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Elon Musk is now in control of Twitter, one of the most influential social media platforms in the known universe, and he has fired, first day in office, four of the executives of the company, all of whom clearly, well, Weren't interested in having an unbiased platform from the CEO to the woman head of legal who made sure that President Trump's account was deleted after the election.
Does it mean we're going to have a free and fair platform?
Too early to say.
Rumors of President Trump joining Twitter again on Monday have yet to be substantiated.
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We have lots of very important news to share with you, especially a leak from the FBI on what they will be doing during the midterm elections.
But the breaking news concerns an event from San Francisco, from the home of the Speaker of the House, the $6 million property in Pacific Heights of San Francisco.
Paul Pelosi was attacked early this morning.
The information has been dripping in very, very slowly.
This is the latest from, of course, where?
Ah yes, a British publication, the Daily Mail, which seems to have more journalists doing journalism than any of the legacy-lying media here in the United States.
Paul Pelosi attack.
Nancy Pelosi's husband battered with a hammer.
This is what we know for the time being.
The assailant who violently assaulted Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer on early Friday morning was looking for the speaker herself when he broke into their San Francisco home shouting, Where's Nancy?
Where's Nancy?
Speaker Pelosi was in Washington, D.C.
when Paul Pelosi, 82, was brutally attacked.
He was taken to Zuckerberg, San Francisco General Hospital, and is undergoing brain surgery, NBC reported.
Their Speaker's Office said that Pelosi is expected to recover.
San Francisco Police Department identified the suspect as 42-year-old David DePape.
D-E-P-A-P-E.
David DePape.
He will be booked at San Francisco County Jail on several charges including attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, It's a bit strange.
And several other additional felonies.
De Pape entered the Pelosi residence through a sliding glass door at the back of the house.
Aerial footage showed broken panes of smashed glass at the door to their home.
De Pape confronted Paul Pelosi yelling, where's Nancy?
He tried to tie Paul Pelosi up until Nancy got home.
When the police arrived, the suspect told them, we're waiting for Nancy.
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott indicated there was some kind of confrontation between the two men involving a hammer.
But it is unclear who The hammer belonged to, whether DuPage brought it with him or if Paul Pelosi was using it for defensive reasons.
Scott said when his officers entered the home they observed Mr. Pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer.
The suspect pulled the hammer away from Mr. Pelosi and assaulted him with it.
Our officers tackled the suspect, disarmed him, took him into custody and requested emergency backup and rendered medical aid.
The chief noted the motive for this attack is still being determined and he did not answer questions when he made a short statement to the media just about about an hour ago.
The pape's social media showed he posted conspiracy theories about the origins of the Covid epidemic, about the validity of the 2020 election, and regarding the January 6th insurrection on Capitol Hill.
Oh really?
The Daily Mail uses the phrase insurrection.
Love to have somebody from the Daily Mail explain to me how this is the first insurrection in human history where the insurrectionists didn't have any guns.
Loved to not have an answer to that question or the only insurrection where the only fatality was an unarmed woman.
The assault on Paul Pelosi occurred at 2 27 a.m.
at the Pelosi's six million dollar property in the exclusive San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights.
Now that's as much as we know right now from an organization that has a massive massive media presence in the United States but there are some questions that Have to be raised.
First, Jeff, Mr. G, you looked at some of the early reports about two hours ago.
What do we know about this DePape character?
Up to now, he's been famous for what exactly?
Because it's rather weird, isn't it?
He was a pro-nudist activist, well-known in the area, from Berkeley.
And he... I think for a job he makes hemp jewelry.
So he's into hemp?
Yeah.
He's into hemp.
And he's from Berkeley, which is a hive of MAGA conservative politics, correct?
Yeah, that's MAGA country.
That's MAGA country.
And also, if you look up his name, DePabe, the article you'll find first is something about nudism, right?
Yes, it was some type of... I think it was the San Francisco Chronicle, but it was in 2011.
It was a Castro pro-nudist whatever-that-is event.
Now, this fits perfectly into all the MAGA rallies with the nudists, right?
Yeah, if you remember January 6th, there was a big pro-nudist presence.
Yeah, I remember that.
I remember that well.
And then also we have the question of, what did you say, Harmeet Dhillon, the chair of the California GOP, who is a very famous lawyer, she said that she served The Pelosi's with court documents on numerous occasions in their home.
And what did Harmeet Dhillon say on Twitter?
Yes, this is when they were both not even home, not just not Nancy home.
And she said there was always a law enforcement presence and their security cameras all over the place in that house.
Which you would expect.
Of course.
I mean, you know, Speaker of the House, she's got her own private jet paid for by us.
She's in charge.
She's actually in charge of the Capitol Police.
So something stinks here.
However, what can you predict for us with certitude, Mr. G, for the next 11 days?
Oh, this will be non-stop.
This is all we're going to hear about from now until the elections.
This is gonna be it, no matter who this person is.
Which is unlike what happened with Steve Scalise, who was almost murdered by James Hodgkinson.
Unlike Lee Zeldin, who was attacked on a campaign event on the stage by somebody who went at his neck, trying to puncture his jugular.
Unlike, who else do we have?
We could go through a litany.
