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Saying What You Think Meaning What You Say Owning Your Speech And Actions, Speculating That Caroline Levitt Will Be White House Press Secretary, RFK JR. Lays In To Donald Trumps Love Of Fast Food Branding It Really Bad, And Michael Steinberg Remembering His Grandfather Len On Veterans Spotlight

Duration:: 3h 5m
Broadcast on:: 14 Nov 2024
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(upbeat music) - Come join me, Andrew Philponi. - And me, Patrick Peterson, three-time NFL All Throw Cornerback on First and Pod for permit NFL coverage and conversations. - Our motto on the podcast is every team every week, and we don't play favorites. Every episode, you get a glimpse of the entire National Football League with First and Pod. Follow and listen to First and Pod on Mondays and Fridays on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music) - Kale and company weekday morning, six till 10. - A dirt bike rider who has died after he collided with a car, this is West Philadelphia, 50 second and spruce streets. So the dirt bike rider was trapped beneath the vehicle. They rushed the victim to the hospital and could not save that person's life. The driver of the other vehicle stayed at the scene, no word yet on whether charges will be filed in this case. And I don't have word, I don't believe that this West Philadelphia, this tragic situation, but was this dirt bike rider somebody who was illegal on the roads, I believe, that this is an illegal situation on the city street. So a dirt bike rider, this is a tragic outcome of riding these illegal vehicles on the roadways. - Let me ask you because, and I get everybody has their own little thing. Some people like sports cars, some people like trucks, some people enjoy boating, others do aviation. - What's the fascination with riding a dirt bike in the city? - It's to be rebellious. - Is it? - Don's this tragic, I say, you know, eff around and find out. - Yeah. - You know, stop with the, you know, trying to terrorize civilians on the street with your stupid dirt bikes. - Yeah. - And if you collide with something bigger than you, sorry. - No, I shouldn't be riding in the first place. - I've driven ATVs before and they're fun, but you know, in a controlled setting. - Off road, absolutely. - I'm not a motorcycle guy, but I have nothing against people that have a bike. But, you know, I would think it's smart to wear a helmet. Do we know if these dirt bikers wear helmets? 'Cause I would imagine it's not. - No, okay. I just know they love to wear the, you know, they love to wear masks and cover their identity up. So I figured they would wear a helmet as well. - They're doing wheelies down the street. - Yeah. - I don't know if this person, I don't know who this person is if they're underage. I have no idea with this situation. I really don't. - Okay. - That's all the information I have. So I will continue to follow up and get more details for you. We have a 14-year-old charged with, charged with starting one of several huge wildfires that spread across New Jersey over the last month. So New Jersey declaring a drought and asking people, it's a drought situation. We've had very little rain over more than 40 days and they've red flag warnings, all of that. But in this case, this is Asian police. And they're saying that October, back on October 30th, officers responded to a forest fire near Sycamore Avenue. This is near the Berlin Township right in the border there. And they say that they accuse this 14-year-old of starting a fire that burned at least 52 acres of land. So New Jersey Forest Fire Service, Eve Shum Fire Department, this was tough to fight, hundreds of first responders and firefighters trying to fight this thing. We have no injuries reported, but in that one, they discovered that that fire, that original one, had been intentionally set, they say, by a teenager. So the teen is 14 years old, started the wildfire facing serious charges. The question I have is, will this person, will the parents be fined? 'Cause sometimes we see that where if it's catastrophic, the parents can face fines. - Yeah, is this kid a pyromaniac? What's going on? - Yeah, so. - That's the one I know. - So because it's a juvie case, and I don't know if the individual will be charged as an adult or anything of that nature, but they won't give the name or anything like that. But they do point out that you will be charged right now because of the drought in Jersey. I don't know that there's a law on this, but they're putting restrictions on water usage, and watering lawns, that sort of thing. So asking you to be cautious about how much water you use amid the droughts. So a big story, it broke mid-morning yesterday, but it's worth talking about this morning. And that is a losing day in court with district attorney Larry Krasner. Remember, he had filed that suit against Elon Musk, over Musk's $1 million voter, the sweepstakes that Musk was offering $1 million to people in swing states, battleground states like Pennsylvania, $1 million. If you signed a petition saying he would support the First and Second Amendments. At this point, the judge, Judge Foglietta, had ruled that in fact, the DA's office and the prosecutors did not make their case. They did not show evidence. They did not even make a compelling argument. They said. (beep) So Musk's lawyers had defended that this was a core, this was really at the heart of a core political speech that they were allowed to do. So Judge Foglietta denying Krasner's petition after the hearing last week and saying that Krasner essentially did not even have a case. - Of course not, it was all political. We knew that and Larry takes DL. I mean, this guy never even goes to court. Now he wants to go to court because of Elon Musk. I mean, come on. - So Elon Musk was giving out $1 million per person a day leading up to the election, $1 million there. And now, well, Pennsylvanians will pay at least a million dollars up to their estimates. This will cost all of us here in Pennsylvania as far as tax dollars, $2 million for a recount because Senator Bob Casey want, he did not waive that automatic recount despite all the lawyers and officials saying there's no way that the incumbent Democrat Senator Bob Casey Jr. can win this race against his opponent, Republican Senator elect Bob McCormack, or I should say Dave McCormack. - Yeah, did you see your boy Guy Sharaki tweeting that Casey's lawyers, some of the substance of this court case, they are actually in court arguing for the following votes to be counted. Number one, ballots of non-registered voters. Two, unsigned mail-in ballots. Three, mail-in ballots without dates. And number four, ballots cast in a county where the voter does not live. I would dismiss this right away. All four of them. This is your argument. Basically, illegal votes is what you're seeking and searching for. - Yeah, so. - Bye-bye. - Okay, sorry. - No, no, no, no, I'm saying bye-bye to these lawyers. Get out of here. - So I don't know if our friend, you know, Linda Kearns is listening. She's been in, she's still in court, ProtectTheVote.com that we've talked about. And yesterday, I write at 10 o'clock, actually, she called in to say they were back in court again for exactly the reasons that you stated what, and she broke news at that point because she was saying this, that in Montgomery County, Bucks County, the argument here is that they have decided they want to count votes that should not be counted that are illegal. - Yeah. - And so now they're within 30,000 votes. At one point, the margin was reportedly 40,000. They still have roughly 80,000 ballots. Some of these are provisionals, but they are expected to your point, Nick, and what Linda Kearns was saying yesterday, that at the end of the day, they have to look at all of these votes, and then it's gonna go to court because the courts have ruled, and the courts have been definitive about what the law says. So this will, that's why this is very costly. The minimum cost, $1 million, and it could be in the millions. And so Linda Kearns have made a plea right here on Talk Radio 1210WPHT. For Senator Casey, I know a long time incumbent, it's difficult to lose a race she had said, but in essence, she had made a plea that he knows the outcome. And the argument here is that if you get these texts and I get them, they are fundraising off of this. And so they're using this to say, and I keep getting the fundraising texts, I could show them to you, please donate because Bob Casey needs to do this recount. You need to donate money. And so then in fact, they're using this, and that is something that's out. They are using that as a fundraising tool to raise money, despite the fact that all the experts are saying, and they're arguing in court, that this is going nowhere. - I mean, I don't care about your party affiliation, Democrat, Republican, whatever. So it's not a partisan thing. But if you can't figure out how to sign your ballot, how to put the correct date down, or even to put a date at all, then you don't deserve to vote. This is not a complicated process. I'm sorry, you should not be involved in other people's lives and decision-making processes. If you can't actually look down at your watch, and I know most people don't wear watches anymore, or look down at your smartphone and see, oh, okay, today is October 8th. Let me put the correct date down. If you can't do that, then you don't deserve to be a part of the process. I'm sorry. And we're not voting for the homecoming queen here, okay? - Are you saying Bob Casey's a homecoming queen? - You might be, I might have to transition to that. - You think about his Senate career. Dad obviously a legacy famous governor here, but Casey Jr., his career spanning four presidencies from George W. Bush, and obviously through Joe Biden now outgoing. I know we'll talk about, we've got the big take coming up and covering everything that was happening. Fast-breaking hour by hour. A lot of exciting news with our entire country seemingly engaged in the cabinet picks of a president elect, which I don't know that we've ever seen that level of awareness or talk, as if it's, I do feel like I'll tell you, like it's an NFL draft. - Yeah, I was just gonna say that. Damn, you stenciled and you took the sports analogy from me, right? - Sorry. - No, it's fine. It does, right? Like you're just sitting there waiting for, all right, who's Howie Rose, I'm gonna grab in this round. All right, Matt, Gates on the fifth round, and this guy in the seventh round, come on down, Tulsi Gabbard. - Yeah. - Look, a lot of people that were involved over the last two to three years. - Yeah, so maybe, you know, no matter what your party affiliation, it's a good thing that people are activated and aware and debating all this. - Yeah. - That's probably a good thing, right? - The next step in the process, we did the victory lap last week. Now let's start looking at some of the key players that are gonna be a part of this administration. - So we do have, speaking of the NFL, we have a big game coming up tonight, Eagles, V-Commanders. - Yeah, baby. - Hey. - Hey. - Get your Amazon Prime subscription renewed if you haven't already, folks. It's the only way to watch it. - Oh. - What? It'll be on here locally. - Oh, that's right. Yeah, you're right. Yep. - Okay, good. - Channel six, I guess maybe, or 10. I don't know, who owns Amazon? Is that NBC? I forget. No, Peacock is NBC. It'll be on three, six, nine, 12, 20, 29, something like that. - I'm trying to look really fast and I apologize. I don't, I should know that, but I don't know where it'll air because I always just count on one of the three males in my household's gonna have the game on. - Yeah. - Find that remote, click on that app, find that password, what a process. - So, Eagles, Commanders. It's a lot of excitement over that. And then the forecast real quick here, 'cause we wanna get to the big take, the all important big take, but it's chilly. Okay, it's 39 degrees, brisk today. The sun will peep out this morning, but this evening we will see some rain, again, not a measurable amount, but we're not really, we're not really reaching much more than the low to mid fifties today, depending on where you are and cloud cover, like I say, rain this evening. So kind of a raw brisk day for this. You know, it is mid November. We also had the Christmas tree arrive and the lighting now the tree at City Hall will be decorated. So it's starting to feel like the holiday season. - Oh, geez. - I know. - Yeah, I see Christmas decorations up. - Yes. - Yeah, down the hall where the music has already started, apparently. It's like walking past the North Pole. - No, I'm not. - I might even talk about our sister's station. - Oh, houses? - Yeah, houses. - Oh, houses. - Yeah, my wife's already floating out the idea of doing the tree pre-Thanksgiving. - Just to get her done. - I don't know. - Well, Thanksgiving's late this year. - It is. - It's, you know, yeah. I guess people are taking advantage of it being late and doing it before Thanksgiving. - I guess, I typically do the first Saturday in December is usually the way I try to approach it with. - I'm with your wife though this year because like this weekend, we're in the low 60s and it's going to be sunny. And then what if it, what if we finally do get the rain or we get precipitation or freezing cold? - Yeah, yeah. - So there's that. - I might cage my wife as well. (laughing) - He caged me yesterday if you missed it. And the dog. - By what? - And Carvel's cat. - Can you, can you read that? Can you read that text you got, Nick? - Oh. - Yeah, yeah, from our buddy Joe. This was great. So, yeah, one of the Zoli Army listeners is my buddy Joe Snow. He golfs over at Bluebell. He says, "Good show this morning. "I was driving in the Philly area early for meetings. "I was able to listen to the whole ride in. "It would be funny if you do a show from a dog cage. "Do it for charity. "Tell Stalker to get on this "or do a remote from the SPCA." - I like the idea of putting you in a dog cage in that studio and-- - Yeah, give me a headset. Well, I'll do it like remotely. All the proceeds go to the SPCA. I think that's a great idea. Do they make giant dog cages? - I could actually fit in the dog cage that we use for our dog. It's almost like a walk-in. It's not like he's in like a little three by three. Like, you know, it's still. It's like a palace. - Oh, it's still. - Oh, it's not a palace, it's not a palace. - Give him a blanket and his stuff. - You're not happy. - For those of you that tuned in, that didn't hear the show yesterday, first of all, why? - Where were you? - The second of all. - We started six days. - Nick said that sometimes when him and his family go out for 10 or 12 hours, they cage the dog for the entire time. - Yeah, four to five, four to six times a year. Yeah, yeah. Send your hate comments in the YouTube algorithm anyway. - And Greg, I live, I probably live, what, 15 minutes? Greg and I both said, just drop your doggy up to our house. Take the dog. - Jimmy Kelly marked the tape, 836. It's already been sent to me in my files. - Might not get your dog back, you know? I'd be fine with that, actually. - Yeah. - Well, that is Killing Company News Live. - All right, Don, thank you very much. 618, let's get to a Thursday big take. - The big take on Killing Company. - And it's brought to you by Wawa Senate and sworn to secrecy. I'm a big believer in saying what you think, meaning what you say and owning your speech and your actions. I have no problem telling you what I have voted for. In fact, I've told you when this show started almost three years ago that prior to being a Trump voter, I grew up in a moderate Democrat family, not really a political family by any stretch. I even voted in 2008 for Barack Obama before becoming a Republican in 2016. But what happened yesterday to Donald Trump and the newly GOP-controlled Senate was the epitome of cowardice. That's right, I think it's cowardice. Yesterday, Republican senators voted to elect John Thune as Senate majority leader as he takes over for Mitch McConnell. I wanted it to be Rick Scott, the Republican Senator from Florida, he and Donald Trump are aligned in vision and policy, he's a businessman, a former outsider. I'm not shocked though, nor am I surprised that Scott didn't get the vote. In fact, I gave you the odds on Monday's show, courtesy of Polymarket that showed Rick Scott was the favorite, but it was only a 52% chance to emerge as the Senate leader. John Thune was at 40%. So he was in no way shape or form a long shot. But what I can't stand, nor can many of you, I would assume, is how these votes are done behind closed doors in secrecy. Americans across the country elect these senators into office. We pay their salaries as their constituents, but ultimately their customers, we deserve transparency. And I'm happy that Trump is back in the White House, Republicans have the Senate, Republicans have maintained the House, SCOTUS has a conservative majority. It doesn't get much better than that, and I get it. You can't have everything you want. I'm not keen of Marco Rubio. I have my doubts of Kristi Noem in the position she was put in. The rest of Trump's pick so far, I am on board with. But this vote of John Thune over Rick Scott just reeks of establishment Republicans who are looking out for their own interests to play nice, nice with their fellow Democrats, an attempt to slow down Trump's momentum, his vision, and his agenda. And I've been clear about my thoughts on many Republicans in office. I'm not opposed to every single swamp creature. I'm also not in love with every single outsider. I try to judge and evaluate the ones we cover who are in the news and in the spotlight on a case-by-case basis. I've told you before, Carrie Lake, she's a loser, a two-time loser now. Marjorie Taylor Greene makes it all about herself. I like Byron Donalds. I like JD Vance. I don't like Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. I do like Nancy Mace, and I do like Tim Scott. I'm probably unique in those views because usually Republicans are either part of the swamp or only down with the outsiders. It's a blend for me based on personality, voting choices and whether or not they do the job at hand or if they make it about themselves. But John Thune seems like a succession plan. Keep in mind, he's Mitch McConnell's number two. This is the equivalent of the head coach retiring in football and then promoting the unpopular offensive coordinator to fill the vacancy. You look at Trump, he's the new owner of the franchise. I want his guys, not the other person's leftovers. And I know conservatives are probably ticked off about this and they should be. This feels like the equivalent of potentially having to go from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris. Think about it, Kamala tried to claim that it would be a break from Biden. But when asked if she would change anything she's done over the last four years, when asked by Sonny Hostin on the view, she said no, nothing comes to mind. I hope that's not deja vu with John Thune succeeding Mitch McConnell. MAGA Republicans wanted nothing to do with Kevin McCarthy, leading the House and we want nothing to do with the remains of the Mitch McConnell era. Thune said the following yesterday on television. Listen and watch this. - The United States Senate and it's a new day in America. The American people have loudly rejected the failed policies of the Biden, Harris, Schumer agenda. And this Republican team is united. We are on one team. We are excited to reclaim the majority and to get to work with their colleagues in the House to enact President Trump's agenda. We have a mandate for the American people. A mandate not only to clean up the mess left by the Biden, Harris, Schumer agenda, but also to deliver on President Trump's priorities. We will make sure that the President and his team have the tools and support that they need to enforce border security laws and to remove the violent criminals who are wreaking havoc in every one of our states. We will work to make America prosperous again by streamlining the bureaucratic machine and overturning costly Biden, Harris regulations. And we will work to restore American energy dominance, not just our energy security, but energy dominance, which will lower costs and bolster our national security. - Now look, I'll