When Politics Replaces Truth In Public Life

We break down a week of headlines that test trust in government, the press, and public character, from DHS leadership drama to a failed bombing in New York City. Along the way, we call out spin, ask what investigators should really be looking at, and share practical advice for travelers staring down brutal TSA lines. 
• Kristi Noem’s DHS removal and what “fired” really means 
• Markwayne Mullin’s background and what DHS leadership requires 
• NYC ISIS-inspired bomb attempt and why the early narrative matters 
• Questions about radicalization networks and who is enabling it 
• Jesse Jackson funeral backlash after politicians ignore the family’s request 
• TSA delays during a partial government shutdown and how to check wait times 
• Clear and PreCheck talk for frequent flyers with airport anxiety 
• James Talarico’s “moderate” branding vs progressive positions 
• Iranian women’s soccer players offered asylum in Australia and the risks either way 
• Draft rumors amid Iran tensions and why we say calm down 
Put what you want in the comments section and uh maybe we'll make you famous. 

Transcript

Weather Banter And Quick Catch-Up

SPEAKER_04 0:23

This is the coach.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Oh, hey, hi. We're back again. How are you, Clay?

SPEAKER_03 0:34

I'm good. We got a little a little shot of winter weather here in Chicago today. It was uh it's very odd. It's a sleety, rainy, snowy, crappy kind of day.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

Yuck, yuck. So we had, I don't know about you guys, but we had um, I don't know, like maybe three, three days or so of like really, really spring weather. We had so much snow on the ground and it melted like 90% of it. It's almost all gone. And now they're saying we're gonna get a little cold snap. I think I think. So I I I have these weird little quirks. Surprise. And I I removed the weather app from my phone and I never check the weather. So I just I like to be surprised or aggravated, apparently, you know, whatever the case is gonna be. I don't know what, I don't know why I started doing that, but it's like I think it's just a grudge against hearing everybody always talk about like that's always the opener. Oh, how about that weather? I'm like, I don't know, and I don't care. I'll know when I know. My defiance disorder, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

I've worn shorts twice this year. That's my measuring stick. So have we had some spring? We have had some spring. Um yeah, crappy, crappy weather today.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Yeah, are you a spring guy? I don't I don't love yeah, I don't actually love spring, but yeah, sweatshirt and shorts is the perfect weather for me.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

I would wear I would live like that forever. Yeah, listen, folks, we're we're like sitting here babbling, but we got we got all kinds of stuff, we got stuff to talk about. We got some what do we got? We got some Christy knowham, we got some uh New York City craziness, we got some funeral stuff, more international soccer news. We got all kinds of stuff going on.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

All kinds of stuff. Here are the details, guys. Here they are.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Welcome back to the show. This week we're diving into DHS drama with Gnome's ouster, a botched bombing in NYC, crazy airport lines, fallout from Jesse Jackson's funeral, questioning Talariko's moderate mask in Texas, Iranian soccer stars seeking freedom down under, and the draft buzz that's got everyone talking. Join Elsa and Clay Novak as they unpack the facts, call out the hypocrisy, and add our take with bold truth, real faith, and no privileges. Let's get into it.

Kristi Noem Ousted From DHS

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Oh my goodness. Well, I'm glad you put us uh back on the rails because I would have just kept going, just casual. Casual to people have been like, are they ever gonna get to the point? Like, are they ever gonna talk about nah? No, I'll just keep talking about random things. Uh, this is not random. Um, so who hasn't heard by now? But uh Trump just dropped the hammer on Christy Gnome. Firing her, we'll talk about why I'm putting that in air quotes, because we'll talk about it. Uh, but firing her as DHS secretary after a rocky tenure marked by botched ad campaigns, staff clashes, and the Minneapolis shootings. Um, now it's gonna be Senator Mark Wayne Mullen stepping in to steer the ship, as they might say. Um, so let's let's go right off the bat, Clay. You and I were talking beforehand. Was she and and I will say when I shared the the post about this, I shared a post that termed it as her being fired. And there were quite a few people that were fired up in the comment section, like she didn't get fired, she got promoted. And it was this like really big argument in that I did not partake in in the comment section. They were they were battling it out um in there, and you know, I mean, I kind of lean toward I don't know, maybe fired isn't quite the right word, but she was obviously removed and moved. So lateral move, Clay, a promotion, a demotion, like I want your spin on this.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

So, you know, it's amazing that we've gone this far. So it's been what uh 14 months since inauguration, and this is the first director/slash cabinet member that has been removed by President Trump, if my memory serves. Um, you know, other than what's his name who he who couldn't get right couldn't get confirmed. But um, everybody else has been in place, right? We haven't we haven't fired anybody yet, which compare that to the last time President Trump was in office, and this is extraordinary. So um, you know, he's established a couple of new or forced the establishment of a couple of new organizations, one of them being the Board of Peace, which we found out about last month. Um, and then now we've got this Shield of the Americas, which is you know a Western hemisphere-wide, uh, you know, multinational organization focused on battling, you know, drug cartels and and those kinds of things. And so Secretary Noam, former secretary. Well, actually, she's still in the seat. Um former secretary is she's not fired yet. Um was she? Was she removed and they put an interim in there? Maybe that's how it's working. Um I I think yeah, I just I looked at Mullen's um I think I looked at Mullen's bio and he's got like a TBD, or maybe even first of April, I think he assumes the the seat. Um, and that may have to do with his position coming out of you know his seat in Congress, etc. Anyway, so with her, she got moved to be the US representative uh in the new shield of the Americas organization, whatever you want to call it. Do I think she got fired? Um President Trump doesn't fire people and keep them around. That's a good point. Did she get moved because of something that he was not happy with? Yes, yes, I do I do believe, and I think it's less about her overall performance because she really was doing the things that he campaigned for, right? Right close the border, you know, deport you know, illegals, like all of those things.

