JORDAN RHODES (The Life of a Blue Collar Actor) stops by 6/17/26

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SPEAKER_01 0:21

It was great. We went out, we had a really nice dinner. Two young waitresses sang her happy birthday to me.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Did they sing it as good as we did? Or as well? Which one is it?

SPEAKER_02 0:34

Quintern that was the correct answer.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

No. No. No, absolutely not. My birthday was kicked off great by the uh by the serenade I got from uh the Liz uh Galloway and uh Nick Somers show there.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

And the Quinturne, don't forget the Quintern. He brought up the uh the tenor part.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Thank you. Thank you. It was was it was really all all uh it was it was really great.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Jordan Rhodes can sing.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Really?

SPEAKER_00 0:59

You know, he was in a movie with John Wayne.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

He's a he's a very accomplished you know, the Quinturne's an actor too. Oh haven't been in a movie with John Wayne, but I mean you you have no idea how many things Jordan Rhodes has performed in on stage, right? He has a play, too. He's a playwright.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

And he was in Battlestar Galactica. He's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Oh, oh yes. Oh yeah We're bragging about you, Jordan. Yeah, yeah, Nick, we we don't want to forget that one, do we?

SPEAKER_02 1:30

No, I think that's awesome. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Because of all the people that I have worked with that are no longer with us, like Greg Ripeck and Gene Hackman. And the list just goes on and on, of course, John Wayne and and all of that. Uh, to talk about your horses for a couple of minutes.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Wait, hold on, hold on a minute. Hold your horses waiting! You're not gonna tell me that you were on one episode of Mr. Ed.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

No, the Lone Ranger.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

No, but but I was I but I wasn't on Bonanza. But I I owned two I owned two horses when I lived in California. I had two I had two quarter horses and I fed them uh well I started off feeding them uh bales of hay, but that got to be such uh a problem that I went to the cubes. They they put they put hay in these little cubes. Yeah. And that was much easier to put in my pickup truck and do that. But anyway, you were talking about horses, so that was it. And since we're talking about horses, let's move to the rear end of the horses, the horse's ass, and we can talk about Dulocrat.

SPEAKER_03 2:37

Okay?

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Yes, go ahead. Let's just move right there. Okay. Uh I uh this past week has just I I've not believed the things that I have heard from the Democrats, because uh, we all know as Ron White said, the wonderful comedian, you can't pick stupid. So so so we know that. But but now the idiots, did anybody hear Hakeem Jeffries stand on the floor of Congress and make his speech about the fact that Iran was now stronger and better than they were before Trump's war? Did did anybody hear hear him say that?

SPEAKER_03 3:20

It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

This guy is he's such an idiot. Iran has, regardless of what happens from here on, Iran has no army, no navy, no air force, no they have no radar. They have uh everybody now knows that Trump went in there and and we took two hundred million barrels of oil right from under their nose, which they didn't even know about. Uh, and this guy comes out and says that, and then Obama goes on the Sunday talk shows saying his deal with Iran was better than Trump's. I when I heard that, Liz and Nick, I almost fell off the chair. I I I I I couldn't believe that. Ob Obama on the Sunday talk shows making that statement and saying that the Trump deal was nothing. And if we we're gonna go into what is my profession, I am I'm absolutely disgusted with these uh with these celebrities that are coming out and I thought what they did on Trump's birthday, the president's birthday, was not only despicable and disgusting as it could be, but you have all of these people. Bette Midler, who used to be a great talent. Uh come on, let's face it. We we we all particular singers, you you go over, you get over the hill. There's Bette Midler, Hanoi Jane, she's always gonna do what she's doing, Robert De Niro, uh uh Richard Gere, and Julia Roberts, whom I've absolutely loved and and appreciated. Yeah, I I I mean I these people standing up there and and making these statements, which uh I was glad that they only showed excerpts for me because I couldn't have I uh it would have made me sick to my stomach to actually watch these people doing all of that at that particular time in honor of his birthday, uh which to me was was just absolutely unbelievable. And while we're talking about uh these idiots, uh James Carvell, Liz, I think you and Nick both know, I I've told you before, I I I've actually, you know, been in his presence. I don't want to say talk with him because I d I didn't I refuse to talk to him. When I was doing uh the remake of uh All the King's Men with Sean Penn in uh Louisiana, uh James Carvell was called one of the producers. And so uh I I I guess you could say I had the I would call it the non-privilege of being in his little group there when he came onto the floor where a bunch of the extras were when I had a scene with Sean. And he he this guy is such a liar and an idiot. Did you guys hear him talking about Trump uh the other day when he was saying that uh Trump sleeps all the time, he he slumpers on his thing, uh, and he's gonna be gone by next Easter. Trump hardly sleeps at all. You know, I I think what I think what Carvel, I think what he was talking about was Biden. You know. Biden falling asleep in the meetings, which which he's done that. Uh it's this stuff that has just gone on, and for them to do all of that protest and everything, uh first of all, I I I I just thought it was pathetic. I thought it was a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