give him a chance, but if he fails, I want him ousted. Quick, fast and in a hurry. Why you might ask? Because his track record indicates what I just played is nothing more than lip service NBS. The Heritage Foundation rated him 62% conservative compared to 95% conservative for Rick Scott. Now that doesn't disqualify him in my opinion. His past words though are more of a red flag. Here was John Thune a few years ago on Washington Post Live, listen and watch this. - Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. Would you support him? - Well, I'm hoping we end have other options. - Mm, I was hoping for other options as well for Senate Majority Leader Rick Scott for one. But that was when he was on the 117th Congress. We're now up to the 119th edition of Congress. Look, I'm willing to give him a chance. MAGA is in love with JD Vance. But after what JD Vance said about Trump eight years ago, things change, right? Trump has also given Marco Rubio a second chance after competing against him in the past. But there's more receipts that Thune is an anti-Trumper. Here's Thune on Trump's social media approach years ago on Fox News. Listen and watch this. - But it's certainly not helpful. And it's not presidential. President needs to stay focused. We got an agenda. - Have you reached out to the White House to express that? - I haven't reached out specifically with this latest tweet. But I think the White House is fully aware of what many of us think in terms of the use of social media. And I think the President, I'd like to see him confine it to talking about the issues that the American people care about in his agenda, which is jobs in the economy and tax reform and infrastructure and healthcare reform. We just heard from the White House saying, "No, mean tweets, my God, he puts out mean tweets. Stay focused." Sources tell Fox News that no candidate reached a majority yesterday during the first secret ballot in the old Senate chamber on Wednesday morning. Senator Rick Scott from Florida received actually the least amount of votes. And he was knocked out of the race immediately. It was down to then Thune and Cornyn. Some of the other details include each of the candidates that made a final pitch to their fellow Republican senators that occurred late Tuesday night in a forum held by Senator Mike Lee, Republican for Utah, joining Thune in leadership are John Barrasso of Wyoming, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, James Langford from Oklahoma, and Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina. Now, Rick Scott walked out of the meeting with two new public endorsements from both Lee and Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, but a source familiar with Fox News told Blackburn that he had multiple questions during the discussion, including, quote, "how they would give conservatives a more meaningful voice in the Senate and for specific details as to how they would immediately implement Trump's mass deportation operation." Apparently, Scott's remarks did not do much to impress or sway the members. According to reports and sources, he, quote, "focused more on his time as a businessman instead of the priorities for the Senate." So that's an interesting curveball. Now, if true, based on that, then maybe Rick Scott dropped the ball in his presentation, and he wasn't convincing enough. If so, that is on him. But Scott had received support from Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio. I know we want it all, but you can't always get everything that you want. But let's give him a chance. Let's see if John Thune is like JD Vance, and he's had an awakening. Or if it's more of the same old, same old, and time will tell. And that's the big take. The big take on killing company. Big take this morning is brought to you by Wawa. Excuse me. Getting a little horse here. You may have heard Wawa has pizza, but did you know that Wawa has pizza at a really great price? 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[MUSIC PLAYING] I wanted to get your thoughts yesterday as to the way this vote played out in secrecy as John Thune emerges victorious, Rick Scott. He didn't even make it from the trimming of three down to two. So we did not get what I think a lot of us wanted. I know I wanted Rick Scott just because it seems to me, like him and Trump, are in harmony together. But I am willing to give a guy like Thune a chance. The same thing with Mike Johnson on the house side. And Mike Johnson, I think, has been up and down, hit or miss. I would just say Mike Johnson has been meh, meh. Like the kids saying on social media, meh. I don't really have to take one way or the other on Mike Johnson, but did not get what I wanted yesterday. But the bigger issue is these individuals that we put into office, and they vote, and we don't know how they vote. That is the thing that I think we deserve more and we deserve better of. Yeah, OK, so first of all, I think it's notable that when Trump put out any statement, he did not endorse anybody. He actually did not-- because I even went back and looked-- yesterday, I thought I was like, did he actually come out and say we all inferred, obviously-- Well, he said Rick Scott's my guy, right? Or something like that. But he then couched-- I don't know, he didn't come out with what I think is a clear-cut endorsement, I think. Yes, correct. Did he want Rick Scott to, obviously, win his Senate election? Does he like him? Does he prefer him? Absolutely. He is called Thune in the past, Mitch's boy and Arino. But look at the actual statement that he put out. All he really cared about was that whoever gets that majority seat, it was important to him. And reportedly behind the scenes, they all promise this. But essentially, they would paraphrasing here to not use the technical terms. But they would, in essence, fast track all of the different appointments so that they can get things done, so that the things aren't delayed through these procedures that they have in place. So that was the promise that all three, reportedly, that they all did promise him that. And then I just felt like Trump, he stayed out of it. Elon Musk, according to the Daily Beast, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson were the ones that lobbied the hardest against Thune and for Rick Scott. So to your point, there were people out there pushing harder for Rick Scott than specifically Donald Trump, right? And I saw, yeah, I was watching a little television last night 'cause God, man, Tuesday and Wednesday night television is just painful. Just absolutely painful. All right, grandpa. It's just, you know, Mondays are great, Thursdays, Fridays and Wednesdays. You might as well just eat and go to bed. Is it 'cause there's no sports on? Yeah, that's right, that's right. That's right, that's right. You know, my sons, this is so weird, but they, you know what they love, Colombo. Colombo, the old, the old detective. I thought Nick would love this. Oh, yeah, my pox was a big Colombo guy. I'm telling you, things come full circle. When you get so much technology and so much everything at your fingertips, you're like, what's this TV thing? Oh, look at this show from the 1970s. But it's a Lumbo, let's watch this. - It's a Lumbo. - Yeah, it's a very logical Lumbo. By the way, they've done a reboot of Matlock. Have you seen that? CBS is rolling it out with, oh, what's her name? She was a Molly Brown in the Titanic. Kathy Bates. - Bates. - I was gonna say Kathy Barnett. Kathy Bates. Kathy Bates, yeah. But anyway, not to get sidetracked and go down a rabbit hole of old television shows, which we could do that when things slow down eventually, but they never do around here. So, I was watching television last night and Byron Donald's was, which by the way, I'd like to see, there's still other positions within the cabinet and there's hundreds of jobs. I'd like to see Byron Donald's really get a chance to do something. - He's so great. - He's so phenomenal and he's been good. He's a great speaker, he's very convincing. He was saying, look, make no mistake about it, that this is the Trump agenda and John Thune knows that. And he pretty much basically was saying without saying, like, if you don't fall in line to make sure that things are accomplished, that Donald Trump wants to achieve, you will not last in this position. So, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I don't think we're ever gonna get to the point, like we did with Kevin McCarthy, with all of those votes and those counts and things like that, that went well into the night in the early morning hours, but there's definitely people out there that are not ecstatic about this pick. - They're not, but remember we talked about this on Tuesday with Sean Farris and I just had this, I said at the time, I think it's Thune because, and we have to say his name, Thune. - Thune, yeah, yeah. - I don't know. - At least. - But yes, that's, but-- - Thune, French, by the way, what is that? - Thune. - I hate it already. - But the thing is, you know, obviously he has favor-- - Thune. - Thune, yeah. - I can't say it, you know. - Thune, we should just say Thune, like Greta Thune. - Yeah. - But, and I just, my sense of Thune is that he's a guy who, you know, has favor with his fellow senators and he lobbied well with him and that goes in part to, that's part of the job. And so what I think MAGA Republicans are worried about and rightfully so is that all of us remember when Thune, when he was on all those shows, and I forget which time it was with impeachment hearings or whatever, Russia, Russia, Russia going back. But this guy was on all those shows, on those Sunday morning shows, all those shows, and I just remember him, I just wanted to throw something at the television, you know what I mean? And so I think it's honestly, it's that visceral reaction, like, oh God, this guy is gonna give the shiv, he's not, you know, he's really not on board, he's saying anything. So that's, I think, what all the MAGA people, because of everything we've all been through, what we think, but allegedly he's on the team. Mike Johnson had said that they were all his favorites, the House Speaker, and we know that Johnson is in step with Trump and they've had conversations. - Yep. - So. - All right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10. Let me get to Tulsi Gabbard, and I wanna get to Gates as well, but I'm starting with Gabbard because I think she's, A, gonna be good at this job, and B, I like her. I'm not 100% sold on the Gates pick, so we'll get to that 'cause I know there'll be a little more discussion on that. I think Tulsi Gabbard is well liked, obviously, by some, if not many Republicans, and some, if not many Democrats as a former Democrat herself, as she is now tabbed as the Director of National Intelligence. I saw this tweet from a Libs of TikTok, and this is perfectly illustrated. I'm just gonna steal this because I agree with it wholeheartedly. They put Tulsi Gabbard on a terror watch list. Now she's the Director of National Intelligence, the biggest FU to the deep state swamp, which is absolutely valid. I think she has been phenomenal. You guys know I like her a lot. If Trump was gonna go female for Vice President, I was, you know, I don't know if I was lobbying for, but I said that she would be my top pick. If Trump felt like he needed a female Vice President, especially to win over moms in the suburbs, post Roe v. Wade for the election, obviously, the rest of that is history, and it's water under the bridge, but I think she will do a really good job. I find it interesting too, because she's an Iraq war veteran, and she was a lieutenant colonel. And also, the way they frame it is that she controversially met with Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad in 2019, and declared that he was not an enemy of the US. And it's interesting how the mainstream media tries to paint her as somebody in a negative light, because she deemed somebody in the Middle East not to be an enemy of the US. It's almost like the mainstream media has been corrupted by the military industrial complex, and it's, oh, how dare that? Somebody say that somebody in the Middle East is not an enemy of the US, because we want to keep blowing things up in the Middle East and going to war. So I really like her. They also characterize it, according to Axios, as in an unusually high-profile pick for a bureaucratic job coordinating between US intelligence agencies. So why is it a bad thing if she's high-profile, and she got one of these jobs? I mean, she's been out there on the frontlines with Trump for a while now. I think she's going to be a really good pick. Before we get to Gates, don any thoughts on Tulsi Gabbard in this role? Well, I think, first of all, what all of these people have in common is that they're fighters, and they're loyal. I mean, she's been loyal to Trump. She's come on board. She has co-led his transition team, and he trusts her. So he has to sit in a room with his cabinet members. He has to meet with these people. Face to face, he has to work with these people. He wants to be confident that they're loyal to him, because at the end of the day, I don't see him delegating to these jobs, to any of these people. And I think that's the point that individuals are saying, oh, you know, who was it? Susan Collins of Maine, she had expressed surprise with the Gates pick, but I just think it tells you that Trump is, he's the commander-in-chief. He's running things. He respects these people. And the question I have is how much of Don Jr. is how much Don Jr. was involved in talking to some of these selections out? 'Cause we do know-- - Especially the younger outsiders, right? - Yep. - Yeah. - I just, I think that Trump, this time around, he does not want, he does not want, in his cabinet, any possibility of anybody giving him the shiv. But think about this. Remember that Don Jr. wants JD Vance to carry on the baton. - Right. - So look at who might threaten that. And that's why I think where they've blocked out certain people like Nikki Haley. - Yeah, I agree. And, you know, a lot of the mainstream media, oh, who's Pete Haggs, where'd this TV dude come from? Look, you can be somebody that's never served in a certain role, but yet have all the pedigree and all the chops to do it, okay? Stalker selected me to do Morning Drive when Rich went to afternoon. I mean, I know radio, I've done sports talk radio, I had never done talk radio before. So like, I'll sit here and defend the Tulsi Gabbards or anybody out there, the Pete Haggseths that are being put in a position that they've never actually done that specific position. Pete Haggseth is a combat veteran, right? He's a great communicator, that's why he's on TV. So you can enter a job that you've never worked in before and be a homerun hire. Now, let me get to Matt Gaetz. Now, he's a lawyer, he's gonna be the Attorney General. Do I think he can do the job? Yeah, I think he can do the job, right? He went to law school, he went to William, I think it was William and Mary College of Law. So I don't question his ability, his acumen, to prosecute things on behalf of the United States. I think he could probably do the job really well. He's a pit bull, he doesn't give a damn. That being said, and I'm always honest with the audience, I don't really like Matt Gaetz, I've made it pretty clear. I think he's kind of a D-bag. I have no disdain for whatever he's been accused of doing, the sex trafficking, the Department of Justice, by the way. I actually, 'cause I was so bored last night and I'm flipping through the channels, Joy Reid was on and I saw the readout on my TV guide on YouTube TV. So I put her on and they had breaking news across with the little red banner that Matt Gaetz is under investigation by the G. That is not breaking news. That is complete journalism malpractice to say that it's breaking news that he was under investigation by the-- - He was, the house. - No, he is under, well, he resigned. So he was under investigation with the house ethics committee. - But that's not breaking news. That's been going on for a long time. - Allegedly they were supposed to release a report on him on Friday that it was, quote, "highly damaging" and he resigned just in time for that to not happen. - And I can separate, like, there's some, like with Tulsi Gabbard, like, I like Tulsi Gabbard and I think she's gonna do a good job. I think Marjorie Taylor Greene, I align with her policy-wise, I think she's a sideshow freak. I just, I don't need the power cleans in your garage gym. Like, I don't care about that. Just do what we pay you to do. So that's where I am with Gaetz. Like, I agree with Gaetz on policy. I like the fact that he's got balls, but I do also think he's kind of a jerk off. But that's just me. - Saul Queens' Matt Gaetz probably doesn't lock his dog up in a crate for 10 hours. - That's fine. He just sex traffics kids. (laughing) - And we can play that game all day, right? All right, Mr. Morality on YouTube. How about I put you in a cage? (laughing) Yeah, but like, I'd be honest. Like, I've said this in the past. Like, I think Gaetz does a little sideshow stuff. And like, if that's cool, if you're an entertainer, if you wanna do a show on YouTube or do a podcast, great. You wanna do a radio show? But I like the politicians outside. Well, Nick, you love Trump. Again, Trump is one of one. I don't need a bunch of wannabe Trump's out there. I need people that get things done, right? Like, I don't need 53 showmen on my football team, right? I need my muckers and my grinders. I've got Jaylon Hertz, I've got AJ Brown. I need guys that get in there in the mud that don't want the attention in the spotlight. That's what I like about certain politicians. But again, I think Gaetz could do a really good job. And Gaetz has been against the weaponization of government. So I hope he keeps his word to that, because even though I wanna fight fire with fire, there's been a bad precedent set in this country. I don't want other politicians on the Democrat side prosecuted and being the victims of weaponized government. I want that era of politics to come to an end, right? - Okay, to go through this really quickly about Matt Gaetz. So pulling up the committee on ethics that was looking into this, and remember, this goes back to Kevin McCart, this goes back to the former House Speaker, why they butted heads. Because they had allowed this ethics investigation, this was going through. There was a statement this past summer that said there's been a significant and unusual amount of public reporting on the committee's activities. This Congress, much of that reported, has been inaccurate. And this was speaking about this ethics probe that they had been called to look at representative Gaetz. And they said their investigations are conducted confidentially, but the committee's confidentiality rules do not prohibit witnesses from disclosing information about the committee's requests or conversations with their investigators. So as far as that goes, an investigation as they go on and explain it, does not mean in any way that there are charges or that there's guilt of any sort. - Oh, I agree. - So if somebody's tuning in and they're like, what are you talking about? - This is years and years ago, he had allegedly signed up for, I don't know if it was an app, a dating site, whatever. And allegedly, there was a person there who was a young woman who was 17 years old. And that he had gone through one of these dating apps and gone out with her. And that was, that's the allegation. - You got out with her. (laughing) - Well, took her off for a soaker. (laughing) But hey, do we know about the, do we still know about the Congress member? Remember with a young man in the boardroom and the set of chambers? - Bumping and grinding in after hours. - He was videotaping or whatever. - We still don't know. - With an older, an elder statesman who was a lawmaker that they were having relations. - We still don't know who's cocaine was in that cubby on July 4th of 2022. - So it feels, somebody on Substack, and I forget who it was, did a whole thing on this, what a hit job it was on Matt Gates, I have no idea what really happened. - Oh, the oppo dump on this is gonna be glorious. It's gonna be galore. - And right, this still might come out. - Oh, yeah? - So this report still might come out. And it's just like Jack Smith. Jack Smith is gonna resign. Oh, he's a special product. He's gonna resign, but he's still gonna dump his report. And so, you know, all of these individuals, I don't know if I agree with investigating somebody, dumping him from it. It's like taking a dump on the whole just judicial system. - Yeah, which I'd like to do someday, actually. - And all seriousness, this is not our process in this country. If you have good, dumb people, if you have a crime, then charge them. The fact that this has swirled for years and years about Matt Gates, and they're trying to destroy, you know, his reputation, but if, usually with DOJ, they'll charge you with something. Why aren't there any charges? - I agree. - You guys remember that interview that Matt Gates did with Tucker Carlson about that kid Nestor that he took in? - Oh, yeah. - You guys remember that? And how awkward and weird that was? And how he-- - I'll talk to a guy in general. - No, no, no, no. I mean, Matt Gates was a very odd conversation. I think there's a lot there. I think there's a lot there. There's a bizarre situation. - Well those politicians, they're all insane. - They're all weird. - But then we could say that if there's something here, if there's a crime, then charge them with something. You know what I mean? But the fact that they have, look at DOJ, how active they are, by the way, in the feds, in the weaponization of government. So in my, just in my humble opinion, if there was something here with this guy, they would have charged him. - By the way, Road Warriors is getting back to Nick in the cage. Who's gonna clean up Nick's poop in the cage? (laughing) - I'm putting newspaper down. (laughing) - I love it. - What we used to do for our puppy back in the day, put the newspaper down in the old sports section. - 855-839-1210. So right now, as we wrap up the hour, here's your administration to date. Marco Rubio, Pete Heggseth, Matt Gates, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswami, Kristi Nome, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, Mike Waltz, Tom Holman, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Huckabee. 