SPEAKER_06 6:41

Right.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

Um, you know, and I I think honestly, it was this 200 million dollar ad campaign. Um you can do a lot of things to President Trump, but if you put his name on the line for something that he was not aware of or on board with, um there's there's there's a price to pay, right? He he will own up to everything, like the guy's not afraid of, yeah, I did that, or yeah, I said that, or yeah, this is what we're doing. Um, but I think in that case, she claimed that he knew, and it may have been something as simple as a miscommunication, but but again, he doesn't fire people and keep them around. Um, I I don't think this is a promotion. Um I think she was moved for a very specific reason. Um, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that she no longer has any true law enforcement responsibility. Um, and so whatever happens with this$200 million ad campaign, there's rumors of her having an affair, there's all kinds of things going on. Whatever it is, President Trump decided she needed some time out of the spot, and he moved her to something very a lot less on the radar screen.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Yeah, yeah. She, you know, I think if you want to simplify it, I think it's a matter of she was more of the story. She personally was becoming the story rather than the work and the job and the successes. So when the spotlight gets put on the person more than what they're accomplishing, like there's a problem. There's a problem. I personally have have had nothing against her whatsoever. You know, I know the you know, the big superficial criticism is always about her appearance, you know, with the hair and the nails and the you know, lashes and all of the things and the makeup and the photo ops and all this stuff. I never had any problem with any of that, to be honest with you. I didn't really care as long as she was doing her job. Um, but you know, she was becoming too much of a uh, I don't know, too much of a main attraction uh in all the wrong ways. So it was it feels like kind of a no-brainer, but I just thought it was really funny how mad people were getting. You know, like y'all gotta like, how about we do this crazy thing called calm down? It was calm the heck down. Like, I appreciate anybody who feels very loyal to um well to anyone for that matter. I mean, your loyalty is is great, it's lovely, but chill with the blind loyalty. Like, it's okay to respect someone and like them and admire them and be impressed with their work, but the blind loyalty and the rabid foaming at the mouth um reactions when anybody dares to say anything like you, y'all are acting like liberals in those comments sections, like you're embarrassing yourselves, and I'm embarrassed for you.

Markwayne Mullin Profile And Concerns

SPEAKER_03 9:40

So listen, you know, I I've I've had enough criticism about Secretary Heggs over the last year. Yeah, I've taken and I've taken some flack for it. Um big time. I I get it. I mean, I I don't like it, but I that's it's not inconsistent, truthfully, even with our audience. We love you guys, but like let's be a little more, you know, unless you're a personal friend of Christy Noam, uh, and you've known her and you can vouch for her as a human being more than what you've just seen on television, then you know, I I think we all need to stay objective because that's what the country deserves. Yes. Um, is that we're doing the right thing for the country. Uh and and so Mark Wayne Mullen, uh soon-to-be former representative junior uh representative from the great state of Oklahoma, um, is has been named to take her place.

SPEAKER_06 10:33

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Former uh former MMA guy. Interesting.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

He is the only uh member of Congress who does not have a bachelor's degree.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Interesting.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

Okay, um, he's also the first Native American um elected.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

I had no idea.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Yeah, he I mean, I and not the stereotype, folks, but if you looked at him, the last thing that you would believe he has zero physical traits uh of a Native American. And I'm not claiming he's not. This is not a uh Elizabeth Warren kind of a thing. Um, but uh unless you knew that, like unless for for whatever reason you knew that, you never guessed that. Um, but he's uh you know, he's a successful business guy, he's uh he's a uh tool belt guy, you know, he runs a plumbing business and a couple of other things, some landscaping, excavating, I think. And um, so he does very well for himself and a self-made guy, but you're you're right, he was an MMA fighter. Um, and he has brought that to the floor of Congress on more than one occasion.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

We talked about that when that happened, yes.

SPEAKER_03 11:38

We did, yep. And you know, he's challenged people to throw hands right there in you know, and again, this is one of those discussions about decorum. Like, you know, this is um this is it'll be an interesting the thing I'm most interested in is his relationship with Tom Homan is gonna be very it because it could be like two Ps in a pod, yeah or it could be like you know, two guys who are too much alike, yeah, that will, you know, you know, the too much type A in one room in one place uh is not always a good thing. So it it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

Yeah, yeah, I would say, you know, uh surface value. I I find him likable um of uh from what I've seen of him, you know, the I would call the uh potential brawl there. Um I would call that a I'll call that a yellow flag. I don't think I'd go so far necessarily to say red flag, but I'll go yellow flag on that. Like I kind of feel like, okay, you know what? We all get heated sometimes, we all have a moment. This guy, you know, should that have happened? No, of course not. Is it manly? I mean, yeah, it is. So, you know, what are you gonna say? I, you know, I like the things that he seems to be standing for, you know, and it's all the things that we appreciate as a family first guy. I think he's got, you know, he's got a gaggle of kids. I think there's like half a dozen of them, some adopted, uh, some biological. Um, he's very, you know, he's like your blue-collar guy. And I and I think that's, you know, he's got that great, approachable, likable to me personality. So can he do the job? You know, I don't I like to think that um President Trump would not have put him there if he didn't think he could. I mean, that's kind of the given, right? Yeah, so I'm willing to give him a chance, see what he does.

SPEAKER_03 13:33

Yeah, well, I mean, you know, that's all we can do at this point. Um, my concern, you know, and people will say the same about Christy Noam, except for the fact that she was a governor, right? So governing and having a law enforcement, you know, or law um law enforcement supervisory responsibility as the governor, right? And having some um judicial authority even as a governor, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:58

Right.

SPEAKER_03 13:58

He has not had any kind of that background that I am aware of.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

No, I haven't heard anything, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:04

Right? So when you put somebody in charge of multiple law enforcement agencies and they have no law enforcement experience, that to me is a concern. Now, would I prefer a lawyer in there? Would I prefer somebody from the old FBI who I would immediately believe to be suspect? Um no, I wouldn't want any of those people. Um but I, you know, I I think he's a fire breather. I think he's the like you said, he's President Trump likes him, he's got that personality. Um, and I think that's what president, that's why he he got selected for this job. Um and and it will just like you said, we'll just have to wait and see.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting. We like to hear what you guys have to say in the comment section too. You think it's a good mood, a bad good move, bad move, indifferent move? Uh are you you mad that Christy Nohm is out of that position? You glad for it? I'm I'm very I'm genuinely curious about the you know overall reactions to it because they seem to be really uh all across the board. Um, you know, I do know um, you know, uh it's split. I mean, I do hear a lot more of the the the pundits uh on the right saying it was a, you know, it seems to be a good move because it was like kind of watching a a slow moving train wreck uh potentially happening there with her in that position. So, you know, maybe he saw the writing on the wall, he being uh President Trump and just said, you know what, we're gonna we're gonna nip this in the bud right here before um things go off the rails. And uh yeah, so we'll see. We'll see.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

My only last concern is that you know, President Trump, when he does this, and you can say the same thing about Christy Noam, like he he plucked her out of the governor's office, right, which required South Dakota to, you know, elect a new governor, right? And you're always assuming in places, you know, certain places in the United States that you're gonna get a like candidate replacement, right?

SPEAKER_04 16:03

Right.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

So him plucking him out of a very narrow majority in Congress in the House right now, um causes a little bit of concern for me. So I understand that you know, Oklahoma is probably a place, and his district is probably a place where we're gonna get another conservative Republican to get re-elected or elected in a special election to fill his seat, but there's never that guarantee. And that is, you know, when you pull a sitting elected official to do that, you're risking right a result behind them second and third order effect that you know may or may not turn out to be in your favor. So that is a concern as well. But again, we'll have to wait and see how that turns out.

