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July 10, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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The White House Secures The Bag, The Sphere Is Here, What's Your Threads Count
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Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, welcome back to Doug Collins Podcast.
Glad to have you with us on this 4th of July week.
We're ending up the week.
It's Friday.
Friday's Finest is on the way just after the break.
And we're going to be talking a lot of different stuff.
I mean, I would have never thought I'd put these kind of sentences together.
Cocaine in the White House, eight Braves in the All-Star Game, and a giant sphere in Las Vegas.
Okay, those are just little things that might be coming up here in Friday's Finest in just a minute with James.
Looking forward to it.
But...
Before we get there, again, just another, as we look at what's going on in the world right now, you just look at the craziness of, you know, Russia, Ukraine.
You're going back and forth.
You got Russian pilots going after American drones in Syria.
You still have, you got a Barbie movie, which we may talk about as well, actually showing a Chinese map of the world where they take over like half of the South China Sea.
The world is going nuts.
And, you know, again, People wonder why this matters.
Folks, we've gotten into this certain situation here in the world where we believe that these things don't matter.
You have France going up in flames.
You have Belgium going up in flames.
You've had problems in England for the longest time over, really, and let's just be very blunt about this, uncontrolled migration.
Illegal immigration, but this is actually letting them in because the EU let this vast migration from North Africa happen a few years ago in which they just couldn't handle it.
And you saw in Sweden taking on these immigrants and rape issues that went up drastically.
You've had Germany having issues.
You now have France having issues where you have basically two separate countries living with inside a country.
And this is something we've got.
I think you need to take seriously because we're starting to see some of this here in the United States where we're not People who come to the United States are not meddling with the country itself.
We're becoming identified into too many homogenous groups and where the whole issue of America being a melting pot is going away.
I mean, this is 4th of July.
We had Somali refugees shooting fireworks in a street at police.
Okay, folks, that just shouldn't be happening.
I mean, give them a choice.
Go back and live in Somalia or come back and live in Minnesota.
Where would you rather do?
And if they would rather live in Somalia, then trip them on a plane and put them back in Somalia.
Now, that may sound harsh to you, but I don't care.
If you're in the middle of the street here as a guest, as a refugee that we've taken in, and you're shooting fireworks and other things into the streets and causing havoc in Minneapolis, you need to go back to Somalia.
Okay?
And you can argue with me all you want.
That's fine.
I don't care.
I don't want to hear it.
Because there's no justification for that.
If you wanted to act that way, go back to Somalia.
Live your life out.
We won't say a word.
But if you come here, There is some understanding that you're living in a different place.
We do have opportunity for everybody.
We don't want to discriminate against anyone.
And we want to give you hope and opportunity.
But you've got to accept it.
And I think you've got to be a part of that system.
So again, lots going on.
But you know what?
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And in just a minute after the break, it's going to be James and I laying out all of the interesting stories of the week.
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Alright, James, we're back.
It's Friday's Finest.
James, our Texan by way of New Jersey.
It is glad to be back with you on this Friday.
How are we doing, James?
We are fantastic.
How are you?
Are you still burning up in Texas?
Yeah, pretty much.
Um...
I still live on the surface of the sun, and I'm not sure if I'm going to make it, but we'll see what happens.
Are you getting any rain at all?
No.
I just take a bucket and I throw it up in the air outside to make it feel like it's happening.
It probably evaporates before it hits back in the ground, though.
It does.
It's crazy.
That's kind of different.
Yeah, it's going along the way right now.
We've finally hit the summer pattern here on the East Coast, and you're hitting the highs and humidities, and then thunderstorms pop up and then everything else.
So it's pretty wild.
But we've got big news to talk about this week.
Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, in addition to having their knockdown dragout, whatever they're going to have supposedly in September, Zuckerberg has thrown the fight now at Twitter, bringing on the new application called Threads.
Have you seen this, James?
I've heard about it all day today from people.
It just is a silly...
I don't know.
The last thing we need is more social media.
It's just literally the last thing this country needs, or the world for that matter.
Yeah, it is pretty amazing.
Well, I have to say something.
I am normally not a, what do we call it, a early adapter.