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In the news locally this morning, a big story as it's a big defeat for our district attorney, Larry Krasner, who filed that suit last month to try to have the sweepstakes of one Elon Musk shut down under Pennsylvania law. However, the top prosecutor was told in court that he failed to show that it was an illegal lottery and this is the judge's newly released opinion here in Philadelphia. So the judge releasing the statement saying that although the DA Krasner alleged that the America PAC and Elon Musk had scammed people, the Common Please Court judge, Angelo Foglieta, wrote in his opinion released that DA Krasner quote, failed to provide any evidence of misuse beyond mere speculation. - Okay. - That from the judge. - Boy, must be nice to be the district attorney, never prosecute any real crime in your own city, give everybody get out of jail for free cards and then have really no evidence, no concrete standing to take a billionaire to court and then just have this go away like that. - Mm, seems like weaponized government, but that's just the thought bouncing around in my head. - Now, I don't know how it works. You raised an interesting point. So with Republican Dave Sunday taking over the AG's office. - A lot of days, well, that's in the GOP and PA. - So would the new attorney general, would this be something where they would investigate that? Whether or not this was appropriate? - Mm-hmm. - That's a good question. - I know. - Musk committed more than $70 million to the political action committee, to his committee, his PAC, to help Donald J. Trump return to the White House and as well as the Republicans and has now been tapped by the way to help lead a government efficiency effort with, along with that was an announcement was made, was that yesterday or day before, you know, it's all spinning 'cause there were so many announcements but he will partner reportedly with Vivek Ramaswami with that if government efficiency department. So, Fogliata, you may recall a judge, had denied Krasner's petition after last week's hearing, but then explained the reasoning in this newly released opinion that we're able to see and said he did not want to issue this long standing order given that there was only really one sweepstakes remaining by then and so that was part of the, you know, part of the thinking here basically. Musk's attorneys had said that the last person chosen would not be from Pennsylvania anyway. And so that was part, you know, part of the reason that they let that go, but the Krasner's office had released a statement later yesterday saying, quote, we respectfully disagree with the judge's opinion. - Okay, I mean, as far as Elon Musk goes, and I saw this yesterday, I thought this was a very good way to understand the whole, are we calling it Doge? - I guess that's the way we're in department of government efficiency and technically we're calling it. That's how you pronounce it. - I mean, it's not technically. - No, no, no, that's not technically, that's how we're calling it because it's named after that calling, the Doge calling. - Oh, that's right, that's right. - But you call it the doge. - The doge. - The doge. - The doge. - The doge. - The doge. - The doge. - Doge. - Doge in the cage. - There wasn't a, put the doge, put the doge in the cage. - You're not going to live that down. - That's fine. It's all about creating a brand, good or bad, right? Put the doge in the cage and then put the lotion on. - And put the, rubs the lotion on its skin. One of the economists that was on yesterday on television was talking about how for every three dollars the government spends one of those three dollars is money wasted and when we talk about the deficit and government efficiency with a six trillion dollar deficit, I mean, think about that, if we can eliminate that 33%, that's shaving two trillion dollars right off of the top by the time the first administration is over. So if Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy end up being as good as we hope they are with trimming the fat and the wasted money in Washington, we're, that's a nice little starting point. It's one of the share that little tidbit for you. One out of every three dollars that the government spends is money that should not be spent to begin with. Think about that. And 50% of it is on stuff like social security. So, you know what's funny is that you could probably trim so much out of the government and not even notice it. - I actually believe you could whack 25% of government employees. - Easily. - And you wouldn't know they were gone. - 100%, right? - 100%. - Say, well, what about this, this department and that department is, I guarantee you would not affect our lives. - Yep. - The problem is, so with all of this word, I think it's something that we have felt even though we get the numbers. So I think the most important thing that they could do is just pass laws where everything needs to be an online site and anybody can look at it. Transparency. - Agreed. - And so, and I would say cameras everywhere. You know, to your point of your big take this morning, why is it that public lawmakers on public property in the people's house had a Senate majority pick in private? - That's outrageous. - I want cameras and microphones everywhere. We pay their salaries, we pay for the building, we pay for the heat, it's ours, it's the people's house. And this government is supposed to work for us. And yet, we don't have full transparency where the money is being spent, how it's being allocated. All they have to do is shine a light on it and put it online so that we can all go through it. - That's right. - And we would. - That's right. - And then basically, we become, it's almost like Wikipedia where it's like crowdsourcing, where the American people as citizens, we get to look this up up and go, wait a minute. - Yeah. - They allocated a billion dollars for what? - We become the fact checkers. - Yes, sir, and that's free. - Yep, I agree. So, we got that going on. We have a reward, this is important, a reward now being offered. After a memorial plaque honoring a Philadelphia police officer who was killed in the line of duty, has now vanished. So this plaque was installed on the 2000 block of South Broad Street right near Snyder Ave. After Officer Charles Knox was shot and killed in the line of duty, and this happened right along that street in 1992. So Philadelphia police offering this $5,000 reward. He was an officer patrolling in the first district. They're noticing, or excuse me, the officer patrolling, and this is the first district, notice that this memorial was missing. And so the FOP, Returnal Order of Police, they're putting this out here, that somebody stole this plaque apparently. They're trying to review surveillance imagery to figure out who did this, but very upsetting. So there is a $5,000 cash reward, no questions asked. They want this plaque returned. Disrespectful to Officer Knox and his family and to all of our law enforcement who protect and serve. And just looking at yesterday, fast moving details, as we know that President Joe Biden, President-elect Donald Trump meeting in the Oval Office at the White House yesterday. - Boy, the pictures were good. I haven't seen Joe Biden smile that much in four years. - By the way, there's a picture floating around of Trump, Biden, and Jill, I know. - Yeah. - And no Melania. - I was looking at that, I'm just like, wow. - Yep, yep. - Yeah, what a, yep. - Melania's like, screw all three of you. (laughing) I'm not coming. - I am busy. - I'm hanging out with Barron. It's my, it's a parent teacher day at NYU. - Well, that's just it, I think Joe Biden, I think that he basically, to me, when I look at that image, what he's saying to those long time Democrats, who he's been, imagine working with somebody like 30, 40 years, like Nancy Pelosi, like these are colleagues, these are, imagine your coworker, no matter what you're doing, and they give you the shiv after decades of working with that person and trusting that person, and they just throw you and your career under the bus. (laughing) - Yeah, it's also the thing, I was thinking, because I've always, and I've said this on the show many time, I think all women secretly hate each other. I'd love to get Melania, Kamala, and Jill together, and just hear what's going on in between their ears when they're not talking, right? Like, you talk about a stalker here, this is for you, it's talking about a triple threat wrestling match, you get Melania, Kamala, and Jill in the ring, and just rip each other apart. - See, I'm a woman, I disagree with you completely, and I will tell you, you can ask anybody that I've ever worked with, we would joke, in the newsroom, TV newsrooms, and we would say that that's such a, the imagery of women being caddy, the men of the bees and the, we would say they're the divas. - Oh, men are absolutely the same way. - And so that's Joe Biden yesterday, all these guys jockeying for present, Joe Biden yesterday, that smile was his middle finger to his own party who thought he couldn't win. I guarantee you, he'll be interviewed, he's gonna say, I could've won, they made a mistake, they did this, and look at, they lost. - When do you think that'll happen? You think what? - It's February. - It's more February, yep, yep, there's no doubt that Joe, Joe, I genuinely believe, deep down inside that he feels like he still could've done better than her, right? - Yep, 100%. - So we've, just to recap, like some of this, and with the local ties, Pennsylvania Senate race between the incumbent Democrat, this is Senator Bob Casey Jr. and Republican Dave McCormick, that is now headed for the recount because the deadline was yesterday for Casey to waive that, to file a waiver, because by all accounts, by all the experts accounts, Casey has lost this race. So what does that mean for Pennsylvania taxpayers? It means a minimum cost of $1 million for this recount, it should be done, I believe by next Tuesday. - Mm, sounds like a case for Doge. - Yeah. - It's a part of my way of wasting money here. Let's send an eel on and vivate. - Let's go, yeah, Casey, clean it up, let's go. Go home, you lost. - So now they do the recount, and they were, yesterday the report was 40,000 votes apart. Today, it's more like 30 plus thousand, but that is because counties like Bucks and Montgomery, they had decided, their Democrats who won those counties, had decided to include ballots that are not, you know, reportedly are not legal because they're not proper, they're not legal, they're these involved non-citizens, that sort of thing. So this is gonna be a court case as well. - Oh for sure. - That's what ups the cost. - Yup. - So I will-- - So like court cases on recounts are not a good thing now? - No, I'm not, no, no, I'm not-- - I'm saying that, the court cases are important. - 2020 was not that long ago. - Aw, I really hear it. - No, the court get, Greg, to your point, the court cases are important because they set precedent. - Good, so let's make sure this is fair and transparent, right? - So what the-- - Right, everybody, yeah, let's go, woo! - Well, here's the difference. - Well, except can't be, your case can't be based on the fact that you're looking for illegal votes, right? Like, I just read in the first hour, like a little thousand. - I didn't say anything about 2020. I didn't say anything about 2020. - No, the point is-- - I'm just keeping you too honest. - No, no, Greg, no, the difference is that all of these issues, and they know that, this is a, they all know this in Montgomery and Bucks County. They know the fact that all of these issues that they're bringing up have already, they're precedents in court, so this is now gonna have to go back to court and they're gonna get the same ruling. - And remember, I said that they've had that they've already set the precedent in it. - I said last week, if you wanna contest things, I'm fine with that, if you think you have tangible evidence and you wanna fight it, and I'm willing to sit it out, but when you're down, you're claiming 100,000 are out there, and you're down, what, 40,000? And then your case is on, now we wanna count people's votes that are unsigned ballots. - Agreed. - Misstated or no dates, that to me, it's like, well no, they gotta go. - I don't disagree with anything you're saying. I think Bob Casey and his campaign should bow out and be done with it. - But they're fundraising off of it right now as I speak. - But, but, if we're being honest, you know, like. - Greg, if I'm being honest, if you remember in 2020, Justice Sam Alito wrote the opinion, no, no, I reported on this at the time, the Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, had set certain ballots aside, set them aside, and hold them, they didn't do that. They did not do that, they violated the law. And so that's the difference from 2020 that we don't talk about enough, is that they defied court orders, even at the highest level in the land, they defied it, in here in Pennsylvania and other spots too, look it up. - Yeah, look it up. - Look it up, mister, get me all sassy. It's 7.20 in the morning when I should be, not being news. - I want sass all four hours, Stansland. I need you to be on like, Robo-Sass. - So Republicans winning the other headlines, Republicans winning the US House and Senate, obviously giving President-elect Trump control of the trifecta, if you will, all those three branches of government, and so we have Trump naming Tulsi Gabbard. We talked about this director of national intelligence, and I will just point out to you that part of the House control is because of, think about this, Republicans slipping two long time Democrat held seats here in Pennsylvania, and this is the US House delegation, including Ryan McKenzie and Rob Bresnahan, Jr. So important, these are other Pennsylvania races, not maybe getting as much play, but these were critical races that we've talked about. So just headlining all of that for you. Christmas tree, lighting and arrival at City Hall last night in Philadelphia at City Hall. It's not lit up, it's not gonna be lit up yet until they decorate the thing. And then as well, Eagles. - Eagles! - So in House of Row was all green today. - Green, yeah. - Yeah, that's this week for the Eagles, so that's exciting. - Nick Pepster says, "Nick Dawn in the troll." I thought trolling was good. We like trolling, right? Owning the Libs and we're trolling with the Matt Gates pick. We like trolling the tots of the tots of the tots of the tots. The tots of the pick was a troll to this deep state. We're also giving you talk points so that not that I encourage these conversations at your job or over Thanksgiving, but you know, we should, oh, that's what we should do based on what, you know, like Greg brings up. And we should put out the cheat sheet. Like this game Thanksgiving is somebody says what Greg just said, here's what you say. Here's the Justice Alito order for Pennsylvania to set aside certain votes that were in question and that was defied. Do you know what I mean? - Yeah, and for those that are upset with the commentary, I would just say that just remember talk radio, 1210WPHT is the number one talk station in the entire Odyssey company. And Kalein Company is setting record ratings. But if you like something different, I mean, Greg's got a lot of power. He could put Mark Levin in here from six to 10. He tries to drive off into the scoocle and cure your insomnia. - Oh, we don't need to be throwing other people under the bus. - Oh, I just, you know. - Mark Levin is brilliant. - He's still on the air. It's just, you know, he's-- - The almighty Mark Levin. - I am super, super happy with Jimmy Fell. Everybody that was at Pines and Politics last night was very happy with you. - I'm so sorry. Did you go? I'm so sorry. - I'm the brand manager, ladies and gentlemen, I have to be here. - Was it just a blast? - It was, oh yeah, it was great. - I even offered to come in Greg's Ignard Brown. I don't need you. - It was very, it was very blue. They were, there was a lot of F bombs being dropped last night. It was really good. - I saw the one picture on Twitter were they having guinesses? - No, they had a-- - It was like a bigger stout or a logger. - So I got Jimmy a, I got Jimmy's like a bourbon. - Oh. - And the only thing was drinking light beer 'cause I think it's this time of the month or something. (laughing) - It was dieting before the holidays. - Rich has lost a lot of weight. Rich looks really good. - Yeah. - He's dieting before the holidays. - I'm gonna have to pivot to light beer too. - I was at, so I would have gone last night. I would have crashed that but we were at Hamilton. I got two tickets for Hamilton. - That was that. - At the center. - It was amazing. I took Michael. - All right. - We wanted to go. - Put up that playbill again. - There you go, Hamilton. - Hamilton. - Yeah. - Hamilton. - Nice. - Fantastic. - I can't believe you had to Hamilton. - I know. I loved it. What? I like, I love theater. It's, and don't tell me. - People, people accuse me of things. You had to Hamilton. - I did. I know. Listen, I love theater and arts theater. It's not, if you want the history of it, obviously, I don't follow the history fully. You should know that by now, but no, it was, it was fantastic. - Yeah, some people are attending plays, others are having pints, and this guy's just slaving away over our show sheet. He's just cranking out great content. - I did all that too. It's just, I don't get a nap. - Yeah. - It's true. (laughing) - No, I'm just bitter because I wanted to get away from my family last night and I was stuck inside. - Aw. - Yeah. I should go back to Tennessee for a little bit. Oh, there's, so-- - Aw, what's going on? - Chris, Chris, I'm totally joking. - Chris McQuillan was, it was at the Pines of Politics House. Like, he's on our YouTube chat. - Yeah. - And he told me that he drives into work with the YouTube on his phone, and sometimes he'll, you know, just check out the videos and stuff. - Has he's driving? - Well, no, no, I'm not calling anybody out. - Yeah. - Thank you, Chris, for watching. - Wow, pretty cool. - I'm actually, like, watching a radio show while you're on the scoocle. - Yeah, I told him I'd give him a shout out. - Oh, boy. - He's not doing anything illegal. - It's awesome. - Yes, no. Consuming content, I never say that. - All right. - 7.25, by the way, still in the news. Here we go. - Oh, 42 degrees right now, the sun will peak out. And if you're going to the giggles this evening versus the, I call him the commandos, the Washington commanders. - I'm gonna call him the Redskins. How about that? - You're allowed to do that. - Yeah, you're not allowed. Or can we now say that again, now that Trump's president? I don't like it canceled. - Well, the funny thing about all these, whether it's Cleveland or Washington, whenever you hear Native Americans speaking out indigenous people. - Most people are offended by it. - They're not, they actually like the fact that people recognize that they were here first. - No, the only people that are offended by any of this stuff are the woke white liberal women. (laughing) And that's why woke is dead now and it's over. So all the women with their hate has no home and Harris Wall signs in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Yeah, you lost. - 8/15 tonight, kick off from Lincoln Financial Field. It's gonna be brisk. It's gonna be cold, seriously. Bundle up, killing company news live. - All right, Dawn, thank you very much. Cut sheet in just about 20 minutes. We'll come back and get to all of the people that have said, you know what? I just can't do it anymore. For the sake of mental health, I am signing off of X and deleting my account. 