We could have Rand Paul with his ribs broken by his neighbor.
Those stories Dissipate like thin mist in the morning dew, but this story will be written by the left.
But I want to know, what is a pro-nudist hemp activist doing, wanting to attack Nancy Pelosi?
And also, lots of questions unanswered.
He was tying him up but then they got into an altercation?
How are you having an altercation with a hammer if you've been tied up?
And where were the security guards?
Oh and here's the last question.
A little bit like that DNC pipe bomber.
Are we gonna see footage from the Pelosi security camera?
Because I guarantee you now That there was footage?
That the cameras are all over that Tony $6 million house?
Are we going to see the footage?
Will it be released?
And why is it taking so long for us to have a photograph of the attacker?
We've got his name, but it's strange.
Not even the police press conference released a photograph and nothing in the press.
All right, thank you Daily Mail, I think.
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Jeff's sworn in on that.
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And frankly, hard to watch since you're a tool of Russian prop-prop-prop-agander.
That's Stephen Colbert.
Allegedly, that's humour.
Eric, did you find that funny?
Of all the insane clips we have played of that man on this show over the years, that might be the actually stupidest thing I've ever seen him do.
Alex, did you find that amusing?
Absolutely not.
Didn't even smile.
I can attest.
He's sitting there with a rather manly beard and he is not smiling at all.
Colbert was funny about 10 years ago when he realized he was meant to be pretending.
But now he's a political activist.
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All right, we'll take your calls momentarily, but first, a special guest on the show.
He was my cigar buddy as we traveled the nation for our Battleground Talkers Tour, and I'm delighted to have him on the show.
Todd Saylor, are you with us?
Oh, I miss you!
What is going on?
I miss jetting around America with you, Dennis Prager, Mike Gallagher, and then in very exclusive, I mean really, here we're showing a photograph of it now, this is the kind of exclusive place that we smoked cigars together.
Can you describe this really tony club that we went to?
We had such a good time.
The first cigar, though, I remember the most because we were underground, Sebastian.
You remember that?
That's what I'm talking about.
I'm showing everybody.
I'm showing three million people now the car park, the underground car park, the only place we could find to smoke a cigar.
But it didn't matter, did it?
No, we were safe and we were brothers in arms.
It was amazing.
We got to talk about our dad.
Man, I love this story about your dad.
I carry that story with me.
You're a genuine American and I love you, Sebastian.
All right, well let's talk about your story, which is an amazing story.
You are from the company WiredDifferently.com, but I want to put up this story about Tom's Donuts, because you told this story to me as we were standing there smoking our cigars.
How is a little donut shop that's connected to your family now the donut capital of the world?
Will you explain that to our listeners, Todd?
You went right for my heart.
So listen, Wire Difference Systems, I own 14 companies.
I gotta tell you, my favorite company is Tom's Donuts.
It's donut capital of the world!
How did you get?
Explain what that means.
How is Tom's Donuts the donut capital?
What did you have to do in one 24-hour period?
Because this is a great story.
We literally had to solicit the Guinness Book of World Records.
We had to work our tail off to create and manifest this dream of being the donut capital of the world.
It took us a year and a half, but ultimately, after a year and a half, we worked with Guinness and we put together the perfect plan.
We aspired to sell more donuts than anybody's ever sold in the world in an eight-hour period, my friend.
Handmade, sold in one line, in one location, in the world.
How many?
How many, Todd?
And we did it, man.
We had to... Listen, the suspense is killing me, right?
We had to go all over the world.
Guinness had to figure out what was a good number.
They said, if you can sell at least close to 3,000 donuts, you will aspire, you will be the donut king, you will be the Guinness World Record.
And at the end of eight hours, we sold 8,558 donuts.
Literally a donut every 12 seconds!
And he didn't bring me one donut for our Battleground Talkers Tour that he sponsored, but I'm waiting for my Persian.
Just when you hear what are the ingredients in the Persian donut.
Alright, we've only got a couple of minutes left.
We have to get you back on for a longer chat via Skype, but explain what Wired Differently is, because this was the theme of your contribution to our amazing tour.
So, what is Wired Differently, Todd?
Well, Wired Differently is my last company, and I'm building it to build a nationally syndicated coaching network for people all over this country.
But Wired Differently is literally an attitudinal disorder.
Wired Differently is the way of seeing, being, and doing the world differently.
And America, I love America.
I love what you're doing.
Keep on going, America.
I love it.
And we're the original Wired Differently country.
Nobody does it like us.
No one's ever done it like us.
And nobody ever will, Sebastian.
And we're taking those same mindsets of doing, being, and thinking differently, and building people's lives entrepreneurially differently.
And we can't forget the Lord that we put in this.
God Almighty, He is on board with us, and He is wired differently with us, Sebastian.
Because there is something different about American Americans, correct, Todd?
Absolutely.
Think about it.
No one's ever done it this way.
No one's ever come across the water this way.
No one's pushed back the way we have.
No one's ever stopped fighting the way we have.
We just keep on going.
There's select Americans that really still believe, feel that fervor.
In my pursuit of American culture, I mean, we want to be this way.
Americans are wired differently.
We've got to keep this country.
We've got to win it back.