You know, they have the early adapters, the middle adapters, late adapters.
I've never really, I mean, at best, more of a middle early adapter.
But we're taking some time off.
We're at the Southern Studio now, and we're doing this, and my boys are with me.
And last night, Cameron and I, since...
Threads was introduced yesterday.
We have now opened a Threads account.
So if you want to follow us on Threads, it's the same as our Instagram rep.
DougCollinsGA is on our Threads.
And go check it out.
I've been looking at it throughout the day.
I'm not as obsessed with it, James, as some are.
It seems like a more...
I don't know how to call this, a more simplified version of Twitter.
I mean, it looks almost identical.
I mean, if you go to it, you download it, it looks identical to Twitter.
And just before we went on taping today, I have to share, there is a word that Meta was hiring Twitter employees who brought with them phones and other things that they took from Twitter after they left.
And guess who's getting ready to sue?
Is it Elon Musk and Twitter?
Duh, you got it!
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
James wins the prize!
Yep, and I don't blame him.
I mean, I'm an intellectual property person, okay?
And I understand, you know, non-competes and others that I'm not a real big fan of, but intellectual property is intellectual property.
And if you're working on it and that's your contract, you're with a company like Twitter and others, you just can't up and put that on your phone and take it with you.
You can't just up and take a computer that's not yours and take it to another company and sell it for the highest bidder.
And if they've done this, And I wouldn't put it past them.
I mean, if they did, then...
I would.
Somebody offered me the money they probably got offered?
Oh, they probably did.
Because, again, you can't make this thing look as similar as this is.
I mean, if you look at it, it's like looking at a mirror reflection of Twitter.
Except you have the boost of Instagram because you can basically take all of the ones you're following.
Here's an interesting thing.
All of the ones you're following on Instagram, you're now following on threads if they actually open up an account.
Yeah.
I don't really...
I mean, everyone's going to do it, obviously, right?
Well, yeah.
They're just going to do it.
But it's not going to beat Twitter.
You're not going to beat something that people have been using.
I mean, look, for all I know, it'll be better.
I hate...
I don't want to say I hate Twitter.
That's not the way I want to...
Twitter has always been a ridiculous place to be.
Instagram is just like...
You know how you put on a TV show for your kids so you can do some work?
Yeah.
That's what Instagram is, where it's like, oh, there's colors and bright videos and stuff, and then you go get lost for an hour.
Twitter is just a place for hatred and some fun and great stuff, but it's just a place for people to write things they would never say to your face, and now you're adding that to Instagram with threads.
Well, the interesting thing, though, and I've looked at this so far, And I've scanned through it a little bit, and we're gaining followers.
Like I said, if you want to be on Threads and you don't like Twitter, go to Threads, RepDougCollins.
I mean, not RepDougCollins, that's my Twitter.
But it's DougCollinsGA, same as my Instagram account.
And we're building followers.
But what I have noticed is you don't see the vitriol yet on it.
You don't see the...
It's coming, Doug.
Don't worry.
Oh, it's coming.
I agree.
But you haven't seen it yet.
The other thing is, and I heard this from a commentator earlier today on a show that I was doing an interview on, and they basically said they were wondering if this was going to become the MS... This is my words now.
The MSNBC version of Twitter and basically, if you want to say, the Fox version of real Twitter.
Are the liberals going to flock to something...
To get off of Twitter, like they've been trying with, what is it, Mastodon or some of these others that really don't have any ump to it.
The one thing you've got to say, though, Zuckerberg is going to put money behind it.
Zuckerberg's got, I mean, by tying it to Instagram, you've made a huge difference right there in jump-starting your accounts.
So the question will be, and if that happens, James, are we just simply...
Are we just simply exacerbating the problem of polarization in the country?
It's never going to be a full split, Doug.
Those who say they're trying to get the liberals or whatever you want to say is getting away from Twitter, they're not.
They're still on it.
They may not be commenting or using it much, but they all have burner accounts and they all have stuff so they can still be on Twitter because people love toxicity, no matter what they say.
If you want to get away from negative It's never going to be like, oh, we're on this app, they're on this app.