NYC Bomb Attempt And CNN Spin

SPEAKER_01 16:47

Yeah, yeah, that could be scary potentially, but yeah, well, we'll keep an eye on it for sure, as always. Uh, what do we got up next to talk about? How about this guy? How about this guy, right? My goodness, or guys, I should say yeah, two of them. Um these guys, it just it's not even so much that I'm shake them that I'm shaking my head up. Like this is nothing less than what we're expecting to see. It's once again, guys. You guessed it before I could even say it. It's the damn media man, CNN. Wow, CNN. I thought I had the um the screenshot of it. I don't, but I will throw it up there. Um, so CNN stepped in it, of course. Um, it probably helps if I tell you what the heck we're talking about, right, guys? I always forget there's people listening and not watching. Hang on. Backtrack, reverse, rewind. Here we go. Shifting to the streets of New York, where two Pennsylvania punks, Pennsylvania punks, uh Emir. I'm not even gonna bother with their names, not just because I can't pronounce one of them, but because they don't even deserve to be named. Uh, anyhow, they tried an ISIS-inspired uh bombing at a protest near Mayor Zoran Mondani's Mom Dani's uh home. Devices were thrown, but thankfully they fizzled with no major injuries. Um, you know, so obviously you got all the factors here, the radicalization of the young people here, uh running just basically unchecked. Um, and then you have the media distorting and lying, blatantly flat out lying about what happened or trying to shift the uh image of what happened or who this happened to. You know, they painted it as he they were throwing this at that that mom Donnie was the potential victim here, and that's not the case at all. Go ahead, Clay. Tell him the truth, give him the truth.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

Yeah, so these two individuals. Um I I personally got a little bit of uh uh Jesse Smollett uh out of this, and I'll tell you why. So these two young men who are both from the outskirts of Philadelphia, um, one of them is the son of two Afghan nationals who came here in the mid-2000s, uh, eventually got their citizen citizenship. They're doing very well for themselves. I mean, they live in a town and in a house that's valued at the millions of dollars mark. Um so they're contributing to America, right? This is not um, you know, this is not Minneapolis, right? This is not right Somalis fraud, you know, um fraudulently taking money. Um this young man is 18 years old. He is finishing uh high school at this point. Um, but the the second young man is Turkish. Um, he is uh a naturalized citizen as well, but much older, like 24. So you've got an 18-year-old and a 24-year-old. Um, so they've got no school relation, they've got no personal relationship. Um, they by all accounts don't know and have never known each other, as far as the families uh and the people who know them. Um but yet they drove the two hours from Philadelphia to New York. Um, their vehicle was tracked through toll booths in New Jersey. Um not necessarily uncommon, but they they passed through New Jersey and then they got into New York. Um, and then they made this attempt, as you said, outside of the mayor's residence. I will never call it Mom Donnie's house because it is belongs to the city of New York. Um, but there was a protest going on, right? Outside of his outside of the residency. Yep. And it was a pro-Palestine uh protest. Yeah, so these two young men jumped in there and got all caught all on film. Like the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Yeah, the whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

Multiple phones, multiple cameras. Yes. Um, and they they launched these two devices, neither one of them detonated. Um, and then they got chased down by police and they got arrested and then proclaimed loyalty to ISIS. They wanted this incident to be as big or bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing. That was the intent. And no, Mom Donnie was not the target. Um, right. There's too many, there's too many coincidences in this. There's too much, like, how did these two meet? Like, where did they get radicalized?

unknown 21:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

Did they come from, you know, grateful, a grateful Afghan family that, you know, is trying to contribute to America? Who's fucking these kids in the Philadelphia, you know, the outskirts of Philadelphia? Um, who provided them with the not working explosive devices? You know, yeah. And and listen, folks, the FBI is doing all those things. They're pulling their computers. There's already been some um speculation because there were a couple of phone calls made from one of the families. Homes in the Philly suburbs to law enforcement in the hours I think leading up to and then after the bombing. Interesting. Yeah, there's something suspicious about it.

SPEAKER_06 22:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

But at the same time, they drove all the way to New York. They drove into the city. They went straight to the mayor's house, who is a Muslim and uh and and a communist, and then just happened to walk into a protest that's going on and just decided to throw these two explosions. Like, there's too many coincidences going on here for this to be it. There's something wrong. Like all of my spidey senses are going off that this is not right. Um, but I want to know who they've been associating with, and to find, especially because they've been radicalized and like this, I you know, were ISIS kind of thing. I, you know, listen, folks, I I I we should never have to go this way, but we're gonna have to. What mosque are they attending? That's what I mean. Right. Yeah. Right. And so those are the roads that the FBI is gonna have to go down, and people are gonna get overly super sensitive about it. Um, because now you're blending into the politics, you know, separation of church and state and religion and all this other stuff. The problem is that from years of experience, that part of the world doesn't separate religion and politics, right? So yeah, um, that's kind of where we're at.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Yeah, yeah. I did uh I did find that CNN quote. It's actually uh got it from my one of my favorites, that Libs of TikTok. I love love her account. Um, so she pulled this up. Uh so I'll read it to you guys that are listening and not watching. Uh CNN posted, and I believe this is the one they quickly deleted, but not before. Thank you. Uh so CNN tweeted um two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zoran Mandani's home. Here's what we know so far. And of course, they have a link to it. Um, but you know uh, I mean, come, are you kidding me? That is right up there with their other one about uh what was his name? Uh uh the the the Iranian guy they got, and they called him a bushy white bearded man. I don't know that wasn't that was yeah, yes, sorry, thank you. Yeah, and that wasn't um CNN that said that. I think that was like who was that? The I don't know, one of the newspapers or something.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

They soft play everything, and that's part of the problem. Um, you know, there was nothing normal about what they were doing. No, there was nothing, it wasn't an average Saturday. Like those kids left Philadelphia area suburbs, however it is that they met up, however they linked up, with intent to kill people. Yeah right. That and and thankfully, uh great job by the NYPD, by the way, because the guy that chased them down. Have you seen the still photos of this?