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We've got one again lined up for tomorrow. And I believe, Stocker, you said we're going to probably spill over to possibly next week? Definitely. Yeah. I meant to tell you you have another one you were quick today. OK, I'll be sticking around today. That's fine. But I'll send you all the-- this guy's 101 years old. And he is a-- he's sharp as a tack, apparently. So this has been-- the outpouring of this has been just incredible. So thank you, everybody, for-- this is an important thing. We came up with this a couple of months ago to like, let's really do this. The greatest generation has not-- not a lot of them are around anymore. So we need somebody to tell their stories. And luckily, Michael Steinberg can tell his grandfather's story, and we can keep these memories alive. And I think it's super important. Can I give you an important correction? Yeah. Because I misspoke in my newscast. I apologize. No, no, no. So thanks to the great Linda Kearns, our incredible election, RNC election integrity attorney who's been fighting in court, protectthevote.com. She rightfully texted me that the counties in the multi-million dollar Bob Casey recount, counties must begin the recount no later than November 20. And must finish by noon, November 26, so that by the 27th, this has to be done. And so that's what we're looking at. So it's well over-- I misspoke and said it had to be done before next Wednesday. That was not correct. So I apologize. By the way, Kevin pulls, yes. Thank you to window nation for supporting this. By the way, we can do everything we're doing here, and we love doing it. But if you really want to thank somebody, go in and thank window nation for doing this, because they're helping us do this. So thank you very much, Kevin, for reminding us of that. Kevin loves the websites, by the way, right? Gregstalkersucks.com, windownation.com. Kevin's our official website guy. That's amazing. So we'll get to Don Lemon, actually. We have some time here. So I'm going to actually save the Don Lemon stuff, because there's audio and video. I can read you his letter when we get to the cut sheet. So we'll do Don Lemon. We'll do Joy Reed and all the bailing on X, because there is some news that just came out during the break. As we wait to see who the press secretary will be for Donald Trump, Alanna Haba officially announcing on Twitter that she will not be selected for that position. She said, quote, "While I'm flattered by the support and speculation, the role of press secretary is not a role I am considering." AKA, she was turned down. Although I love screaming from a podium, I will be better served in other capacities. This administration is going to be epic, so proud of the Trump team. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I have to disagree with you. I think that if-- I think that the role of press secretary is brutal. It's a brutal job. It is a thankless job. It's just 24/7. I don't think anybody wants that job to be actually-- I'm not glamorous. No, no, it is like you are up there taking bullets, taking shrapnel, and I-- But I think she would have been great at it. She can handle it. She's a pistol man. Yeah, she don't give a damn. But do you want to? I don't know. Well, the question, yeah, you're right. And I don't know. What's the salary? I mean, it's got to be public knowledge, right? It's probably a pay cut because she's a successful lawyer, so she probably doesn't want to reduce her salary by probably by 75%, but-- Successful, she lost. I've never met a poor lawyer, so. Plus, her husband makes a ton of money, too, so she probably doesn't want to deal with it. You're probably right. But it's interesting because you always see the speculation, and you say, well, who are these sources? Who's putting it out there? Is it the direct person? Is it people in the know? But I was-- She's a managing partner, Greg, of her own law firm. Yeah, Paul, you defend him. You defend Haba. Get her. Get him. Get everybody. I know lawyers lose-- lawyers lose sometimes. High-profile cases, I think. Yeah. Again. Does he make you a loser? I've counted with a few lawyers in the know at Trump National in Philadelphia that have said that she's got guts, but she leaves a little bit-- does it be desired in the courtroom? And that's from Trump's some Trump surrogate, so I'm going to keep those ones unnamed. But anyway, I was going to talk about this regardless because she was considered one of the four. Politico had a story out there that it was Caroline Levitt, Elena Haba, Scott Jennings. And there's other long shot names. Katy Pavlich was mentioned. Meghan Kelly-- Meghan Kelly would also be great at it, but there's no way in hell Meghan Kelly's going to leave making whatever she's making to do that national show she does for this role. I would argue that Caroline Levitt has probably locked up the job, right? She's 27. She's really good. She was out there on the campaign trail. Give her credit throughout the summer months. She's on CNN. She's on MSNBC. She's on the Sunday morning shows. Caroline Levitt has done a really great job at elevating her profile. I would argue, along with JD Vance, nobody was more visible than those two during the campaign while Trump was doing what Trump was doing and some of these other people were out there making their cases and making a name for themselves. So I would have no problem with Caroline Levitt. To be honest with you guys, I think Trump should just come out there every day and do it. I would like Scott Jennings. They've got Scott Jennings, the CNN political commentator who was a part of Bush 43's administration. I mean, he goes into the lions then every night. Not that Abby Phillips, a tough person to spar with, but the panel gives him no credit. Since I'm on a roll today with unpopular takes. Go ahead. Let me give you another one. What if I do, what if we just do away with the press secretary? No, you need that. It's great to hear. Yeah, you need somebody to give the daily information. Yes. Yep. And after sitting through two and a half years of the binder, I need to cleanse my podium soul. I don't know, guys. I'm disagreeing. I don't think it's the most important job that you need to have somebody in the world we live in now with social media and everything like you don't-- Well, in the content business, it's better when it's the other party in power with the White House press secretary. But it's an entire office, though. It's not just one person. So maybe you know that it's Kayleigh McEnany or whoever that individual is. But there's an entire communications office. There's a communications director. You know what I mean? And by the way, you have those jobs. I mean, I guess, what are you suggesting they make a hub? That would be interesting if somebody like Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswami, if they would look at that and say, do we hub because the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, all of these big bureaucratic governments, each of them, they all have their own press secretary. What if we just, like, instead of doing the press briefings every day or a couple of days a week like they do, what if Trump just comes out one day a month and just does a press conference for two hours and talks to the press? It probably will do that. Because you want somebody-- No, he does do that. He'll be far more visible than Joe or Kamala. But you want somebody who is looking at all of that. There is so much policy. And the president of the United States, I don't think should be bogged down like that. I'm all for creating hubs and then giving up free food. But then the email has to come out as to whether or not you're allowed to go get the free food in the hub. That's the kind of hub I'm interested in. Do we really learn anything, though? The White House lies, the press tries to have got you moments. It's a wasted exercise. No, see, that's right. I'm not interested in learning anything. I'm interested in the soundbites and the combative jousting between whether it's when you have a Democrat in office and it's sake or the binder up against deuce man and Heinrich or, now vice versa, it'll be the mainstream media up against Caroline Levitt and the Trump administration. That's what I'm just looking for, the content of the back and forth with the ahas and the got you moments like you're talking about and learn anything. It's all spin anyway. Agreed. All these jobs, you know, you can look it up and it's public information. Yeah, what is the White House press secretary make? Do we know? So they make, they all of those kinds of jobs make about $179,000 a year. You're not going to get anything. Deputy assistant. You're not going to get anybody good for this. So you're telling me Tucker Carlson won't leave 20 million a year for a buck 80 a year? Did you see that phony? There was a phony-- Foner letterhead. Yeah, letterhead that Tucker Carlson. And when I saw that, it did make-- I knew it was a phony, but it made me smile. Can you imagine Tucker Carlson? F*** it, we'll do it live. He would just be up there firing festivals. That's what I mean, it's just, it's become such a joke position anyway. It's theater, right? It's theater, right? It's all theater and it's just like, you know, you're taking a lot of crap for $179,000 and it's just-- it doesn't seem to be worth it to me to like, I don't know, just to have Trump out there a couple of times a month, just riffing with the press. That's way more beneficial to me than a spokesperson. Can you imagine if he just said I'm going to circumvent that whole process and I'm just going to join a certain show each month and that's how you're going to get me? I mean, he does things in a different way. Of course, you're not going to do that. That's an interesting point. That's an interesting point. Do like a, you know, do like a town hall or something like that on X or something where you can-- where the people can ask questions. Yeah, but how is that? Yeah, at the press, at the press, stop with the press. Listen, the way to do that, you have a press briefing room. So the way to do that, because it's daily, it's a daily briefing that you, they're required to give-- and you see the binder. I mean, there's a ton of information that they're supposed to be, you know, disseminating and we don't talk about it every day, but it's a lot of information that they give out. Well, yeah. So the way to do that is instead of having ABC, NBC, Fox, for the law, bring up those different-- has have citizen journalists, have the daily caller, have your local different individuals who are just citizen journalists, and let them be in the front row. Why do you have to have the so-called big three in the front row? You don't. I agree. I think that you are correct. You should do something on a social platform or on radio or somewhere on a podcast or rotate and just take questions from people, not the press. I agree. I totally agree. 855-839-1210, the phone number. Yeah, the PA pyrotechnic fan says that members of Congress make that salary, that $179,000, so they should become millionaires on the job question mark. It's a great point. It's a great point. All of these people just infuriating. They make a lot of money, right? Can we investigate the pollocies and their insider trading? I'd like to investigate every single person in Congress. Yeah. Yeah, we'll start with them and then everybody else. That's why we got to have term limits for all these bozos so they're not walking out of their gazillionaires. [LAUGHTER] Road Warrior Stalker. Free speech lives here. Also Stalker. F the press. [LAUGHTER] Man. We all get policed. We all get policed. I am a walking contradiction. I know we all are. I know that crits. But just so you know, they already have-- I mean, actually, Dan Scavino was the one in the past Trump administration, because I'm looking all these up. He was assistant to the president and the director of social media. So all these jobs that you're talking about already exist, they already took-- they already had all these jobs. I mean, you look at the list of all of these, assistant to so-and-so and the deputy advisor and the counsel to the president and the senior advisor for blah, blah, blah. That's right. All of those jobs, all of those jobs that we're talking about make-- they start at 187. And most of them are 179 to 165. But they all make more than six figure salaries. All these jobs. I got to tell you guys that it's so infuriating to see what normal businesses go through on a yearly basis, where there's constantly layoffs. And it's happening in our industry right now. So why is government immune from that? Why do they get this inflated thing where it's just the assistant and the assistant and this person and that person? Why are they immune from that? So that's why I am all for whoever comes in and just starts slashing some of these jobs, because it's a waste coming in. You're all for Joe's, right? All these-- whatever. It's amazing. When you start looking, and these are people you've never heard of, and their title starts with special assistant to the president, and then it's presidential personnel, media affairs, trade and manufacture. I mean, all the policy people, it's hundreds of these jobs, and none of them, by the way, and some of these are 26-year-olds, they start at $107,000. Yes, and none of them do anything to generate revenue from the position. All they do is build away from it. Thank you. The chief calligrapher, calligrapher. I got to be careful with it. Makes $102,000. Yeah, it is-- Oh my goodness. I just don't-- I don't understand how we are just completely immune from all of how government is completely immune from all this weight. We're not. No. The private citizens aren't. No. So why is government? But the scary part is the private citizens that are oblivious to all of this, that are unaware of what's going on. And you get these jobs, you get these jobs in government, and you have them for life, and you get pension, and you get this, and you get that, you get these sweetheart deals, and there's no oversight with anything. No, you basically have to kill somebody to get ousted. It's unbelievable. Even then, they can just come back. Even then, they're just as transferred. Right, they just delete emails. All right, 746 will come back and get to a Thursday edition of what is on the cut sheet. But first, the word from my friends at DuckDuckGo, they are back for a second time around, because they want to go from being great to-- I don't know what above grade is. 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Like, I think we all want to get rid of all of these agencies that are just stealing money and doing nothing that nobody will know they're going to begin with, and then you take two very visible and vocal guys like Elon and Vivek, and I think it's a double win. All right, go with Vivek, please. Look, the two trillion, I stand corrected. No, no, I just want to be very clear about the scale. I want to be very clear about the scale that we're thinking here. We're not thinking small, we're playing big here, because we have a once-in-a-generation mandate right now. The American people have voted for drastic reform of the government, and our federal government is broken. It's no secret that it is a fourth branch of government, the administrative state that makes most of the rules that creates a federal bureaucracy that's hampering our economy. So what do we want to do? We want to go in and slash and burn that bureaucracy to help Americans stimulate the economy and to restore self-governance against Sean. The people we elect to run the government, they're not even the ones who run the government anymore. It's these unelected bureaucrats. Republican politicians have talked about fixing this for a long time, not with a lot of progress. So I do think it's going to take a couple of outsiders. Elon and I have built a great friendship over the last year. We're working together intensely, and we're not going to stop till we get the job done. Let me ask you guys a question. Yep. Elon Musk invested a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of stuff into the Trump administration, the Trump campaign. And ex? Do you think he's comfortable sharing this job title with the vake, or do you think he wanted his own thing? Reportedly, the vake is, 'cause he's from Ohio, so he's teed up to run to take JD Vance's Senator Spot in Ohio. Yeah. That's the insider report I'm getting. Yeah, I've seen that, you know, the other thing too is can you do both? I guess you probably could, 'cause this, you know, doge is not necessarily a official position. But I look at it from the other perspective of, you know, all the talk is great. Vivek is a great talker. If Elon Musk doesn't deliver with the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk is going to be just fine. A Tesla's value is through the roof right now. Like Elon Musk can afford to fail, you know, whether or not Vivek ends up going into the Senate in Ohio's a totally different conversation. I don't think Vivek has enough cashier yet, where he can talk a good game and survive if he fails. Up and coming star 39 years old. Okay, you want to talk about slash and burn, slash and burn, right, unelected bureaucrats, the administrative state. It's all great to say that. It's more difficult to pull that off and get it accomplished. He's the guy I'm watching, because I've said, since the primary of last year, nobody's stock went up higher of all the people. Nikki Haley, Rhonda Santis, this guy, that guy, this gal. Nobody's star went up more than Vivek Ramaswami. So now he's technically in a position for the first time. Let's see what you can do. And I think he'll do well because he's a businessman. - Yeah, he's brilliant. Both of these guys are brilliant guys. And my question, they're not going to, neither of them are going to fail. This is a newly created department where they were Trump released a statement. They want to slash bureaucracy. But they're also looking at their, what they're doing. And I don't even know if they're going to take a salary because then they circumvent. - They don't really need it. - Well, hey, they don't need it, but think about what it's circumvents. What it's circumvents, if you name these guys as like policy advisors and they take no salary, then there's not really government oversight. I know that Elon Musk had posted that this is all going to be posted online for maximum transparency. But as far as these two, you can certainly imagine that the swamp is going to push back. And there are guidelines because legitimately, you might say, well, wait a minute. These are two billionaires with big and big companies. And they're going to be looking at regulations when those regulations are impacting their, especially Elon's company. He has government contracts. And so, yes, they need the transparency. I will just say to you, to do this, what their job is, they're not