Yeah, you just get off social media.
I saw something from someone the other day where they said they weren't feeling like themselves lately.
And they're a social media influencer or something of that, whatever.
And to be honest, you're in the spotlight a lot, but people who are on Instagram 24-7 and have 10 million people, that has to be a little bit stressful, I can imagine.
It could be.
It's probably kind of crazy.
He said he went to a retreat for one week, left his phone, had no contact with the outside world, and it was the best week he's had in eight years.
So...
If you want to have a stress-free life, throw your phone in the garbage and stop going on Twitter and now threads and Instagram.
But since that's not a reality that we all live in, and it's sort of impossible, because that's where people get their news.
Well, and that's even scarier, in my opinion.
I mean, that is one of the things that I think will go down in history in the next 10 to 15, 20, 25 years, is the downplay of true journalism, okay?
And look, I'm not supposed...
I haven't been a member, a public figure for well over, you know, a state or a national figure for almost 16, 17 years, okay?
Local figure as a pastor.
So I'm used to being in the spotlight, if you would, when it comes to that kind of publicity, getting it where you could say something and actually draw a problem.
I don't mind, and I always said this about media, I don't mind media doing its part.
I do mind media being blind to the realities and being biased in their reporting.
I don't mind a hard question.
I don't mind a follow-up hard question.
That's what media is for.
But we've stopped that.
And we don't see it as much in our journalist groupings either way anymore.
And I think in the future, that's going to pay off bad when you're raising a generation to get their news off of 200 characters on Twitter.
I mean, I don't see this ending well because, I mean, the one thing about journalism, when done right, you agree with it or you disagree with it, you're simply reporting real-time history.
And we're not doing that anymore, James.
Yeah.
Do you remember a time where we only had Well, of course you do, because you're older than I am, so you must.
Okay, there you go.
I need to get in at least one time.
Doug is old in here.
Okay, we got it.
Yeah, once a show.
Otherwise, what's the point?
No, but I used to watch the news with my dad in the morning, and we watched probably one of the more unbiased news stations on the planet, and it was CW11. But it was only New York.
New York and New Jersey.
And they just fed us that information.
I found out what was going on in my neighborhood, and then we went to school.
That was it.
Oh, look, there's a cake shop that's giving out free cake today.
Get down there.
You know?
Whatever it is.
But the big news stations, no matter what they tell you, and I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, they all have a bias, and you can hear it loud.
Very loudly.
Right.
It's just become common now.
We expect it in many ways.
I didn't go to the news for your opinion, quite frankly.
I just want to hear what happened in this place and that's it.
Well, I mean, look, I'm not naive enough to believe that in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or even the early 80s, that the newsmen and newswomen themselves didn't have their own personal bias.
Of course they did.
Absolutely.
But they did.
And sometimes it would be dependent on what they would report and what they didn't report.
I mean, all I've got to do is go back to the fact that the news media never reported on John Kennedy's Extramarital affairs.
They never reported on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's polio.
They never reported on many things that they could have.
Yeah, but that's when the government had all that cool stuff where they'd be like, I'll kill you if you try this.
Yeah, 24-7 news cycle, they weren't driving.
So you would have a 30-minute evening show.
When I was growing up, it was early growing up.
At 6 o'clock, you had the local news in Atlanta.
It was 2, 5, or 11. We were five people at the time, which was actually CBS. At the time, now it's Fox.
And then after that, you had the nightly news, and you had, this is Walter Cronkite.
That's the way it is.
I mean, you heard it every day, and it was there.
It was Tuesday, January the 6th, and that's the way it is.
You know, again, in 30 minutes, you had the main national headlines, international headlines, you had a couple of interesting stories, maybe an investigative reporter, you had a feel-good story, and you were out.
30 minutes, okay?
It touched all the big basics, and also at the same time, though, you had papers, actual physical papers.
I know this for you young men.
Elder millennials, you may remember this.
You young millennials have no clue to what this is, and your Gen Zs are completely clueless to what that is.
But you have papers who actually reported on local events.
They went to the school boards.
They went to the county commissions.
They went to the neighborhood watch meetings.
