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July 21, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
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.
Doug Collins, glad you're back with us.
It's Friday's finest!
And it means that James and I will be bringing you the best of the news, highlights, lowlights, updates, things you might not care about.
But I tell you, by the end of the podcast, you'll know about it because we're going to give it to you here on Friday's Finest.
Glad to have you with us.
But look, before we get started on Friday's Finest, and we'll have that right after the break, just touch on a few things going on this week.
I mean, it could not have been a worse week for Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the Department of Justice.
When you have the two whistleblowers who came forward laying out the fact.
And here's the part that, folks, that just is amazing to me.
That everybody, nobody wants on the left to talk about.
All of these millions of dollars is not disputed anymore.
Nobody is disputing that Hunter Biden got millions of dollars from China, Ukraine, and other places.
And nobody seems to, you know, they now believe they didn't pay taxes.
They didn't get a felony charge on it.
Who are the others who got the money?
Did they pay tax on it?
Nobody's following up on this.
Then, you know, this week you had Senator Grassley release a non-classified document basically saying that we're getting money to the big guy.
This is out of the Burisma issue, out of...
I mean, at some point, something has got to give, folks.
I don't care, Republican, Democrat, or anything else.
We're not talking about, do you like the tone of a phone call that they impeached Donald Trump over?
We're not talking about, you know, illusionary things.
We're talking about Unidentified money from foreign sources of enemies of this country going to, at the time, the Vice President, and after the fact, he was the former Vice President, that now lead into The Sun, who we know is a train wreck, unfortunately.
I mean, I'm glad that he's supposedly better now, and that's good.
But I mean, at the same point in time, somebody's got to pay attention to this because that money is coming from somewhere.
Then we get the finding out of this week that the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was real when it first came up.
And then they told the social media companies to not do anything with it.
Folks, I am not.
And you've listened to the Doug Collins podcast.
If you've been listening with us for almost two years now, you know I am not one that just goes off on wild theories of what may happen.
Now, occasionally I'll talk about the UFOs and we'll talk about things like that.
But I don't go off on wild unsubstantiated theories.
But now, folks, it's not a theory.
What I've been telling you for so long is not a theory when you see the FBI actually keeping information that they know to be true away from the American public and having the complicity of the social media companies Facebook, Twitter, and others.
And not to mention the fact that we talked about a couple weeks ago, the fact that the FBI was playing errand boy for Ukraine in trying to stop, quote, Russian disinformation.
We're going to get into this just to give you a heads up.
Star-studded cast coming up here on the Doug Collins podcast.
We're going to dig deep into some of these issues.
I've got Tom Holtman coming in.
Don't think the border has went away.
Tom Holtman is going to be with us soon on the podcast.
We've got Matt Whitaker, former Acting Attorney General.
We're going to dig into some of this stuff with the DOJ and FBI with him.
Also, as I've been promising, we've got the great Michael Waddell.
It's time for hunting season.
Just a little under 100 days away from both seasons.
Elk hunting starts at the end of September.
Waddell will be here.
The Bone Collector himself is going to be here.
We're excited about that.
Probably you've got some more where we're lining up.
Tafoya, Michelle Tafoya, others.
It's going to be a great August, September for the Doug Collins Podcast.
We want you to be a part.
And of course, as always, we're going to have Friday's Finest as we go.
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Many of you are sending me emails, and we're trying to answer those.
We get a lot, and especially though, you know, if it is questions and stuff, we're trying to answer as we go forward.
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And we all And I'd love to hear your input on this.
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So we're trying to, you know, we've had a lot of requests out there.
We'll see what we can do as we go forward.
But now it is time for Friday's Finest and we will be back in just a minute.
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Friday's finest.
And we're bringing in now our wonderful overheated Texan by way of New Jersey.
James, James, I'm glad you're still with us.
How is the heat?
You know, the heat.
I'm dying a little every day.
But we're trying to make the best of it, I guess, right?
Yeah.
Well, you know, we really need to, you know, I'm always reminded of, you know, if you really want to go back and see comedy, you go back and Robin Williams is just, you know, classic.
And in Good Morning Vietnam, his riffs on Vietnam and the Heat were just hilarious.
I gotta be honest, I couldn't take it.
I was trapped in the house.
I've been trapped in the house for a while, so is my brother.
And yesterday, I just couldn't take it.
I was like, you know what, I'm going outside, I'm going for a walk, I'm doing something.
And I was like, you know, I'm gonna go play some basketball.
And it was about 105 degrees.
And I was playing, I was dying, and there was this little gust of wind.
And I was like, if it could just do this all day, we'd survive this.