And I'm so, so super proud to be associated with you and all these I love the phrase Wired Differently.
I think it gives me a continued excuse to carry on the way I've been carrying on.
The book is Wired Differently.
Get it today.
Wired Differently.
Leveraging Your Favors on Fulcrum Principles by our friend Todd Saylor with a Y. The website is Wired Differently.
I've got to go to that doughnut capital of the world sooner or later to have me one of those Persian doughnuts.
God bless you, Todd, and thank you.
I'm going to ship them to you, Sebastian.
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Absolutely, heavingly full call board.
We're going to have some fun because it's Friday and it's America first.
What is it?
Four to seven.
Four to seven.
Okay, let's see if this is fixed.
Go ahead.
Democrats are kind of worried about where this is going.
All right, that cut's not fixed.
We're gonna ditch that one for now.
The trick was to open this pool and make it a public pool, turn it into the people's pool, and ensure that young people across Pennsylvania could learn how to swim and learn water safety, and kind of work to right some of the wrongs.
You know, historically, swimming in America is very racist.
As for media bias or ableism that we've seen, you know, just rampant.
I don't know if it's lack of exposure or lack of education.
I think the media certainly needs more training.
You know, they talk about their investments in diversity.
They really missed the mark, right?
I thought this was such an amazing opportunity to really talk about this, right?
Most people use accommodations on some level, whether that's glass Whether that's how bright you keep your camera, you know, your phone when you're reading.
These are all accommodations.
You know, maybe closed caption is like a new thing to them.
But I've been using closed captioning my whole life.
I learned how to speak English watching Mr. Rogers and reading closed captions.
So, you know, maybe it's something we need to normalize.
We need to have more of these conversations.
But I thought this was such a great opportunity for us to learn as a country.
And I think the media really missed its mark.
Yeah, all of our doctors believe that we are absolutely ready to be fit to be serving.
And one of the things we always remind everybody is that by January I would be much, much better, but Oz will still be a fraud.
He says we are fit to be serving?
What does that mean?
A nine.
Oh, can you send me the hit piece on Steve?
Yeah, I'm printing it.
Thanks.
I don't have that.
I have his op-ed responding to it.
Okay, nine.
And one on student loans, if I can.
A judge has halted your plan to relieve debt for millions of Americans that are struggling with student loans.
What's your response to that?
We're going to win that case.
I think in the next two weeks you're going to see those checks going out.
That's my response.
There's no checks going out.
There's just $10,000 being deducted.
And we're doing a whole lot of other things.
And by the way, the food prices, the main driver of food prices is not the price of beef and eggs, et cetera, although they're up.
It's packaged goods.
Packaged goods.
You're going to see people not buying Kellogg's Raisin Bran, which you're either going to see them buy another Raisin Bran, which is going to be a dollar cheaper.
I mean, so what's happening is there is real movement.
I bet Kellogg is happy, right?
Oh my gosh, clearly he has never shopped in his life.
Alright.
Uh, five would be good.
And then probably four.
We don't have four.
Oh, the liners, yeah.
Callers.
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Let's go to your calls, Mike in Cleveland.
Mike, welcome to America First.
Yeah, to say that Bush and the FBI are like the gazappos... Bush?
Bush, dude.
Do you know what year it is?
Why are you saying Bush?
Excuse me, Biden.
You're a total ignoramus.
I mean, did the Gestapo used to go and get a search warrant before they went to someone's house?
Yeah, illegal ones they did, like the FBI.
Why don't you know who's the president right now?
Why don't you know who the president is, Mike?
Are you living in 1996?
What's your problem?
Oh, I think it's the same president that liberated the airports from the British during the American Revolution.
You know, you really... I like that you're listening to this show, Mike, but you should give your phone back to your elderly patient care individual, okay?
Goodbye, Mike.
Let's go to... What do we have here?
Oh, the ticket.
DeSantis.
Elias, California.
Welcome.
Hey, first time caller.
Love your show.
Thank you.
I just wanted to get your take on with this whole, you know, people, is Biden going to run?
Is he going to be capable to run?
Is Trump going to run?
I wanted to get your take on a presidency of maybe Ron DeSantis as president and his VP as Tulsi Gabbard.
I've always thought it'd be kind of an interesting mix and just wanted to see what you thought.
How many times have you listened to the show, Elias?
Whenever you're on, I'm usually at work.
But when I'm driving, I'll try to listen.
Yeah, so I'll repeat what I've said maybe 200 times in the last six months.
So, Tulsi Gabbard is a dangerous woman.
She's about Tulsi Gabbard.
She hangs out with murderous, mass murderers like Assad in Damascus.
She actually did that.
She made apologies for the Assad regime.
And DeSantis, if he's smart, he's going to be the Vice President to President Trump.
And then he can roll into the poll position in 28.
That's what I've been saying for months.
Alright, Elias?
I love that.
I appreciate it.
I didn't know a whole lot about Tulsi.
Yeah, look it up.
Look up what she did in Syria when we were in the White House.
She is a dangerous, dangerous person.
Line 2, Mark, North Carolina.
Hey, how are you?
Good.
Happy Friday.
Yeah, yeah.
So, hey, I can't believe these Democrats.
That whole Paul Pelosi thing, any idiot can see that was a false flag attack.