And then you had the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal, and the Atlanta Constitution.
Whether you agreed with their editorial writings or not, the stories were there that told the stories of what was going on in the world.
You don't have that anymore.
And we can gripe about it and complain about it, and I'm going to, but folks, I just believe that there is a dearth of life in which if you don't have good journalism, if you don't have the watch, if you would, over government and over...
For those of you who don't care if you don't have a local hometown paper anymore, then I have a question for you.
When's the last time you went to your school board meeting?
When's the last time you went to your county commission meeting?
When's the last time you went to a zoning meeting that didn't involve your property?
You know, right now in my home county of Hall, Hall County, Georgia, the school board has a budget of, I want to say it's close to $600 million.
This is for a school system that we have about 240,000 people in the county growing 40 schools in the county.
That's just a lot of money.
There's a city school system that has a budget that's not that much, but it's a pretty good bit.
How many people do you think show up to those meetings?
Nobody.
Yeah.
Nobody shows up.
And now even the press barely shows up because the Times, the local paper there, They're paying their reporters on hourly wages, and they can't pay them overtime, so they don't come to the meetings.
They may get a little bit of a write-up in our local online, basically, news paper, Access North Georgia.
But, I mean, there's no accountability there.
This is the golden age for commissions and school boards to do whatever they want to do.
And unless they do, like, the stupid Loudoun County school board and others where they just basically run all over parents and threaten them, I mean, you don't ever hear about them.
But I don't want to hear from people who want to go to Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and get all their news.
I don't want to hear them complain about their local government.
Because right now, they have no oversight into the local government.
Because nobody wanted to buy the paper.
Nobody wanted to see the local news.
They ran to the internet.
There's my old age gripe for you right there.
Yeah, Doug.
That was very old.
No, I'm just kidding.
My old town of Mahwah, New Jersey.
First of all, I was in the paper multiple times for the first day of school, two years in a row.
No big deal.
It's a big picture of me in a Guy Fieri flame shirt.
It's really amazing.
If we could ever find it.
If you're talking about the internet, we have Mahwah Patch is what it is, and that's where you find out everything going on at Mahwah.
You have to subscribe to it, same as you would with your newspaper or whatever.
But people don't go on the internet to go to Mawa Patch.
I'm not saying it's any better or worse than the newspaper.
I'm sure there's still stories in there and all that.
But it's more like...
Or Bergen County News, where I'm from.
You know, it's like...
They're going on the internet for other things.
The newspaper is just in your hand.
That's what you have.
It's right in front of you.
That's all the information you need.
You're not going anywhere else.
Frankly, there's just too many things to distract you.
Like, oh, this NFL player did this today.
I don't really care what happened in Mawa today.
I know it's silly, but that is the way it works.
No, it's true.
It's true.
I mean, look, I miss, and, you know, when we go to the beach or we go to the mountains or where we, you know, take a vacation, especially when we're not, you know, we don't go to a fancy place.
We just go into the family.
I always enjoyed And I remember this.
We went to my grandparents.
We had a place, a trailer that we built and put down the farm down where my grandparents were from.
And I remember going every year, we'd go after, because when I was pastoring, we'd leave after Christmas and we'd go through the first of the year.
We'd take that whole week off and And be gone.
And at that time, cell phones really wouldn't work down there at all.
We didn't really have a phone.
I mean, we were just by ourselves.
And I remember getting up early, before the kids would get up, and I would go into Madison, which is about 8 to 10 miles away, and I would go get the Atlanta paper.
And I would get that paper every morning, I'd come, I'd drive back, I'd get my coffee, I'd have my paper, and especially on the Sundays that we were there, I'd have the Sunday paper, and I would read and look and learn, and it was just, I mean, that to me was the most relaxing thing That I could do.
I don't...
Even the Atlanta paper in Georgia now is a shell of what it used to be.
And like I said, we ain't gonna belabor this much longer, but I mean, I think it is a certain issue when we bring up threads, we bring up Instagram, we bring up Twitter, we bring up all this.
You know, in some place there has to rise from this vast darkness of...
Preferential news and preferential positions and echo chambers.