SPEAKER_04 25:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

Um, he is a a and I won't get the terminology right because every city's different. He is like a district chief. Like this is not a patrolman or a sergeant or whatever. This is a a you know, a section of the city chief that one hand hopped a railing and chased down an 18 or 24-year-old, yeah, and tackled him and arrested him. Like, um, great job by NYPD on that one.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

Absolutely, yeah. Big time.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

Yeah, so there the media, and then the initial reports of this is that these were two white supremacists who threw this, these uh, you know, explosives, failed explosives, into this protest. They were, you know, they were described initially as MAGA. That's why you get the Jesse Smollett thing about it, right? Yes, yes, and so there was a ton of media, you know, jumping to conclusions, and then the mayor stayed on that train. He kept going with the white supremacy crap for 24 hours. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

They just need to do it long enough that enough of their useless or sorry, useful idiots um get that ingrained in their head and run with it. Like then they'll get around. It's the same thing like any newspaper when they have to do a retraction. You know, the the mistake or false information is headline news. The retraction is like on the last page and tiny print, you know, when it's way too late for anyone to notice or care. Like it's already been implanted in people's brains that you know, the first version is the truth. And, you know, I I mean, again, I'm a broken record with it, but we are also sick and tired of that type of BS from these people. And I'm so sick and tired of there being no real accountability for this, you know. I mean, give me a break. Like, how did you know anybody who reads that narrative from Sienna and that uh tweet and says and and believes it and doesn't question it, you are truly a moron. Like you are an absolute dumb person because to read that and know what actually happened and to fall for that narrative, like so, where did what that the bombs just fall into their hands accidentally and they accidentally threw them in the air? Maybe like they thought they were gonna get stung by a bee, and that's you know, I mean, like that's like where they're gonna take the story. Like, oh, a bee, let me, oh, let me throw the bomb really quick so I don't I can't. Maybe they thought it was a hot potato, and you know, and they had to and they had to throw like that's that's how uh um CNN would like end up reporting it, right? Like, guys, they thought they had hot potatoes in their hand and they threw them so they wouldn't get burned.

SPEAKER_03 28:20

You can't chill enough. Like it does the guy who's a multi-million dollar you know actor living in Chicago goes out at two o'clock in the morning in the b in a blizzard to get subway, you know, to just chance run into two white guys in MAGA hats who happen to be carrying around bleach in a noose. Like we're gonna get you in a neighborhood, truthfully, where there aren't a lot of white people on around. Like, you know, and I get the same feel from this, except I think these two are useful idiots. Like, I think they were set up, I think that this was somebody else's idea. They were convinced they're just being used for this, and you know, that's what this is gonna turn out to be is that there's just too much, there's too many coincidences, there's too much, there's too many holes in this, none of it feels right, and and that's I think what we're gonna find out about this. But again, yeah, they're gonna have to start at the mosque. They have to.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

Yeah, yeah. I um I I think your interpretation of this or your what you're taking from this, I I suspect that it's gonna be very accurate. Um, because they were really just dumber than dirt. Yeah, like dumber than dirt. So the whole the whole thing stinks, no matter what. But you know, I I mean, like the whole thing of all of that though, and it's part of what we've been talking about, we, you and I, and people in general, um, as all of this has been going on. I mean, honestly, as far back as all of the border crossings and everything, like you have so many elements of people that you just have no tracking, no idea of who they are, what they're affiliated with. And, you know, thank God that that went down the way that it did, because obviously it could have been so much worse and such a different uh conversation. Um, so but this is the times that we're living in, and it's it's awful. Awful. I know people who don't want to go, you know, to and I'm I I fall under that category. I'm not really interested right now in going to big concerts and big, you know, big events where there's massive crowds of people. I told my daughter last week she wanted to was talking about going to a concert, the Florida, my Florida child, and uh I said, honey, I know you're an adult and I can't tell you what to do, but you are not going, young lady. You are not going. You will be groomed. Yeah, I played that mom card. Yeah, and if that didn't work, I would have put out pulled out the the guilt mom card. I've been like, honey, you're gonna you'll break my heart if you that's a whole other whole other conversation. But um, yeah, yeah, it's just you know, and I I I certainly don't want to be a fear mongerer and tell people that they shouldn't live their life and do things, but my goodness, just um, you know, head on a swivel, be cautious, be smart, you know. That's that's all you can do. That's it is it's literally all you can do.

SPEAKER_03 31:39

And you know what though, for once, we've got somebody who tried to tamp down some of the rhetoric.

Jesse Jackson Funeral Turns Political

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Yes, yes, indeed. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 31:49

So um, you know, in the past whatever it's been two weeks or so, uh, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who who was a friend of President Trump, by the way. Yes, he asked before his father's funeral proceedings that everyone leave the politics at home. Now he he said that very publicly, uh and then they invited a bunch of politicians to speak. So mistake number one.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Yeah, you know they can help themselves.

SPEAKER_03 32:23

Come on, they can't help themselves, but non-politicians did it too. So Isaiah Thomas, so Jesse Jackson is a Chicago guy. I grew up seeing him on TV my entire life. Um, you know, I think I know he ran for president and all that, and I know that he was very much on the national stage, but he was local news here all the time when I grew up. Um, so you know, he Isaiah Thomas was invited to the funeral. He was also a Chicago guy, right? I went to um grammar school and high school with his nieces and nephews. Like I met Isaiah Thomas when I was a kid, and he was a jerk, he was a jerk back then. Um and and he lost the city of Chicago when he played for Detroit against Michael Jordan and tried to kill him uh back in the days when the NBA was worth watching. But he stood up there at this funeral and addressed the five presidents that were in the audience, and and included, you know, of course, President Obama, right, President Biden, President Bill Clinton, but also addressed President Kamala Harris and President Hillary Clinton, uh, because he believes that they actually should be the presidents or should have been presidents. So he he even non-politicians made political statements about all of this. But you had President Obama, President uh Biden, Kamala Harris all got up there, all made very politically charged statements, uh, even at you know, against the request of you know the deceased's family.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Yeah, who uh who was it, his son ripped him for it, ripped him to shreds for it.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

Yep, Jesse Jackson Jr. Yeah, Jesse Jackson Jr., who is you know a uh he is I you know he's part of the American success story in the sense that he's a reformed criminal, like he was a felon, like that dude spent time in jail um for like big boy crimes. Um and but you know, he he's out, he's uh and and for this, he asked for no politics. And then when they violated that, those specific three politicians, he came out the next day and he let him have it. Holy cow! Yeah, he did. And he not only did he say that they violated his request, but they also he also said they stood there and they talked about my father, and they don't even know my father, they never knew my father. So, you know, he basically, you know, you've got uh Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, right, who are have been the two biggest right political, religious leaders in the African American community for the last 25 years, you know, basically took over for you know people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and like they were then follow-on generation. Um, and you've got the first black president who is now being you know is being accused of not knowing or having a relationship with Jesse Jackson. So what spin does that put on former President Obama to stand up there and do that?

SPEAKER_01 35:39

Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, it was a bad look all around. It was uh it's just shameful. It's it's just I mean, that's in a nutshell, it's just shameful that this is what they feel compelled to do at every single turn. Uh, you know, your award shows and all of the things, you know what, that's one thing, and you do almost expect it because they're they're so far left leaning and all of that, but come on, guys, that's so disgraceful and disrespectful. Um but that's what they do. Like you you can't you can expect no less from them. It's a shame.

