He Knocked It Out of the Park

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Merry Christmas. It's the Thursday edition of the Stickgall Show.
Holy smokes, did you I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think we watched history last night, and I'm not
talking about what he said. I'm talking about how he
said it. Looking live at you Manhattan this morning on
the Salem News Channel, and welcome in if you're listening
on great radio stations all over the country. Thrilled to
have you aboard our telephone number eight five five Stigall
if you want to get here, eight five five seven
eight four forty two to fifty five. Could I start
on a bit of good news, even better news? Last

(02:47):
night put me in a spectacular mood. I'm not gonna lie.
I feel despite if you spend much time on social media,
the grousing and the complaining that was as uplifting last
night as I felt in a bit in talking about
the way forward for the country. We needed a good
old fashioned pep rally and we got it last night,
and we'll get into it in just a minute, but

(03:09):
first I wanted to say, right off the top, thank you,
a tremendous, unbelievable thank you. You did it. I shouldn't
have had any doubt you'd do it, but you did it.
We hit it, ladies and gentlemen, we hit it with
your help. The Angel Tree Campaign tried to get to
twenty six hundred kids. Do you know that as of
this morning, we're at over twenty eight one hundred kids

(03:31):
fast Eddy, I couldn't have believed that when we started
the campaign. In the first second week, I thought, I'm
not sure. Twenty six hundred might be ambitious. Even last
week I thought, I'm not sure twenty six hundred. I
should never have doubted And look, I just I understand
it's a time of year where people have got money
to spend elsewhere, or maybe the economy's a little tight
for some. And I thought, I don't know, maybe twenty

(03:54):
six hundred kids for the Angel Tree campaign is too much,
And we hit twenty eight hundred at the close of
the show yesterday. That was at the close of the show,
and then it continued throughout the day yesterday. So you guys,
we set the goal and you did it. Isn't that incredible?

Speaker 5 (04:08):
That's incredible, Chris. I just want to thank the audience.
Good job to you.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
This was a I'm honestly so happy for these kids
this Christmas most of all, I'm not even kidding.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I am too. And it didn't even By the way,
there were one, two, three, four, We had five of
the Magnificent seven.

Speaker 7 (04:23):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I offered the Magnificent seven a phone call and even
a personal Christmas gift from me to them, and I'm
going to call them up today. One of them, I
told you, was a friend of mine named John Stillman. Now,
everybody that gives, I don't want to hold these folks out,
nor do I think they would want to be held
out as special. Everyone who gave any amount is spectacular.
By the way, we're not done. I don't mean to
talk about this in past tense just because we hit

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our goal and exceeded it. I don't want to say
that if you have not given yet and you're like,
oh I wanted to give to that, please do. It's
still a great tax deductible gift. But the great news
is there were five folks. I said, look, we could
put this thing to bid with the Magnificent Seven. And
I did the math and that was a three thousand
dollars gifts and Peter in Glendale, California was one of them.
In heart Hartleton, Pennsylvania, I'm not sure I've heard of

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that one, Matt Matthew in Rockwell, Texas, Karen in Cabot,
Pennsylvania was Mark, and then my buddy John Stillman. So
we had five folks sign up to be part of
the Magnificent Seven to give that three thousand dollars donation.
Beverly gave two thousand. We had several thousand dollar givers.

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I'll be reading some of these names throughout the course
of the show in the next few days. But if
you've not given yet to the angel Tree campaign, thirty
dollars gets a gift in the hand of a child
this Christmas. And wouldn't it be a blessing if we
can do even more than the twenty eight one hundred
that we're doing now. Every single child is remarkable if
you can do it. So Angeltree dot org slash Chris

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angeltree dot org, slash Chris, or you can text. Incidentally,
you can text this morning, and if you don't link
directly or you can't, you know, easily get online right now.
You can text Chris to nine four eight seven eight,
Text Chris to nine four eight seven eight and get
it done that way. So again, I got this is.

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I printed it off this morning. This is as of
this morning, the packet in front of me, those of
you that are watching in the Salem News channel, it's
like a phone book. You people are just the most
generous and most unbelievable. The number of sixty dollars gifts
on hundred dollar people that doubled. And again I'm not
saying that a five dollars gift isn't appreciated, because of
course it is. But this is a I'm looking at

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pages and pages of this audience's generosity and for that
I just cannot say thank you enough. Unbelievable, all right, So,
I don't know that we've ever seen it fasted of
you and I have been covering Trump speeches for a
very very long time, and I don't know that I've
ever witnessed this. A Trump speech finished in under twenty minutes.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
Chris never never there, there was no weave, and it
looked like he wanted to weave, did it not.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
It looked like he was going for the weave, and
then he stopped and.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Chris, I thought it was sped up when I was watching,
you know, I thought it was sped up on the
se I was watching on the Salem News shadow. I'm like, uh,
is this right there?

Speaker 2 (07:19):
There were a couple of moments last night where I
did I thought he was gonna weave because he had
you know what he does. Sometimes he'll see a word
on the prompter that he doesn't quite get outright or whatever,
and he kind of he'll take a moment rather than
stumble on it, he'll kind of try to own it
as though he was trying to make that word instead
of what he's you know, like something's on the prime.

(07:40):
It's a funny rhetorical trick. He does it, and it
always amuses me if that's what causes the weave. He'll
stumble on a word, but he'll he'll stick the landing
and make it a word kind of close to what
the actual word written was, and then he'll kind of
take that word and he'll go off he has described it,
You're correct, as the weave, and I thought he was
gonna But here's what I think happened. Sincerely, I was

(08:02):
talking to a friend of mine about this. You tell
me if you think I'm right. I think they told him,
if you're going to address the nation and networks are
going to dump out for this speech and we want
to drive home a message on the economy, mister president,
no eaving, stick to the script. And they probably told

(08:22):
him you have under twenty minutes to get this done
or the networks will start to bail out. You'll lose
cable news. People will say, is this is just another
Trump's speech and we're not going to carry it. You know,
we've played the montage over the years. We're not going
to carry this. It's just a long list of this
or that. We're not going to carry it. So keep
this tight, mister president, and let's go. And so he
went in focused to read this exactly is written, not deviate,

(08:46):
and get it done in I assume under twenty minutes.
I think he was given a clock and he was
reading at a clip we've never seen, and I think
he may have been I don't know for sure. I
can't prove it. He may have even seen a countdown
clock in the room with him, but it was clear
to me he wanted to get everything on his agenda out.
He wanted to tell everybody what he had accomplished, and

(09:08):
he wanted to do it inside of twenty minutes. And
he did it. It was a tour to four speech.
This is the kickoff to twenty twenty six. This was forceful,
it was direct. It was a reminder of where we've
been It's a reminder of where we've gone in this
last year, where we were when he walked into the
Oval office, and that we're not even a year in yet.

(09:31):
I thought that one of the most impressive lines of
this entire evening, by the way, was when he said,
of all of the hiring, of all of the new
jobs that have happened in this year, one hundred percent
of them are private sector jobs. Now that is quite
a statement. Just let that sit with you for a minute.

(09:52):
When was the last time you remember an American president
saying job creation has been one hundred percent in the
private sector, meaning no government jobs whatsoever created. In fact,
government jobs paired back dramatically, seven million open jobs. Still,
it was I was so glad to hear him finally

(10:14):
lay it out with even a few but not like
wonky Paul ryan ish, but a couple of Were the
charts and grafts distracting fast eddy or helpful? I thought
the way he did it was helpful. It wasn't like,
you know, slide B, slide C, just chart after chart.
It was quick, quick reference stuff, I thought to effect.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
I thought so too, it did.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
You could tell it's not his style obviously, so I
was just a little concern with that. I would have liked,
you know, something a little more polished. I note, that's
not Trump, but if he's going in other words, if
he's going to stay on script, if he's going to
do the teleprompter thing, I would have liked it to
be a little cleaner.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
But yes, that's Trump.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Let's go to this Warrior dividend business. This was another
fascinating moment last night at number thirty six. Loved this tonight.

Speaker 8 (11:02):
I am also proud to announce that more than one thousand,
four hundred fifty thousand, think of this, one million, four
hundred and fifty thousand military service members will receive a
special we call Warrior Dividend before Christmas a warrior dividend
in honor of our nations founding in seventeen seventy six.

(11:26):
We are sending every soldier one thousand, seven hundred and
seventy six dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Think of that, and the checks are already on the way.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
It just fantastic. And who's going to argue it? By
the way, and he's paying for it with the tariff money?
Give me number thirty seven? Is he kind of We
may not be able to get all this in woman,
come back and do it. But here's just some of
the laundry list. Listen to this.