It's just, you can't, there's just nothing you can do about it.
I stood there for like two seconds to enjoy the wind, went in my car, and I was like, this is it.
I'm done.
Today's over.
Well, it was today where I got back in Georgia and had an issue.
By the way, rule of thumb for everybody out there listening, don't leave food or some kind of semblance of food in your car at a parking lot while you're taking a trip anywhere and then come back and find it was next to trees and you find that you have ants in your truck.
Oh, Doug, did that happen to you?
Are you okay?
Did you go see a therapist for that?
Well, I'm thinking about it, but you know, it's tough.
I would.
So I had to come home and get the ants out of the truck, got the food, you know, again, stupidly, you know, people had left food in the truck.
And so I got that all up.
I think we've got it all teamed up now.
But just, you know, just, hey, on the Doug Collins podcast, we try to give you helpful advice.
And helpful advice is don't leave old food or uneaten food or wrappers in your truck.
I have a seriously irrational fear of ants.
Really?
Maybe it's not irrational, but it is.
Okay, so like every other bug I can live with.
I've had spiders crawl on me.
We have cicadas up the wazoo out here, blah, blah.
I think it's just the idea that I've seen ants work as a unit, and I feel like they can carry quadruple time, whatever their body weight, whatever.
I feel like with enough ants, they could just take me away and kill me.
Like, I really believe that...
Ants, what's the Simpsons thing when our ant overlords are here to take us or whatever it was?
I don't know.
I'll find the audio clip.
It's hilarious.
Yeah, play that.
But, yeah, but it's just like, I just can't.
Ants scare the hell out of me.
Anyway, can I just bring something up real quick?
Yeah, bring it up.
Before we go on with our whole show, you were talking in the intro, and you brought up sometimes we talk about aliens on this show jokingly.
Yes, we do.
But did you see that apparently the Republicans and the Democrats, two sides that, quite frankly, as we know, don't work together, are coming together to force the government to release UFO records?
Yes, and they're going to have a hearing on it next week, I think.
And I think if it's next week, a house oversight hearing.
Yeah, James, look that up right quick.
House oversight hearing UFOs.
I think it's next week.
And if it is, we'll have live breaking coverage of this event.
Doug, I just...
Did you see the picture that was just out, James, about the pilot who took the picture of the thing that flew past him?
Have you seen this?
Yeah, I've seen it, and I just...
I believe it all.
I'm sorry, one more time.
What is it called?
The what?
The House what?
The House Oversight Committee.
UFOs.
Okay, so...
I'm with you on this whole thing.
I believe it all.
I don't care what anyone says.
There's something.
Um...
It's supposed to be a hearing.
The hearing, to hold hearing, it's going to be next week.
Representative Tim Burchett.
By the way, Tim Burchett, big supporter of the podcast, been on our podcast a couple of times.
I've got to put a head to get Tim back on.
I'm glad you reminded me.
He said he wants the federal government to release UFO-related records and that witnesses at the hearing will speak frankly to the public about their experiences.
Now, the government has spent a lot of time and money destroying people who've said things.
Yep.
I would like those people who've had to go through that particular type of hell of being ridiculed and treated like a psycho to get the same treatment when prisoners are in jail for 20 years and they get some money when they get out.
It'll never undo the damage, but we should be giving those people some scratch because we treated them like we ostracized them.
And they may have been right.
Yeah, they have.
Well, and these guys that are coming up, and for those of you who think this is sort of crazy and that, you know, I'm sort of out on the non-mainstream, and this example I'm getting ready to give you may not help the situation.
It's coming to the government committee.
Yeah, it's coming from the government committee.
But Joe Rogan has been on this forever.
I mean, if you listen to some of Rogan's stuff, I mean, and these guys, where they're told not to.
Here's a funny quote from this last week, and this is what I love about Friday's Finest, because God knows we got in the show notes we never use them.
Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, made a funny quote the other day.
And part of it, you know, I tend to believe, you know, because it's got that kernel of truth to it.
He said, I don't know if there's UFOs or not.
He said, but I don't think the Department of Defense does because if they did, they'd be wanting more money.
And the interesting part is...
That's great.
Tim Burchett, like I said, who's been on the podcast before, great guy.
He's funny as can be, too.
But he made a comment the other day.
He supposedly saw some of the footage that I'm assuming is going to come out in this hearing.
Absolutely.
And he said, oh my God.
He said, we're in deep crap, basically.
I think the thing is that...
This is just all...
We can get into conspiracy.
We could do this for the entire show, but we won't because we'll talk about it more next week.
Right.
But I am baffled by two things.
One, the idea that we think we can force the government to do anything.
