netflix sucks,like everybody's feed was

(50:13):
terrible, but you know, like Ihad, I actually ended up
watching it on my phone.
I had a better reception on 5Gthan I did over internet in my
house.
But those cards, the undercards, especially the women's fight
and then the men's fight beforethat, like that's why people
hate boxing, because they wereclearly, the decisions were easy
, even for an amateur watcher ofboxing to watch, right, and

(50:35):
they were horrible.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Anyway, and then the.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Tyson Paul fight was a a moneymaker and it was
painful to watch it was yeah, Idid, You'd be so impressed with
me, I actually did stay up towatch it.
I didn't watch the interview,really I did.
Isn't that shocking?
I know, I know.
But see, I used to love boxing.
Before MMA became so mainstreamand was so popular.
I loved boxing.
We used to.

(50:57):
When pay-per-view was the thing, we would all converge and
watch it.
And I've always actually been aTyson fan.
I've always liked Mike Tyson.
Yeah, yeah, the first one thatthat I started watching, and yes
, it was for superficial reasons.
Oscar de La Hoya had a littlebit of crush on him, don't you
know?
Don't judge me guys.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
There's a reason he's called the golden boy.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
He was so cute.
But then I actually developedan actual interest in the sport
and loved watching it.
And then I watched MMA for awhile.
Then I kind of just simplystopped.
Life is too busy, but anyhow.
So I did watch.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
But MMA has given you a reason to watch, right it
sure has it, sure has.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Roll that clip.
Oh my goodness, yeah, let'sroll that.
Let's see when is it.
Here's this.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
How cool is this who is now making his way to the
world-famous octagon, flanked byUFC CEO Dana White, 45, soon to
be 47,.
President-elect Donald Trump,usa, usa, usa.
Sharing the belt there with thePresident-elect Donald Trump

(51:59):
Whoo.
Americans largely historicallyhave realized the most success
in the UFC and the greatestAmerican fighter of all time is
that man.
Jon Bones Jones, now successfulin the first events of his
heavyweight title.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah, so, so embarrassing.
I actually every time the USAchant starts up, no matter, you
know, in those big stadiums, Iget so teary eyed.
It's such a beautiful thing.
Oh my God, I love it.
So yeah, that was so cool anduh, and then the part that I
didn't show in that clip is isthe Trump dance.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
It's everywhere.
So it's been in the NFL, right,yeah, and I think that's you
know.
We had talked about it.
I don't know if you've got aclip or not, but there's a bunch
of guys yeah.
Touchdown dances right.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
I love it.
I love it.
Here's a little.
Here's the little clip, alittle little montage clip.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
It's the Trump dance and I listen.
I, I'm a soccer guy.
I know, especially for my ageit's a little.
You know, I'm in that firstgeneration of American soccer
fans and players.
But I watched the men'snational team US men's national
team played Jamaica last nightand after a goal, you know,
kristen Pulisic, who's fromHershey, pa and is known as

(53:14):
Captain America, scored his goal, his first goal, and there he
was my heart Right, scored hisgoal, his first goal, and there
he was Right.
So it's, it's everywhere.
So he, you know he's.
We're feeling it even in sportnow, which is great because
sport was losing Americans, andI say sport in general was
losing Americans, right.
Yeah, you know there's abaseball players now retired

(53:35):
baseball players coming out andtalking about how they were told
to kneel for the nationalanthem and some of them said you
can go F yourself.
You know.
There's a lot.
All of that stuff seems to be,you know, going by the wayside,
and patriotism is back in vogue,which I love, and it all seems
to be revolving around PresidentTrump and the Red Hats.
I mean it's cool to be a patriotagain.

(53:57):
It is, and it's awesome Right.
It's cool to be a patriot againit is, and it's awesome right.
And I, you know we can directlyattribute that to him.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Deny it if you want, but it's all around him, you'll
be wrong.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Right, yeah, deny it if you want.
You'll be wrong, you're wrongyeah.
Oh, my goodness, I am sograteful to be alive, to see
this happening, because the pastyou know four to eight years
was heartbreaking, frustrating,infuriating.
It was all the things.
But if you love this countryand you love the people who

(54:30):
fought for the freedoms in thiscountry, it broke your damn
heart.
And you know I think I speakfor a lot of people that you
know we have been heartbrokenand angry for so long now to see
this happening.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
It's pretty awesome.
It's pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, love it, love it.
Get emotional again, clay, ohmy goodness.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
But listen, dana White.
Dana White plays a big part inthis.
Right yeah, is it one?
He is who he is.
A lot of people don't like DanaWhite, but he's a Joe Rogan
type.
He doesn't pull any punches,literally and figuratively,
doesn't care what you think ofhim, doesn't care if you believe
in what he believes in, hedoesn't care.
And he's a patriot and he's abig fan of President Trump and

(55:08):
they've got a great connectionand he's been a huge endorser.
So you know there's no, it'szero shock that you know he went
to the UFC fight.
Very much like today he'ssupposed to be going to a SpaceX
launch with Elon.
So it's a mutual you support me, I support you, kind of thing.
Right, right, oh, by the way,that's how business works,
that's how diplomacy works Right.