Would you agree?
No, I don't have enough data, so I'm not going to make a judgment.
I wait until I have more data.
I think we have a deranged person who somehow strangely managed to get past the security, but that's all I do right now.
I'm not going to make declarative statements less than 24 hours after the event occurred.
But can't you just look at him and tell that he's Antifa?
No, I can't do that.
I'm not a mentalist.
I can't make judgments like that because I'm not a magician, Mark.
I used to be in military intelligence.
I like to make decisions based on data.
So should you.
Gotcha, so you went from being military intelligence to how you just hawk lots of tchotchkes on your website?
Yeah, I love tchotchkes because I'm a human being, don't you?
Or are you just such a big, big man that you don't like tchotchkes?
Are you a manly man, Mark, who comes on my show and has issues with my hobbies?
Is that how you get your jollies?
Is that how you get off, Mark?
Go away, Mark.
You're a pathetic little excuse of a non-man.
Randy Knoxville, line three.
Hey, Dr. Gorka.
Well, you've got the loonies coming out of the woodwork today.
I know!
It's fun!
Yeah, yeah.
It's Friday.
You know, maybe they started early.
I don't know.
It might be a full moon.
We'll have to check the skies tonight.
Absolutely.
Hey, being a Second Amendment Friday, I was wondering about this attack on Pelosi, the guy with the hammer.
Yeah.
I want to know what kind of hammers That Nancy might want to ban after this.
Was this a claw hammer?
A ball peen hammer?
Oh, hang on, hang on.
Ball peen hammers are good.
I mean, we like ball peen hammers.
Claw hammer is probably the most popular hammer.
This is a good question.
The other question is, Randy, if Paul Pelosi had had a gun, don't you think he'd be in a better position right now?
Hey, he brought a hammer to a gunfight.
That would have been really good.
Here we go.
This is another reason that California's got it wrong.
Great questions.
Thank you, Randy.
Let's stay on the line.
Let's give Randy a signed copy of Defeating Jihad.
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We need to talk to somebody else the establishment detests, not just the establishment, but do you remember when Rolling Stone was cool?
I think Rolling Stone was cool maybe 40 years ago, maybe 30, maybe 30 years ago.
Now it's just a bunch of Hacks!
I'm being polite here.
It's just a propaganda arm for the DNC.
They've written about me, but now they're writing about a buddy of mine who allegedly, he owes the IRS money!
Well, let's get the scoop, because funnily enough, the Rolling Stone didn't even ask him.
Stephen Moore, welcome back to America First.
Hey, Sebastian.
So did they go after you too, Rolling Stone?
Oh, yeah.
When I was in the White House, absolutely.
They're a bunch of scumbags.
But I'm going to ask you, I am not.
You're in front of a court of law.
I'm your judge, Stephen Moore, economist extraordinaire.
Do you owe the IRS $75,000 as the Rolling Stone that a paragon, paragon of journalism has accused you of?
So the quick story here, Sebastian, it was covered in the Wall Street Journal today.
And I want to thank my friends at the WSJ editorial page for Covering this story was that about two or three months ago, the Rolling Stone had this piece about how I had been criticized, in fact, on your show, Sebastian, this idea of forgiving all this student loan debt, you know, half a trillion dollars.
And I said, Bill, people should pay back their debts.
And so Rolling Stone had this hit piece on me saying, well, how dare Steve Moore say that people should pay back the money when they owe, when Steve Moore has not paid the taxes that he owes?
This dated back to when I was nominated by President Trump to be on the Federal Reserve Board.
I had a tax lien against me.
I forget, it was about $50,000.
And we had been in a fight with the IRS for several years contending that actually they owed us money, Sebastian, not I owed them money.
But this is an accusation from that rag, the Guardian, from about three years ago, correct?
Yeah, it was a 2014 lien.
We've been in a dispute for many years.
And incidentally, just as an aside for this story, because it's relevant to everyone, the Democrats want to hire 80,000 new IRS agents.
You've talked about that.
And the Democrats' response to that is, well, gee, anybody who pays their taxes shouldn't be worried.
Well, wait a minute.
It turns out I did pay my taxes.
We had to pay thousands and thousands of dollars of accounting fees, lawyers, accountants, you know, to deal with this issue.
And it's the one agency of government where you are truly—if you're under an IRS investigation, it doesn't matter whether you're innocent or not.
You're innocent until you—I mean, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
So the presumptions of innocence is reversed.
In any case, to just follow up the story, I had gotten, after many years, we finally got a check from the IRS.
No letter or anything, just a check for, I think it was about 70, I don't remember the exact number, about $70,000 to $75,000.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
The Rolling Stone says you owe the IRS $75,000, but you got a check from them for $70,000, correct?
That's roughly, I think those are roughly the right numbers.
I don't want, I don't think they're precise, but they're very close to being true.
Now, here's the point.
The IRS was quoting this old story and the reporter who wrote this story never contacted me to say, hey, what about this tax lien you had?
And so they wrote this story saying Steve Moore doesn't pay his taxes.
Now, I worked for 10 years at the Wall Street Journal, Sebastian.