SPEAKER_03 36:15

I'm I'm very happy that Jesse Jackson Jr. did that.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Yeah, I am too.

SPEAKER_03 36:19

I I am and he listen, he's a die-in-the-wolf Democrat. There's no question about it, but he asked for no politics, they violated that, and then not only did they violate it, but they said a lot of things that were either untrue or he felt even more disrespectful to do that because they didn't have a relationship with his father.

SPEAKER_06 36:38

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

So good for him for calling him out. I think we need more of that across the board and across the aisle, folks. Yeah, like this is not just limited to the Democrats, they just happen to be the ones who this week made the biggest idiots out of themselves.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And to state the obvious, not a single one of them has acknowledged that that hand slap. Nope. What a surprise. What a surprise. They don't even have the class to um to own up to and say, hey, you know what? Feel bad about that, shouldn't have done it. You know, they can't do that. God forbid, if they uh actually take any kind of accountability, even for something as comparatively small as everything else.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

But yeah, and did you what President Biden said?

SPEAKER_01 37:23

No, what do you say that don't go?

SPEAKER_03 37:26

Yeah, and it is, it's a right in his wheelhouse of stupid. Um, he talked about um bullying and how you know he was bullied as a kid because of his stutter and and all of the and then like went into this whole like you know, just because somebody is is has a stutter doesn't mean they're stupid. I'm not stupid. In fact, I'm smarter than uh probably everybody here. So he basically told an entire room full of people they're dumb and he's smart that they're dumb and he's smart, and truthfully, and truthfully, an entire room full of African Americans, yeah. Uh that you know, they're dumb and he's smart. Uh so yeah, and and again, we all know like the Democratic Party and his wife need to put him away.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

They do. It's like stop stop dragging them out of the crypt every chance you get and throwing them up there to like just make them stop, make it stop, yeah. And you know, I I'll tell you what, Bill's Bill's getting right up there too. Like, it's it's time to put him away, it's time to put him put him somewhere safe there because he's um you know, he's stumbling and bumbling all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 38:40

And yes, we talked about his testimony last week, but yes, we bought a new clip this week. Did you see where he was kind of like low-key flirting with Nancy Mace?

SPEAKER_01 38:53

I saw that and I was speechless. I was absolutely speechless. It was it wasn't even I don't even think it was low-key. I think it was like blatant. Like he was flat out flirting with her, and I and she was kind of like uh okay, I don't even I I I can't even write now with this.

SPEAKER_03 39:11

I mean, he was like it was said in a very nice voice, you know what I mean? Like it was very like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

I'm telling you, I think he I think he's flipped his lid like entirely, like he is complete. He it's either one of two things with him. One, he is just simply hit the don't give a hoot phase, and he just isn't letting it fly, or he is it's it's kind of addled up there, and he can't even like control it, like he doesn't even have the control to stop himself. Whatever the case is, like you better put him away because he's gonna be making a lot more shocking offensive uh statements and things. I mean, he almost pushed his wife down in New York City. What was that today? I think that was just today, guys. It's Wednesday. We're recording on Wednesday. You'll see this on Thursday. Um, yeah, there's uh all these videos circulating right now, catching this moment where uh the two of them and of course a gaggle of uh people around them uh were walking uh in New York City and she stopped abruptly because of traffic. And he walked, he kind of gave her a little push and then like walked into her, you know. So, of course, the the memes and everything all over the place are that you know he was trying to push her into oncoming traffic, which of course we're all finding hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

Yeah, he um our listeners uh and viewers last week in the comments, somebody confirmed that he does have Parkinson's disease.

SPEAKER_01 40:43

It is Parkinson's, okay. All right.

SPEAKER_03 40:46

One of our viewers said that last week. Um, so when we were, you know, during that segment of the show, we were talking about his testimony. So, you know, with the Parkinson's, uh, there is gonna be obviously the physical decline. I think you're right. I think there's probably uh uh, you know, signs of a mental decline of some sort. He probably I well, I mean, he clearly has his faculties better than President Biden, but right. Um, I you know Yeah, it's like he's losing the filter. The filter is starting to 80 and it and it's going downhill and it's probably gonna be pretty rapid.

TSA Lines Surge During Shutdown

SPEAKER_01 41:18

So yeah, I think so. I think so. He's got that shuffling gait. Not again, not as bad as um as Biden, but you can see it, and of course, the hand tremors, you know, all the things that we see. Oh, sleepy creepy Joe. Oh, that guy, that guy. I miss playing the uh I miss doing the skits of the handler. I miss doing those. I don't want them back, believe me. I mean, I'm fine, I'm okay, but those those were a lot of fun to do. He gave me nothing but material every single, every single day. There was something to make a skit about. My goodness. Oh, all right. So listen, we're laughing right now, and I am not gonna be laughing in a second because we're gonna be talking about this. Clay, they're freaking me out here. I got travel cars, I got grandbaby visits coming up. They can't be messing around.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

I do as well. Um, I'm on my way down to Florida this weekend to go jump out of a plane with some friends of mine. And uh, but yes, so TSA right now, folks, is you know, there's some significantly long lines in some of the bigger airports. And it it does have to do with a partial government shutdown. Um, no question about it. Uh, there is discussion about curtailing some flights until this gets settled. Um, you know, President Trump, you said it last week. President Trump has said, you know, he's not signing anything until the Save America Act, I think, is passed. And that would probably include any kind of budget declaration at this point. Um so do you do you use any apps to check wait times? I didn't even know there were apps to check wait times.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

I actually didn't, I didn't know that either. You know, so we um we do the the TSA pre-check, and um I never like we typically get to the airport um like within an hour, like an hour before boarding. And I guess that's not gonna be the case this time. I guess we're starting extra early. Yay, yeah. Although I don't know, you and I talked about clear beforehand, so I think that might be the the So I I'm air, I'm airport anxiety.

SPEAKER_03 43:21

I and I do and I do have clear, which cuts out a lot of time. Uh if you travel enough that it's financially worthwhile, you know, if you if you fly enough during the during the year that it may be worthwhile for you. If you're a casual or occasional flyer, um probably harder to justify. Uh but you know, it is uh clear as a definite bonus. Uh but I I am airport anxiety. Like I I am still two hours before, and truthfully, I I overplan it, and I end up getting there even more than two hours before. I do use the USO at pretty much every airport I go to. It's one of those nice veteran benefits that I can go in there and grab a bottle of water and sit down in a quiet place for as much time as I need to. So I don't mind being at the airport early. But this folks is turning into like I think Houston was one of the big ones. I think um Yeah, it's another one too. New Orleans one of the ones in Florida. I don't remember which one. Um, but they were they were in excess of four hours. So if you are a traveler uh or either you've got travel coming up or you're a frequent traveler, um, I think there's a my TSA app. Didn't know that. I didn't either. And so you can it it directs you to wait times, it'll tell you what wait times are at your favorite airport. It also has a lot of stuff on. I was messing around with it today where it's like you know, reminders of you can bring this, you can't bring that. This can go on, this has to go in your check baggage. So there's that, but there are also some other third-party apps that will give you uh wait times.