Speaker 8 (11:52):
I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them
down very fast. Let's look at the facts. Under the
Biden administration, car prices rose twenty two percent and in
many states thirty percent or more. Gasoline rose thirty to
fifty percent. Hotel rates rose thirty seven percent, airfares rose

(12:13):
thirty one percent. Now under our leadership, they are all
coming down and coming down fast. Democrat politicians also sent
the Court of grocery story, but we are solving that too.
The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was down thirty three
percent compared to the Biden last year. The price of

(12:33):
Eggs is down eighty two percent since March, and everything
else is falling rapidly, and it's not done yet, but
boy are we making progress. Nobody can believe what's going on.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, So that's just some of it. And he wasn't done,
and he got it all in in under twenty minutes.
I mean it was like they you know, I was
imagining the locker room pep talk, all right, QB, get
out there, launch one downfield, make it count, let's go
for the win. And he did last night. It was

(13:06):
like you felt like the GOP had some block and
tackle after last night. Moren a minute, here's a little
something that I couldn't help. But notice yesterday I could
name names, I guess, but I won't. I'll just say
another prominent pie, it's been a bad week for the
podcast community. Another prominent podcaster was outright certainly declaring President

(13:31):
Trump was going to use that address last night in
fast Eddie. You probably heard this. In fact, maybe somebody
brought this up on the show yesterday too. I can't remember.
Did somebody say this on the show a caller or something,
or am I misremembering this because I saw it on
social media a lot confidence that President Trump was going
to announce to the nation he was invading Venezuela and
we were going to war. If you hear that yesterday?

Speaker 5 (13:52):
I heard it, Yes, no, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
I don't know if a caller into this show, but yes,
all over social media helped.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
That's gonna have a war with Venezuela.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
And you know who I'm talking about. What one in
particular was out there saying, Hey, I happen to know
people on the inside and I I what he's about
to do tonight is declare war on Venezuela. Just get ready.
Well I he didn't. Of course, I have some thoughts
as to why that happened. Hang on in just a second,
I'll tell you. Bobby Bass, our audio cowboys been in

(14:25):
the Bourbon Cabinet this morning. What the hell are you
airing there? But what is that? Merry Christmas's the What
am I listening to? That's the Muppets with Michael Kaine. Oh,
it's the Muppet Those of you watching on the Salem
News channel, you see a beautiful shot of the Christmas
tree outside City Hall in Philadelphia. For those of you
listening on the Salem Radio Network, Bobby bass audio Cowboy

(14:48):
playing a little Christmas Muppets for you this morning. I
wasn't sure what I was listening to there as yeah,
giving us a little trip back in time, to a
more innocent time, a happier time. Thank you, more intoxicated
times eight five fives to go. We're all in good

(15:10):
moods around here, getting ready for Christmas. I hope you
are too, And hope I hope you're feeling good. I
hope you're getting ready to spend some time with family
and friends. You've been out kind of running around shopping
and doing something. I said to Christine last night. We
were doing some kind of last minute shopping, and I said,
isn't it funny as a kid, how it just felt
like Christmas took forever to come. You remember the decorations

(15:34):
and the lights going up on this, you know, the
street lamps or the courthouse or on your own house
or whatever, and you remember just seeing it around town
and you just thought, Santa will never come, Christmas can't
possibly come fast enough. Now, you know, sooner hang the
lights and it's like Christmas is next week. What it
really is amazing. I used to hear older people say

(15:56):
that when I was a kid, and it was like,
I would love to have that problem came too fast,
but boy it does. Here's my working theory. So I
said that there were prominent folks, media folks out there
yesterday proclaiming that President Trump was going to use last
night's address, And look, I'm not going to make it
sound like it was all fringe or wackos, but I

(16:20):
am going to tell you the profound impact people like
these are having on the national dialogue. My wife, Now, folks,
this is the woman that I sleep with every night.
This is the woman I live with. This is the
woman I see virtually every day and less traveling. My
wife says to me last night, and this I am

(16:41):
not joking fast Eddie. We're driving around doing some Christmas
shopping and she says, I don't want to come off
like a conspiracy nut. And I nearly pulled off the
side of the road. I said, okay, now you what what? What?
It hit me with it? What what are you thinking this?
When they start with I don't want to come off
like a conspiracy nut, I just puck her now, because

(17:03):
who knows what crazy thing is going to come out
of people's mouth. Oh yeah, I said, all right, what
And she said, Dan Bongino has just announced that he's
stepping down. I go, yeah, I saw that. And she said,
and now Trump's going to speak tonight. Do you know
what about? I go, no, I don't. She goes, what's

(17:25):
about to happen there? I said, I don't know, but
I would tell you that I doubt either of them
have anything to do with the other. Okay, she says,
not believing me at all. Now, She didn't go any further,
nor did I ask, because I didn't want to get
more irritated than I've already found myself. But I don't
know where her brain went, but I'm just telling you

(17:45):
her brain went somewhere where she thought Dan Bongino quitting
yesterday and this sudden speech from the president were simpotico
for some reason. Did you think, and this is what's
people fast, Eddie, as you understand, are now in perpetual

(18:06):
mode trying to find the secret link, the secret code
to crack. This is the environment we live in now
on our phones? Did you on podcasts?

Speaker 6 (18:15):
Did you think she was ultimately going to get there?
And said, do you think Trump's going to announce a
war with Venezuela tonight.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Is that where I think that's exactly what was coming.
And I'll tell you that's exactly what I think she
was about to say. And I'll tell you that I bet,
I'll I'm putting words in her mouth. And I may
hear about this later, but I'll bet what she was
going to say is. I bet that made Dan Bongino mad.
And he'd had enough, and so he said, that's it.

(18:44):
This is a bridge too far. I cannot be a
party to an administration that's going to go invading and
storming Venezuela. I quit now. I could be putting words
in my wife's mouth. But ed, does that sound like
maybe a place someone's mind might have gone yesterday?

Speaker 5 (18:57):
Absolutely? Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
Nobody knew what he was going to say, even his
When he got off the plane or the helicopter and
he's walking back to the White House, they were just
like did The press is yelling at him, and usually
he engages. On the way back, He's just like, I'll
see you tonight, nine o'clock, see you tonight, And I'm like,
oh boy.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
So here's my theory, particularly of one individual who bought
a hook line and sinker or convinced himself or many
of his audience that President Trump was going to declare
war in Venezuela. There is a huge contingent out there
on social media and in podcast. Bill you may be
one of them. I don't know, but they've soured. I'm

(19:43):
not gonna lie. They've soured. I saw a guy yesterday,
he's got a huge following on X and he declared
that President Trump's first year was a total abject failure.
And I'm hearing this from a lot of folks, quite frankly,
in this audience. Oh, it's just sad, Sachary, It's just
glue and doom. And Trump's not America first, and he's

(20:03):
not doing the job right. And I can't believe what
he posted on truth social And am I making.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
It up better?

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Or have you noticed it? As the year winds down,
this first eleven months of what I would call an
objectively successful presidency, are you not, at least on social
media hearing nothing but sad Zachary and gloom and doom
and despair and this president's not America first, and he's
not doing the will of people, And oh are you
getting that sense?

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (20:29):
First, it started with the well he's not spending enough
time at home to now the you know him that
that Rob Ryder post did it?

Speaker 5 (20:36):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'm done, Yep, yep, I've had it.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
I've had it.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
This is just ridiculous. He's just he's stepping on bombs.
He's setting for himself an art or worse the word,
And I'm like.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Are you are you new here?

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is this your first rodeo? Have we not been doing
this for fift ten years? Since twenty fifteen? You're upset
because of a thing he wrote on truth Social and now.
But here's the thing. We now have voices amplifying this
sad sachari and this negativity and whatever motivates it. I
don't know. We've discussed the hidden motivations of a lot
of these people. I don't know what it is. I'll

(21:10):
never be able to prove it. If you told me
it was foreign money and foreign influence, I totally believe you.
I can't prove it. So I'm not saying that, But
I am just saying that's what often tugs at me.
Who funds these people with these large audiences supposedly, although
we don't know that they're even domestic, mind you, they
could be global, and I suspect many of them are

(21:30):
who's funding these shows, these podcasts, with these giant audiences
that are probably largely international, that are constantly telling you
what a rotten, no good first year administration this Trump
administration has been. And then yesterday one of them says, oh,
these guys, I have it on good authorities going to
war with Venezuela. And this particular person has stumped with

(21:53):
President Trump, advocated for President Trump, shared box seats with
President Trump. Virtually everywhere President Trump has been in most
of this year in public settings, this guy has been
seated right next to him. I'm told that this guy
even has a son that did at one point work

(22:13):
inside the administration in some capacity. I don't know exactly
what name names to call name names. I don't need
the name names, because my point is broader. I think
the guy got played. I think he totally got suckered.
And I think that the relationship that he's built with
the White House, I think he got used. I think

(22:34):
this may be a bridge too farhead, But here's my conspiracy.
I think that the White House knows that they have some,
to put it, mildly soft allies, or maybe borderline insurrectionists
they once called friends that have big microphones and big platforms,
and I think they suckered one of them yesterday because

(22:54):
this individual was saying, I have it on authority, I
have it on good authority. He's going to launch on Venezuela.
Now he goes to his large audience and says, I
have it on good authority's going to launch on Venezuela.
What do you think that large audience did last night
at nine eastern, eighth Central.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
They watched to see if we were going to launch
a war against Venezuela.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Right, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. And in less
than twenty minutes, what did President Trump do? He laid
out a hey, jackasses, do you remember where we've been?
And look at what I've done. By the way I'm
kicking button, there's more good things to come. Just hold
on tight buckle up here we come. That's what he