The first rule of journalism, Journalism 101, at least in the olden days, was if I was going to make an accusation against you, Sebastian, like you beat your wife or this or that, I would call you and I'd get your point of view.
There's two bare minimums.
If you dare to call yourself a journalist, number one, you've got to have multiple sources for a story.
You've got to have corroboration.
And if it's about a human being or an organization, you have to ask them to comment.
Exactly.
And that never happened.
Nor did they ever call my, because they also contended that I hadn't paid my I didn't get in this article but they also charged me of not paying my alimony, which was actually also a false accusation.
And so, here's the thing.
When I showed the people at the Rolling Stone the check, I said, this is defamatory.
This is completely false, untrue, and defamatory.
You have defamed me with this article.
Did they react?
And they just kind of shrugged their shoulders and said, you know, well, I showed them the check.
Sebastian, I showed them the check from the IRS.
So, are you going to sue them now, Steve?
Well, they have not retreated on this.
I may have to do that, but I'll tell you this, the reason I wanted to get this off my chest was A, to just defend my honor, but B, it shows that the media today, you can't trust a word that they say, Sebastian.
They lie.
They're not.
Look, the bottom line is they're not journalists.
We shouldn't even call them journalists.
They are a propaganda outreach arm of the DNC and the Biden administration.
By the way, this is how this whole thing was triggered.
This is Biden today talking about that issue of student loans.
Cut nine.
Play cut.
And one on student loans, if I can.
A judge has halted your plan to relieve debt for millions of Americans that are struggling with student loans.
What's your response to that?
We're going to win that case.
I think in the next two weeks you're going to see those checks going out.
That's my response.
By the way, nobody's getting checks.
Checks don't go out.
It's writing off a loan.
That's how completely mendacious this administration is.
All right, we're glad we set the record straight.
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Apparently at the press conference the police said that They were arriving because they were on a well-being check.
A well-being check?
Yeah, does that mean that they weren't called, or...?
It looks the same.
I would say so.
70 seconds.
Alright, what have we got here?
San Francisco... That doesn't make sense.
in San Francisco 45 Alright, good.
that will just work through the numbers.
Two might be good because he's in San Francisco.
Yes, good.
All right, we'll start with two.
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Fred is calling from San Francisco.
Welcome, Fred.
Yeah, thank you.
I'm a big fan of yours.
And quick, real quick.
Basically, I listened to the chief of police's press conference.
He said one thing you can't explain away.
And I've been here 22 years.
And one of my best friends was the assistant chief of police here with We have coffee three or four times a week.
He said the cops happened to be there at 2.30 in the morning for an a priori wellness check at 2.30 a.m.
That's a quote.
I know.
What is a wellness check at 2 a.m.
anyway, Fred?
Right.
And also, you know, It's a coincidence.
What are the odds that they're just as this guy is assaulted?
I hate to say it.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
I'm a pretty rational person.
But I started thinking about the Whitmer case.
Yeah, well, let's see if there's any FBI people involved who are buddies with this individual.
But we need more data because stuff just does not add up.
Thank you, Fred.
Thank you, Fred.
Let's go to Richard.
Same topic.
Philadelphia.
Line one.
Yeah, Doctor, I listen to you always.
I think you're fantastic.
Thank you.
The FBI, if they get involved in this, what will happen is it'll be covered up because what's occurring, and I believe the Chief of Police is having a fight right now with the FBI over who's going to handle the case.
Why?
Because they want to make it a national security issue because they're after Nancy Pelosi.
Oh, they will.
There'll be some kind of jurisdictional argument, whether it's the Capitol Police that Nancy can control, or whether it's the FBI.
You're absolutely on the money, Richard.
And if there's something in this story they don't like, they will deep-six it.
It will go into the Circular Filing Cabinet, and you know that for a fact.
On this issue, Steve, Atlanta, Line 4.
Thanks for taking my call, Doctor.
I love you more than that first guy said.
Hey, I have a theory about why they charged this guy with elder abuse instead of second-degree murder because he didn't bring the hammer.
It can't be first, right?
He didn't bring the hammer.
So they decided on elder abuse because that's not one of the, uh, one of the, uh, uh, the crimes that are listed in their new, uh, their new law that allows for cash free bail.
Otherwise that means it would be free tonight.
Oh, that you are sneaky.
You know, Joe, you might actually be right.
You might actually, They want to make sure that he doesn't walk because this is a special victim unlike everybody else.
Why aren't we having press conferences from the Chief of Police of San Francisco for the dozens of other crimes that are going to be committed today?
Because I guess they don't matter.
Nicely done, Steve.
Joe's got a question for a shirt.
We'll take that offline.
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Hey Joe, what's your idea?
So, I came up with the New York Times, all the news that's fit to pimp.
That's good.
New York Times, all the news that's fit to pin.
I love it.
Thank you, buddy.
Hey, thank you.
Alright, have a good Friday.
Bye.
Alright, so we've also got this tease we gotta play.
401.
Okay.
Nice touch, by the way, with that Home Alone 2 clip in the intro.
Was that your idea?
Yeah, I told Chad to do that.
So good.
Again, a hot take.
I actually like the second one better than the first one.
Oh yeah?
I don't think I've seen the second one.
It's really good.
It's better than it has any right to be for a sequel.