I have a question for you because um Sean Penn is tough to like, man. I know you have a long illustrious relationship with him and his dad and all that, but how do you how do you handle you know your uh relationship with somebody when they've just gone like you know uh totally sideways on that? I mean, did you hear the new movie he's making?

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Uh n yeah, but uh I I I'll answer the question this way. The way that Sean and I have have gotten along for so many years, and of course he does credit me for helping him early in his career, which he more than paid me back for, uh, and all of that. And of course I did that because his dad, I was really, really close and tight with his dad, and as you guys know, his dad, Leo Penn, who was quite a director, put my career on the map by giving me a role that I got an award for a nomination for I didn't win the award, but uh that. But the way that Sean and I have maintained uh our relationship is that we never talk politics. Uh it just uh it's the only way you can survive when someone is that far left and and you're like me, you're a conservative, uh, is you just can't you you just can't do it. You you you can't get into it. Now, oddly enough, his dad, Leo, who was also a liberal, and I could understand that because Leo was one of the people in Hollywood that got caught up in the blacklist out there years ago. Uh and and uh before he was able to you know revitalize his career as a director. But uh the thing about uh Wait, which blacklist was that?

SPEAKER_00 8:30

McCarthyism?

SPEAKER_01 8:31

McCarthyism, yeah. Yeah, the yeah, the the the tail end of McCarthyism, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

And you know it's so funny because it's opposite now. Now if you're a commie, it's great.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

I know. Oh, right.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Or Pinko. Why did they call them Pincos? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Yep, and um and then the thing with Leo is that you could of course this is a whole different time in California, even though there were liberals and there were conservatives, and the conservatives were always in the closet out there.

SPEAKER_03 8:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Uh conservatives that I know today, like uh my former wife, uh Jennifer, she she has to stay in the closet or sh or she can't work.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Yeah, you just you you can't get hired. But Leo, just like uh Liz, you and Nick and me, you you you could have a conversation with him. You you could have a conversation with him about his thought and your thought without him calling you a communist or a Nazi or a you know, okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

But Sean Penn is literally directing a movie about Michael Fanone, the cop from January 6th who's told a lot of lies. You know, they're calling it a deadly insurrection. It wasn't all it wasn't it was only deadly for a person that was a protester. It wasn't even they try to pin all these deaths of cops that happened afterwards at the end of the day. So you don't have the story. I don't have to tell you. I'm not I'm mad about the fact that he's even doing that. I mean, whatever. But Bradley Cooper why he's playing the part of Michael Van. It's like the guy I love. Why are they taking Bradley Cooper from me?

SPEAKER_02 10:06

It's just a roll.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

I'm never gonna be able to unpack it. It's just a roll.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

It's just a roll.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

The whiny, crying, whiny little you know what that guy was.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

Yep. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

But you're gonna just have to you're just gonna have to ignore it, right, Jordan?