Because if we don't, then we're in trouble.
And if you can't learn from the past, if you don't know the past, as the saying goes, you're going to be destined and doomed to repeat it.
And that's just, again, what we're seeing so much on these internet clips now is 15 minutes of a speech, five minutes of a speech, out of context stuff, and trying to make something of it.
And to me, that's just, again, I think it's setting us up in a big way.
But speaking of transparency, James, I said it in the opening, would you have ever imagined that we would have put in the same sentence, Secret Service finds cocaine in White House?
Are you asking me?
No, I absolutely would think that's a real sentence.
No, that's...
Listen, it's been said many times, but cocaine's a hell of a drug.
That always makes me laugh when people say that.
I'm not really sure.
We joked about it before, but obviously it's not Joe Biden's.
Otherwise, he'd probably be in a...
He needed to take it right before he gets on stage or at the podium so he could wake up a little bit.
First of all, super risky move bringing it in the first place, so I assume it's a higher up.
Yeah.
That's all I'm saying.
Someone who's like, I'm not getting fired no matter what I bring in here.
Okay, this was put out just a little bit ago.
So, this was MSNBC actually reporting on this.
This is amazing in and of itself.
And the headlines, new details on cocaine at White House found.
This is MSNBC. Investigators now claim cocaine was found in a much more secure place down near the Situation Room.
Average people just can't go there.
Okay?
You know, this is...
Only Wolf Blitzer.
Well, CNN... Oh, this is on...
Oh, what's her name?
The MSNBC reports...
Oh...
I just forgot her name.
Mitchell, Andrea Mitchell.
This was on Twitter and it was retweeted by Charlie Kirk and some others here.
But when you're starting to have this report, and James, I've been on social media, I've tweeted out this, that if the Secret Service says they can't figure out who did this, then we need to have a serious overhaul about what we're doing to protect the White House.
Because if this is in the West Wing and anywhere close, you know, to that area where the president's at, I've been in there many times.
There are cameras everywhere.
There are Secret Service everywhere.
There are people everywhere.
There's facial recognition.
They get everybody's name and ID. They know who's in that building at all times.
So it's just a higher up and they're trying to cover it up.
That's got to be it.
I'm sorry.
You've hit it.
That's why they're actually dealing with this.
And you have the White House.
I mean, yesterday, Joe Biden was asked about the cocaine in the White House.
He looked at him like he was, I hate to use the word stoned, but he looks like he was just out of it.
He's like, I don't have a clue to what you're talking about.
And this is the problem that people are losing faith and confidence in our institutions when the obvious effects of stuff like Hunter Biden and everything else.
And, you know, this kind of stuff is just very, very frustrating because people can...
I mean, don't walk three ducks in front of me and tell me they're cats, okay?
They're ducks.
And they're just trying to lie about it.
It's sad.
It's...
I guess here's the thing.
Who's the person who found it in the first place, right?
Somebody found it and said something.
What's the point of that?
I'm not trying to belittle the idea that somebody in the White House is on coke or something.
It is what it is.
But I guess I just like, what's the point of leaking that information that a small bag of Coke was found at the White House?
You know what I'm saying?
Again, here's why.
They shut down the White House and brought the hazmat team in.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Somebody assumed it was like anthrax, obviously.
That's the reason then.
Yeah, right.
And here's my problem.
Okay, if this was...
Tell me I'm wrong.
If this was anthrax, they'd already had five suspects.
They'd already shut down everything else.
Now it's cocaine and they're worried about it being somewhere, you know, in dealing with, you know, Could possibly implicate or somebody in the administration.
Right.
And they're just shutting it down.
But again, this is why from the COVID to what we haven't even talked about and why we might as well add it in here is the White House and the administration actually conversing with those many internet companies we talked about, Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and all these others, to actually have them take down stuff on COVID and mask mandates.
You know, when they're actually...
James, this is the very reason the First Amendment exists is to keep the government from censoring speech.
For all of you out there who may...
I've heard a lot of you say this.
When you say that somebody like James cuts me off and I say, you're violating my First Amendment rights.
No, James is not.
Okay?
He's not.