But, because let's be honest, if they want to cover it up and never release anything, they just won't.
There's nothing any of us can do about it.
We can say whatever.
I mean, you were in the government.
You know that if they want to hide something, I mean, for Christ's sake, they're still hiding whose cocaine it was.
I think they're going to hide the aliens for a little longer.
Yeah.
We're forcing you to show us alien documents.
Yeah, okay.
Well, the other thing is...
But it makes me laugh.
But the other thing, Doug, tell me...
Yeah.
Are you prepared for the fact that nobody's going to care about this?
Like, we should, and we should care about it.
But next week, nobody's going to care about it.
Well, look, if the media needs to ignore something, maybe they'll ignore UFOs and actually figure out who Hunter Biden is.
No, that's impossible.
Nobody knows who he is.
Maybe he's the alien.
Yeah, he may be.
We're talking men in black up here, okay?
Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.
I mean, really?
Where's Fox Mulder when you need him?
I tell you.
Okay, start playing the music right here.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Listen, I'm all in, but let's move on because I know you want to talk about other things, but I just, let's talk about, I'm all in on this next week.
I'll talk, we could just do an X-Files episode and I'll have a full time, but anyway, go ahead.
Alright, moving on, you know, James, I mean, one of the things is this podcast is trendsetting.
I don't care where you're at.
We always start putting out shirts on Friday's Finest, the Doug Collins podcast, because we're trendsetters.
We had Coach Changaley on here first of the week, and what was one of the things we discussed?
We discussed the absolute tanking of the running back market in the NFL, and What has been talked about all week, James, it was the lead article from us on Monday with Coach Gailey, and then the running backs didn't get extended, Shaquan Markley.
I mean, I'm telling you, we're cutting edge here, bud.
We are, and I knew that if we had Coach on, that he would have a strong opinion about it, mainly because he is...
Quite literally from the era, which is any other era but the last eight years, where running backs were king.
I mean, I'm not saying that guys aren't getting paid more.
That's just inflation.
Well, no.
No, there's legitimate numbers out there now, James.
And look, I don't think you can win a Super Bowl without a decent running back.
I just don't.
Exactly.
You have to have a running game at the very least.
Yeah, at least.
Which might be to their point, is that you can spread the ball.
But anyway, continue.
I'm sorry.
I saw a statistic that was before coming into the show today.
In 2017, the difference in money between wide receivers and running backs on franchise tag was about $4 million.
Today, it's over $10 million.
Well, look at someone like Odell Beckham Jr. The guy hasn't played in a year and he's making triple what Austin Eckler's making.
Yeah, I mean...
I don't even know if that number's correct.
I heard it was triple, but anyway, that's not the point.
The point is that Odell hasn't played, and Austin Eckler is one of the leading touchdown scorers in the NFL. Right.
And it was interesting enough, is even the top running back team, running teams last year, Chicago, Atlanta, the Giants, Tennessee, all of them, though, their running back spending...
Was relatively small.
Now, Atlanta's going to be...
We were crazy enough to go out and draft one in the top, you know, 10. Well, yeah, that was...
Yeah, again, all of this going on and nobody got the memo in Atlanta.
You know, like, Arthur, were you stuck in Florida or something, buddy?
I mean...
No, you're right.
And I think the problem is, like...
I say, like, too much.
I think the issue here is that...
They're not totally wrong as far as the numbers are concerned, obviously, because it's working to some effect that paying guys less is working.
However, you're going to hurt the future market, and that's what they're not thinking about.
You said it.
I will give you credit.
You said it on this podcast.
I mean, that...
Players are going to say, oh, I'm six feet tall.
I'm a running back right now.
Forget about it.
I'm just going to go play linebacker.
I'm built for it.
Exactly.
It's just not...
While ruining your market cap, if you're really...
You know, a good athlete and, you know, can do those kind of things.
I mean, it's just, you know, like I said, it's just, again, it's sort of just the whole changing of the guard in football.
I get it.
It changes.
We've seen it, you know, go from, you know, as we talked with Coach Gailey, you know, five yards in a cloud of dust, three yards in a cloud of dust, and now you've got protecting quarterbacks to where, you know, you can't even touch them.
Um, I was listening to, I can't remember who it was.
Oh, I remember, um, Dustin, not Dustin, uh, he just retired from the, uh, uh, from Denver, or he went to, he was mainly at Denver for the whole time, then he went to Baltimore.
Um.
Shannon Sharp?
No, no, defensive lineman.
Um, crap, he's been on some of the, uh, Hang on a second.
I'll find it here.
But he was talking about how when they first entered into the rule changes and everything on Derek Wolf.