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Oh yeah. Yeah, I as I said, we uh anymore, Sean and I we mostly when we communicate, I go through his uh Girl Friday via uh an email. Uh he d Sean does uh he he he calls Cheyenne quite often. Uh and and actually talks to her on the phone. That's your daughter. Yeah, I'm sorry, my daughter. Yeah, he calls her because uh his mother was Cheyenne's godmother. That that's that's how well I know the family. I mean, we we we we go back a really long way, and of course I knew his I knew his his younger brother. Yeah, it uh today it's just reached the point of where uh I'm so much out of the mainstream, you know. I'm I'm here in North Carolina just away from all of that and thank God I am, because I would not uh I said this to somebody the other day and they thought I was kidding. I would not live back in California for free and a weekly salary. I I I I wouldn't do it. I just I I wouldn't go back out there because the only the only friends I have out there anymore, uh, and there's there's just a very few are the few conservatives that are there. Uh the the others uh you know I they just they don't talk to me anymore, and and the minute they found out, you know, that basically that I was supporting Trump, I became a uh a non-entity. Uh which actually that's okay. I'm okay with being a non-entity if that's why I'm a non-entity, because I I'm I'm like the foreigners that came over here for the World Cup, who are praising and love America. You know, De Niro and Fonda and and and Midler and and now Julia Roberts and uh good lord Richard Gere, all of those they're miserable, and they never mind that they you know can like America. They hate America. They absolutely hate America. And the funny thing of it is, in what other country could they have made so much money and become so famous?

SPEAKER_02 12:28

I know the answer to that. Zero.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

No way. Yeah, yeah. It's just it's it's absolutely unbelievable. And uh it's just uh anyway, it's it's good. There's a lot of other stuff. Uh maybe maybe next week we can talk a little bit about the drones that were almost used and the snipers.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Yeah, we talked about that uh with Breitbart earlier today, the guy who wrote the article, Simon Kent.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

He joined us the 19 year old the 19-year-old uh young fellow that's uh is in all with that. And I still, you know, I know people say that I'm wrong to do this. Uh no conservatives say it. But the Democrats are creating all of this because they just won't take the hate hyper down. They just won't remove the temperature, they just won't take the temperature down.

SPEAKER_02 13:15

You're 100% right because they don't argue on policy, they just crank up the hate rhetoric, and that leads these weak-minded people, I'm sorry, to take the violence.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

We're gonna see a whole bunch of dozens more arrested. These kids are on these uh TikTok. You know, that's what it was on SignalChat, they were on using all of these um gaming platforms and everything to corrupt these young, inf influenced minds. Um this is how they're getting to them. So it's not only what the Democrats are saying on you know on Capitol Hill or even in these uh panel discussions, it's these other apps and platforms. There's they're they're being hunted. These young men are being hunted.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

And the Democrats just feed into that. I know just feed into that everyone. And then they blame it on Trump.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

They're like, oh, they're only shooting at you because of you. You know, I think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

And they're all that yeah, and they're all so excited now because Trump's name was removed from the Kennedy Center.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

They did a live chat. Did you see Jim Acosta? What an idiot.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

I know.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Oh yeah, Jordan Rhodes, can you dispel wait, can you dispel one quick rumor? Is it true that that that uh your friend Sean Penn hated the role of Spacoli or is he fine with it?

SPEAKER_01 14:33

Uh I have I don't have an answer for that. Okay, what's the role of Spicoli?

SPEAKER_02 14:38

Fast Times of Ridgemont High played like a burned out surfer dude, it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

I just I wasn't allowed to watch that movie.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Oh, you you you you're talking about his big his the big funny thing, the big funny movie that he did. That's that one. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, oh yeah, he loved that.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Okay, good. All right, so it's false. He liked it. Okay, very good. I feel better.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Am I old enough to watch that movie now?

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Yes, you are now.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

My mommy wouldn't let me.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Okay, one one quick question and then I know I gotta go. But uh, is it true that Congress can now put Trump's name back on the Kennedy Center?

SPEAKER_00 15:16

I don't think so. I don't know. I guess maybe they have to approve it.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

I I heard that Congress could put his name back on the Kennedy.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

I guess if they approve it and vote for it.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

I think so, but yeah, I don't think.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

What's under the TARP? I want to know that. They're supposed to unveil something.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

My name.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Is it a a Statue of Trump? I don't know. All right. Thank you so much, Jordan Rhodes. Say hi to Lynn. Love you, bye.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

Thanks. And thank you for the birthday wish last week. Thank you. Okay.