(23:38):
spent nineteen minutes doing last night, not going to war
with Venezuela. So my contention is, folks, my long way
around this is to conclude. I think they knew they
had people's attention spans for a short period of time.
Pop up Paula just reminded me, and I didn't even
know this was still a thing. Survivor is apparently still
a show people watch on CBS. I didn't know this.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
He said.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
There was a joke going around that Trump kept it
under twenty minutes because a lot of the guides people
are watching, you know, on network television, you know they
have the guides on the screen, they tell you when
a show starts. Apparently, Survivor was scheduled to start at
nine to twenty two last night on CBS. They had
blocked out a twenty minute window. So look, there may

(24:22):
be truth to that. I'm not saying Survivors specifically, but
there may be truth that the network said, Okay, mister President,
if you're calling an all call for us to carry
this thing, we're going to give you twenty minutes. Then
we're going back to programming. And he knew that the
attention spans were short, patients with the networks was going
to be short, so we had to get it all in.
So he crammed an economic agenda and a winning message

(24:43):
and a reminder of where we've been into less than
twenty minutes. He took every second of that opportunity, and
I think there was some ropodope from the grousing, grumbling
insurrectionist crowd that used to be his friends. I think
there was a little bit, you know, a bit of
a hey tune in nine o'clock. You know who knows

(25:05):
things are getting a little salty down there in Venezuela maybe,
And they bit hook line and sinker. They took it,
and so everybody was tuned in and tada, he delivered
a masterpiece of economic victory and more declarations of victory
to come, and a reminder of where we've been. And

(25:25):
it was necessary because all of these hanging heads and
these gloom and doomers and his rotten and this sucks,
this whole podcast online world that's been sucking people in.
It's not real moren a minute. I will just say
that we are in an era of fringe ideas that

(25:51):
ultimately should be mocked, and the mockery should spread. But
then ultimately something strange happens. It becomes embraced by some
and people actually cash in on it. Absurdity ascends faster
than merit ever. Could I have this thing that I

(26:15):
wrote at the Harum Society a while ago, called the
Stigall theorem, and that is absurdity never stays where it
starts at scales. Think about Crocs for instance. You remember Crocs,
the unofficial shoe of people who had just given up.
It was mocked and memes were made. Then came celebrity endorsements,

(26:38):
and it became a designer collaboration. Now it's almost status.
It was mocked, it was monetized, and then it was mainstreamed.
Crocs absurd, but it ascended AI girlfriends. I don't know
if you've heard of this, but that's involved from punchline
to now a multi billion dollar obsession. That's a real deal.

(27:03):
Engagement is now what's rewarded. Particularly in my field, Engagement
rewards whatever bypasses the brain and hits the amalgadate. It shock, outrage, absurdity.
Transgender orthodoxy is another great example from a niche theory
to a federal mandate. Gender theory was obscure once upon

(27:24):
a time in academic papers, and a decade later, pronoun rituals,
corporate handbooks embracing it, and then reality reasserted itself. In
Europe reversed course. States are rolling back the transgender mandates absurdity.
Eventually hits the brakes, thankfully. From AOC to Jasmine Crockett
to ilan Omar, mockery has been used as a power

(27:49):
ladder people like these entering politics as a punchline a bartender,
socialist late night mocked or for a time Democrats rolled
their eyes, but mockery gave her her virility, and her
fundraising gave her power. Mocked, then monetized, then mainstreamed. That's

(28:09):
the stigall theorem. Jasmine Crockett, same deal. She's coming on.
She looks to be the odds on favorite to be
the Democrat primary winner down there in Texas, to be
the next Democrat Senate candidate in Texas. Clicks have become cash,
Cash becomes influence, Influence becomes institutional power, absurdity of sins,

(28:31):
and then all of a sudden it becomes a lawmaker.
We also happen to live in a soap opera society.
Soap Operas were once America's lowest form of storytelling. Betrayal, amnesia,
evil twins, absurd twists engineered solely to keep viewers watching.
Then came Dallas, reality TV, prestige, cable binge streaming, but

(28:54):
the basic idead never changed. Every resolution spawns a new crisis.
Every crisis promises revelation. No relationship is too destructive to exploit,
no plot twist to absurd and now that logic governs
major chunks of our ecosphere. On the right, in media
after Charlie's assassination, revelation addicts, as you know I've called them,

(29:16):
turn tragedy into spectacle. These hidden truth theories implicating Israel
or TPUSA insiders boosting people like Fuentes. I don't need
to relitigate that, but pulling in young men conditioned to

(29:39):
crave the next villain, the next betrayal, the next bombshell.
It wasn't journalism, of course. It's what I've defined is
revelation addiction. It's in full bloom right now, big personalities
cashing in on perpetual outrage, manufacturing cliffhangers, soap operas never
meant to resolve anything. The audience is not informed, it's conditioned,
and absurdity ascends agains. It's the definition of what I

(30:01):
labeled the Stigall theorem. Absurdity spreads through mockery, rises through money,
and then becomes policy when institutions surrender to it. Mockery
spreads it money scales it, institutions sanctify it. Every example
tells the same story. What we mock today becomes what
governs us tomorrow. Absurdity ascends when discernment collapses, shame disappears,

(30:25):
institutions bow to outrage instead of truth. That's the Stigall theorem.
And that's what we've been living through, and perfectly reasonable,
perfectly smart, perfectly sensible people fall victim to it. I'm
not trying to beat up on anybody or make anybody
feel bad, but that's where we are. We're going to

(30:47):
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Welcome in to this. There's they already, Holy cow, it's flying.
Christmas is just around the corner. Happy Honka and a
great Christmas season to everyone as well. Our telephone number
eight five fives to Gaul President Trump with this address
last night, We're going to spend some more time unpacking it.
Coming up twenty historic and that we have never seen

(33:19):
a speech of President Trump's go under the twenty minute mark,
and he did last night. I mean it was like
they told him, you've got twenty minutes go, and he went.
And we've not seen that before, So I'm intrigued. I
hope later we'll figure out why it was. Was that
like they were working on, hey, stick to the script
twenty minutes or that's literally that's never happened. In the

(33:41):
ten years we've been covering Donald Trump, I have never
seen him get remarks in under twenty minutes without straying
a little bit from the script, and he did not
last night. And what he had to say was impressive
when laid out in full where we've been and where
we are in a very short eleven months, and where
he projects we will go in the next year. It

(34:04):
was strong, it was decisive, it was impassioned, and it
was a you got the sense it was a real
rallying cry and sort of a demarcation point for the
GOP as they head into twenty twenty six, because I
think the White House understands that there are a lot
of people out there messaging right now trying to make
you feel like things are bad and getting worse, when

(34:29):
in fact that's not true. Things may not be as
great as they could be, but they have certainly improved,
and President Trump believes, and all economic signs, even from
people that don't like Trump, say things are getting better.
The market says they're betting on an improvement. Most people
believe after tax refund season hits, it's going to go

(34:50):
gangbusters out there. So you know, look, time will tell
and we'll revisit it as a week closer. But President
Trump wanted to communicate that last night to the country,
and I think he did so effectively. So we'll get
into that in more detail coming up. Eight five five
Stagall is our telephone number. You can find everything you
need to know, social media, email, the whole thing at
Chris Stigall dot com. You know that we have partnered

(35:13):
with our friends at the International Fellowship of Christians and
Jews now for weeks and months here We've been longtime
partners at the Salem Media Group with the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews. The president and CEO of that
organization is named Yile Eckstein. She's been a great friend.
I've gotten to know her now over the last couple
of years since we started the show here. And yeah,
all it's great to have you back this morning.

Speaker 9 (35:32):
Good morning, Thank you so much, Chris. It's wonderful to
be back and learning.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I always hate that it's under dark and heavy circumstances.
We should probably try to connect when when things aren't
as heavy, but I understand the threat is always there, unfortunately,
which is really why i FCJ exists. And you know,
we were reminded this scene in Australia. It's you know,
how do I say this diplomatically? It's awful, but it's

(36:02):
also a useful moment to point out and remember that
this does not stay exclusively in the Middle East, this
scourge of hatred, and I know that i FCJ is
trying to drive home that point. This is not just
about Israel exclusively.

Speaker 9 (36:20):
Well, you don't have to look far to see that
we're in the same boat. Whether you're in America or Australia,
or Europe or Israel, we're facing the same threat.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
And you don't have to look so far.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
You just have to listen to the words of the
terrorists that say first they're going for the Saturday people,
the Jews, and then they're going for the Sunday people,
the Christians. At first they're going for the little Satan,
which is Israel, and then the big Satan, which is America.
And so we're not seeing the same exact things that
we've seen in the past, like the Holocaust or communism.
But history doesn't repeat itself. History rhymes. And so for

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those of us who sanctify life, who want to bring
good into the world, who want to see these Judaeo
Christian values survive and thrive for the next generations, I
believe Chris is up to us, not just pointing fingers
at our government, not just saying that the people in
charge are not doing enough, but each one of us
to take a stand to bring light to the dark world,

(37:16):
to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to shelter
the poor. And that's exactly what we do at the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
I always like to remind people our partnership. Whatever people's
politics are, or whatever people think about government's government leaders,
be at Israel, be it the United States, be it
who's heading the UN or the EU. Your organization is
not dedicated to a political body, and I think that's

(37:46):
always important to drive home. Politics is not why you
get out of bed in the morning.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeaile one hundred percent.