going to go in physically and bring a group of federal employees and say, you're fired. That's not what their job is. Their job is to create the data and look at these statistics and look at the efficiency or lack thereof of whole departments. That's their job and they're not going to fail. In my opinion, there's zero chance they're going to fail. The problem is what they're going to reveal. And if they post this online and they do what they're promising, what they're saying is, they're going to go in like one department, whatever that is. And they're going to say, look at all of these, like hundreds of people, just what I did. I mean, I did it when we were having a chat. And I was like, you should see the one side. It was like, OMG. There are like a thousand jobs. Nobody's making under, I mean, the lowest paid person is making like 80,000. Most of them are making well over 100 grand. And you don't know, they're like an assistant to an assistant to an assistant. It's like OMG, and they've overlapped. That's what they're going to do. And they're going to use apps and data collection. They're going to go in there and they're going to expose it. But then who's the one who actually goes in and says, we're getting rid of all these jobs. I want to know the person who goes in and says, what do you actually do? By the way, if you're watching on YouTube, no, that is not an illusion. Santa Claus is behind me. What? Santa Claus is behind me. I don't see anything on the screen that says Santa Claus is behind you. Look at the chair. Look at the chair. I'm looking at your chair. No, the chair behind me in the window. Oh, it's like a little Santa. Oh, geez. Aah, hysterical. Oh, dude. See, there he is. There he is. Scratching his back. He's stuffing the Odyssey stockings. That's hysterical. He's hugging Bill. Bill's doing what Bill does. Walk down the hall. That's hysterical. YouTube doc-- By the way, that's what I'm going to be yesterday. Our boy at my golf buddy, Bill from The Bee Morning Show. We love you, Bill. What do you think he does more? Walks down the hall are segments per day. Even money on both, like 12 to 12. But see, he's very efficient, so he can do that. Yeah, he is. Department of radio efficiency. Well, that Dora. Let's see. I know this happened during dawn show yesterday, but we haven't really had a chance to comment on it. This is cut 11, President Trump, and President Biden meet in the Oval Office yesterday. It's on the front cover of literally every newspaper this morning, the shake heard around the world. By the way, roaring fire between those two. Big fire. They'll get a little chilly out. Yeah, we're just looking at it as a big-ass fire. I play this set. Well, Mr. President, I'd like to thank the former president. Thank you, Colin. Congratulations. Thank you. And looking forward to having, like I said, it's going to transition. You know what I mean? We can't make sure you're accommodated, what you need. I'm going to get a chance to talk across the map today. It's a good welcome. Thank you, Chairman. Thank you very much. And politics is tough. And it's, in many cases, not a very nice world. But it is a nice world today. And I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth. It'll be as smooth as it can get. And I very much appreciate it. Thank you. You're welcome. Look, I know I tried to jail you. I know I've called you Hitler. I know people have shot bullets at you. But you know what? We're going to make sure everything is smooth. You've got your three meals a day. The bed will be folded. And when you take over, it'll be your house again, sir. What's telling you? You know what's amazing is just seeing those pictures yesterday. And I saw that clip as well. But come on, God, if you don't-- and look, yes, it's important. But ultimately, it's also a shot-side show circus production. I mean, we're talking about the Al Smith dinner three Thursdays ago. Chuck Schumer yucking it up with Trump. It's just amazing. And it's always been that way. It's nothing new. But the newness is the rhetoric of he's Hitler. He's a threat to democracy. He's going to take away my rights. And then it's, oh, let's shake hands. We know it's always been a football game. And at the end of the day, you have a beer with them afterwards. This time, it feels different. And I actually want to give Trump a little credit. Because I don't know that I could sit there just knowing my mindset, my mentality, and my temperament. If I went through what he did, forget the first four years when he was in office. But just the last two and a half, I don't know that I could sit there and smile. I would go through. I would shake hands. I'd sit down. But to actually put on a smile on his face, I'd be like, dude, if people shoot-- people try to take my head off because of your rhetoric. Who knows to him? Better man than I am, I guess. Do you think Trump tells Biden that he'll pardon Hunter? I think Joe's going to pardon Hunter before he leaves. I don't. I disagree. He said he wouldn't. I don't. But wouldn't it be something? Because there's only two people that can do it. Wouldn't it be something if Trump did it? It'd be a great sign. It'd be a great sign of unity, yes. Well, it goes along with-- I wouldn't bet on it. But I'm just saying it would be an interesting turn of events. Well, because when would Trump do it to your point? He would do it when he takes office and he commutes the sentences of non-violent J-6-ers. And then in there, he says, and Hunter Biden, who was a drug addict at the time, and had all kinds of issues, and I know it's an IRS issue, but he was a drug addict. And we're just going to commute any or pardon him or whatever. Yeah, I could see it, but it would be important to do it when he commutes the sentences of those J-6-ers. Yeah, I am. You definitely-- and again, to your credit, Don, and the way you frame it, the non-violent ones, the ones that truly, really did nothing wrong, that had their rights violated, and were made an example of-- I mean, look, I get it. And jailed for-- like, there's sentence like 15 years. Yeah, who was the one guy that we played clips of? It was a long time ago on the cut sheet. The guy that was like in a broom closet, for weeks on end, those people need to be taken care of before Hunter Biden, with all due respect. And again, I'm consistent. Like I've said, I'm sorry, Hunter Biden, you've had-- and yes, I know we all have addicts in our life, but eventually there's got to be accountability and responsibility for your actions. And just because you're the president's son doesn't give you special dispensation. But I do agree it will go a long way in the name of unity. Again, I don't think it's going to happen, but I just said-- So most like-- all right, so let's take-- How about we all go on record here? No pardon? And this is a prediction, not what we would do, but what we think will happen. No pardon at all, Joe pardons Hunter or Trump pardons Hunter. What do you guys think will happen? I think somebody will pardon Hunter. Hunter's not going to jail. I don't think-- yeah, Hunter-- I don't think anybody-- no, no. I don't think anybody's pardoning Hunter. I don't think Hunter goes to jail. I think Hunter gets-- He just accepts a guilty sentence and a probation. Some of community service probation thing. Yes, I don't think he's going to jail, either ways. So I think it's going to be a moot point. If you're asking-- if you're putting my back against the wall and saying, well, what's your prediction, that's my prediction. OK. So let's go through some of the-- so we talked a lot in the 6 o'clock hour about Matt Gates being named Attorney General. This is what Speaker of House Mike Johnson said after Matt Gates resigned yesterday. This is cut 10, Phil Go. Matt and I were classmates. We came to Congress at the same time in the 115th Congress in January 2017. And alphabetically, we were seated right next to one another in Judiciary Committee. We served there together for seven years. Some of y'all who covered Judiciary know those are long meetings. So I got to know Matt very well. Look, I'll say this. Everyone who served with him will tell you he's one of the most intelligent members of Congress. He's an accomplished attorney. He's very concerned about the law fair that has been occurring in the Department of Justice, under the Biden administration, and the fact that the American people have lost their faith in our institutions of justice because of everything that you've seen. He's a reformer in his mind and heart. And I think that he'll bring a lot to the table on that. I think out of deference to us, he issued his resignation letter, effective immediately, of Congress. That caught us by surprise a little bit. But I asked him what the reasoning was. And he said, well, you can't have too many absences. So under Florida state law, there's about an eight week period to select and fill and that they can see. And so by doing so today, that allows me, I've already placed a call to Governor DeSantis in Florida and said, let's start the clock. I'm out here in Italy at the moment. And so we're going to talk first thing in the morning about this. And if we start the clock now, if you do the math, we may be able to fill that seat as early as January 3, when we take the north of office for the new Congress. So Matt would have done us a great service by making that decision as he did on the fly. And so we're grateful for that. So we move forward. Look, I'll say this about-- people have asked me all day long. President Trump is poaching all of your talent. Yes, but we have an embarrassment of riches here. The Republican Conference is full of talented people who are extraordinary leaders and have great expertise. And everyone in this conference could serve in a leadership position in the administration. But I have-- It's a great point by Mike Johnson there. Magma Mike, as some people call him. The Republican Party, as I've been saying for about two years on the show, a much deeper bench of young up-and-coming people in the political arena. So it was nice to see that Mike and Gates together were the incoming class. They sat together in the cafeteria. They had apple pie hour mode. And they bonded over their commonalities. But I mean, look, I do think, again, I'm not a huge fan of Gates' baggage, so to speak, or some of the theatrics. But I do like the fact that he's got a set of stones on him. And I do think he will be good. I just hope that he delivers on his-- because I don't want to live in a country where we are going after our political rivals. We talk about Third World Banana Republic, right? We thought it was wrong that they went after Trump that way. And I don't think Trump's going to do this whole retribution thing. I know all these-- oh, Trump said he's going to get revenge. Trump has said he doesn't have time for revenge. His ultimate revenge is success. And in reality, yes, he's got four years. But technically, he's got two years, right? Until the next set of midterms, Trump's got to get a lot of good stuff done in two years. He doesn't have time to go after and wage petty wars against people that tried to unseat him in many different regards. This clip is making the rounds. And I'm curious what you guys think about this. This is-- we talked yesterday about Pete Hexett being picked as Trump's defense secretary. In this podcast clip that he was on, he talks about women in combat. And I want to get both of your takes on this, because this is making the rounds because, obviously, he's going to run the defense department. Just play a little bit of it. I'm not going to play the whole thing. You don't like women in combat. Yeah. Why not? I love women-- service members who contribute amazingly, because everything about men and women serving together makes the situation more complicated. And complication in combat means casualties are worse. And when you actually go into the hood-- again, and I've got response-- I've got 99% positive response to this. A few-- a little bit of pushback. But when you actually break down what they did in the studies to open the door for women in combat, I mean, they just ignored them. So the Marine Corps was the only service that actually tried to fight back and say, obviously, I'm exempting special operations, which thus far has held the line fairly well. Because if they were lowering the standard to become an AV SEAL, just to let women inside the Navy SEALs, that's going to change the capabilities and ethos of the Navy SEALs, except for a very small example of some female super soldier who's capable of doing it. But because of how Washington works, they're going to change the standards. They're going to push for quotas. So we have numerous quotes in the book of, no, no, we're-- these standards aren't changing. They're just evolving. OK, they're just evolving. To meet the needs of today. They're not getting tougher. They're not getting tougher. No, so they're getting lower AV. Take someone like Millie. I mean, he was calling down the individual units to make sure they had female company commanders after they graduated from Ranger School. Like, what's the chairman of the joint chiefs doing, pushing company command slots from-- it's all an agenda. It's all to say, oh, we have this first, or we have this, that. So that's proliferated everywhere. The reason women started getting in combat is because of forward support companies. And they were integrating a lot of the rear echelon activities into BCTs, brigade combat teams, that were now deploying forward as an entity. And so you had women truck drivers or fuel or mechanics on these convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan. And then they'd be ambushed or be hit by IEDs. And suddenly, now you have women in combat. That's maybe a modern reality in a 360 battlefield. That's different than intentionally saying, we're going to put women into combat roles so they will do the combat jobs of men, knowing that we've changed the standards in putting them there, which means you've changed the capability of that unit. And if you say you haven't, you're a liar. Because everybody knows between bone density and lung capacity and muscle strength, men and women are just different. And so if you want it, I'm OK with the idea that you maintain the standards where they are for everybody. And if there's some hard charge and female that meets that standard, great. There you go. Cool. Join the infantry battalion. But that is not what's happened. What has happened is the standards have lowered. Because the general comes by and asks a question. You know what questions are when generals ask questions. They're just a command. Lieutenant or Captain or Major, why aren't there more women in your unit? That means get some more women in your unit now. And that moves all the way through the training pipeline. And so I'm surprised there hasn't been more blowback on that already in the book. Because I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. You know, I actually think most people probably agree with that. And I think the way to look at it and first right off the top, Pete Haggseth has forgotten more about the military and what it takes than I'll ever know. But I look at it from whether it's the military, whether it's the workplace, whether it's university admissions, sports. I've always said merit is the guiding principle, right? It's one of the key components to capitalism. That's why I'm so against diversity, equity and inclusion. I'm not interested in lowering standards to hit quotas. The best people get the jobs, right? Same thing with police. Now all of a sudden we're gonna lower the standard to be a police officer or a firefighter. Look, if you are somebody that's a female and you're a badass and you can do it, that's great. I mean, I just posted a video during one of the commercials of Tulsi Gabbard on the range doing her military training. Tulsi Gabbard looks like she can withstand a lot. So I would take Tulsi Gabbard as a fit badass female over some sloppy out of shape. In fact, I like myself, right? So it's all about the standard. What is the standard? I'm not lowering the bar and I'm not doing it for race, for gender, for sexual orientation. It's just in any walk of life. You gotta be able to prove you can do the job. You should not be put there because of identity politics. So I agree with Pete Hegsef there. - Yeah, so I mean, this is not something new that we've talked about. It was combat roles, women have served in these combat roles since they've been allowed to since 2013. There are still some exceptions, important exceptions. But I think the way that he worded that is the appropriate way to say that if you are in the military and you are headed into combat, you should, and it's for your safety as well as the safety of your fellow combatants. Because let's say that individual that gets gunned down and you have to carry that individual, right? Or whatever, so you should have strength, strength. What would you say, standards, right? - Yeah, I mean, whatever the metrics are, right? And again, I'm just totally-- - Whatever that is. - You should be able to do this many push-ups with this much weight, you-- - Run this many miles in this many minutes, yep. - All of that. And so if you can do that, your gender does not matter. - I agree. - And we talk about this in the issue of men playing biological males, playing in girls and women's sports. So I think it's the same thing that you have, on one hand, you have biological males playing in girls and women's sports and everybody says, well, that's okay. I just think in all of these things, just have physical standards. But when it comes to combat, there's another issue here. And that is, you've got a bunch of like 19-year-old guys and they're in a war zone and they're living together. And I know people don't wanna talk about this kind of stuff, but it's real and it affects them. So they are wired, not just to, they're wired to protect somebody who's smaller and weaker. And that's okay for me to say as a woman. And so do I want my son to go into combat and feel like he, because of DEI or whatever, the look of things in society that his life is at greater risk, that he is forced to be on a frontline or in a combat zone where he could die because of some social issue or quota or whatever so that somebody there is much weaker, not a little bit weaker, and we just have to say it. - Yeah, that's why I always talk about the blind resume test, right? Whether it's admissions for a university or entry into combat, if you take away the name and the gender and you say, okay, well, this is the GPA and this was your SATs, I don't wanna know what the race is. I wanna look at whose body of work is deserving of acceptance. Same thing in the military, give me blind resumes. Okay, bench presses 225 10 times, runs a mile in seven minutes and 30 seconds. Okay, reveal the identity. - Strength and stamina. - She's in? - Yep, the hell is happening here? - What? (laughs) - That's crazy. - That's crazy. - That's crazy. - That's crazy. - It's an amazing outreach station, just come alive. - They're like ghost town in the middle. - Like they're actually people here. - You think there's a pandemic about their breakout. - Santa Claus is here, there's a piece here. What do you guys think, tying this to RFK Jr. What do you guys think of, what if it's the, what if it's not DEI that is lowering standards, what if it's the health of young people now where 70% of young men can't pass physicals 'cause they're fat-sos. You know what I mean? - That's right. - Like what, maybe they're lowering the standards because they're like, hey, you know what, we need people to enlist and we don't have, you know, the majority of people who are enlisting can't pass wellness tests. - It's kind of a double-edged sword. It's like a two-pronged issue right now. We have a generation that is very much anti-war that doesn't wanna join the military. Then you throw in all the woke nonsense and the fact that seven out of 10 dudes, as you said, are fat-sos, kind of hard to hit all your numbers with all these things working against it, right? - But seriously, you know what I mean? Like, everybody's pre-diabetic. Everybody has, you know, it's this, you know, at a young age too. So maybe that we're lowering the standards because they're like, guys, we need recruits and this is not cutting it. - That's why I want Bobby Kennedy to get the HHS job. - Well, I will say this that I think that look at the Israel model, for example. So in Israel, I don't know if you know people. I know people who, so in Israel, you have to sign up when you're 18 and you do two years. It's incredible. And so you work out and you serve your country. It's kind of like a P-score type thing, but you're trained. They learn self-defense. They learn, it's so much, it's incredible. And it tees them up. That's why they're healthier because it's a fitness program. To me personally, to do that, even in the high schools, to start that kind of, in other words, a fitness program where you do fitness and health and nutrition and you make that part of, I think it's a great program that you make that part of your school system. I love that idea. That's what Israel does. It's very successful, keeps them healthy and also a feeling of self-esteem, pride, all of that. It's amazing how certain countries over in Asia or in Europe have got it figured out and we're just completely inept. We're out of shape, we're all pre-dye. It's just unbelievable. Our nation is so inefficient in so many capacities. It's amazing that we're still as good as we are. - Hey Justin on the YouTube chat. You don't like what we're talking about? Go somewhere else, you dope. God, I just like-- - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. - Well, it's real news day. You guys beat topics to death. Shut up. - Beat topics to death. - Oh, God. - Cover more topics than any show in "The Man". Shut up. Block him, Phil. - He just, block him. - He might've, here's a thing. Some people are just rolling out of bed right now. But we've been giving, we have given probably, I don't know, 75 news stories since 6 a.m., by the way. - We started with the Senate. Then we got the administration. - Local news. - Gabbard, and Gates. - I just like to call people out. - Statewide news. - Yes, press secretary. Joe and Trump yesterday. - And the new Christmas treat, City Hall. - Yeah. - I mean, literally. 