Unless James works for the federal government, which he doesn't, or he works for the state government, in which he doesn't, then he's not acting under the color of law to force you to change your speech.
He is acting as one individual to another telling you, basically, shut up, I don't listen to you.
Know what the First Amendment is.
The First Amendment is the government keeping you from saying and being able to express yourself.
And when the government uses its three-letter agencies to call and text and email the members of the social media groups and say, why have you not demoted this post?
Why is it getting so many likes?
Why have you not?
And when specifically after named individuals, which is what the judge talked about the other day, which is why the Biden administration right now is banned from talking to the social media platforms, That is a blatant, just blatant, I mean, First Amendment violation.
And I don't understand why the liberal media is ignoring it.
Well, they're ignoring it because, well, whatever side ignores something because it's convenient for them.
I mean, that's the simple answer, right?
However, in this weird case, what is it?
Was it yesterday or was it the day before?
I really don't know.
I know the story.
I don't know when it dropped.
Yeah, a couple of days ago.
Okay.
So a couple of days ago and they can't figure out whose it is.
And we're going to ask a million questions and they're going to be like, it's fine.
Just move on.
They're going to figure out another story to tell us to move on and whatever.
It doesn't...
I don't actually care whose it is.
I really don't.
I'm just more interested in the fact that like, okay...
Somebody didn't get there quick enough to say, no, no, no, it's not anthrax, it's mine.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, somebody should have run over and be like, look, this is not what you think it is.
Let's just move on, cover the story before it even comes out.
But it obviously leaked out and they were panicking about it.
And it's such a strange, to me, it's just such a strange story to bring up.
Well, again, James, if this was something else, I would agree with you, except for the fact that they had to bring it up because they had the hazmat teams come in.
Right.
Somebody saw that happen.
They can't hide that fact.
No.
They can't hide it.
And so I think that's the problem we have here.
Anywhere it's at, though, this is my problem.
There's 24-7 surveillance of that facility at all times.
Um...
In different rooms, you've got to go through security to get in.
I mean, I don't care who you are.
If you're there and you have a badge, you're still coming in with your badge.
I mean, it's just facial identity stuff in there.
It's not hard to tell whose it is.
It just isn't.
So, again, we're in agreement, though.
Yeah, but my problem is why are we changing the story?
Somebody knows where it was found.
There's a written report somewhere that says, we were called to West Wing of White House to go to X Room to check out this substance to see if it's anthrax or some other hostile substance.
There is that report somewhere.
I think it's a couple of things.
One, it's not anyone at the tip top because it wouldn't even have been brought up.
Right?
Let's say it was Joe Biden's for whatever reason.
There's no way they would have brought it up.
In all fairness, Joe, Jill, Kamala, even first husband, they have people walking with them at all times.
They couldn't even go get it.
No, no.
So, I mean, this is a...
It's probably one of the security guards, and he was like, oh my God, what an idiot.
Oh, I brought this in here.
No.
It's like, you know, really?
And then, again, the other part is, this one is, you know, this is just a personal.
I know he's your son, but Hunter Biden is dragging this administration down.
And I get it from a father's perspective.
But there's better ways to spend time.
Maybe you're keeping him close just to keep him clean.
And if that's what you're doing, God bless you.
But that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
And just continuing to put him at state dinners, at the White House, and being very public about it is just not helping this situation at all.
Yeah, I definitely see where the first thing you said, though, is if he is...
I don't want to say keep your enemies close, but literally in a sense like, hey, this guy could be poisoned for us.
We have to keep him next to us so he can't make more mistakes.
Yeah, I mean, it could be.
You're right.
That makes the most sense because parading him around like he's doing great probably isn't the thing they're trying to purvey.
Especially over the last month where he has set up a new payment agreement for a child that is his that he doesn't claim and the Bidens have already told the press that they're not going to claim this granddaughter.
It's just ridiculous as we go here.
It's a bit of a mess.
Speaking of people on cocaine, you want to talk about the people who built the sphere?
The sphere in Las Vegas, folks, if you've not seen this, It's going to be opening up in, I think, September.
I think they're doing a concert.