The New York setting, it's great.
There's like more of a story.
There's like several more stories going on, whereas the first one is very just straightforward.
And it's like the Terminator series.
There's only those first two and then everything else after that just doesn't count.
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How you doing?
I'm doing great, how you doing?
Good, where are you?
Believe it or not, I'm actually in D.C.
I'm just running around with a chick with my hair cut off.
You're where?
I'm in Washington.
Oh my gosh!
Alright, stand by, 20 seconds.
I'm gonna read something from the FBI and then we're gonna have some fun, alright?
I love fun, let's go.
All right.
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Former strategic advisor to the Trump campaign, attorney to President Trump, Boris Epstein.
Welcome back to America First.
Sebastian, so great to be with you, so great to be with the audience, and so excited for this weekend to be with you on Newsmax.
It's going to be like an amazing week where we do a twofer.
Hang on, hang on, hang on.
You're missing it out.
So it was, what, two days ago we were back-to-back on Steve Bannon's War Room.
Now you're on my radio show and Sunday you're going to be on my TV show on Newsmax.
That's crazy!
We're rocking and rolling, baby.
We're rocking and rolling.
You know there's only 10 days left before election day.
We're marching to huge wins.
We're feeling great about it.
We're going to absolutely crush it.
All right.
Well, we have to talk about that.
I've got some serious news.
I've got some fun news.
Let's start with the serious news.
So I have in front of me a very, very disturbing document.
It's a facsimile.
It was acquired out of the FBI by Project Veritas, and it has a very strange title.
Not very professional.
2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet.
This is from the FBI.
Now, you're a lawyer.
Let me just read to you a couple of things here.
The heading is, What Are Election Crimes?
And it has two subheadings.
Number one, disinformation.
False or inaccurate information intended to mislead others.
Disinformation campaigns on social media are used to deliberately confuse, trick or upset the public.
Then it lists misinformation.
False or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally.
Now, this for me is rather Orwellian.
Ten days, as you say, before an election.
What is the FBI giving out cheat sheets on crimes to do with misinformation and disinformation?
Because I think, shouldn't they be rather busy, for example, if this is what they care about, with Hunter Biden's laptops, Barron?
Well, that tells you just one more time how crooked, how targeted, and how weaponized law enforcement, speaking of levels of law enforcement, have become in this country.
It is absolutely despicable.
It's sad.
It's unacceptable.
But that's what we're living in, Sebastian, and that's what we have to fight against day in and day out.
And the way that everybody can push against weaponized law enforcement is by voting for MAGA candidates on November 8th.
And I strongly believe that as we push back the candidates across the finish line all over the country, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, New Hampshire, Washington, we are going to start getting our country back.
A process, the key part in which is to get President Trump, as we hope and expect, back in the Oval Office.
Latest, Jan 20, 2025.
Now, I'm sure you heard it, but there was a hot mic moment yesterday with Schumer and Biden.
And Schumer said the following.
It's hard to hear, but I'll just say it.
Schumer says to Biden, I don't get why they are voting for Walker, meaning Hershel Walker.
By they, I think we know who he's talking about, right, Barron?
He's talking about black Americans.
Why are the Democrats so racist that they can't believe why they would vote for a fellow black conservative?
That goes back to everything that we've said about Joe Biden.
They'll put you back in chains with his comments.
All the racism that's come out of the Democrat Party, let's be honest, for centuries, you know, it is clear projection for radical local bros to go out there and say, oh, it's, you know, it's Republicans, it's MAGA, who, you know, who are excluding other Americans.
Wrong.
We are participatory populism.
We are an inclusive movement.
We are a movement that stands for America and all that is great in our country.
And it is the racists on the left who demigrate and demean those who choose to vote against them in our democracy, who are disgusting and despicable.
It is absolutely un-American to say that somebody is wrong because of their skin color to vote for somebody.
It harkens back to the worst times in world, not American history, world history, Yeah, but it's that fascinating glimpse behind the curtain because Schumer didn't know the mic was hot.
I mean, that's the racist that Schumer is when he doesn't realize the mics are on.
So, alright, I promised.
It has to do with racism, but it's actually quite funny, so let's have a little bit of fun.
uh frankenstein federman's wife gizelle on a podcast so um what what kind of sports were you into because you're a big guy you're a husky guy what what sports did you play in high school and college i played football i love watching football love watching hockey love watching uh soccer love watching baseball but yeah i played football i'm a I'm a big boy.
Okay, so you probably didn't know this if you were on the football field.
Did you know that swimming is inherently racist?
Did you know that?
No, you know, I didn't know that.
I did not realize I'd gone into a pool of hair.
Well, here we have the proof, okay?
When it's not Biden with his curly blonde hairs, it's Giselle Fetterman explaining how swimming has always been very racist in America.
Not a joke.
Cut five.
The dream was to open this pool and make it a public pool, turn it into the people's pool, and ensure that young people across Pennsylvania could learn how to swim and learn water safety, and kind of work to right some of the wrongs.
You know, historically, swimming in America is very racist.
Swimming in America has been historically very racist.
Now, I know you're an amateur historian.
Could you comment please, Barron?
Oh my gosh!
The bigoted bicycling?