Derek Wolf.
Ah, okay.
He was on the Meat Eater podcast.
By the way, if you want to hear a good story on him kidding that lion, the mountain lion.
Eight foot mountain lion.
Over 200 pounds.
No thanks.
Massive.
I'll just be dinner.
I'm good with being dinner.
I ain't fighting old mountain lions.
Yeah.
He killed him with a bow.
Anyway, Wolf was talking about when they came into training camps and they were officials basically trying to explain how you tackle a quarterback without getting a penalty.
They basically said, we don't know.
That's insanity.
Yeah, and these were the officials saying it.
And they said, look, because you can't throw them, you can't hit them above the head, you can't hit them below the knees, you can't.
And he said, Derek finally said, in fact, he said he lost like five or six sacks, that was a 2020 year or 2019 year, because he was scared to hit them.
Yeah, I remember the play against...
The Kansas City play against Tom Brady where the guy didn't go after Tom Brady and it might have cost him a Super Bowl appearance.
Look, James, here's the problem.
With all this, we can talk statistics, we can talk numbers, we can talk everything else.
But bottom line is...
We're getting to the point where you can't tackle a quarterback like we just talked about Derrick Wolfe.
I mean, Derrick Wolfe basically said you just had to roll the quarterback up and lay him on top of you and fall down.
Yeah.
Use him as a blanket.
Yeah, use him as a blanket.
It's just stupid.
I mean, and look, I get the hard hits.
I get, you know, that you're trying to make it safer.
I get all of that.
100%.
Totally.
But...
I mean, at a certain point in time, it's just, again, we're moving more toward a, and I don't mean this literally, but I mean, it's pretty close.
You're moving more of a flag football kind of setup.
For sure.
I mean, that seems like the way people are concerned it's going.
Yeah, and...
Again, and I know this is a concern, but anyway, look, you got a good guy growing up right now who's a running back.
You better teach him how to catch fast.
That's all I'll say.
Or teach him how to hit.
Right, and you're...
That's for sure.
I mean, even to your point, and we can get off the topic after this, but I was listening to Stefan Diggs talk about the first time he heard a big hit when he got in the NFL 2014, 2015, whatever it was.
And he was joking about it, and then he said afterwards, he's like, you know the DB doesn't want to hit you.
And he goes, especially because they'll get fined.
They're not going to hit you across the middle anymore.
It's fine.
So he goes, I'll just go right up to him and beg him to hit me.
Yep.
I thought that was very funny, but also showing that someone like Stephon Diggs is going to get paid $15- $20 million a year.
No, no.
I think he's in the 30s.
I think most of the best receivers are in the 30s now.
So let's say 27 to 30, 35. Justin Jefferson is going to get something like $35- $36 million when he signs.
But they're getting that much money.
They're totally protected.
Quarterbacks are getting the top money.
They're totally protected.
And offensive linemen do the protecting, so they're going to get the top money.
But the running back is left to get hits.
Do the protection, catch passes, run the ball, protect the quarterback, and he's going to get paid the lowest because you can just fill his spot with someone else younger and willing.
Now, look, we all know, and again, we showed it earlier.
I'm going to put it up here.
It's getting close to football.
Raider Nation, here we go.
I have the hat on.
In fact, I think if I could...
Do you think they should pay Josh Jacobs?
Yeah.
Well, there it is.
I think you should.
Yeah.
I mean, because look, I'm a running back guy.
If he can catch, it's even better.
But, you know, here's the...
Because, I mean, a running back coming out of the backfield that can catch is almost like a...
It's just like a tall sweep.
It's become bad in the NFL. It was the only reason Christian McCaffrey helped the Panthers in the playoffs.
Oh yeah, I agree.
They wouldn't be in the playoffs without him.
Speaking of your beloved Vikings, I think Jefferson needs to learn to give some love to his quarterback.
I mean, the quarterback...
Oh, what are you talking about?
The quarterback's only made him, you know, for the last three years.
I mean, come on.
You couldn't find a place for the poor boy in the top five.
I mean, I've seen only clips of this on the quarterback show, which I've got to watch.
It's on Netflix.
We've got to see it.
But from what I've heard, I mean, Cousins looks just crestfallen, you know, when told that Jefferson didn't...
Yeah, he looks very hurt.
I mean, come on.
No, man.
This guy's threw you over 4,000 yards in passing in three years, made you a superstar, and you can't even find love in your heart to put him number five?
Kirk Cousins is the weirdest.
He's the strangest quarterback the Vikings have ever had.
Not in the sense, like, we've had Christian Ponder, who I can't even...
I still have nightmares about it.