Speaker 9 (37:53):
I represent the silenced majority, the hundreds of millions of
Christians and Jews around the world who see God calling
each one of us to do what we can to
bring goodness into the world. And so I see firsthand
every day how that translates into saving lives and bringing
biblical prophecy to fruition. Since October seventh here in Israel,

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we've distributed over six million meals to people in need.
We've placed thousands of bomb shelters at children's schools. We've
gone into Syria to set up health and medical clinics
and distribute food boxes to persecuted Christians inside of Syria.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
That now, more than ever, we need to do the
little we can, because.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
There's so many of us who sanctify life, who want
to bring goodness into this world. That we can spend
forever cursing the darkness, but that doesn't really change anything.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
We have to be the ones to bring the light.
And especially now during.

Speaker 9 (38:46):
Holidays of Khanikkah and of Christmas, where we see the
lights in the public square, we see the Christmas trees
and the minora proudly standing in public square bringing light.
We have to take that as a mod and reminder
that we are called by God to represent that loving God,
to bring hope and life into the world.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
And that's not done through very legitimate but anger. It's
done through love.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Has there been much discussion? You and I have not
talked about it. I'm sure there has. I'm sure you
guys at i FCJ, the International Fellowship of Christians and
Jews ile exde and their CEO with us this morning.
Have you have you been watching or discussing in your
organization what we see happening on the continent of Africa.
I just read a story last week that some hundred

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abducted school children, Nigerian school children. These Islamic terrorist organizations
that are storming villages, slaughtering people of faith, I mean
specifically targeting because of faith. That's another front. I won't
say a new front, but that's a growing front that
I don't think is being discussed. On top of what

(39:57):
we all know very well, has been happening in places
like Austria, in Israel and other places.

Speaker 9 (40:03):
Yeah, more people in Nigeria have been killed in the
past two weeks than all.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
The people combined in the Gaza War.

Speaker 9 (40:12):
And there's no outrage, there's no protests, there's no one
on college campuses. And I think it goes back to miseducation.
We have to study our history, and we have to
study our scriptures. If we know history of what's happened
in the world, like I said, history doesn't repeat itself,
it rhymes, and so we can see similarities of what's
happening today for what's happening throughout history. And if we

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know our scriptures, if we know the spiritual message of
what God calls us to do, then we can't be
fooled or lied to by people who have an ulterior motive.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
And so it's critical that in America we learned about
nine to eleven.

Speaker 9 (40:49):
I was just in New York last week and I
was talking to high school students in.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
New York who didn't really know about nine to eleven.

Speaker 9 (40:55):
They wanted to know about it, and I was telling
them where I was on nine to eleven and how
it was a world changing event, and I realized, if
you don't know your history, you can't properly respond to
the threats right now. And the threats right now are real.
It's not limited or isolated to the Middle East. It's
not limited or isolated to Israel. We see it's on

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the shores of Americas, on the shores of Australia's on
the shores of Europe. And it's people who sanctify life
and care about freedom and care about faith. We need
to protect that now with everything we have, and I
think it's in the scriptures of how we can do that.
He named Matovuma nine scheveta riimgamiagad. How good and how
pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in peace?

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeail. When people hear about IFCJ or maybe consider giving
to IFCJ, you better than anybody, can explain to folks
how you use their gifts and specifically, well, yeah, I
guess how they're used. Broadly speaking, for people that maybe
are considering it or aren't familiar with the organization, can

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best help and what do you do with the gifts?

Speaker 3 (42:04):
It's a great question.

Speaker 9 (42:05):
I would say that we are the first responders of
humanitarian aid in any crisis situation. So during Corona, when
there were elderly who were home bound, the Fellowship went
and distributed food to elderly here in Israel and to
the Jewish community Holocaust survivors across the former Soviet Union.
When the war in Ukraine broke out between Ukraine and Russia,

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I was on the ground in Kiev two days before
February twenty fourth when the war began, and I was
preparing food and medicine and mattresses for the elderly Holocaust
survivors and the orphans on the ground in Ukraine to
be able to survive those first few days. And that's
exactly what happened. We've been providing security for Jewish institutions

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around the world that are at risk. In Australia, the
Fellowship is providing security even before this attack in places
like France and Germany, in South America and across the
Arab world. We are there as far as practically fulfilling
the words of the scriptures to feed the hungry, clothe
the naked, shelter the poor, to be the watchmen on

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the walls of Jerusalem. Here in Israel, we are have
soup kitchens that have been under fire the past few years.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
One of our soup kitchens was hit.

Speaker 9 (43:15):
By a rocket during the war, and within twenty four
hours they were distributing meals.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Once again.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
We place bomb shelters wherever's needed. So we are doing,
i would say, the work of the Scriptures, of protecting
lives and saving lives, and also being the voice of
the silenced majority when the Jewish people and in Israel,
when we.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
See that it seems like everyone hates us.

Speaker 9 (43:35):
Suddenly, we represent Christians around the world who are saying, no,
we stand with you.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
You're not alone.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
URGENTIFCJ dot org is where you can help. URGENTIFCJ dot
org yaiell happy hanaka to you, Thank you for your time.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Thank you so much, Chris, God bless me.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
President Trump. During this nineteen minute address, I clocked it
last night. They're well he didn't tackle, including Tim Walls
and the Somali frondsters in Minnesota. Give me number.

Speaker 8 (44:07):
Forty American born citizens one hundred percent. In the end,
government either serves the productive, patriotic, hard work and American citizen,
or it serves those who break the laws, cheat the system,
and seek power and profit at the expense of our nation.

(44:30):
Look at Minnesota, where some millions have taken over the
economics of the state and have stolen billions and billions
of dollars from Minnesota and indeed from the United States
of American.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
We're going to put an end to it.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
This was as much prosecution as it was celebration of
his work thus far on the economy and other fronts.
This was a prosecution of Democrats too. He is a
one man wrecking ball. In nineteen minutes he managed to
lay out an economic path forward, celebrate where we have
come so far, the whole from which we're trying to

(45:06):
get out of Doug by Joe Biden and that administration
in the Auto Pen presidency and piling on and prosecuting
rightly what's going on in Minnesota. I know a lot
of you are listening throughout the great state of Minnesota.
Know this is true from Free Beak and Headline. Minnesotan's agree.
Fraud is a big problem and Tim Walls hasn't done
enough to stop it. You know, he came out after
this BONDEI Beach shooting. We were just talking about that

(45:28):
with Yail in Australia. He came out this week and
he's mister big gun control guy. You know, he pretended
he was Elmer Fudd during the campaign, and now he's
mister gun control again, trying desperately to distract, trying desperately
to get ahead of some news story to make people think,
oh there boy, what a tough, resolute leader he is.
Uh huh not working. Seventy nine percent of registered voters

(45:51):
in Minnesota think fraud in the state of Minnesota is
a huge problem. In fact, they either believe it to
be the biggest or major problem in their state. Only
fourteen percent of Minnesotan's poll think Tim Walls did anything
to stop the fraud. This is according to a Survey
USA poll conducted by the outlet KSTP. In total, ninety

(46:14):
two percent of respondents identified fraud the Somali fraud in
Minnesota as a problem. Of that ninety two percent, a
quarter of them said it was the biggest problem in
the state fifty four percent, so over half of the
respondents in this survey said it is the fraud, the
Somali fraud, a major problem. Thirteen percent called it a

(46:36):
minor problem. And this is the Biggie the Dancing Queen
sixty nine percent of respondents said the Dancing Queen needs
to do more to stop the fraud in Minnesota. Oh
so if he had any ambitions, this is see to me,
Tim Walls is very very similar to Gavin Newsom. You

(46:59):
cannot convince me that these guys are that popular anywhere,
never mind in their own home states. So the idea
that they've got their eye on the prize down the road,
I don't see it. The people of Minnesota, according to
this poll, the vast majority of them think he is
the problem in not dealing with taxpayers being ripped off

(47:21):
by Somalians. Pretty devastating stuff. Moren a minute, do you
remember the fraud of Fulton County. I know they call
her Fannie. I like calling her Fanny because frankly, that's
what she's done. She made an ass of herself and
she continues to do so. Number thirty two, if you please,
here is the fraud of Fulton County, Georgia. This is

(47:41):
the woman who tried to take Donald Trump out over
the Georgia recount efforts. And what we ended up finding
out was, in fact, she was using taxpayer money to
pay her boyfriend. She and her humpy boyfriend were going
out on little trips together and taking very very expensive Uh.