Oh my gosh.
No, please.
Don't go there.
So you've got to be very careful with the racist walking.
Okay?
It's really bad.
You know, the racist running and the racist bicycling are also...
Oh, my gosh.
The bigoted bicycling?
Oh, my gosh.
No, please.
Don't go there.
The bigoted bicycling?
Don't even get me started on the racist skyline.
Should we be focused on our husband not knowing where he is or what day it is?
Guys, it's not a joke, as Biden would say.
That is Fetterman's wife talking about the historically racist swimming in America.
Okay.
Should we focus on our husband not knowing where he is or what day he is?
Yeah, probably.
Probably looking after her husband would be a better thing to do than making garbage up like that.
All right, we've got a couple of minutes left.
We're still getting the facts out of San Francisco.
The latest is there will be a joint.
One of our callers predicted this literally 15 minutes ago, that the FBI are going to go out there, they're going to clamp down on the SFPD, They're going to clamp down on the Capitol Police.
If there needs to be a cover-up, there will be a cover-up.
We're still waiting for the preliminary information.
Allegedly, it's a pro-hemp nudist attacked Paul Pelosi.
Is this going to be running out of the faucets for the next 10 days, Baron?
Well, first of all, I want to wish all the best to Paul Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi.
This is above party and above division.
Our movement are people who don't wish harm on anybody.
So I hope Paul Pelosi recovers quickly and wish him the best.
Obviously very troubled by the fact that it was so apparently easy for somebody to walk into their home, to get through security, and to be able to attack.
Now, if this was somebody who was not a Cuban Castro-loving mutist, and somebody who's not obviously a far-left radical, what you would see, what you would have is Absolute crush of coverage from every single outlet.
But the way that you're going to have it now, I suspect, sadly, the same way that, you know, the massacre in Waukesha hasn't really been covered, the crime in New York hasn't been covered, I think this attack is also unlikely to be covered because mainstream media is mostly interested in covering just and only anything that they can tie MAGA to.
They're not interested in actually covering crime and actually solving the deep problems our country has.
Yeah, and if you look at San Francisco and what they've done to San Francisco, just a very simple question.
While we wish Pelosi's husband a speedy recovery, why is there a press conference about this crime and not the dozens of other crimes that will be perpetrated in the Bay Area?
We've been talking to the Baron.
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Title for the Baron.
Something about swimming is racist or something.
Did you know swimming is racist?
I think jogging is even more racist.
Jogging?
Well, ask Fetterman.
He didn't include us.
Oh yes!
Oh my gosh.
How did we not know?
Oh my gosh, Eric.
Fetterman.
There was a lot to take away from that hot mic.
Like, apparently he said he thinks they're doing fine in Pennsylvania.
Like, he said, oh, the debate didn't hurt us too badly.
And then he says, apparently they're gaining steam in Nevada.
Those were his words.
Wow.
So... That's what he said?
Yeah.
Yeah, he was the whole, like, oh, fortunately... Well, that means they really are losing, then, if you're gaining steam and happy about it.
He said, the debate didn't hurt us, and Biden held up, like, his crossed fingers, like, oh, fingers crossed, like... Ugh.
Biden's worried about your debate performance.
Alright, scope one.
Alright, you want the mics off?
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You're hearing from people on social media in Palo Alto.
What has been spotted outside Twitter headquarters?
Former Twitter data engineers have been seen standing outside Twitter.
With the cardboard boxes in their hand, all the stuff, because they have been fired and are, you know, already being literally forced out of the building.
And the reporter, the blue checkmark reporter who shared these photos said, you know, one of these engineers, Daniel, shared with me his concerns that he has a Tesla and he won't be able to make his payments anymore.
Oh my gosh, the poor kid.
The poor kid's got a Tesla and he can't make the payments.
What does it all mean beyond the snowflakes who can't pay for their $80,000 cars?
Let's talk to a man who's taken on Twitter and won.
James Lawrence, welcome back to America First.
Thank you so much for having me again.
Now you've represented our buddy Alex Berenson.
You're a very successful man in that part of the world.
Let me just start with a caveat.
As my good buddy, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com, Alex Marlow, said on my show, kind of sanity check, kind of a cold shower, hey, don't expect a billionaire to save the First Amendment, especially given all of his dodgy deals in China.
So we know Elon's got a little bit of Stuff he's doing in China that he shouldn't do because it's a dictatorship, it's a communist regime.
So, you know, he got rid of the C-suite.
He fired everybody at the top, like Parag, the CEO, the head of legal that deleted President Trump's account.
So that's a good sign.
But as somebody who understands what this behemoth is, what are your expectations, realistically, and what would you like to see in a best-case scenario, James?
Yeah, so I think initially, and I think Mr. Musk has already said this on Twitter, it sounds like he's going to institute a working group of people to really rework the way the platform approaches content moderation.
He says it's going to be comprised of people with diverse viewpoints.
Certainly, I hope it comprises viewpoints of people like my client, Alex Berenson, who you mentioned earlier, who was wrongfully deplatformed from Twitter.
Last year, right?
You know, this entity.
So for those who are just users of Twitter, who haven't gone up against it, like you have for Alex, can you describe perhaps how this entity functions, how it thinks or based upon its behavior?