But...
The hope for Kirk Cousins was he was going to be like a stopgap, but expensive, above average quarterback.
And he's kind of blown those numbers away.
I know he hasn't been perfect, but his numbers are insane.
He plays well.
He made Justin...
And don't get me wrong.
Justin Jefferson is doing half the work, but the other half is done by Kirk Cousins and can't really be done without him.
Uh...
Listen, throw in one of our backup quarterbacks.
See how much he loves Kirk Cousins.
Well, if he can't get the ball to him, he ain't gonna get it.
He'll find out quick that he's in his top five.
We'll see how that goes this year.
But speaking of this, though, I gotta stay on the Vikings.
Vikings rookie Jordan Addison this week was cited for going 140 in a 55 zone.
In his new Lamborghini.
Fastest receiver in the league.
Yeah, the problem is he can't use his car in the league.
I mean, are you kidding me?
I mean, you're in your new Lamborghini.
You're a rookie who hadn't even reported a training camp.
140 on a freeway outside of St. Paul.
He 23rd pick in the draft.
Was not arrested, which is the craziest thing I've ever heard of.
3 a.m.
in the morning.
Well, they got a season on the way.
They ain't arresting them.
You know how important it is to people.
I got this.
But I'm going to go back to the old, there's an old John Boehner-ism.
And John Boehner, former Speaker of the House, had basically his John Boehner-ism was nothing good happens after 10 o'clock in Washington.
This was at 3 in the morning.
Nothing good.
And folks, unless you're working the night shift, you're a truck, long haul truck driver, you're listening to the Doug Collins podcast, and you're at 3 in the morning, God bless you.
We need you more than you ever know.
But don't, I mean, unless you're working an all-night shift at the Hardee's, or unless you're at the Waffle House, you know, nothing, I mean, no story ever starts out, well, I got in trouble at 2 in the afternoon.
No, at 3 in the afternoon, there's no good coming, at 3 in the morning, there's no good story coming after that.
Okay?
Doug, I have a couple of pretty good stories at 3 a.m.
if you guys want to hear them.
Oh, man.
Listen, you're right.
But we all know why they didn't arrest him.
I mean, we've got a season coming up.
Let's not mess around with the number one receiver for the Vikings.
I wonder if he would say that Cousins is one of the top five quarterbacks.
He's going to say it now so he can get his targets, that's for sure.
You better believe it.
He's an idiot.
I'll tell you.
Well, I'm going to rephrase that.
Driving 140 in a few miles.
140. Listen, a Lambo, he's young, he's dumb, he's rich.
I mean, look, I don't blame a guy for going crazy, but first of all, you're in Minnesota.
Okay, that is quiet town USA. They're going to get you.
Okay?
Yeah.
There's probably a local cop with that silly accent.
You know, the, hey, how are you?
I hope you're doing okay.
You know, that kind of thing.
Yeah, but you can go back and look at rugs.
I think it wasn't rugs out of...
That was...
Yeah, that's awful.
Yeah, and that's what happens.
That's the example, for sure.
You're going that fast.
Look, folks, I mean, my dad was a state trooper.
I mean, I drove fast.
I'm not going to say I never have.
But, you know, it's...
Dad always reminded me that...
And think about this.
Next time you're going down the road, and this is even for...
You know, look, we all...
We'll pick up the phone occasionally, do a text.
We'll do the stuff.
It's distracting, okay?
But one day, if you're ever really looking at it, how far you go in one second, how far you go in two seconds, if you're doing 55, 75 miles an hour, just one day going down the road and just go, you know, take a yard, a sign on the side of the road and use that as your marker and then go 1,001, 1,002.
And see how far down the road you are.
And that's without putting on the brake.
I mean, think about it.
Again, it's just, look, I hate to see this in a young guy.
Georgia, University of Georgia, all the universities have this problem.
Kids get out and go stupid.
But, you know, again, to see that 140, really?
You know...
140s.
God almighty.
Too fast.
Go to a race course.
I mean, you're rich enough now, you can go to a course somewhere in LA. That's the part of it, right?
Yeah.
You know, like my...
Look, not to get into my family history.
My dad was an idiot when he was younger, and he had a fast car.
And he was going...
I don't know.
I think he said when he was 18, he decided he was going 125. And he got pulled over and a cop pulled out his gun because he thought my dad was like some sort of real criminal.
But my dad was just an 18-year-old idiot.
But think about it.
So 140 miles an hour, your immediate thought is that guy has something.
There's something up.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I agree.
I agree.
And so, anyway, in the evening and night.
But anyway, for all of those listening to the Doug Collins podcast, we do not condone 140 miles.