(48:07):
I don't know what do you want to call it?
A bit? I'm not really sure what to call what
they were doing, other than it wasn't an affair technically,
was it? I can't remember. Was he married. I don't
think he was married.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
No, they were dating.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
They were, remember they were they were going to lunch
like in Tennessee so that they wouldn't be recognized.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
I mean they were.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
They took some like some like romantic getaways. Yes, yeah, yeah,
they were.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
They were like a public thing.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
She paid him hundreds of I don't even remember it,
like six or seven hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer money
in Fulton County to investigate the the Trump election fraud case.
That of course was tossed ultimately, and it was tossed
largely over her and her behavior. Well, she lost her
mind when presented with the evidence in court. By the way,

(48:55):
now they're looking at prosecuting her. Interesting and she continues
to try to make herself the victim, much like the
Letitia James who's committed mortgage fraud number thirty two. This
is delightful.

Speaker 10 (49:12):
I don't review those documents so you're asking me to
look at documents that I haven't for the first time.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
What I can tell you.

Speaker 10 (49:17):
Is that I'll give you allowed mister Wade to build
one hundred and sixty hours a week, and then mister
Wade would be the first one in the office making
sure that my staff arrived.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
He corrected their behavior. They thought that eight thirty men
eight thirty.

Speaker 10 (49:30):
He taught them at eight thirty, seven forty five.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
He got there before.

Speaker 10 (49:34):
Them, he left after him. He taught them how to
do this case. And he was a leader to that
team and a public servant. And for that, him, like me,
has been threatened thousands of times. You want something to
investigate as a legislature, investigate how many times they've called
me the N word?

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Why don't you investigate that? Why don't you investigate them
writing on my house?

Speaker 10 (49:55):
Why don't you investigate the fact that my house has
been swatted? If you want something to do with your time,
that makes sense, and you can use all this in
your campaign. And you tacked Fannie willis what have you done, sir?

Speaker 11 (50:06):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (50:07):
So I'll refer you to the screen. I know you
said you don't approve.

Speaker 10 (50:11):
I don't and so I can't talk to you about
documents I don't approve and don't review.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
How dare you show me documents as evidence of the
things I spent taxpayer money on over my humpy boyfriend?
How dare you you know? I've been called the N word?
You know, why don't you investigate that?

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Isn't this?

Speaker 2 (50:36):
It's just I don't know. I don't even know how
to describe it. It's like a child ed, isn't it.
It's like I, I, you know, he made me do
it or something. I can't I can't even put words
to it, exactly what she what she's doing there jumping
up and down, screaming and yelling I'm the victim. I've
been called the N word. Why don't you investigate that?
When they're presenting her clear evidence that she used taxpayer

(50:58):
funds to pay for her boyfriend? Yeah, and she wants
to talk about names she's been called or whatever. It's
I can't even call it deflection because that makes it
sound too smart.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
No, and it sounds like all these things were coordinated
with the lawfair against Trump. You have Fanny Letitia James
and like, yeah, so if in fact, she went to
a meeting at the White House to plan with the
current administration at the time how to take down Donald Trump.
I have to wonder, after seeing that, and after what
you just said and her career, why does George Soros

(51:29):
put money into that? You see that disaster walking down
the street and you're like that, you know that's who's
going to take down Trump.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
It's like, ah, I think it's because they're the only
people stupid enough to do it. I like you, you
have to be. There's a certain level of like arrogance
and ignorance you must possess. I mean, if you really
think about Letitia James, that woman Jasmine Crockett. There are
certain people they're just they they're not intelligent, literally not intelligent,
Like they don't have a command of the English language,

(51:59):
they don't don't know much, probably through DEI. They've obtained
some kind of fake law degree from some place. And
they're useful idiots. They're willing to walk the planks, say
audacious things, make audacious charges. They're great at theatrics. But ultimately,
because of their nature, their underhanded nature, they're given a

(52:21):
little bit of power and they have access to taxpayer funds,
they end up going too far and they take advantage
and they abuse it. It happens every time. It's like,
I don't what do you I'm trying to think of
an analogy. It's like, this is the second time I've
referenced this film, I think in a month Funny Farm.
Did you ever see Chevy Chase and Funny Farm?

Speaker 5 (52:42):
I have, yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
And for people that don't know that movie, I don't
know what was that an eighties early nineties. The whole
plot of that movie is Chevy Chase moves to a
rural community and it's just a hellscape. He hates it.
He hates everything about it. The mailman's a drunkard, angry
wacko that just throw the mail out the winter. The
whole town's a mess.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
He hates it.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
He wants out, and they want to go back to
the city after they thought they were going to move
out into the country, and the country town they moved
to was just just a disaster. The whole town was
a mess. I can't remember all the things that were
bad about it. And then he and his wife they're
just driven bananas over it, and they finally we got
to get out of here. They're about driven to divorce.

(53:23):
They're so angry and unsettled and upset about it, and
so they decide to sell the house. But they know
that no one is going to come by this house
because of this ridiculous town with all these dysfunctional people
in it, and so they literally pay the townspeople to
behave and act legitimate and look like a Norman Rockwell

(53:47):
painting for just a little while while the prospective buyers come.
Basically trick the prospective buyers into thinking this place is
the idyllic place they thought it was, and then they
can go back to being ridiculous people as soon as
the house is sold. That's effectively, to answer your question
fast Eddie, what George Soros is doing. He's paying ridiculous
people to act as legitimate for a short period of

(54:10):
time before they can't mask it anymore, and then they
just start acting fraudulent and ridiculous again. Okay, because does
that help? That's my theory.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
It does very much.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
So, because if you're someone like that and you invest
in the destruction of America at that level, you know,
think of like the Josh Shapiro types, like.

Speaker 5 (54:24):
So, you know what you're doing, you know who these.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
People are, you know what their faults are You're like
a whip, right, a whip in the party.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
So like that's that's what it surprises me.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
I'm just like Fanny really like after seeing her performance
even in court, it's like, come on.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Yeah, like they're not good. No, they're not. Genuinely they're
not smart people. I mean the fact that the Attorney
General of New York is Letitia James, Right, I mean,
good grief. Speaking of this, I guess we'll just say
broad trump law fair. Jack Smith was on Capitol Hill yesterday.

(55:00):
Guy that looks like he was pulled out of a drain,
you know, like a hair trap and a drain. That
guy was. This was another thing I was reminded of
during the Jack Smith moments yesterday. He was walking through
the hall and some members of the media were barking
at him. We used to play a clip from CNN.
We might have to go back and get that if
Jack Smith comes to testify again. Do you remember how

(55:22):
how proud they were of Jack Smith fast Eddy, Oh,
they thought he really was something. And there was a moment,
I don't know, two years ago he was walking down
the street. He'd walked out of a subway and all
they thought it was. CNN was just fixated on They
had live footage of Jack Smith leaving a subway and
he didn't say a word. He was just going about

(55:43):
his work with a six inch sandwich and not a
word spoken. Do you remember that? The fawning adoration Chris.

Speaker 6 (55:50):
People loved our It was one of the favorite segments
that we did. I even think, do you remember our
good One of our good friends in media said, you
know what, I have to use that subway clip that
you guys put together.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
So yeah, I'm actually.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
Looking for it right now. I may have a video
of it. If I can find it, we will have
it before the shows up. But if not, I promise
for Christmas we will deliver Jacksmith going to subway.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
It was the most remarkable thing. They were impressed with
him because he was such a tough guy for ordering
a sandwich and saying not a single word, but holding
the sandwich said everything without saying anything at all. I'm
not making that up. I mean they were masturbatory over
Jack Smith. And now this little goon, this little thug tuckstail,
hangs it up, quits ran away. As soon as the

(56:35):
American public said to hell with you and elected Trump overwhelmingly.
Now we find out on top of all of that,
of course, there was never any justification to raid mar
A Lago. The whole basis of this entire Jack Smith
lawfair started because of the raid on mar A Lago,
and now Jacksmith has been dragged to Capitol Hill to
testify where, of course, also in part of his lawfair

(56:58):
and his overreach, remember he hoovered up illegally, with the
help of the Department of Justice and the FBI under
the autopen presidency of the Husk Joe Biden hoovered up
members of Congress's cell phone data and he stood by it.
Testifying behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, he

(57:19):
gave a full throated defense of the secret data collection,
which involved more than a dozen Republican Senators and several
Republican House members, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.
The reason I'm sharing that with you, and what does
that have to do with people like Fanny the fraud
of Fulton County or Letitia James. These people are lawless,
They are law breaking thugs. They are not apologetic. If

(57:42):
given the chance, they'll do it again. And it is
why the American people are clamoring for them to be prosecuted.
May I just quickly say to you guys, thank you.
I have this whole list in front of me today,
and I wish I could read every single name, but
let me just read a few and say thank you.