75 news stories, I've given this morning. - You know, we ought to go subscription service models. To get in the YouTube chat, it's like duck.go. It's gonna cost you 10 bucks a month. - Speaking of the subscription stuff, it's not a subscription. But Joy Reid and Don Lemon are leaving X. - Who do you-- - I'm Don Lemon, and you will respect me. You will watch me. - You guys can, you guys can take a dealer's choice. This is like a murderous row of terrible people. - Don, since you kind of know both of them. - Don, you better keep your mouth full. - I'm gonna ask you, first, who would you like me to start with? Don Lemon or Joy Reid? - Don Lemon. - Okay. - Get him, Don. - Go. - We're here in Philadelphia. - Mix tag match, you take care of Lemon, I'll take care of Joy. - Not a nice person, very empathetic, self-involved. - Don Lemon, go. - Hi, everyone. I have loved connecting with all of you on Twitter and then on X for all of these years, but it's time for me to leave the platform. - Goodbye. - I once believed that it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech, but I now feel it does not serve that purpose. In addition, starting this Friday, November 15th, X is implementing new terms of service, which among other things, states that, quote, "all disputes be brought exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant County, Texas." End quote. The full term of service can be found on my written statement or on the X website. Now, as the Washington Post recently reported on X's decision to change the terms, this quote ensures that such lawsuits will be heard in court houses that are a hub for conservatives, which experts say could make it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and punish critics. I think that speaks for itself. You can find me on YouTube at The Don Lemon Show or on TikTok and Facebook at Don Lemon and on Instagram and Blue Sky at Don Lemon Official. I hope you will join me there. Thanks. - Thanks. - Won't be joining. - Just, I know you don't know, but if you had to guess, Don, what would you say his payout was from CNN? - Too much. - Do you think it was enough for him to live the rest of his life on? - No. - No? - Wow. - It's a $5 million payout, but not enough. You know, Donnie has lived quite the lavish life. Let us not forget. - Well, you see, yeah, when you get those big payouts and you live lavishly, that nest egg doesn't last as long as you would think. I'm glad he's leaving. I'm glad that any, but look, here's the deal. - Oh, wait, excuse me, $24.5 million payout. - Okay. - So I retract what I've said. - That's enough for us, I'm sorry. - Sorry. - Well, maybe not. - Maybe he's living, you know, if he has a condo in the Upper East Side. - Wow, I mean, after taxes, you know, that's about $16 million, 15 million, you pour that out. - Sure, he's a house in Hampton. - Well, sell it off downsize, bud. - What are you gonna do? - See, they were, all these reports, and somehow I missed that one, but they were reportedly reached an agreement with a payout of $24.5 million after he was fired, probably because he had a good agent and an ironclad contract. So they had to buy it out. - Yeah, another loser who, by the way, can handle free speech, he can handle Trump winning. So for me, it's very simple. It's the same thing as when we talk about these people. I'm gonna leave the country if Trump wins. First of all, you don't need to tell us. Secondly, nobody cares. Good, the third good and go, it's fine. Like, nobody is stopping you from leaving. So if you wanna play on TikTok or YouTube, which we're on right now, Facebook, Instagram, any of the meta platforms, knock yourself out, right? You know, but the richness to this is the actual letterhead that I have, right in my hands here, look at this. He actually posted after that video. - Is that real? - Yes, look at it, Phil's got it up. - Wow. - And it's verbatim, what he said in the video. - Excuse me. - The Don Lemon Show. I hope you will follow me and find me on these platforms. And he's got the yellow DL microphone. That's the microphone that he was doing, man about town videos. - All right, then let's go to Joy-Read. - Oh, yeah. - She has also deleted her X account. - Okay. - Play Joy-Read. - Hey guys, so today I finally did something I've been meaning to do for a while. (upbeat music) - That's her deleting, yep. That's the X I've been activated. - And the reason for doing it and kissing goodbye, my 1.9 million followers over there, is because I hadn't been posting for a long time. I just didn't wanna contribute content, once it was purchased by its present owner. But just having it there, I was only holding on to it because I really didn't want someone trying to take over that name and using it for nefarious purposes. I was a little bit worried about that. And also every so often I would use it to just like sort of look at news that was trending and what's happening. And I would just use it as like an aggregator, but I just realized that that's not really worth it. Because in order to do the news aggregation and just look at all, you have to wade through a lot of direct and a lot of abuse and a lot of just negativity and stuff worth it. And you know. - A lot of sexist comments on there. You know, Time Magazine in April of 2022 had a great article and it said billionaires have always owned the media. Musk is no great threat. And that I think is what you should just shove back in anybody's face. So you don't like the fact, by the way, they all used to love Elon Musk. - Of course. - They loved him until he restored free speech on X. - Of course. - But I mean, Jeff Bezos, he bought the Washington Post, Brazilian Air, Amazon, the Murdochs. Yeah, the media has always been owned by the super, super wealthy. This is nothing new. It's just that you don't like it. So that's fine. Like the Guardian. We have stories every now and then from the Guardian. As a media outlet, so to speak, the Guardian says, "We will stand up to four more years of Donald Trump "and in doing so, "we have also decided to leave X." So whether you're an individual media personality or journalist or a host or an actual publication or outlet, if you wanna leave X, that's fine. Nobody's gonna miss you. I don't understand why they all have to make this, these big pronouncements that they're leaving. Like just leave. Well, Dawn nailed it earlier when she did the imitation of them leaving. I don't remember that. You don't remember that? Almost. You don't remember. Sorry. Senator John Federman. I said like, you know, like a child. I'm leaving now or teenager. Okay, I'm walking out. I'm walking out the door. I just wanted you to do it again. Yeah, see? Don't let the door hit you in the backside when you're... Senator John Federman says Donald Trump tapping Matt Gates for Attorney General is God tier level trolling. Play Federman. I mean, I would describe it as God tier level trolling to just trigger a full on China syndrome to own the lives and perpetuity. Yeah, I mean, I said earlier, it's a combination of all of it. I think you can be trolling somebody while still installing somebody that is qualified. I mean, I think, you know, Matt Gates, you know, Attorney General, the guy's a lawyer. He's got a good law background, a good education. Same thing with Tulsi Gabbard. I think those are the two trollish type moves that I still think, again, and I like Gabbard. I think it's a good move. I'm not a fan of Gates, but I think he's good at what he does. And you go into these roles and it's the trolling element. The irony is Gates was investigated by the DOJ. Now he's gonna be the New Merrick Garland. And then Tulsi Gabbard was placed on a terror watch list. And now she's the director of national intelligence. Karma's a B word, right? I'm telling you that. Well, here's what I do like about this. For the most part, this administration really screams eff around and find out. For the most part, there's not a lot of clowns in this administration, right? People that are, I mean, like, I think Pete Hegzeth is kick ass, take names, right? Same thing with, you know, Huckabee, you know, Ratcliffe, Tom Holman, maybe the biggest of all. Tom Holman is not interested in scoring any brownie points with the media. - Oh my gosh. - He's just like, he's just like a bulldozer. - It went viral. I think yesterday and people were saying, I guess he's part Scottish. So they were saying he's the modern day braveheart. And they had all these memes, it was hysterical. - Yeah, of all the pics so far, Tom Holman, by the way, is my number one pic. I would leave my wife for Tom Holman. - Wow. - That's true story, folks. - Jesus. - By the way, I gotta plug my laptop in, it's dying. - Sunny Hostin admits that she tried to ask Kamala a softball question and it backfired. I cannot believe she admitted this. I guess I can. I guess I can. All right, play Sunny. - My people, what the question was, it was what would you have done differently? - I asked the vice president what she would do differently in a biden, in a Harris administration as opposed to a biden administration. - And what if she, if anything, she, what she, she could have done differently in the past four years or wasn't. - It's something like that. - Yeah. - I followed up because I was surprised at the answer. Look, I think it wasn't so much about the question, but it was really more about the answer. - Not a thing comes to mind. - And not a thing comes to mind and that's why I followed up with, is there anything that we would do differently? And the reason I followed up is because, you know, that wasn't a gotcha question. That was a layup, really. (laughing) It was an important question. And I think once you should have expected. - That's what I thought. I actually thought it was a chance for her to explain to all the people who are saying, I want a change agent for her to explain that, of course, she has a different lived experience from President Biden. But they did have one of the most successful administrations in our battery. - Of the tricky part. - And I thought she would then say, I would build on the, on the winds that we've had. - I mean, you can't, you cannot run on a platform and a message of joy, hope and change when you are the current sitting vice president and say you would change nothing when Americans are saying at a rate of about 72%, the country's going in the wrong direction. And it's just the ultimate joy and beauty and bliss that somebody is bitter and angry as Sonny Hostin, who's given joy, read or run for the most miserable person on television and maybe perhaps even borderline racist, that she is the one who sank Kamala Harris and she never intended to. - Yep. - It's like running a fast break in basketball. You gave your teammate a chance for a layup and they hit the shot clock and it went out of bounds. - It's such a great, it's such a great point that she was, she was the biggest champion of Kamala Harris and it may have been, and look, look, at the end of the day, was it really this question that sank her? - No, but it sounds like that will never be unlived. It will never, she will never live that down. - There's no unburdening yourself from that. - And with Sonny Hostin or Hostin, whatever her name is, that asked for that question is just glorious. It's just glorious. - Yep. - And by the way, did you know, 'cause we've played a few of these clips now, so the view does like a post-game podcast show. - I didn't know that. - As if being on television for however, are they on for one or two hours? - One hour, one hour. - They have six people for one hour, jeez, I'd kill to have that way up of a day. You know, it's amazing that they feel the need to give you bonus content in that podcast setting with whoever that guy's probably a producer or whatever, a lackey for them. And he's like, "Man, we're gonna do another 30 minutes." It's like the Bill Maher Overtime part, right? On HBO, which by the way, actually in Bill's defense, some of his best content comes from that. - Yep, agreed. One more, James Carva argues that it will take multiple election cycles for Dems to move past the adverse residue of quote, "woke language and attitudes." - You can see perfecting Republicans for eight to 12 years? - I can't, I mean, just election cycles don't merit that, but all right, let's hear what he had to say, six, go. - I said, "I'll give Harris credit." She didn't use any of the woke language, but this is like trying to wash clothes that's got smoke all over 'em. You can't get the snitch out. And you could ask Senator's mansion, Senator Casey, Senator Brown, Senator Tessa, if they don't think that defund the police had an adverse effect on attitudes toward the Democratic Party, my God. You're right, it was so stupid, no one wanted to bring it up, you know, three years later, but the residue of it just stuck with us. And you gotta read exactly what was said, exactly what I said. And it's gonna take more than one cycle to get this stench off of the Democratic Party, and it's the stench of the highest order, let me tell you. - Yeah, wow. - Bobby smells way worse than that hotel he's staying in there on Bourbon Street. - At least his cat isn't cage. - Yeah, he's in a hotel with his LSU zip-up one. - Yeah, he, Carvel sent his cat to my house for a little crate training. - Oh boy. - Yeah, it is gonna be a long time for them to, now look, you know, they're gonna win some elections, whether it's, you know, whatever we have coming up in 2026 for sure, as I, we're gonna see, it's just a sweep of Republican victories across the board. But until they get away from the demonization of police, the casting of dispersions that white people are inherently racist and evil, but badmouthing men, I'm sorry, but there's a lot of type A alpha males that vote. You might wanna stop saying it's toxic masculinity, because I've said this for a while, I really believe this. A lot of these left-wing single liberal women that have said white, straight masculine men or the devil are actually, a lot of these women, now some of them don't get married, but who do they typically end up marrying successful, strong, career-oriented, wealthy men? It's like they're single and they hate what they're not married to, but then eventually when they say it's time to settle down and get married, and single liberal women, you can come at me all you want, because the data is true, they end up, and I'm not saying they marry conservative men, but they end up marrying the men that they vilify in broad stroke with a brush. - Where's that data? - Oh, we talked about it a few weeks ago, I gave it to you. It was from, not the UK, what's the other one over there in England, not the Guardian, is it the mirror? I forget. - The mirror is a tabloid. - It's some other website, I forget what it is. - I don't know. - It's true, Don. - It's true, I don't marry these little bozos, I just work with them, the cubicles. - Share hand lotion. - Michael Strand broke a silence after not honoring the national anthem during the broadcast, or so it was alleged. - Oh, so I'm so, this story. (laughing) - So he took to social media, well I mean he went after a reporter, a good guy with a camera. - Daily mail dude, yeah. - Play, place your hand. - Everybody is Michael here, and I wanna address what happened this past weekend, and I feel like I need to address it because it spilled over to the point where I get out of my car today and I'm ambushed by a media outlet here at my house, which I'm not proud of the way I handled that whole situation, but I think anybody out there can understand the things you're gonna do, you're gonna protect your family, and you're gonna protect your home, which is what I felt like I needed to do in that moment. And it all stemmed from this past weekend in San Diego, with my Fox crew, two days in San Diego, with the Navy SEALs, and with all the other sailors there, and then a two hour show praising the military and all that they've done for us, celebrating Veterans Day, and we had our national anthem. I didn't have my hand over my chest. Everyone thought he's protesting, he's making a statement, which is so far from the truth, I have nothing to protest, I have no statement to be made. The only statement that should be made, that I wanna make is I love the military, I've always loved the military, and I will always love the military. I do so many programs to help veterans and soldiers. I grew up on a military base with a father who's a major in the army, my brother, my sister, my cousins, they all served in the military. I'm a military brat. And so the fact of somebody saying that I'm unpatriotic, couldn't be any further from the truth. And if you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth, is that I was caught up in a moment. I'm looking at all these young sailors standing there, add attention before the national anthem played, and I'm thinking to myself, how incredible, how incredible to be that young, and to know that you wanna do this, like it's such a commitment, but you're willing to commit to something that you know gives us our freedoms. Plain and simple, I'm just sitting there in amazement, in which I'm always amazed, because I don't take it for granted, no matter where we go around the world, from Afghanistan to all the military institutions here in this country. And by the time I looked up from that moment, all my five guys had their hands over their hearts, the national anthem playing, I somewhat panicked, and I'm like, do I be the fool that puts his hand over his heart after? Or do I just stand here with my hand in front of me, respectfully, which that's what I did. That's what happened. And if that offended any of our military, and veterans, I apologize to you, because that was never my intent. I'm a product of the military, a proud lover of the military, and a proud lover of all those who served before it now, and who will serve in the future here. - As I said the last couple of days, we talked about it, I'm always willing to defer to those who probably have a bigger right to be offended, and that would be those in the military. I know we've had some people in the YouTube chat that said I'm a military vet, and it didn't bother me. I think worst case scenario, it's in a loop moment where he might have been not paying attention, and maybe he should have done that. But as I largely said, to me, it was a nothing burger, and I knew he had a military upbringing with his family, so I don't know. To me, I think it's, and by the way, the video that went viral on X that was shared by everybody was some random guy that recorded it, and it was like literally three seconds long that got circulated on social media. Now, we've played you the actual broadcast feed the New York Post showed like a 30 second clip, but like again, just stop overreacting to stuff. You know, we can't be this society that says, oh, suck it up, free speech, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then when we're like, oh my God, there's a moment where Michael Strahan had his hands crossed in front of his crotch. You wanna lose your mind over that, knock yourself out. All right, we have to break. (laughs) I'm gonna break. When's Thanksgiving coming up? - Yeah, it's late this year. - Yeah, it was quick said earlier. - Are we gonna have for something? - Yeah. - I don't know that. All right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10. 