We don't condone speeding at all.
But, I mean, 140 and a 55. Grow up.
Okay?
Go play.
That's why we got a funny car, baby.
Go get a Lamborghini on a track.
You got the money.
Go pay for it.
And put it out there if you want to go racing.
You know, another thing how life has changed, and again, I make a lot of jokes about the fact that I'm from, you know, I'm a Gen X. I go back, you know, we're the generation that got left on the doorstep.
We're the generation that said, you know, go outside until it got dark, you know.
And, you know, I was the generation of, you know, I'm getting our rear ends beat, not time out.
And now we have all the problems with, you know, with everybody getting their feelings hurt and everybody, you know, worried about everything.
And you made fun of me.
You said something wrong to me.
But, you know, again, it's just a matter of how life has changed.
And we saw that lived out again in a football program where a hazing incident, Sundali was...
Tacitly condoned by the head coach up at Northwestern.
And, you know, he's now gone.
He was there like 19 years.
And you had somebody who, again, I have to be honest with you here.
I grew up in a different era.
You know, it goes back to me.
You know, I'm one of those ones that watches a few good men and understand the code red and understand why you did it.
Okay.
Is it right?
No.
Was it, if you were ever on the other end of it, did you like it?
No.
But you remember the Noah Wiley character in A Few Good Men, you know, went on to play ER after that.
But he said, you know, he said, have you ever had a Code Red?
Oh, yes, sir.
He said, my hands got slipped and I lost my rifle.
And he said, well, did you get a Code Red?
He said, yes, sir.
He said, well, what did it do?
I never dropped my rifle again.
You know?
Right, right, right.
Look, cruelty is not good, okay?
And I fought against cruelty, you know, even when I was back in high school.
I mean, I've had some stuff, you know.
But, again, this is just a sad statement.
You know, folks, this isn't the older days.
I mean, I'm not one of those who look back and say, oh, we got to bring it back.
But, you know, you got to be...
Coaches have to be a lot more than what they were back in the day.
And, you know, you can't pick on people.
I mean, there's other ways maybe you can motivate them, but this ain't the time and place for it anymore.
Yeah, I think it was less about the head coach doing it and more about either the staff or the other players.
But I think it was the idea that it wasn't...
Apparently it's an environment of it.
Here's...
Here's my only problem.
I kind of have one.
This is my problem with all coaches that end up on this chopping block.
Hazing stinks.
We all know it does.
It's never really been cool.
Like, there's been times where it's occasionally funny in a movie, and that's it.
Realistically, sometimes the hazing is pretty screwed up.
I've seen it myself.
We've all been in locker rooms.
Whatever.
My issue is the coaches pretending they don't know anything about it.
I'm sorry.
For you to be in that position, there's no way you can't know about it, and that's my problem.
Yeah, the accuser here says that he actually was given a signal, that he would say something that would say, okay, this one is loafing or this one's doing something.
This is the one today that gets the treatment or whatever.
He said that's what the coach said.
Yeah.
Well, the head coach would say there was a code word or he'd say something.
Okay.
It was all understood.
So, anyway, at the end of the day...
I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah.
But, I mean, and also it's at Northwestern.
Okay?
And I'm not...
Right.
I mean, I don't think you can see that at Ohio State or Alabama or Georgia or South Carolina or some other places unless it was vehemently over the line.
You know what I'm saying?
And look, I get you some of you out there who are saying that's vehemently over the line to start with.
And I'm not going to necessarily disagree with you.
Okay.
But I also live in the real world.
People are cruel.
People will do stuff to each other.
Okay.
Do you want to try and stop that?
Yeah.
But also at the same point in time, part of the, and here's my little two minute rant or less than that, is I think we've gotten into this world where our feelings, we lead with our feelings and to where feelings are reality.
I'm sorry, your feelings, you maybe hurt your feelings, but sometimes you just need to grow a callus and suck it up.
I'm tired of this having to be afraid, and I'm going to switch topics here, to Jason Aldean on a song about you don't do that around here, basically talking about the folks who come up behind and sucker punch you on the street, burn stuff, hit cops, like we saw in some of the BLM riots a couple of years ago, and this idea that you go up and just attack people.
You do that in so many small towns, you're going to get your rear whipped.
And, you know, you're going to go to jail.
And we don't tolerate it.
And for people to be offended, they said, well, it was going to lynching and all.
Look, they used a courthouse, the picture in the back of the courthouse, which they said it was, has been used in Molly Cyrus, Hannah Montana movies.
It's been used in a Hallmark movie.
It's been others.
Nobody ever brought it up then.