(58:03):
Our Angel Tree donor campaign continues twenty six hundred kids,
as you know, that's who we were trying to help,
twenty six hundred kids altogether. And when we set that
goal early on, I didn't know whether that was overly
ambitious or not. At thirty dollars a child to get

(58:23):
a gift, a note from a parent with that gift,
and we're talking about parents who are incarcerated, and again,
these kids going through Christmas without a parent. If that's
been your experience, you remember what that is and if
that parent was still around, not that the parent had passed,

(58:44):
but if you knew that parent was still alive and
you wondered, is mom or dad thinking about me this Christmas?
Do you know what getting a gift with a note
from that parent means to a child who's wondering that
this year, and for the parent who's in carc rated,
who maybe really is making a change, and you know,

(59:05):
extending in them a little grace, they'll best foot forward
for a new life. This could be the start. And
when Prison Fellowship gets involved, they get that gift in
the child's hand, the note from the parent, and a
Bible is introduced to that child too. That's what thirty
dollars and your donation does for this Angel Tree Ministry
and the Prison Fellowship. Folks, we have had hundreds and

(59:29):
hundreds of you and this audience donate everything from five
dollars up to three thousand dollars. And we yesterday with
your generosity, and I never should have even doubted it,
but with your generosity, at the conclusion of yesterday's show,
just as it wrapped up, we hit that twenty six
hundred child mark. And now I'm happy to say we're

(59:53):
getting close to three thousand children. Twenty six hundred I
thought might have been a steep hill, and you did
it it and I just I cannot say thank you enough.
If you'd like to help, I mean, let's see where
we go. We've still got seven days before Christmas. Let's
see where we can get Angeltree dot org slash Chris,
can you give thirty bucks? This is all tax deductible

(01:00:15):
by the way. So if you're thinking I'd like a
great cause to give to for my charitable giving before
the end of the year, this is it. I mean,
these three thousand dollars givers, they helped one hundred kids
each and there were five of them ultimately that did it.
But gosh, you guys that gave fifteen hundred, like Teresa
in Sarasota, Florida. Those of you who gave, you know,

(01:00:37):
everywhere from six hundred, five hundred, three hundred George in Corning,
New York. In Roanoke, Virginia, Paul gave five hundred dollars.
In Pittsburgh, Michael gave three hundred dollars. I want to
sit here and read every last one of your names,
but I know that would make for boring programming. In Columbus,
New Jersey, Kurt gave three hundred dollars. Parish, Florida, Michael

(01:00:58):
gave three hundred dollars. In Prospect, Kentucky, Charles gave three
hundred dollars. Barbara in Camos, Washington, I think it's Camos
or Camus. She gave three hundred dollars. Thank you. Barbara.
David in Collegeville, Pennsylvania gave three hundred, two hundred dollars
in Earlysville, Virginia. From Mitchell in Sunsbury, Ohio, Linda gave

(01:01:21):
one hundred and fifty dollars their Christical show fifty dollars.
And by the way, I will say, I looked this up.
I actually entered all of this data into AI last
night and fast Eddie. It would it should not surprise you,
and I am so grateful. The Pennsylvania contingent came in
big time. Hey, yeap, our friends in the Commonwealth, our

(01:01:47):
flagship Philadelphia's M nine ninety the answer and the surrounding
area there, our flagship came in big. Some thirty thousand
dollars of this goal was from Pennsylvanians alone. Wow, all right, yeah,
And we're not done. We're not done. So I just
want to say, from the bottom of our hearts, you

(01:02:08):
have made Christmas possible for so many kids. Let's see
where we get. Let's say where we look. I'm we
set the goal, we met the goal. So I don't
want to push, but I will say, if you feel
like you'd like to give to this cause because it's
such a great one, and you're like I meant to
do it, and I didn't do it. Don't hold back.
I want to continue to celebrate and I want to

(01:02:30):
continue to extend the help to as many kids and
families as we can this Christmas. So, if you're so inclined,
angeltree dot org slash Chris, but I have the entire
list of every one of you who gave and where
you come from, and I am just my heart is warmed.
This is our first year as a syndicated show, The
Christigall Show, and to read the names of so many
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He said, on a side note, I have quit social
media cold turkey. It is not good for me. It

(01:09:29):
brings out the worst in me, and I don't feel
it's healthy. I love the show and I'm a longtime follower.
That's from Brian. Brian, I don't know what to say
about it, because I agree with you entirely and it's
part of my job. Ed. I am more tormented if
I'm going to be honest with this audience. I am
more tormented by this than maybe about anything in my life.
If I'm going to be just wholly honest and laid

(01:09:50):
bare as your host, what I genuinely feel in my
heart of hearts. If I didn't do this for a living,
and if my job didn't require it, I would do
what Brian did. I would shut every damned account I
have down and I would walk away from it, blissfully
ignorant of what goes on on social media, and I
would never look at it again. I would, but I
am required, literally by my job. I am required to

(01:10:13):
maintain an online presence, and I hate it because it's toxic.
It's cancer, particularly X, which you know, God bless free
speech and everything. But it's just full of the absolute
worst head. It's just it's conspiracy and rage bait and
sad sachary and gloom and doom and woe is me
and all is lost and Trump sucks and I hate

(01:10:35):
everything all the time. It's just soul sucking disaster for
the human soul and spirit. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:10:43):
It is, And yes, you would be all the better
for it if we could not see all the nonsense,
all the stupidity, all the infighting that's rippen apart our
movement that's going to kill.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
Us electorally if we don't stop.

Speaker 11 (01:10:56):
Yeah, it's bad.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
And the sad thing is, you know last night's wonderful
speech from Donald Trump, and it was just through the
upright spectacular nineteen minute delivery, his fastest ever. We've never
seen a speech that focused, laser focused and that fast.
The sad thing is the whole reason he gave that address.

(01:11:20):
The main reason he gave that address is because even
our own side, never mind the mainstream media, even many
on what are supposedly our side, people that stood with
him and supported Look, I was never invited to go
on the stump with Donald Trump the campaign never invited
me to go speak. But I know several of these
people who have shows today, who stood there on that stage,

(01:11:45):
who he invited to his microphone and to his rallies
and told everybody why they should vote for him. Eleven
months later, a lot of them are telling their vast
audiences Trump's a sellout, Trump's not America first. Know what
happened to Trump. Trump's not doing what he should be.
Trump's not doing and I don't know what they're talking about. Look,

(01:12:07):
I'm not afraid to tell you if the guy screws
up royally and I think that there's something fundamentally wrong
or whatever, like, have I been honest with you and
told you I'm not particularly excited about what's coming out
of DOJ. I'm reserving my judgment because I just there
are things I know I don't know. I understand the
law grinds slowly, and I'm not like an impatient child.

(01:12:28):
I do understand building cases takes some time. Do I
want to see people in leg irons like Jack Smith
and the fraud of Fulton County and James call me
and Letitia James. I do, of course I do. Do
I want to see the FBI cleaned out. I do
Dan Bongino left yesterday. I hope he's going to give
an exit interview and tell us what the hell he
saw in there. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. I

(01:12:48):
don't know. Maybe he's genuinely leaving because it was just
such a taxing thing on his family, and he said,
I just I can't. I thought I could do it.
I can't do it, which i'd respect if that's the reason.
I don't know. Maybe he has no dirt. There's no
other reason than that. I don't know. I'm not saying
this is a perfect administration. Susie Wild's talking to Vanity
Fair eleven times. Not impressed by that wish that weren't

(01:13:10):
the case. But on balance, I'm told she's been pretty effective,
and I don't see an evidence that she hasn't been.
He's not gotten us into wars. He has sealed the border.
He has bettered the economy. He has made this a
safer country. He's bringing in tariff revenue and slashing the
trade deficit by gazillions on a month over month. Tax

(01:13:33):
revenue is pouring in, Tax rebates will be coming to
you hand over fist. He just announced a huge bonus
to our enlisted men and women because of tariff revenue.
He's slashed the size of government. Not enough, but I
mean he's one guy by himself, the chief executive. This

(01:13:55):
isn't even with Congress. So look, if you're frustrated with Congress, Okay, fine,
you want Congress to move faster, Okay, fine, you want
the filipuster eliminated, Fine, I get it. You wish the
House and Senate would move faster and get more to
his desk. I understand that, but that's not his fault.
The man is literally doing everything he can, as focused
and surgically as he can in eleven months. He gave

(01:14:18):
a nineteen minute speech last night where he laid out
and you can't argue it, a devastating roadmap of success
this year with more to come, and reminding us of
where we've been, what an unbelievable hole he has had
to get us out of. And the sad thing is
the main reason he had to give that address last

(01:14:40):
night is because people in our business, my business won't
do their jobs and tell you what he had to
tell you last night. I mean, this show has he
essentially had to bait the media and frankly, some people
that he calls friends, people that have stood on the
stage with him and said vote for him, elect him,

(01:15:02):
He's my guy. And now they're spending every day on
their stupid little shows trashing him and saying he's not effective,
or he's not America first, or whatever, he's not getting
the job done. It's a false, it's a lie. But
to Trump's credit and to the administration's credit, they did
a rope a dope and made a bunch of jackasses
think that he was going to talk about war with
Venezuela last night, just so everybody would tune in and

(01:15:25):
actually see the truth of the matter, which was nothing
more than here's my recipe for success, here's where we've been,
here's where we are, which is much better, and just
wait to see what's just around the corner. Buckle up
for the ride. You know, these social media influencer types,
these podcaster types, they don't help. Some of us have