SPEAKER_01 45:03

Now that's good to know.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

You can always go directly to the social media of the airports that you were flying in and out of.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

So when I saw this on uh whatever it was, Tuesday morning, um, you know, they were talking about Houston and whatever the airport was in Florida, and they were talking wait times of three and four hours, and people being all the way out in the parking garage waiting to get into TSA lines. Um, I was like, oh crap, you know, I'm flying this weekend. So I went to my airport and I checked their social media and it was like 29 minutes.

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:39

So your airports will have in their social media feeds um or on their websites, they will have the TSA current TSA wait times.

SPEAKER_01 45:47

Oh, that's good to know.

SPEAKER_03 45:48

Some of them will even give you trending times. Yeah. So like this time of day, it's worse these days. So check all that stuff out before you go to the airport, folks, so you don't you so you're not surprised. And right now, until they figure this out with government funding, I don't foresee any change to this anytime soon.

SPEAKER_01 46:09

Yeah, yeah. Listen, as far as I listen, you can keep me stuck in Florida, but do not keep keep me stuck here at home. Like I will stay in Florida as long as you need me to. It's all good. I will stay there. That's fine. You know, like, oh, sorry, can't go home. Line's too long. Whoops, my bad. Oh, so yeah, I mean, uh all the laughing and joking around about this aside, it is actually very serious when you think about these um, you know, these TSA workers, these employees that are working without pay, like, and you know, they have families to feed and and um uh things, bills to pay, all of the things, and they're not getting paid. And you know, for the most part, they're still showing up, but obviously, you know, you got ones that are that are not, they're calling in sick and all of those things, and but um yeah, you can't do this to people.

SPEAKER_03 47:01

We've had two incidences in the last week where flights have had to be diverted, yes, because of on airline, you know, in-air incidences. But right, listen, folks, you know, I if if I could tell you nothing else, I would tell you this. Go to the airport. If you're like me and you have airport anxiety, go extra early. Yeah, be be kind to the TSA folks, it's not their fault. I know that we all, you know, you want to get mad at them because you think they're being inefficient or you think there's too many of them standing around or whatever. Keep in mind that those folks are there. There's a lot of their co-workers that are not there, and and those folks may be on a double shift, they may be on an extended shift, you know, they may have been there for 11 and a half hours already. I know you don't care, you know, you, the general you, because you're going to wherever and you need to get there, but uh don't take it out on TSA, folks. It's not their fault. They're costing doing the best they can.

Texas “Moderate” James Talarico Scrutiny

SPEAKER_01 47:56

Yep, be kind, thank them. Yeah, and if they don't say you're welcome, whatever, big, don't worry about it. Just keep going. Just keep going. Do the right thing, do the right thing. Dang it. Oh my goodness. Uh oh gosh, let's talk about this guy. You know, you do this like slow clap that Crockett is out, uh, obviously. And that that's great, but you know what is she getting replaced with? This guy, really. This um, and you called it, you know, beforehand, that the whole moderate thing, the it's a mirage. Like anybody paying attention, and please, please, please pay attention. Um, he's not a moderate, like this is just a like a I don't know, I want to say a Trojan horse, but yeah, I guess that's probably about right. Yeah, that's like that's it's accurate to say. Um that that is right. That's that's really what he he's trying to do. So um James Telerico uh has folks buzzing, of course. He is the moderate messiah, or is he just another progressive in preacher's clothing? Um, yeah, that's all he is. This guy is is uh calling um God non-binary. So right there, like I could for me personally, I could just stop right there and go, okay, that's all that's all I need to hear. That's all I need to hear, okay, to know exactly what this guy is all about. Um, you know, he's he's trying to pass himself off as this moderate guy, and he really is just nothing more than your typical, your typical average run-of-the-mill progressive, and that's all gonna come out. So I can't imagine. Uh I guess I can't imagine, I take it back that that Texas would be like snowed by this guy, but uh I don't know, Clay. I it still makes you nervous.

SPEAKER_03 49:55

Yeah, I mean, he's he's in the district that put Crockett in there. So I mean, you know, is it possible? Sure, it's possible. You know, like you said, it's the uh it there's a creepiness to him, you know, and it is that liberal, that way left liberal, yeah, not moderate. Again, that's the label he has put on himself. Um and and but he's not, he's not moderate. When he says things like God is non-binary, now listen, there's a discussion to be had, you know, the he in the Bible, you know, there was always the movement of God as a woman, right? And you could always go down the road of asexual versus non-binary, right? God is not, you know, is not a gender, regardless. The fact that he used the non-binary label, right? The fact that he has said there are six genders biological, right? Six biological genders, the fact that he is a huge supporter of trans kids, right, and the mutilation surgery and everything that comes along with that, like he is there's nothing moderate about him. He's using the the moderate label to soften his image, which oh, by the way, they did a great um segment on him on Gutfeld last night. Um, after we chose this topic, funny enough. Um, it and in that he is um focus group to death. Like everything that this guy says has been run through a focus group. Every answer that he pulls out of his pocket has been run through a focus group. He will tell you anything you want to hear. That's how he's gonna get himself elected.

SPEAKER_04 51:42

Right.

SPEAKER_03 51:43

Blatant, flat out, lie, tell you what you want to hear just to get into office. Yeah, and that's why he's using the moderate um label on himself is to soften the edges so that he does get elected.

SPEAKER_01 51:56

Yeah, I all I can hope um, you know, for them is that the actual Christians, um Democrat Christians, uh, are paying attention and that that he offends the heck out of them. That that that you know, that's all I can hope for with that, that they their you know, their Christianity, there if they read their Bible, you know, that they take one look at this guy and they use some discernment and say, absolutely not, but we will see, we will see. I certainly wouldn't hold my breath on it based on everything else we've seen thus far uh from that camp, you know. But shame, shame, shame on you if you fall for this and you think this is a good idea. Gross. And yes, you you said mentioned the word creepy. You just take a look at a picture, uh picture of this guy. So creepy, so creepy.