And, you know, again, I'm just sort of, and James, maybe this is it for me, because the hazing sort of hit it for me, but now this Jason Aldean stuff, you know, I'm sick of it.
I'm sorry.
If your feelings are hurt, then say, oh, my feelings are hurt.
Then don't listen to Jason Aldean.
Don't listen to CMT. Don't go buy a country music album.
Don't do whatever you want to do.
But other than that, come on, folks.
This has gone way past the point of understanding.
My job is not to protect your feelings.
My job is to be honest with myself and to be kind.
I can understand that.
But, you know, just because I don't agree with you and you get offended, tough taters.
I'm sorry.
I don't really care.
I want to be nice and I'll try to be kind.
But if you disagree with me and you find it offensive and don't want me to ever say it again, then I got a problem.
And, you know, I think people are finally, James, I think especially in this culture of canceling and everything else, is they're just tired of it.
And, you know, we'll see how it all works out.
Yeah, for sure.
I think a lot of people turned...
This is not even...
This is actually longer ago than it seems, but when people turned on Dave Chappelle, when they at least tried to, because of his supposed anti-transgender message, which I think a lot of people listened to it and realized maybe it wasn't...
But I think a lot of people were there at that point, were like, oh, well, if you're attacking comedians who've always attacked everybody, and got it like that, I think that's where people started to draw the line.
Yeah.
Oh, you're going to try to attack comedians now?
You're going to try to attack people that...
Yeah, okay.
I think we can all...
Well, maybe I'm wrong, but for the most part, I think we can divide the racist from the kidding, from the joking.
I think a lot of people have found that as long as you're attacking everybody, everybody's at play, that it's okay.
Yeah.
And then you bring up that situation.
I think people eventually...
And it's turning fairly quickly.
I mean, people online are the same way.
I think there's more people with that mindset now where it's like, all right, like, yeah, maybe we're liberal, but I mean, take it easy.
Don't...
I don't want to ruin everything.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, I... Before we move on to our last topic, when they start going after the court jesters instead of the Kings, you've got a problem.
Right.
Exactly.
That's perfect.
I mean, yeah.
When satire is made, again, the reason for the court jester, the reason for the satirist, the reason for the Mark Twain's, the Will Rogers of the world, was to say things in a way that got you thinking about a real issue.
You know, and if you can't make fun of, I mean, look, I'm a Republican.
I'm a conservative.
I get it.
But, you know, I look at some of the, you know, the jokes that, you know, liberals make about Republicans.
I say, yeah, well, that was pretty funny, you know?
And there'll be jokes about, you know, about liberals.
And I say, well, that's pretty funny.
You know, as someone who's been in the spotlight, do some of those, I mean, look, I'm going to be transparent for a second.
When you're in the public eye like I am and continue to be and have been in a different level early on, does it hurt when somebody says something bad about you, when they say that you're stupid?
I mean, look, if you ever want to look at something online, go look at the comments, even to the day.
But a few years back on when I would have hearing...
Clips or whatever that would go out on Twitter or Instagram, whatever, and I would have people, and this is true, I saw it many, many times, the comments would say, would compare me to Foghorn Leghorn.
Are you kidding me?
Okay, the old comic strip character.
Yeah, no, they would.
You can go back and look at it.
I mean, and they talk about my voice.
I mean, does somebody hurt a little bit?
Yeah.
But at the same point in time, whatever.
Okay, go on.
If I let my life be ruined by some idiot with a keyboard in the basement, I wouldn't get out anywhere.
So, folks, I'll just say this.
Again, learn to live.
Living is hard.
Living's tough.
It was never supposed to be easy.
For all of you out there wanting the happy ending every day of your life, I'm sorry.
It's not going to happen.
You're not going to get the raise all the time.
You're not going to get a new job all the time.
You're not going to get the best sandwich all the time.
And you're not going to get the relationship work out every time like you want it to.
That's while living.
So quit blaming everybody else.
Moving on to the happy world of weirdness, which is the two movies that are premiering this weekend.
Barbie and Oppenheimer.
This is what America is all about.
If there was ever a more juxtaposition of the country we live in, it's this weekend.
Barbie, and it's already started.
Well, there's transgender in Barbie, and I don't like transgender, and I don't like Barbie.
In Wall Street Journal, Barbie is not...
Yeah, somebody said, don't go see it.
I can't remember if it was USA Today or others, and I was up in Fox the other day when we were talking about this, and some of the reporters were talking about it.
They said the review on this was either USA Today or Wall Street, and I can't remember which one.
They said, Barbie movie, okay, but shows she's not very deep.
Oh, my God.