(01:15:46):
stayed on task and on target. I'd like to believe
that I have, and this show has without distraction. But
there is a large chunk of allegedly conservative or right
wing or whatever you want to call it, influencers that
have been smearing present Trump twenty four to seven up
to an including last night. You've probably read it, failure
of an administration, failed, failure, awful. Trump's address was essentially

(01:16:11):
a breakdown of his accomplishments from the very first year
and his vision for the future. He's caring for the soldiers.
On top of that, he looked like a commander in chief.
He looked like a problem solver. He came to the
table with proof and evidence of his achievements thus far
and his vision going forward. It was positive, it was

(01:16:33):
problem solving, and it was a reminder of what got
us into this mess to begin with. He is trying
to turn a battleship around on a dime. The man
deserves credit, and most of all, most of all, the
man deserves a little bit of grace for what he
has weathered. I don't think we do nearly enough. Pausing

(01:16:56):
and reflecting for a moment, Yes he is the most
powerful man in the world. Yes he's the President of
the United States. Yes he stands before that seal. Yes
he has Secret Service protection. Yes, I get it. It's
a grand looking stage he stands on now, and he
is in our proverbial living rooms are on our phone
everywhere all the time, and so we think of him

(01:17:16):
as sort of this omnipresent bulletproof guy. But I remind
everyone he's not bulletproof. He literally was nearly murdered in Butler, Pennsylvania,
just because he wanted this job. His home was illegally
ransacked and his wife's things and his children's things ransacked
illegally because he wanted this job. He's been dragged through

(01:17:40):
courts of law at great personal cost to him because
he wanted this job, this job that he has a
vision for the future of the country. He wanted this job,
and he suffered and sacrificed a lot to take it.
And I'm with the guy. I'm with him Son coming
up in Washington.

Speaker 8 (01:17:56):
D C.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
This morning. Great to see you, Am five seventy the answer.
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with us live or not. All right, let's go back
to the speech last night by President Trump. Some of
the things he had to say. Loved this personally, Number

(01:18:40):
thirty eight. I told you off the top of the
show today this was my favorite. This was sort of
the moment I went wow, consider that I don't know
that another president could actually say this, but President Trump
did last night. Listen to it.

Speaker 8 (01:18:53):
In driving a housing cost was the colossal border invasion.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
We have never been invaded.

Speaker 8 (01:19:00):
This is the worst thing that Frankly, in my opinion,
the worst thing that the Biden administration did to our
country is the invasion at the border. The last administration
and their allies and Congress brought in millions and millions
of migrants and gave them taxpayer funded housing. While your
rent and housing costs skyrocketed. Over sixty percent of growth

(01:19:23):
in the rental market came from foreign migrants. At the
same time, illegal alienstall American jobs and flooded emergency rooms,
getting free health care and education paid for by you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
The American taxpayer.

Speaker 8 (01:19:36):
They also increased the cost of law enforcement by numbers
so high that they are not even to be mentioned.
For the first time in fifty years, we are now
seeing reverse migration, as migrants go back home, leaving more
housing and more jobs for Americans. In the year before
my election, all net creation of jobs was going to

(01:19:59):
foreign my since I took office, one hundred percent of
all net job creation has gone to American born citizens.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
I mean, ruminate on that for a minute. Job growth
prior to this administration, prior to this last year was
was net migrant jobs and government jobs. And in this year,
the growth in jobs this year one hundred percent private
sector American jobs. That alone is reason to stand and cheer.

(01:20:38):
But of course that wasn't it. I mean, I've got
the entire speech in front of me. I'd love to
almost reread it. But you know, he highlights that he
settled eight oars in ten months. Under the Biden administration,
car prices rose twenty two percent in many states, thirty
percent or more, gas rows thirty to fifty percent. Hotel

(01:20:59):
rates rose thirty seven percent. Airfare rose thirty one percent.
He says, now under our leadership, they're all coming down,
and coming down fast. Democrat politicians sent the cost of
groceries skyrocketing, but we're tackling that too. The price of
a Thanksgiving bird down thirty three percent, the price of
eggs down eighty two percent, everything else falling rapidly too.

(01:21:20):
It's not done yet, he said, it's not done yet,
but boy, are we making progress, and we're making progress fast.
And then he went on to talk about as you heard,
mortgage and rent. Major factor in driving up housing costs
was the colossal border invasion. We've never been invaded. It's
the worst thing, in my opinion, that the administration has

(01:21:41):
ever done. The former administration. He told us where we were,
he told us what he's doing to fix it, and
he gave us a vision for the future. I've got
for you.

Speaker 11 (01:21:51):
Next.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Hang on, this is weird. It's just weird. We're looking
at some European traditions, Austria and Vienna. Austria where Paul,
what did you say? This thing is? We're looking at
those of you that watch of the Salem News channel.
You're seeing these guys dressed up in costumes like evil
guys with horns. It looks like Halloween, but it's actually

(01:22:13):
part of a Christmas celebration. You said, it's some European tradition.
They say, some bad guy with horns visits you of
your bad.

Speaker 12 (01:22:20):
Crampis or Crompus as they'd probably say over there. He's
a half man, half goat demon that would punish the
naughty children, and if the children were nice, they would
get Saint Nick would come and bring him gifts. So
he's like the and.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
They they have festivals with the guy, the bad guy.

Speaker 12 (01:22:36):
It's it's it's it's folklore in like the Germany. In Austria,
like Hill Country region, so you'll see some German families here,
like teach your kids about Crampus too. But yeah, I'd
be terrified if I were child and learn about that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
To be normal, Yeah, as a young child, saying that
would horrify I couldn't like as a kid, To be
perfectly honest with you, I remember to this day, I
remember being dragged down the Halloween aisle at at the
store as a kid with the masks. I couldn't I
couldn't do it. I would not walk down the aisle
at the store when masks were out for Halloween. Never
mind this crampus business. If you're just listening and you

(01:23:14):
can't see it, I don't know. It looks like a
fast eddie Saturday night, is what it looks like to me. Yes,
But maybe this is this is right up your alley.
This is like a party at your house.

Speaker 8 (01:23:24):
Ed.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
I love crampus business.

Speaker 5 (01:23:25):
I love this stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:23:26):
But you know, I don't mean to be a wet
blanket here, but like maybe these countries wouldn't be conquered
if their kids didn't grow up seeing this like as
like children.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
Need a little Santa. By the way, speaking of the
antithesis of this, I should mention some news this morning
in the Catholic faith. Cardinal Dolan of the New York Dices.
Cardinal Dolan is stepping down, or I should say he's
a Cardinal Dolan. What does he ed, I'm sorry, he

(01:23:57):
presides over it, not just New York. But I mean
he's to New York. But as cardinal, he's he represents
the entirety of the country for Catholicism, or just the.

Speaker 5 (01:24:07):
Region just so he'll be the Archbishop of New York.

Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
So I don't know how far that would stretch, but
I guess it would be pretty darn far.

Speaker 5 (01:24:15):
Obviously, New York.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
That's what he is, That's what that's what he's stepping
down to be the Archbishop of New York.

Speaker 11 (01:24:20):
He's just stepping down from that position.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Oh, he's stepping down from them. So anyway, somebody called
Bishop Hicks is taking over. I don't know who that is.
Do you know much about this? I have to defer
to you as our resident Catholic on the show. I'm
not Catholic, so I don't know the hierarchy. I know.
Cardinal Dolan is just a personality, wonderful guy, heck of
a spokesperson, very entertaining, just a delightful guy to be
around and listen to. So as far as a messenger

(01:24:46):
and a public face of Catholicism, I think he was
one of the most effective in the United States. Frankly,
so from that perspective, is a communicator. Him stepping down
is a big deal.

Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
Oh yeah, I honestly don't know much about Hicks. But
I mean Dolan would have been he was a cardinal,
so he would have been selecting the popes as well.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Yeah, that's right. But the cardinals. So just so I'm clear,
because sorry, I know I'm gonna get all comes of
emails from Catholics Cardinal Dolan, mean, is that for the
entirety of the country.

Speaker 6 (01:25:15):
No, it's just just his like, not every bishop is
a cardinal, if that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:25:21):
Yeah, but the cardinals.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
Otherwise, I mean, how many cardinals are here in the
United States? Do you know?

Speaker 11 (01:25:25):
Not off the top of my head, no, but multiple yes.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Uh huh, okay, all right, So it is not accurate
to say he's not like senior leadership domestically state side here.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
No, not just a.