SPEAKER_03 52:51

He's like um, well, he looks like the children of the corn.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

Yes, yes, absolutely. Yeah, it's like they took this, made this like caricature of a stereotype and just cut him out of cardboard and animated them and put them up there and said, This is the guy right here. Um it's bad. Listen, I don't think there's ever gonna be a time where we'll be wishing for Jasmine Crockett back, but only for entertainment value.

SPEAKER_03 53:22

That's it.

Iranian Women’s Soccer Team Seeks Asylum

SPEAKER_01 53:23

Yeah, yes, the entertainment value was definitely a lot better with her. Oh my goodness. So, again, another one to keep watching. I'm sure we'll be talking about this more in uh upcoming weeks and and more. So we'll see. We'll see. Uh, let's talk about one of your favorite topics. I feel like you're sticking that topic in all the time now.

SPEAKER_03 53:51

But every time I have to clarify, we're speaking to an American audience. We use the term soccer, so I don't get yelled at by people who refer to it as football, even though I am a football/slash soccer guy.

SPEAKER_04 54:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 54:03

So, for those of you that that have been paying attention, there was a uh a tournament, a women's national team tournament uh played in Australia over the last couple of weeks, and the Iranian national women's team uh was there, and they were offered uh asylum. Initially, there was no reaction from the Australian Prime Minister until President Trump got involved and tweeted some stuff on X. Um, and then Australia offered these women because they protested by not singing their national anthem um before one of the matches, and it caught the attention of everybody and it hit social media pretty hard. So there's expectations that they are going to there is going to be some punishment uh uh you know put upon them once they return home. Uh and they were scared. They were scared for their own safety, a number of them. And so President Trump stepped in. I think probably didn't give the Prime Minister of Australia a fair shot, but uh the prime minister stepped in and the entire Iranian women's soccer team, coaching staff included, uh, were given the opportunity to take asylum in Australia. Um, six of them have taken the offer. Initially it was seven, and then well, initially it was five, and then two more jumped in, and then one of them backed out and said, No, I'm going home. Um and the fear for them is that their families are going to pay the price if they don't return to Iran. Um the uh the the flip side to that fear is if they return to Iran, they're gonna get punished for not seeing the national anthem. Yeah. Um, and and in you know, that country, especially being women, you know, that punishment could be pretty severe up to including, you know, death. So um, thankfully, uh, you know, Australia, I think, did what they could. I think they offered what they could. Um, but now, even today, a new development is the Iranian men's national team qualified for the World Cup being played here in North America uh this coming summer. And Iran has said that their men's national team is dropping out of the World Cup because of the uh airstrikes by the United States and Israel, and there's no way that they could come over here and play. Personally, I believe that if they let the Iranian men's team come over here, they're gonna have the same result. And there's gonna be a number of them that will seek asylum, defect, stay in the United States, etc. And obviously Iran doesn't want that, so they're gonna stop that from happening by not even putting them on a plane. Um, but some team out there, and I don't know how FIFA's gonna figure this out, but some team out there just got a free bid to the World Cup that they were not expecting.

SPEAKER_01 56:48

Oh, right. Yeah, that's right. Oh my goodness. Yep, yeah. Well, um, you know, I feel like the obvious is uh um to praise praise these women for their courage because this is you know, this is um that's that's huge for all the reasons that you said, you know, for their own safety and then you know, for their family's safety. Um that is uh that is a decision I wouldn't wish on anyone to ever have to make. And you know, what a world to live in that that this is something that even happens. Um, but uh kudos to Trump for putting on the pressure. Love that. Love that. Like, hey guys.

SPEAKER_03 57:29

And then gave and then gave the prime minister an attaboy for stepping in.

SPEAKER_01 57:33

Yeah, yeah, that is good.

SPEAKER_03 57:35

He said it. Prime Minister stepped in, like I said, kind of giving him enough opportunity, but the prime minister stepped in and then, you know, um, and then Trump, you know, applauded him for doing so.

Draft Rumors And Iran War Fears

SPEAKER_01 57:45

So yep, nope, that's good. So um pretty wild story. Uh, I'd love to call it a great story. You know, it's great for those girls that that um are are gonna have some freedom. Um, but geez, there's so much that goes with it. It's so sad. Just the whole thing is so sad. Um let's talk about let's uh let's we gotta we technically have two two topics left, but let's let's talk about this. So this is a uh, you know, a I don't know, is this a real drama or is this a created drama? So uh the rumor mill's been turning on a possible military draft uh amongst all the Iran Iran tensions. Uh Hegseth won't rule out boots on ground and the White House dodges questions. The White House dodges questions. Fear mongering or what? What do you think, Clay?

SPEAKER_03 58:38

There's no draft, folks. It's not happening. And listen, I can I can play both sides of this being a career military guy. Um I I'm not a fan of a draft for a number of reasons. Um, listen, we had we had recruiting problems for a long time because we couldn't get enough candidates who were fit enough to serve, right? Say fit enough. You know, there's the epidemic of medicating kids, uh, which immediately disqualifies many of them from service. Um, you've got kids who are not physically fit enough, you've got kids with criminal records. There's a lot of things that will, you know, make a draft very, very difficult. Two, there's no need. Like we we there is absolutely no need. We have not put a single boot on the ground that anybody knows of. Um, and so we we don't need it. But you know, there's an old adage in the military. Uh, for a commander, right? If you're the guy in charge or gal in charge, you spend 90% of your time dealing with 10% of your soldiers. That 10% are not your top performers, they're the ones that you have to worry about that you know, are discipline issues that get into trouble all the time. If you implement a draft, that 10% is going to go up exponentially because you're gonna have a whole class of folks who don't want to be there. Um, I don't wish that on anybody. So I but listen, folks, there there's no draft, it's not happening. Um there's no there's no reason for it to happen. Um, and I for all of you that are saying that Baron Trump should be serving because his dad decided to do this, you're all way off base. Yeah, way off base. And I could we could have a whole separate section on why, right? And and you can people have been saying things about Prince Harry, and I I was there in Afghanistan, like as as great as that was that he served his country, I will tell you that uh the guys that he served with, who I talked to after he was shuttled out of there in a hurry, um, they all knew that if anybody found out, if the Taliban, if anybody found out that he was there, that they were gonna be targeted so hard, they were more worried about their own safety being close to him if the enemy knew he was around.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:55

Yeah, right. Yeah, six foot nine. You can't miss that kid, you cannot hide him. He is a giant, literal giant. So yeah, so everything's no hiding.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:08

He should be on the front lines fighting because his dad wants to do this, then you are wishing to put more people at risk simply for the you know, on principle. Um, so play off base on that. Regardless, there's no draft, folks. There's no draft.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:26

Everybody calm down, stop wringing your hands and shaking your fists and having a panic attack. It's okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

Yeah, everything's fine.