You went from a Barbie movie expecting deep social commentary?
Can I take this moment to, this is, I think we share this so much, right?
Alright, if you don't want to see Barbie, don't go see Barbie.
Okay?
Exactly.
Who cares?
It's really, it is so unimportant.
For all you know, it's a good movie and you're just being ridiculous.
And okay, if you don't like the transgender stuff and all that, fine.
Fine, don't go see it.
It's not important that you go see it.
But, you said it wasn't deep, right?
These are the same people who were complaining about King Kong vs.
Godzilla.
Okay.
Now look, there have been bad Godzilla movies.
We all know that.
The movie can just stink.
It can be a bad movie.
This was an awesome movie where a giant gorilla fought a giant lizard monster and everyone died.
I was really happy with that outcome because that's what I went to go see.
Perfect movie.
I didn't go see it because I wanted a deep performance from the gorilla.
Yeah.
This is why people shouldn't be allowed to be critics because they're idiots.
Yeah.
Well, it's also the reason the Oscars have no actual value anymore.
Oh, we were just talking about it.
You're right.
And then there's Oppenheimer, right?
Where it's going to be...
Man, I'm excited.
Yeah, Nolan has done it.
Look, I know that my kids, I think, are going to go see both.
One of them, Bo in particular, I think they're looking to do an all-day doubleheader.
They're going to do Barbie, Dinner, and Oppenheimer.
Yeah, the Barbenheimer.
Three hours is like, you know, a movie.
But it's a Chris Nolan flick.
No CGI in this movie, by the way.
Yeah, real bomb, because he's a psychopath.
Yeah, real stuff, and no CGI, they used equipment, but I was seeing something, there's a scene in it where they're plowing through a cornfield, and he actually bought a 100-acre cornfield and did the scene, planted the corn, and then they sold the land and the corn.
I mean, Nolan is- He probably made a profit off of it.
Yeah, he did.
I mean, it's just a different level.
So, folks, you know, go see the movies.
I mean, this idea we need entertainment to take us away.
Maybe this goes back to, and a good place for us to sort of wrap up here, James, is we need entertainment.
We don't, I mean, if you're sitting there watching, and I say this with love, and I know I've got other podcasters on our beloved Salem network and others who are serious all the time, And if that's your cup of tea, then go be serious and be mad at the world all the time.
Okay?
That's fine.
I mean, because I love our Salem family.
Okay?
But I don't live in that world.
I don't want to live in that world.
I've been in the world of politics.
You know, everything is not doom and gloom.
And we've got to get back to where entertainment is fun.
A Barbie movie, at the end of the day, you're not, you know, again, if you want to go see Barbie, go see Barbie.
If you don't, don't.
And don't tell me why.
Please don't go see it for the Oscar-worthy performances, okay?
Yeah, do not think that you're going to go see Barbie give a dissertation on the quantum theory of life and everything that was in it and how Hunter Biden is this and that Republicans are bad.
Give me a break.
And Oppenheimer...
Yeah, at the end of Barbie, it actually tells you whose cocaine it was.
Yeah, that's it.
Now, I'd go see it for that.
But, you know, in Oppenheimer, though, there's a great movie, and this has been part of the preview, so I'm not, again, I haven't seen the movie, but this is just a trailer part.
You know, and think about this for a second.
When he hit that button, he did not, honest to God, know what was going to happen.
Because they honestly thought this could be the end of the world.
Sure.
They don't know.
I mean, they're scientists, but they're not, you know, perfect.
Yeah, but they didn't know because they had never done it.
The fusion part, they didn't know if it would just be fusion there or would it actually go to others.
So, great stuff out there.
There's a lot of good movies to go see.
Go watch old movies and quit.
And the other thing is, and I'm going to quit because we could go all night, you know, all day for this on Friday's Finest.
But, you know, quit judging movies.
When they were made by today's standards.
Fact.
That's a fact.
Quit that.
It's absurd.
Stop it.
But yet we see it all the time.
And it's just...
So go enjoy the movies this weekend.
You got a lot of stuff.
We've hit...
Again, James, on Friday's Finest, we went from football to political speech to...
Let's see.
We hit pretty much everything today.
Don't forget about the aliens.
Oh, and the aliens.
By the way, quick update.
Came through.
Been following this.
I know I announced the stuff.
We're looking to have the Honorable Tim Burchett from Tennessee who's going to be heading up the hearings into the UFOs.
We'll be back on the podcast very soon.
Watch out for this.
It's going to be classic.
This is going to be great.
So, with that, we bring a close to another edition of Friday's Finest.
God bless you.
Thanks for being a part.
James, say goodbye.
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