Speaker 11 (01:25:35):
Very high profile area in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Okay, okay, anyway, yeah, he's stepping down. So just passing
that news along, all right. President Trump? Last night, this speech,
I really if I could, I would read the whole
twenty minutes myself again, but just some of it. I
have secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment
into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth,

(01:25:58):
factory openings, far greater national security. Much of this success
has been accomplished by tariffs, my favorite word, which for
many decades has been used successfully by other countries against US.
I heard Charles Pain say last night, just as an
aside that John Roberts and the Supreme Court, John Roberts specifically,

(01:26:20):
is trying to, in Charles Pain's words, create an artful
verbiage on how to defend Trump's tariff policies. There seems
to be now some conventional wisdom coming about that the
Supreme Court is in fact coming closer to standing with
Trump on his tariff policy and not overturning them. But

(01:26:42):
John Roberts has to find sort of an artful way
to do so. And Charles Pain was making the point,
which is an obvious one when it comes to national
security and American emergencies and the commander in chief overseeing
and managing emergencies. How you can't argue that we're over
leveraged and that China has us up against it. How

(01:27:05):
you can't argue and I don't know how you'd argue
that's not an emergency. And I think the President's team
has argued that's an emergency. I think the Supreme Court
will justifiably see it as an emergency, at least we hope,
But the President's kind of trying to work them a
little bit here in public with the help of Bess
and others. Tariffs which for many decades have been used

(01:27:26):
successfully by other countries against US, he says, but not anymore.
Companies know that if they build in America, there are
no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the
United States and record numbers. They're building factories and plants
at levels we haven't seen. We're doing what nobody thought possible,
not even remotely possible. One year ago, our country was dead.

(01:27:48):
We were absolutely dead. The country was ready to fail
and totally failed. And now we're the hottest country anywhere.
Next year you will also see this is really critical,
and again Republicans should be saying this a lot louder
and more. Next year, you will see the results of
the largest tax cuts in American history that were really
accomplished through our great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps the most
sweeping legislation ever passed, twelve different bills wrapped up in

(01:28:11):
one beautiful bill that includes no tax on tips, no
tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our seniors.
Under these cuts, many families will be saving eleven thousand
to twenty thousand dollars a year, and next spring is
projected to be the largest tax refund season of all
time because of tariffs. Along with the just past one

(01:28:33):
Big Beautiful Bill, he also announced that he's giving about
one point five million members of military service in this
country a one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars check.
He said, many of those checks are already in the mail,
and then he wrapped up this way in number forty.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
One, again very simple.

Speaker 8 (01:28:54):
We are making America great again tonight, after eleven months,
our border is a cure, Inflation has stopped, wages are up,
prices are down. Our nation is strong, America is respected,
and our country is back, stronger than ever before. We're
poised for an economic boom the likes of which the

(01:29:16):
world has never seen.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Soon, we will host.

Speaker 8 (01:29:19):
The World Cup and the Olympics, both of which I got.
But most importantly, we will celebrate the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There could be
no more fitting tribute to this epic milestone than to
complete the comeback of America that began just one year ago.

(01:29:42):
When the world looks at us next year, let them
see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful
to its workers, confident to its identity, certain to its destiny,
and the envy of the entire globe. We are respected
again like we have never been respected before.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
The guy means it, folks, I don't care what you
think of him. I don't care how you think. Stylistically
he speaks, or in his marrow, in his DNA is
a man who demands excellence, excellence. He wants everything to
look its best, be its best, right down to the

(01:30:24):
last detail. I joke all the time. Remember he was
giving a speech about the guy that was going to
try to kill him on his golf course, and I
just loved it. I laughed and laughed with a friend
of mine the day he was speaking about this, because
he was talking about the guy hiding in the bushes
at his course, and as he was describing it, he said,
the lush bushes of his golf course, the lush bush

(01:30:49):
not just the bushes, not just the shrubbery, not just
the landscaping, or the guy was hiding on the court.
He was hiding in my very everything.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
JD.

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Vance just told a story yes two days ago that
he was having a meeting with some of his cabinet
and he looked at some of the guy's shoes and
he goes, why do you guy, what is that? What
are you wearing on your feet? And they're like, what,
I don't know, there's shoes. He goes. He pulls out
a shoe catalog. He orders them all four new pairs
of dress shoes, said, would you come on and look

(01:31:18):
the part? He cares. He wants the streets clean, He
wants the country safe. He wants the people prosperous. He
wants to be the envy of the world. He loves
this country. He believes it should be the envy of
the world. He believes that, man, are we desperate for

(01:31:40):
leaders who look us in the eye and say we're special.
God shed his grace on thee and we matter, and
we need to look the part. Sit up straight. We're America.
Damn it. Thank you, mister President. By the way, programming note, tomorrow,
Senator Eric Schmidt, Missouri will be with us. Don't miss that.

(01:32:05):
Our telephone number eight five five stigall. It will also
be open line Friday. Senator Schmidt is being sued by China.
Do you hear this? D that all of China is
suing Eric Schmidt. I can't wait to hear how he
responds to that.

Speaker 6 (01:32:16):
It's just amazing because I you know, I watched from
afar as my attorney general during COVID time was suing small.

Speaker 5 (01:32:23):
Businesses to keep them closed.

Speaker 6 (01:32:24):
You know, the current governor of Joshapiro well, Eric Schmitt
and Missouri was you know, trying to discover the origin
of COVID, trying to get ppe for the people, suing China,
suing the Biden administration on what the heck is like, Hey,
he's a rock star.

Speaker 1 (01:32:40):
I just.

Speaker 6 (01:32:42):
So yeah, there's there's suing the attorney general of Missouri
like him as attorney general because of all the great.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
Work he did, fight Fight Fight. There aren't a lot
of guys in Congress that you feel great about and
who are genuine fighter. Schmidt is one of them. Here
he is yesterday talking about what he's seen with these
drug boats being hit, and he's sick and tired of
Democrats attacking Admiral Bradley for directing these strikes Number thirty four.

Speaker 13 (01:33:10):
I just was in the skiff. I saw the video,
and I think the Democrats ought to be ashamed of
themselves by trying to slander Admiral Bradley, who was executing
a lawful order. The men on the boat were trying
to continue their mission. That's the truth. And you got
to remember where this started. The Democrats and the Washington
Posts falsely claiming that there was a kill everybody order.

Speaker 5 (01:33:33):
That's false.

Speaker 13 (01:33:34):
That's been debunked even by the New York Times.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
And so in an.

Speaker 13 (01:33:37):
Effort to protect American citizens from the poisoning, it's happened.
One hundred thousand people die every year. We have a
vested interest in making sure these narco terrorists don't kill Americans.
And so in this instance, the people and the boat
were sunk and legally justified. Also reviewed the forty plus

(01:34:00):
legal memorandum that lays out that justification. So if any
Democrat comes out here and questions that they're lying to you,
they're lying to you because they don't like Pete headset Hegseeth.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
That's exactly right. They don't like Pete Heggsyth. The game
is always just get rid of Hexath, get rid of
the mega agenda in the pentagond. The military industrial complex
does not like the mega agenda, period full stop. Also
just quickly, because you know, we're continuing to watch it,
sort of out of the corner of our eye. There's
a lot cooking in Providence. You know, this Brown University shooting.

(01:34:31):
The investigation is still ongoing. There was a very interesting
moment yesterday. A Latino radio host in Rhode Island is
the one that stood up and asked a question about
Brown University and an allegation. Now I can't confirm this independently,
but the allegation made here listen to this is that

(01:34:52):
Brown University actually deliberately removed security cameras because of their
sanctuary city law in Providence. Now I that's this particular
reporters assertion here. Listen to this at number thirty three.

Speaker 14 (01:35:08):
You don't want to call once and you don't want
to provide the footage to her or Immigration on talk
of you Wan Tama and he come up from go
to Theraphis. They are a friend of mine. Are this investigation?
These people are driving divers pull them. They came at
to find out versal. Do you mind how the family
want to go through the.

Speaker 15 (01:35:31):
We we heard from both the Brown police chief and
the provost to Brown who have shared that they have
been fully cooperative and shared, UH been forthcoming with all
data and evidence that they have.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
I got to tell you that he was a little
difficult to understand, but what he was saying was again,
this is a radio host in Rhode Island who stood
up at this press conference and accused the Providence Well,
ioul I should well, I guess the Providence Police ultimately,
or whomever the governing officials are there, of removing security

(01:36:06):
cameras on the campus of Brown because of their sanctuary
city law. We'll continue to watch that. If true, but staggering, stunning.
If true, I can't independently verify it. But that's really
something and might explain why we have so little footage
of this guy and the manhunt continues. Ford has killed
the all electric F one fifty. I am a Ford

(01:36:29):
F one to fifty driver personally, and I just filled
up my tank again. Yesterday. I told you as the
week started, I filled it up at two forty seven
a gallon. You know what I paid last night. I
got halfway through my tank this week and I stopped
and filled it up again. You know why two thirty
nine a gallon? Two thirty nine a gallon. I don't

(01:36:50):
know where it is where you are. I know in
some places, if you've got a Democrat led state with
Democrat gas taxes or, in Pennsylvania's case, Republican gas taxes.
It's not that cheap. But Ford has said they're shifting
from their electric truck a response to a year that's
been tough for the technology. And they're out and they're

(01:37:11):
just the latest. People just don't want it. They want
the dependability of the internal combustion engine. It still works,
it's still the most powerful, it's still the most reliable.
Ford is ditching the plugin truck. I certainly would never
buy one. Senator Eric Schmidt Open line Friday tomorrow. See
you then. So that's a wrap for another Chrystagall Show podcast.
Thanks for committing to it, listening to it all the

(01:37:31):
way through. You're a fighter. I like that about you.
Hope you'll leave it a five star review and a
written review. Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We'll see you next time
here on the Chrystagall Show podcast.

Speaker 11 (01:37:42):
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