Tech Glitch And Backup Panic

SPEAKER_01 1:01:34

Your son doesn't have to come out of the basement. It's okay. Oh my goodness. All right, last thing we're gonna talk about before we call it a night, the comment section. Oh, did you freeze or am I frozen? Frozen, frozen. I'm waiting. I don't know if you can hear me or see me.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:17

Hello, absolute panic attack because it went blue screen at that first.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:24

That's scary. My God. Oh my gosh. And I'm assuming that's like the computer with like all of your stuff. Oh all your yo. Yeah, that's enough to give you a heart attack. Oh my god. Holy cow. Wait, I'm gonna leave. I'm not gonna leave. I'm just gonna take myself out off the screen, put myself back on so we're back in the same spots.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:50

Ta-da. That did it. Perfect. Yeah, that is terrifying. Well, note to self, make sure you've backed up your latest copies of everything like immediately. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, that's enough to make your heart stop for sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:04

Yeah.

Comment Section Praise And Pushback

SPEAKER_01 1:09:06

Oh okay. Uh, so we'll take it up with our last thing, which is the comment section. Sound good?

unknown 1:09:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:13

Okay. Yeah, that was our last thing. Yep. Um, all right, guys, we got one last topic for you. And guess what it is? It's the comment section. So I've got, so I love this. So I came in with one comment and it's a good one. It's a nice one. And I was like, I guess that'll be the only one we'll go with, Clay. Does that sound good? And you're and Clay says, actually, I've got one and it's not so good. So I thought, well, there we go. I do love balance. Balance is my favorite word. Um, so yeah, so we're gonna do both. What should we do first? The the the kind or the not so kind?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:50

Let's end on the good. Let's let's go with the not so nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:54

Uh start with the not so nice, is that what you said?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:56

Yeah, this this is the one I pulled, folks. And I there was so much irony in this, and it actually, so this is a comment from one of the shorts that you do, like when you take the show and you pull a highlight, and I don't remember which one it was, but this, you know, Frank says this podcast is a full-on assault to entrational intelligent person, which he he posted this, you know, he hit enter. Uh, I I think he meant any, uh, but he clearly didn't spell check. So he is not obviously a rational, intelligent person.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:35

So he is clearly not.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:36

He kind of outed himself, but uh this is what Frank thinks of all of us, or at least thinks of Elsa and I. And uh, you know, I guess it is what it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:46

It is what it is. Well, you know, and you know, all I would say to Frank is you know, a couple of things. One, you don't have to watch, honey. It's okay, you don't have to watch that gun in on the wall there behind Clay. It's not gonna get you. You're okay, you know, like nobody's holding that to your head to watch, right? I'm so scared. Um, two, I would say, spell check, my friend. Spell check is your friend because you just made such a fool, right? Like, just that's all. Like, we we do know what you meant, but when you are accusing other people of being unintelligent and you don't even know that for one, podcast is one word, not two words, and ent, I mean, just all you have to do is spell check. So, anyhow, thank you for thank you for your comment. We appreciate you. Have a wonderful, have a wonderful life. And then actually, before hang on, I gotta say this before we get to the other comment, I want to say this. So I see in some of the reels that some people comment, who are they talking about? What is this true? Where does it come from? And like the level of bafflement is is baffling. Like it's clearly part of a podcast. Do we do people not know that like if you click on, I don't know, the bio and go to somebody's page or they just click on the the name of the creator of that content, it'll take you over to all their stuff. Like it's it's actually kind of easy to to find, like it's not that hard. And then usually 99% of the time, there is a caption at the bottom or top or side of the video that explains what the video is talking about, so it just takes like a couple of seconds to to read it. People like hate it.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:38

I noticed after that was out for a little while, and there were so many questions about we were talking about Megan Rapino, right? Yes, people couldn't figure out to go and find that stuff at the bottom, and you put a big black and white box right in the middle of it to make in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:56

Like, why are they? I like I really I was feeling bad initially. I'm like, oh my goodness, I made a mistake, I didn't put a caption, I didn't do this, and I've messed everybody up with this, you know, because they all it was all there, it was all there. So I'm not taking the hit on that, folks. So I don't know, whatever. But anyhow, we're ending on a nice note. Look at this sweet comment. Wrong one wrong one, prank again. Oh, wait, no, why do I have it twice? Hang on, I have it twice. Give me a second. Geez, I've got a lot to cut out tonight, huh? Hang on, let me find it. Where'd it go? Where did it go? Why isn't it here?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:37

Oh, such a nice, it was such a nice uh I did I did put it up for you, right? Before, yeah, before we started.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:46

All right, hang on, let me see. I bet it's down here. I must have accidentally deleted it from here. Let's see, is this it? All right, let me take that off. Let me do this. All right, and here is our nice comment to end the show with. Richard. Richard said, this is the first time I've seen your show trying to educate people well balanced and factual. We try, we thank you, and we do try, like, no joke. Like we we try, we try and get all of the facts. I may come in with a little more fluff than than Clay does. Clay comes with the the facts, and it's a nice balance. It's a nice balance, right? Um, but that was so sweet to see. And and we do, you know, I I tell you, and I'm guilty of doing this quite a bit on my my own personal stuff, um, of you know, screenshotting the not so nice comments and then making a response video to them, you know, and usually it's just to make fun and just get a good chuckle out of it. Um, but we really do see the the kind comments, and we are so incredibly appreciative to you guys who watch and um you know and support us and encourage us and and just are just all around awesome, awesome uh people. And we we sincerely thank you for that. So especially thanks for that comment. We appreciate it.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:13

Yeah, folks. I I mean that's that's it. That's where we're at. That's that's it. We love you guys, and we do appreciate everybody tuning in. Um, you know, we do check the comments, obviously, both of us do. And uh, you know, we love interacting with you guys and uh jumping in. I actually enjoy it the most when our viewers and listeners or viewers or whoever they interact with each other. Like I watching that. That's a lot of fun too. Um keep it civil, but yes, please enjoy folks, you know, uh jumping in on a conversation amongst themselves and just Elsa and I being the conversation starters.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:52

Yeah, I love that. I love that it's so fun, it's such a uh a blessing and an honor to be able to do that. So um keep that stuff up, guys. We love it. Clay, you want to close them out?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:05

Yeah, folks, uh again, uh thanks for tuning in. Uh whether you're listening or watching or both, um, you know, put what you want in the comments section and uh maybe we'll make you famous. But uh until next week, as always for me, keep moving, keep shooting.

Closing Thoughts And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_02 1:16:19

Take care, guys. We'll see you next week. The headlines will change by tomorrow, but the patterns won't. Thanks for spending this time with us. We'll be back to keep asking the harder questions and telling the quieter truths. Until then, stay grounded, be discerning, and we'll see you next time.