This is where U2 is going to do their...
What do they call them?
Residencies.
And I would love to go to see U2 in residency out there.
But, you know, it's right on the strip.
It's just down from the...
Main area of the parish, if you go down just a little bit there.
But if you've not seen this sphere, go to wherever you get your search engine and put in Las Vegas sphere.
This thing is weird.
It's really beautiful, too.
I saw a picture of it last night, James, that they had it like an eyeball.
Yeah.
The eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings.
Oh my god, it was amazing.
And then you have the open it up like it was in a time warp.
Yeah, they're good.
I mean, but if you got a couple of billion dollars and you want to spend something, Las Vegas is the place to go do it, baby.
Now, was this personally funded or was this funded by the city of Las Vegas?
No, I think this was the casino.
Oh.
Right, because they have money that we could never dream of.
I don't get it.
I'm going to be 100% honest.
They could build a concert venue there for half the cost, and they'll still get the same amount of money because it's a concert venue.
And yet they built this absurd reverse IMAX theater...
That has everything on the outside.
I don't...
I just...
It makes no sense.
Like, okay, so U2's gonna play there, and then what, are they gonna, like, put, like, the U2 signage outside of it and all this, like, cool video?
Like, I don't understand.
Yeah, the MSG sphere...
Won't open for another three months, as we said.
You too, Chris, this is the entertainment video with a series of concerts, but the anticipation is growing.
Listen to this.
It's 366 feet tall, 516 feet wide, largest spherical structure in the world.
Bowl-shaped theater reportedly contains the world's largest high-resolution wraparound LED screens.
Its exterior is fitted with 1.2 million hockey puck-sized LEDs that can be programmed to flash dynamic imagery on a massive scale.
Again, reportedly, the world's largest.
It was fully illuminated for the first time Tuesday night to celebrate the 4th of July.
It's not easy to move the needle in a city that boasts the Bellagio Dancing Fountains, the half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, and the second tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere, and a beam of light that can be seen for hundreds of miles.
But the sphere is just...
I mean, people are going nuts about this thing.
It's got 18,000 seat arena.
The sphere was designed by a group, a global architectural firm.
Construction costs inflated by pandemic was 2.3 billion.
18,000 people can sit in the arena underneath it.
It sits one block east of the fabled Las Vegas Strip and will be connected by a passageway walkway to the Venetian.
This has disaster written all over it.
I don't know why.
I see this being the biggest waste of money of all time.
I just, again...
160,000 speakers.
If they wanted to shut the strip down, they could.
Just turn off all the lights and start blaring music.
Yeah.
I don't...
You know what?
It's Las Vegas, and it's perfect for where it is.
And I remember when I was in Vegas a couple years ago, it was right before the opening of the Raiders Stadium.
Yep.
And I got to see the stadium itself on the drive there.
Oh, yeah.
And that alone was fascinating, that giant black porcelain toilet bowl.
But now, seeing this, I'm sure it's going to be even crazier when you're driving by and whatever they're putting on it.
They should just have like an outdoor movie night every week.
Oh, they could.
What's going to be really wild is flying to Vegas at night.
Oh, yeah.
That's going to be my body.
That would be killer.
That would be killer.
All right, moving on before we end up here on Friday's Finest, a couple of things we always have to touch on is my Braves and the eight Braves going to the All-Star game next week in Seattle.
Thank you very much.
This feels personal, Doug.
Why don't you take it somewhere else, huh?
And then you have the four angels who have fell off the map because now Mike Trout's injured.
Ohana...
Otani's got the blister right now.
Yeah, he's got the blister and hasn't hit in three games.
As of the taping of this, he has been 0 for 12 in the last three games.
Uh-oh.
Is he the truth?
Who knows?
No, that guy's...
We'll find out.
The money that...
If they trade him, they have to get a minimum of two players back for him alone because they make up one.
He makes up two players.
I don't know what kind of money he's going to get, but I really imagine we're going to sit here and be like, oh, okay, well now it's just a new era.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
Speaking also, though, of Las Vegas, since we seem to be loving the Vegas today, and this goes back to your love of NBA, the new first round, first pick of the draft by the San Antonio Furs.