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We've talked about Trump and his diet and we've been comparing ages and health statuses and cognitive decline with Joe Biden and things like that. And we know that Trump's brother had an alcohol issue and Trump is not somebody that imbibes in alcohol or he doesn't smoke cigarettes, he doesn't do drugs. But his vice is fast food, right? I think we all kind of have one. We all have our guilty pleasure. Mine's a cocktail or seven. Trump likes Big Max and Diet Cokes. And that apparently was brought up when Bobby Kennedy was doing a podcast, The Daily Beast reporting that Bobby Kennedy was on the, not everybody has a podcast. I don't even know who this is, Joe Polish, Joe Polish. Joe Polish, the Joe Polish podcast. The Polish podcast where RFK Jr. said the stuff that Trump eats is really, really bad. Campaign food is always bad. But the food that goes into that airplane is like poison. You have a choice between, well, you don't have the choice. You're either given KFC or you're given Big Max. That's when you're lucky. And then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible. Trump widely reported and criticized for his love of McDonald's, Big Max and Diet Cokes during his previous stint in the Oval Office. Trump would use a button to alert a butler to bring him his favorite chilled soft drink while he would be going through paperwork. Like when I wake up from my nap, I admit, I drink a, and that's the other thing. That's the other difference between Trump and I. He never sleeps. According to this report, Trump can go up to 48 hours without sleeping, which is remarkable. Like me. - I know. - Vampire. - You're like a vampire. - It's a Gemini thing. - You guys live off of caffeine. And I get seven hours of sleep plus a 90 minute nap, but I still need a red bowl and coffee. And apparently Trump loves all of this stuff. So here's the thing with this. And I think Don, you have mentioned it in the past. It comes down to jeans, right? Like, I mean, I go to the gym four or five days a week. I don't eat bad. My one vice is I like to have cocktails. And, but my genetics, my history, my dad was dead at 60, my grandfather dropped dead of a heart attack. He was a boxer at 46. So I already know and we've documented this on the show. It's well, it's been chronicled. I'm dead by 62, there's no question. There's no question. So I'm never going to even see social security. Or a 401(k) or a 401(k). - It's horrible. - It's funny what we say. It's not funny what you say. - I know. - And look, I believe only the good guy young. (laughs) - Here's the thing about alcohol, I will say. - Yeah. - That's why, so for Trump or for anyway. So alcohol stops your body from burning fat. - Yup. - It releases like these hormones or, you know, enemies of the body that make you feel hungry. And there are all kinds of things that alcohol triggers, plus it immediately turn, or not immediately, like three hours in turns to pure sugar. - Right. - And so that's why they say even one, even one drink in evening and two at night before you go to bed is a bad idea. They even say, like, for people who like to have a little cocktail, don't have the cocktail, maybe Sunday through Thursday nights. Just do it, you know, on a Friday evening or a Saturday. - Which is what I try to show. - Yeah. - I know everybody has the assumption that I drink every night. It's not a true story. I'd probably only two or three nights a week. Or, you know, two or three nights total. You know, usually like a, you know, like a Tuesday or Friday on a Saturday is typically when I, two in my life. - Yeah. - Yeah, the work week's still a little bit of grind. You know, I have one on Tuesday night. - Okay. - And then Friday, Saturday, I have a couple. - Yeah. - But there's a direct link. I think that's part of with Trump, 'cause you say, how can he possibly, 'cause you know, we all saw it when he was in Bucks County. He was like, he was like a kid in a candy store. He was so happy. - Which is why you look at McDonald's, 'cause he was like, I'm in heaven. - This report also says that people in his inner circle have never seen him drink water. (laughing) - Honestly God, you can ask my wife, 'cause we buy it at Sam's Club. I drink three liters of alkaline water a day. - There's videos of him drinking water. They're hysterical because he drinks very oddly. - Yeah, he's got an elitist to sip to it. - No, no, no, he like puzzles. - No, no, no, he double hand. There's videos of him, like double handling water. - Well, like he's picking up a bowl of soup. - Yeah. - He drinks water really oddly. - Well, maybe that's why he doesn't do it in public, 'cause people, I mean, the man gets critiqued for everything, right? So no wonder he doesn't want to drink water or eat on camera. - That must be why. - Because everybody's gonna critique him for every little thing, 'cause we're all obsessed. - I was wrong. - He's so put upon. - No, I'm saying, think about it. Anything he says, anything he does, people are obsessed with it. - Right, he's moving us. - He's a larger-than-life figure in personality. And remember that spotlight, I get it. But I would love to just talk to a health expert. If we have any health people out there, they are truly qualified. So if I were to say for the rest of my life, okay, I'm either gonna have drinks two or three nights a week, or I'm gonna eat McDonald's and fast food as frequent. And like, I don't know how often, maybe Trump only has it once a week. I mean, I get pizza once a week, right? It's not gonna kill you if you eat fast food once a week. If you're living off of it, I mean, you're gonna turn into a blob and you're gonna die. It is poison, the preservatives. It's all bad for you, right? But you know, it's all about moderation. The key to life is moderation, right? I would love to know from a health expert out there. If I had to just consume one for the rest of my life, fast food on somewhat of a moderate basis, or alcohol on a moderate basis. Who's, jeans aside, who's doing the better thing? Trump or me? Well, I wanna know. - Here's what alcohol, there are all these studies that have been done on this, I'm sorry to say, but alcohol, okay, triggers part of your brain, makes you feel hungry, activates all of these different hormones, not in good ways. It shuts down, or even one drink a night, even one drink slows down your burnings, your fat burning process, and so there's that. And it also impacts the way that you can digest or absorb regular nutrients that you need. I mean, overall, nobody wants to hear this, but overall, alcohol on any kind of a regular basis is not good for any of us, that's the answer to that. I think, I mean, I look at my dad, I talk about him, I mean, pushing 90, it's like, and you look at him, and my dad, he walks, he's pretty healthy, but he loves ice cream, he loves an occasional McDonald's. He is so healthy, healthy, and his brain is so healthy. And I think the fact that he quit, he did as a younger person drinkin' smoke, but has not done so in like, I don't know, 60 years or something. Yeah, I think if you cut yourself off with that stuff by your late 30s, and you probably have a better chance of living longer, can you start to see all this stuff add up when you get into your 40s, right? And you start to age a little bit, and your body just doesn't recover, and you have inflammation. But you know, you see these other stories that come out all the time, these studies of a glass of wine a day, actually, here's the benefits of it. So, you know, we always seem to have these conflicting studies where, yeah, too much of it's bad, but, you know, one beer a day, or, you know, one glass of Cabernet is actually beneficial in these ways. But you know what, Nick, I learned so much about food when we did our Italy trip last year, because everybody, like my husband, when he has red wine, some red wines that are like California wines, he will turn bright red, and we've learned that that's from the, you know, a lot of the products that they put in there as far as, you know, to keep it. So, in Italy, he had none of that. Yeah. And we all commented that-- Oh, so his face gets flushed. Yeah, because of like an allergy? OK. Yeah, my face gets flushed, too, when I, like, cocktail. Because it's an allergic reaction to some of the chemicals they put in there. Absolutely. Whereas in other countries, do they put something in there to keep it, you know, keep it fresh, or whatever, over there? Yes, but not to the extent. We put chemicals in everything here, and we allow it in this country. Right, and then we mix drinks, too, and that's even the worst part, right? Because then you have the sugar and mixtures, and you actually think you're better off just drinking it straight, like Stalker on a Friday, just sports with Tequila on the rocks. He's a child-back. It really is, of course, and so moderated. Mango mush is bull-ass dawn. Not really. I'm Irish, we drink and live until our 90s. Everybody has different genes, man. Well, maybe that-- I mean, that's true, but I will say it depends on what you're drinking. Yeah, that's right. And how much you're drinking. And then also, is it just the drinking, or is it the weight gain that goes along with it? Right. And because we know that the number one factor, as Bill Maher famously said, if you ever noticed, there are zero obese 90-year-olds. Zero. Yeah. They don't exist. No, they don't. They did something right. All right, 855-839-1210. We'll come back. 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I'm talk radio at 1210WPHD and the free Odyssey app. Been a while since we checked in on what's going out there, going on beyond just the politics of the day. And we'll find out what Dawn has lined up at 907 for her big three at nine. It's the big three at nine on Cale and Company. Number one in our big three, an issue that we've talked a lot about in Bucks County. And so they have officially fully reversed the ban on biological males playing with biological girls in girls sports or locker rooms or restrooms. And this has to do with Bucks County public schools. Now, what is the reversal here just so we're over here? So dudes are not allowed to be with women? So in this one, the school board, this is the Democrat controlled school board. So this is going in the wrong direction. So in the, and when you read the headlines, you have to kind of do a reversal mode, right? With our brains, we have to go, wait a minute. What is this? Because they call it, they're saying that they have reversed or retired, and I'm quoting here, a ban on transgender athletes. And they say that this is like a human rights issue for transgender athletes. Right, at the expense of biological females. And that's the argument. Yeah. And so Republicans in central Bucks and other areas, obviously, and this is a big issue that we've talked about, they said that they want to respect the rights of biological girls and women in sports, in locker rooms, in bathrooms. And so they, in the past, the Republican controlled school board in Bucks and elsewhere. They felt that they wanted to protect girls and they could find ways, obviously, to make sure that everybody's rights are protected and that nobody should be bullied or discriminated against. But in this way, they've said that, and this is a formality that I'm reporting to you, but it touched off a lot of debate this week in community meetings and so on. Because, you know, they're saying that if you are a biological male and you identify as a female, even though you have all of your male parts, that you can go to whatever bathroom you choose, whatever locker room you choose, whatever sport you choose, and that's your right. And that if a girl, a biological girl, feels in any way violated by that, then that's essentially, that's her problem. Oh, yeah, it's a tough luck go-pounds sand. That's great. That's just great. I just saw the other story with this out west, the Mountain West Conference, one of the major conferences in college athletics is now suing over trans athletes' rights because I think 12 female volleyball players feel like they're being violated, which I believe they are. So basically, they've established a precedent in Bucks County that you can claim to be whatever you wanna be and go wherever you want. Yes. Okay. And so in this one, I will tell you when Riley Gaines was in Montgomery County, what was that a month ago at this point? And there were parents, look, I've reported on this, that they didn't even want me to, 'cause I was photographing in video, it didn't wanna be on video because they've been so bullied or they fear that maybe their kids will in some way be discriminated against in some way. So they asked the question, well, what about the federal funding? Under the current administration, obviously this all goes away in the Trump administration as he's promised, but right now, schools fear that they will lose under the Title IX newly signed rules that went into effect on the Biden and Harris administration. They fear that they would pull the federal funding. And so what Riley Gaines said was, you know what, take them up on that. Call them out on the dare because, and I will tell you about Riley Gaines, this is an issue that nobody talks enough about, that these suburban parents, especially moms, but dads too and grandparents, nobody talked about it. This is a huge issue that goes under the radar for some reason, but Riley Gaines predicted, and rightfully so, that this was an issue people were voting on. They just don't want their girls to be-- - It's a common sense view. It's not transphobic, it's not homophobic, it's not radical ideology. There's two genders, and there's a reason why we created women's sports, because a lot like with the Pete Hegseth argument, men have a higher lung capacity, higher muscle strength, and that is why we have a separation of men and women's sports. It's very simple. The Gallup poll back in 2023, I believe, the last one I looked at, said that 79% of Americans believe that men should not be in female sports, bathrooms, or locker rooms. It's the majority, again, here it is again, identity politics and all this woke nonsense. Most Americans don't subscribe to it, yet we're catering to the fringes again, right? In Bucks County of all places. And at Polymarket, by the way, gives Trump a 65% chance of banning transgender athletes in sports, as far as competing in women's sports. - No, it's 100%. It's 90, I don't think it's even 65%. - Well, he said he was gonna do it, right? - Yeah, he said right here on 20-point agenda, right? - Said it's us during an interview. - That's right, he did. - And he's repeatedly said it, and so it's 100%, you can lock that in, that he is going to reverse this overreaching Title IX policy, there's no question in my mind. And by the way, this is not about bullying or discrimination or anything of that nature. And that's, but I've applaud Riley Gaines on this, because what she said was, call their bluff. In other words, if they're gonna pull your federal funding, which at the end of the day is not even all that much when you look at it, but call their bluff on it. And as far as lawsuits, and that's what Riley Gaines had talked about, the one successful measure has been these lawsuits, because when you go to court and you show the injuries that these women in sports or girls in sports have sustained, it is tangible evidence of the danger and the risk that they're being put into. - Yeah, and if it's such a trendy thing, why do I never see any biological females transitioning to become a man and then they participate in men's sports? It's always the other way around. And it's never a decorated male athlete. It's always a middle of the road to subpar male athlete that can't hack it with the dudes, then all of a sudden goes and says he's a female and he wants to compete in female sports, right? We remember the Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlon story, Leah Thomas, on down the list. And it shouldn't even have to resort on to the physical injuries that a biological female could suffer at the hands of a biological male. What about the mental and emotional anguish, right? What about losing out on a scholarship or winning a district championship in high school or a state championship? Hey, I came in second place. Oh, that's great, honey. Yeah, but the person that beat me was a dude. What? How? Oh, that's wrong. Doesn't make any sense. You are transphobic. No, I'm just common sense, man, that's all. Yep. So we'll continue to follow that one and see how that goes in Bucks County. We have a study on, because Nick, you were bringing up RFK Jr. You were talking about the health of somebody like Trump who likes fast food, but does not drink or smoke. Well, now there's a new study and it tells you which type of coffee is most linked to cancer. Not how coffee's bad. Yeah, which type of coffee is healthier? So it appears from this latest research that instant, any instant coffee is deemed by these researchers as, let's say, the most likely to cause some type of cancer. Now, what would be instant coffee? What does that even mean? That's where it's not brewed. I guess it's not brewed. It's like you just add a little water and stir. Yeah, that's fake. Yeah, it's trash. I don't drink that anyway. So it's the processing of it. Okay, so what we're doing down here in the kitchen is good. I think. Yeah, we're coming out of a big machine. (laughing) Right? It's at McGill University researchers and there are a bunch of them, a bunch of different universities got together looking at coffee, but they're saying, the best kind of coffee is that that is brewed from real coffee beans. Yep. It's basically the least processed coffee. That's the answer. We've got the real beans down there. We've got the Peru blend, the Honduras blend. Ooh. Love it. And espresso-based coffees, by the way, which include cappuccinos, lattes, or other types of espresso. Yeah. They're thought to be beneficial to our brains and they're actually linking that to reduced risk of Alzheimer's. Okay. Very good to know. Drink coffee. Yeah, I drink mine black anyway. So I don't do sugar. And that's good for you too. I don't even do cream anymore. Number three, I have to go to, I love, you know, I love Tom Brady. Well, guess what? Who doesn't? Giselle Bunchkin. You don't like Brady? No! I love Tom Brady. Not at the broadcast. Brady Roast was... I just loved him as a quarterback. How horrible he is. Well, his ex-member at the Brady Roast, how they were saying that, you know, yo dude, you hired, you know, you hired an expert in personal defense or whatever, and he ends up being with your wife. Oh, yeah. She was with the jujitsu dude. Yeah. Brady hired that, whatever, jujitsu expert, and by the way, she's now showing a baby bump. She's pregnant. Yes, funny you say that. They're having the bid to... You know, there's a lot of speculation and rumors out there that AOC's pregnant. Yeah, I've seen that. That clip we played, a lot of people were speculating because she had a very like... Full face. And she had a loose shirt on. Like, it looked like one of those button-up shirts that may have been her boyfriend's husband's Riley's, whatever that guy's, you know. Yeah, the guy that she held hostage in an Instagram video, you will read what I wrote, Riley. And then I will have your baby. So, yeah, you're right, social media erupted with it. Representative, Alexandria