(55:30):
President Trump knows what he'sdoing, but again you bring that
class and group of peopletogether to UFC fight.
That's what you get, man.
You get a bunch of Americans inthere.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
You know, enjoying American stuff and, and you know
president Trump's a champion.
He is, he's a champion of thewhole thing.
Listen, I don't care if youlove them or hate them.
You have to respect the factthat this man is an all out
warrior.
And if you want, anybody wantsto dispute that.
Roll the clip of Butler PA.
You know the assassinationattempt.
Roll the clip of a 78, 77, 78year old man springing up, you

(56:06):
know, after being tackled, afterbeing shot, and that fist pumps
.
You know, seen around the world.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Listen, I'm the first one I hate this, the sport.
When they use combat metaphorsin sports.
It drives me absolutely crazy,Absolutely crazy.
Now there are exceptions and UFCis an exception and boxing is
an exception.
Those guys, the physicality ofwhat they're doing, you know the
use of the term warrior,gladiator, like that, that is

(56:36):
appropriate in those terms.
It's not appropriate infootball, sorry.
It's not appropriate in hockey.
Sorry, it's not appropriate inhockey, sorry, basketball.
Any of the rest of that stuffdrives me crazy.
President Trump classifies mybook without question, and it's
primarily because of Butler PA.
That guy's a warrior because hegot not only did he get shot at
, he did get shot.
He did at his age, gotphysically accosted by a secret

(56:57):
service detail and he came upswinging and God love him for it
.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
But that that classifies him as a warrior in
my book.
Sorry, Absolutely yeah.
Not a gentle takedown, not, nota get down on the ground or
knock your shoes off your feet.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Yeah, I agree with you on that clay too.
Like same thing with the wordbrave.
You know, let's, let's not callsomebody brave for putting on a
dress.
You know, come on, sorry, butyeah.
So anyhow, see, we deliver onour promises.
We always tell you that we'regoing to end on a light note, a

(57:31):
happy note, man, oh man.
Did we ever?
We landed, uh, or ended on likea patriotic great note, and I
love that.
America, oh, uh, my friends,our friends, we're so glad that
you tune into us every week.
We appreciate it.
Tell your friends, tell yourenemies, tell anybody we don't
care, tell them all to comewatch us and hang out with us in
the comments section.

(57:51):
We, as always, we appreciateyou greatly and as always, I
like for Clay to close it out.
So you go ahead and do that, myfriend.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Hey, folks, share the show All right, don't?
Everybody likes.
They're great about going onsocial media, especially on Elsa
, and liking the show,especially when she puts up
previews and highlights.
Share it, share the show, right.
Just grow the viewingpopulation.
You'll have more friends totalk to that way.
But again, I'm down here inAustin the Green Beret
Foundation, great charity downhere for a celebrity shoot with

(58:19):
my friends from G-Code out ofNorth Carolina and that's what
we're doing.
But we are off next weekThanksgiving.
We are taking a break.
Elsa and I are taking awell-deserved break.
Listen, nobody's going to watchthe show on Thanksgiving night
anyway, so we're taking a break.
We're going to takeThanksgiving week off.
We'll be back in two weeksafter this with all the
happenings and everything that'sgoing on, and until then, my

(58:40):
friends keep moving, keepshooting.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Take care guys.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Combat veteran Terry Davis traded a life of adventure
and violence for the quiet ofthe Midwest Prairie, but when he
catches wind of a potentialterror threat to the country he
swore to protect, as a young man, his instincts make it
impossible to stay on thesidelines.
Dusting off his years oftraining and experience and his
guns to protect himself, hisloved ones and his nation, the
aging warrior winds up in tampamaking friends and meeting
enemies along the way as thethreat slowly takes shape and

(59:05):
reveals itself.
Terry relies on the smarts andskills that kept him alive for
years of combat.
Yet the threat is much biggerthan he realized and he's not
sure that he can trust.
The one thing he knows for sureis that if he wants to stay
alive, he needs to keep movingkeep shooting.

Speaker 5 (59:18):
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Follow the intertwined lives offive unique families as they
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