I think he starts playing his first time.
How do you pronounce his last name?
Victor Wemenyama.
Well, Victor is already popular among the starstruck in Vegas, including stars themselves.
The always fun to listen to and fun to watch, Britney Spears, was in Las Vegas this week, and he was there eating.
She goes over to get a picture with him.
And undoubtedly, the story goes, she gets over there and comes up to him and wants to get a selfie picture with him.
And the bodyguard turns and basically backhands Britney Spears.
Yeah.
And Spears sort of picks herself up, backed up, and then went back to her table.
Supposedly, the guard goes over and apologizes and says, well, you know what it's like to have people rush you, and I didn't know it was you, and this kind of stuff.
And then later, Brittany goes and files an appointment.
That is...
First of all, poor Britney.
What she's been through the last few years, just awful.
She can't even get a selfie.
I mean, come on.
We're talking about, for a three-year period, arguably the most famous person on the planet was Britney Spears.
It's Britney.
And she can't even get a photo with somebody who's not even on her stratosphere as far as fame.
And, first of all...
You can see it.
I didn't watch the video.
Do you think he saw it was a woman?
Or is this dude just slapping people out here?
Who knows?
When I heard that, I was like, oh, okay, cool.
That guy's going to jail immediately.
Victor's going to have to find some new security.
Did you see that they already sold out of Summer League, by the way, immediately?
When the tickets went up for sale for him?
We're talking about Summer League.
I mean, I love it.
I'm just anxious to see what he does in the NBA because I've watched some of his tape from Europe and he was okay.
No, no, no.
He had a put-back dunk from the three-point line.
That's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.
He missed his own three and put it back.
He's 7'5", and he handles the rock like a guard.
It is terrifying, and the Spurs are going to win like 17 more championships with him.
Yeah, we'll see how it goes when he gets up against some of the...
Joel Embiid's going to snap him in half when it first starts.
These guys are way heavier, but he'll make them look very foolish at some point.
Don't you worry.
Yeah, we'll see how it'll work out.
But all kinds of things going on in the world of sports.
But also, for everybody out there, James, we're getting close.
We're less than 30 days away from actual preseason football.
Training camp support next week.
Some of the training camps report next week, including the Falcons and others.
So it's going to be fun.
We're nailing down times for Coach Gailey to be with us pretty soon to go over some of the thoughts on preseason and where we're headed.
And we're going to have some more time.
Do we bring him on to a Friday's Finest?
We might have to.
We might have to.
If we bring him on for Friday's Finest and he just answers all of our questions about the upcoming season, we berate him until he is tired and he wants to go home, and then we'll be like, Chan, Chan, Coach, Coach, this is us.
And he'll just be like, I don't want to do this anymore.
I'm never coming back on the show.
Yeah, he'll be good.
We'll get that on.
Lots coming up.
I mean, the summer drought of sports is coming to an end here because the real seasons are kicking in.
Football and others are getting ready to kick in.
Hunting season kicking in.
We're going to hopefully get Michael Waddell back on pretty soon to talk some hunting and get some other issues out there.
When do you start?
When do you start hunting again?
Elk is late August, September for a lot of the Rocky Mountain states.
Is there no hunting in the summer?
Wait, I'm sorry.
Is hunting season not in the summer?
Well, you can go up north.
You can go to bear up in Alaska and Canada and places like that.
There's summer bear.
There's some spring bear as well.
I don't understand any of this stuff.
Anyway, it's fine.
Bow season in Georgia kicks off in the middle of September.
We could do a bow season week and just have on everybody who's involved with that.
There's this guy, I don't know his name, and I'll find it later, but I think he either has something to do with Michael Waddell or one of those guys, and he makes all the food after everything they hunt.
That'd be a good thing.
So fascinating, and I feel like that would be a really fun conversation.
We can have hunting week on the Doug Collins podcast.
Hey, I love it.
We'll prepare.
Well, folks, that ends Friday's Finest for us.
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Say goodbye, James.
See you later, everybody.
If you are near Victor Wemenyama, duck.
Duck.
We're out of here.
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