Acasio-Cortez. But it's unsubstantiated. I don't believe, even though it's been a buzz on social media, like, Jazelle Bunchkin is like, clearly has a baby bump and she's showing it off with her. Can we stop getting our news from Twitter? But Bunchkin is confirmed. I'm just saying that AOC is, they're claiming that she's hiding her pregnancy for political reasons. Is AOC, did she marry Riley? They were engaged. I don't know when the way, if they can, I don't even know. I have no idea. But in any event, that's the rumor, but no, I'll look for that. Yeah. All right, so, Jazelle's got a baby on the way. And Tom Brady's an awful broadcaster, but he's got a 10-year, $375 million contract from Fox. That must be nice. I think you talk about government efficiency. Again, we need broadcast efficiency. Somebody needs to go in and say, who at Fox thought Tom Brady was worth 30s? They thought he was worth more as a broadcaster than a quarterback. There's something about, I'll just say this. I think that it makes Tom Brady, I don't know, more like vulnerable. The fact that he allegedly got cheated on and dumped. Do you know what I'm saying? And they were vicious to him at that roast, which I know rosar. But now that she has the baby bump and having a baby with this guy, I think that that people will like him even more sympathize with him. Well, the rumor is that he spent just too much time obsessing over football and not enough like-- So he was too hardworking of a guy and deserved to be cheated on? Well, not that he deserved-- no, nobody deserves that. But that he just didn't really pay much attention to Giselle. And she decided to go elsewhere. All right. I'm not defending. I'm just saying this to him. Why ask Bridget Moynihan his first wife and the one he has-- They were never married. They were never married. What a good guy he is. She has said that they were never married. They broke up, that they did break up, and that she didn't even know she was pregnant when they broke up. And they're actually buddies. They're friends. They're co-parent. Well, allegedly. I don't know. Nick Folt and Nick Folt would never have done this to-- No. [LAUGHTER] No. I just died just by management. I just-- I needed to pop this Brady love fest. It's just gross. It's not gross. I only love him as a quarterback. I love him. Oh, yeah. I love him as he's a killer. He's a good guy. He's the guy. He's the go. He's the go to. He's the first of all time. Yeah. Yeah, there's just no-- He beats all the good quarterbacks, and this will probably lose as the Nick Folt. They're jealous. No, I'm not jealous. I just-- he's not a-- He's a very punchable face. Oh, he definitely-- he's got the gates here. Yeah. What's up with that Florida spike? Because he's good-looking. That's why he has a punchable face. No, not at all. That's not-- And he has good hair. That's not true. We should actually go through politicians that have the most punchable faces. That'd be a great exercise. Ted Cruz is number one thing. We don't want anybody to be punched. No, no, just, you know. Matt Gaetz is two. You get Gaetz is up there, yeah. Newsome. Newsome. Definitely Newsome. Gavin, yeah, another guy with the stuff. The Quaff. Yeah, Quaff. That's your big three. There you go, Don. Thank you very much. Boom. It's Kale and Company on demand from talk radio 1210WPhD and the free Odyssey app. What's on the cut sheet? Part two. What's on the cut sheet? I do. I'm sitting on this for a couple of days and I want to play it now. Phil, this is cut two. So this happened at a school in Chicago-- I saw this. --school, where a bunch of students, youngsters, are arguing about the election, Kamala Harris and Trump. And this young African boy is just not having any of it from his fellow students, especially when talking about what rights are going to be taken away. Let's just play a little bit of this, Phil. What rights is he taking away from women? What rights is he taking away from women? What rights is he taking away from women? We answered that. We answered it. We answered it. We answered it. Y'all brought up education unless I asked that question. We brought it. We just kept talking about it. Y'all just wrote what they're saying and just wrote what they're saying. Oh, good. My young great stalker. [INTERPOSING VOICES] You can't even do that. [INTERPOSING VOICES] It's amazing. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Cox? Yep. Flat pants, what? You don't like it? [INTERPOSING VOICES] Look at this. [INTERPOSING VOICES] He's taking away from women. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Give me that binder, he said. Let's watch. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Let's see what he's giving you when he is [INAUDIBLE] Let's see what he's doing for you. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Because they said the lesser. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] And y'all also said Project 25. He also said hopefully he's not-- he's not going to do it. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Do you believe? [INTERPOSING VOICES] This is awesome. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Y'all only woke up. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Why do you need enough more-- why do you care about bullshit? You're an high school. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Are you just getting pregnant? [INTERPOSING VOICES] Oh, now she's pregnant. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Did you get pregnant? [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Are you even a-- you saw me inversion. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] What do y'all list? [INTERPOSING VOICES] We got worse. [INTERPOSING VOICES] This guy. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Y'all worried about abortion. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Y'all worried about abortion. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] It doesn't matter if we look. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] It's amazing. He needs to be in the cabinet. [INTERPOSING VOICES] It's amazing. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] You're in high school. You're a virgin. What are you talking about? He was ready to hit her with the identity politics, too, before she cut him off. He was going to say, you're either only voting for Kamala Harris because she's a female or because she's a black female. He was ready to say that before somebody cut him off. 100%. [LAUGHTER] Yeah, I saw that floating around for a while. That is a good one. I'm glad we got to that. All right. We should make way for Michael Steinberg. All right. We'll come back. Talk to Michael Steinberg. He's one of our great reps here at Odyssey Philadelphia. And he's going to talk about his grandfather, Len Steinberg, who was gracing this earth for over 98 years, born and raised in Strawberry Mansion, section of North Philadelphia. Don talks about it frequently in the news. And we'll talk about his military career and hear from his grandson directly. And we'll do that coming up next here on our veteran spotlight brought to you by Window Nation, back after this on Kaling Company. 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Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Yes, absolutely. So you have your grandfather born in December of 1924, almost reached 99 years old, raised in Strawberry Mansion, section that many people know in North Philadelphia. And he enlisted and he was not drafted, went voluntarily, went underage. That's how much he loved his country. And he joined at the age of 17 in November of 1942. So you've probably heard countless stories. Take us through a little bit of the early years, what led him down this path, and then we'll go through kind of some of the highlights and the aftermath after he got out. Well, you know, our family was really in its first generation in America, right? You know, the Jews came over at the turn of the century. So his parents were the first in his family that were born in the United States, but the rest of the family was all from Europe. And, you know, there wasn't social media in the internet, but there were dribs and drabs of what was going on in Europe with fascism and Nazism and anti-Semitism. And that, as much as, you know, wanting to fight for his country, he also wanted to fight for Judaism. And that really inspired him. And he produced a fake birth certificate at the enlistment office. And, you know, he volunteered before he was, you know, before he was 18, because he really wanted to go. It's amazing. So you end up going over there. It's 1944. He ends up becoming a prisoner of war. He bails out, never having parachuted before. No oxygen, no training, land safely in Germany. He's captured as a POW and ends up being basically placed in a prison camp. Next to Auschwitz. I mean, the stories you must have, what you had to endure in that moment, much less the stories upon being freed, I can't imagine what that was like. And he said that it was, you know, the way that the prisoners were treated, you know, it wasn't necessarily the level that, you know, that the Jews were treated in the concentration camps. But he said it was just unimaginable. I mean, they were transported in, you know, in trains with 500 people in a car that was made for 300 people, you know, for hours and hours or days and days of transport with, you know, no food, no water, no sanitation. I mean, it was just, it was horrible. It's unbelievable. Some of the personal things are very fascinating. So he ends up obviously getting married to your grandmother, Barbara. They're married 77 years. And he opens up and owns Steinberg electronics in North Philadelphia for half a century. And ironically enough, one of his customers is 1210 WCAU AM back in the days when Tony Bruno was on 1210 and it was not WPHC but WCAU. So he, did he have an electronics background or was this just a business venture? Was he great hands on with this type of stuff? Because we have electronic issues every day. You know, if he was still with us, he could come in and fix Doctors' Board. Yeah. Now my family was in the electronics business for three or four generations. I mean, when he was a kid, he used to build transistor radios. And the funny thing is, you know, so he used to sell parts and accessories to all the radio stations and all the TV stations. And I was just talking to him in the hallway, but our chief engineer, Dave Scalish, who knew I was going to be on today, told me stories because his family was in the business that he used to go to North Broad Street to my grandfather and my father and my family store to pick up parts. Wow. Wow. It's just unbelievable. Such a small world. You know, aftermath, you know, you look at the technology or lack there of medicine and science, health and diagnosing and clinicians. It's not like it was, you know, 1945, 1970, you know, where we are today. The advancements are just amazing. But I know we were talking off the air about the mental health of your grandfather, PTSD and things like that. And, you know, you had that breakthrough family moment that you were telling me about. Why don't you relay that to the audience because it's very, it's heart wrenching, actually. Sure. So just to give, you know, a couple, a couple top line bullets of, you know, what he went through, you know, his plane was, he was in the 305th bomb group. And they were shot down February 24, 1944. And four people in his plane were killed. His pilot told him to jump again, no training, no oxygen, 29,000 feet. Put on the parachute and get out of here, Len. I mean, that, that was it. There was, and he got heavy flack, but then there was nine other planes. And, you know, he, he wrote a whole story and maybe we can, you know, post the story online, but it was just an amazing story. You know, blood frozen on his face, you know, shrapnel all over, still, you know, up until his death, he still had shrapnel in his head that they were, they were never able to, to remove. And, you know, he was transported to just several different, several different places, you know, the war and from prison camp to prison camp and, you know, most of it on foot, right, in the cold, you know, in, in Germany. And just what he went through seeing so many of, you know, his mates not make it, right? Most of them didn't make it. And he really held it in for, you know, 50 years. I have no idea how you can compartmentalize that. And, you know, PTSD, it was a thing, but it wasn't a thing, right? It wasn't recognized. There was no VA then. And, you know, there were no organizations like the Travis Mannion Foundation, you know, who helped veterans, you know, reintegrate and, you know, create purpose for them. And I remember we were at my grandfather's house. It was, you know, maybe 22 years ago, I think it was shortly before my kids were born. And it was a Sunday night, and we were watching 60 minutes. And there was a piece about, you know, the greatest generation. And World War II veterans and POWs. And he just lost it. You know, lost it like a wet blanket. My grandfather was the strongest man I've ever seen. I mean, you know, everything that he went through. But he was, he was from a different generation. You, you, you bottled it up, right? And, you know, he had, it was bottled up for almost 60 years. And he just let it go. And, you know, I'll never forget how, like, you know, my grandfather would hold everybody in the family or, you know, very close, you know, Jewish family. And, you know, we were, we were very close. And I remember my aunt, Randy, holding my grandfather because he just lost it. I'm trying not to lose it right now. But I think that that really sort of opened the door for him to really talk about it. I think that, you know, the, the, the PTSD that, that he had experienced for 60 years, that he bottled up inside. Yeah. He just sort of let it out. And I think from that point on, you know, he really opened up about his experiences. And it was the best thing, you know, that, that ever happened for him. Right. He found a veteran group, a support group. He didn't find out about his VA benefits until almost like 60 years later. That's unbelievable. That was just, you know, but I will tell you that he was like, he was about 80. Yeah. But I will tell you that the VA, once he got to the VA, he was 80 years old. But once he got there, they did do a great job. And if they have come such a long way. So I do, you know, it was a different time back then, but, but the VA is done a great job. And then of course, having, you know, organizations like the Travis Manning Foundation, you know, helping veterans, you know, who are, who went through experiences like that to reintegrate us, you know, it's really important. Remarkable story. Len Steinberg, born December 17th, 1924 and passed away on Monday, April 3rd of 2023. I think we can probably post some of the, the firsthand account of the eulogy on, on social, once we clip this and get it up on X and things like that. So just because of time constraints. Great story. Seems like an unbelievable individual and small world. He ends up doing business with 1210 WCAA. Is that how you got hired here? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Thank you, Stein. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Michael Steinberg of Odyssey talking about his grandfather, Lynn Steinberg. All right. We want to go, we're going to do a pitch first before Phil. Let's break. Okay. Let's break it real fast. Yeah. We'll pay some more bills that Steinberg sells because he sells all the commercials and we'll come back, wrap it up with Phil, the Eagles picks, and what's on tap for the Dawn show. And once again, that is our window nation veteran spotlight. For all of your window indoor needs, visit windownation.com. Back after this. It's Cale and Company on demand from talk radio 1210 WPHT and the free Odyssey app. As we do this usually on a Friday for an Eagles Sunday, but you know what? They're playing on Thursday night football, so we do it now. All brought to you by McCausen lock and alarm business owners. They count on McCausen lock and alarm to secure and control access to their facilities featuring top of the line equipment, industry leading customer service, and owner Tom McCausen's wealth of experience. McCausen lock and alarm securing your business, securing your future Eagles three and a half point favorites against the commanders, the over under 48 and a half. I like the Eagles. They said it with Bruno yesterday. I like them decisively. I think they're on a roll now. Nick Sirianni all of a sudden is Vince Lombardi, Jalen Hurst can't make a mistake, and we've got Saquon Barkley. Give me the Eagles 30, the commander 17. I'm going to go differently here. I'm going to take the commanders in this game. I take commanders 21, the commanders 21, the Eagles, excuse me, the commander's 29 Eagles 21. Don't. Oh, here we go. You want me to just go? I'm going to say it's going to be close even though the Eagles are favored. So I'm going to say 28, 27. All right. Birds by a point. Phil enquist. I'm going to go Eagles 28, Washington 21, where they cover and so there you go. All right. Eagles cover and then over there. Phil and I both agree. Eagles will be 28. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I like the nine or two. Way to those tweets that are coming in. All right. We'll get to what's on tap for the Don Show momentarily, but first, Phil enquist, he's in the studio for a reason. It's not for football picks. It's for today's music history. Today, November 14th. We suffered the first days of Travis Barker from Blink 182, who's 49, Tobit Esperons from Papa Roach, who's 45, Brian Yale from Matchbox 20, who's 56, and James Young from Styx, who's now 75. Heavenly birthday shoutouts to Frankie Bonale from Quiet Ryan, as well as Alec John Such from Bon Jovi. This is a cool, different world by Iron Maiden in 2006, Born to Be My Baby by Bon Jovi, as well as Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson, 88, Black Magic Woman by Santana in 70, and Rockaway Beach by the Ramones in 77. Albums Could Live Rust by Neil Young in 79, Space Oddy by David Bowie in the UK in 69. The mind is a terrible thing to taste by Ministry in 89, and Strong Arm of the Law by Saxon in 1980. Also in 75, Queen began their A Night at the Opera Tour. In 2004, you choose vertigo with the top of the UK's singles chart. In 67, Pink Floyd began their first UK tour. In 87, the dirty dancing soundtrack was atop the album chart, and in 83, MJ's Video Thriller debuted at the Metrocrest Theatre in LA. But lastly earlier this week, by Chemical Romance announced in 2025, North American Summer Stadium tour, and they'll be here at Sis Bay Park, performing the entire of the Black Parade album on August 15th, Alice Cooper opens, which means I will be going. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. I was just going to ask if you're going, and I got the answer. There it is. The thing I held that back. All right. The Dawn show is coming up at the top of the hour, and we find out what she has lined up from 10 to noon. So we have so much going on because we have all the developing news of what's going on in Bucks County. We'll talk to a local doctor and get the reaction as to the Central Bucks School Board voting to voting to support trans males without really supporting advocates, say, not supporting girls in sports and how that shakes out in Bucks. We'll also talk in the 11 o'clock hour to find out the inside scoop on our legislature here in Pennsylvania. You will hear all about that. And coming right up at 10 o'clock, we're going to have Dr. Marion Mass. She's going to talk about why she was on Capitol Hill. Why was she? She was in Congress yesterday talking about drug pricing and big farming and what's fair to you and supporting your local doctor. So it really is a story that nobody's talking about, big pharma and local doctors, national doctors, even congressional issues. We'll take it front and center with Dr. Marion Mass. So you want to stay tuned for this. 90 seconds. There we go. Dawn show is coming up in a matter of moments. Time to wrap it up. Everybody have a great rest of your Thursday. Enjoy Dawn show. Enjoy the game tonight. And we'll see you tomorrow morning for a Friday edition at 6 a.m. Good night, everybody. 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