Let's put this delicately, its preferences?
Well, right.
It has, at least publicly, neutral policies, right?
Whether it's the COVID misinformation policy or it's hateful conduct policy, which I also have experience with another client of mine, Libs of TikTok, right?
Oh my gosh, you represent that wonderful lady as well?
I do represent Libs of TikTok and I've represented Libs of TikTok with respect to its dealings with Twitter.
And what I can tell you is that, at least in theory, these are policies that are written neutrally and should be applied even-handedly across the board.
But of course, in practice, the reality is much different from the rhetoric, right?
So, for example, with the COVID misinformation policy, allegedly or purportedly under that policy, anything that's false or misleading with respect to, for example, the vaccines is subject to being struck.
Right.
So in Alex's case, that led to a suspension by a mistaken application of that policy because he was critical of the vaccines.
However, you'll never see, and I have asked this publicly on Twitter myself on my account, Has a account ever been struck for making perhaps too bold or positive a statement about the vaccines, about their ability to ward off infection or severe disease?
I don't think it's ever happened.
I've never seen it, certainly.
So these are policies, again, that are at least facially neutral, but in practice they're applied in a discriminatory way and To borrow another concept from the law, the concept of disparate impact.
It's a neutral policy, but in practice, it seems to burden conservative or right-leaning speech in a way that it doesn't our colleagues across the aisle on the left.
All right, well, we've had libs of TikTok on the show once.
We're trying to get her back.
Would you please give her our very best?
She is an absolute warrior princess.
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We've got a couple of minutes left.
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So you're talking about very simple things.
If you've got a policy, apply it even-handedly.
What else would you like to see in the coming month, for example, out of TikTok that would be a sign of good faith?
There's two obvious things for me, but tell me what's missing.
Reinstatement of people who are cancelled, who shouldn't have been, like President Trump, a man who got 74 million votes in the last election.
And then, I think he promised this when he was making the bids, is make the algorithm open source.
So show the world how the algorithms of Twitter function.
So those would be two massive, massive shows of good faith.
What else would you, as a lawyer who deals with bias at Twitter, what would you like to see, James?
Certainly, in addition to the two things that you mentioned, Dr. Gorka, Darren Beattie at Revolver News had a really good, insightful piece published on their website right now.
One of the things that he suggested is that Twitter should open the vault and show how the government, how private and public entities collaborated to censor speech, whether that's in the COVID context or the election context, It would be really an extraordinary thing if Mr. Musk would open the vault and allow the public to see what actually happened with some of these moderation decisions and prominent bannings that you're talking about.
But further to the point, I think the fourth thing that I would say is restore the platform to really the way it was originally intended, which is that it's a public square.
It's a global public square, right?
And content moderation does have a role for really harassing conduct, doxing people, threatening them with violence and pornography.
But beyond that, beyond that, really, it should be a free for all.
It should be an open, rough, tumble marketplace of ideas.
Let speech rise and fall on its merits.
Let's not have algorithms or people in Silicon Valley dictating what 300-plus million Americans and countless more around the world are able to consume.
It should be like the town square, loud and proud but not moderated because you politically disagree with somebody.
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Thank you.
Jeff?
Jeff Patton.
Is he Skype?
Skype, yeah.
He's not now, he's next.
Okay, yeah, just making sure.
Alright, um, title for that one?
Uh, hang on, I'm just looking.
Can we kill the mics?
Mic's on.
Mic's back on.
I found the video, by the way, you mentioned, of Patton with that hideous AK, or AR.
Oh, the pig one.
Like, like, how does something like that even exist?
No, he made it.
He made it.
He made it.
Did you find anything of Genevieve?
Uh, yeah, some slow-mo clips of her shooting the .50 cal.
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You are the only human being with testicles who doesn't know what a Desert Eagle is.
Come on, have you not been to... I mean, I know what it is, I just... I couldn't tell you.
If you show me, uh, you know, .44 Magnum Dirty Harry and a Desert Eagle, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
You would.
Google Images knows what it is, though.
Yeah, Google Images knows what it is.
Alright, give me a second.
Actually, I'll send you a photograph of me with my desert eagles.
Oh, because I do have the... I still have images of the America First 1911.
That's cool, you can use that as well.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Use that, use that, um... Oh, and the rallying cry they have, which is also 1911?
You can use all of those.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I have those.
Oh, yeah, two minutes.
All right, so don't forget so don't forget I have to record a read.
After five.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, need a title for Lawrence.
There was some reporter at the press conference caught on a hot mic.
And he's talking to his editor, he's like, is this that guy?
That dude from the nudist camp that we all know who it is?
Oh my god.
He's like, is it alright if we say that stuff?
And he's like, nope.
That's funny.
For Lawrence, maybe something like, what should Elon do next?
Or something like that.
Elon Musk's next steps at Twitter.
Yes.
It needs to happen at Twitter if Musk is serious.
No, Elon Musk's next steps at Twitter.
Yes, steps at Twitter.
When he was any cuts here, which is gonna go to calls Umm... We still have that Donny Deutch cut.
We still have Federman and the other cut of his wife.
I might use three, but I want to go to calls.
Can you lock phones?
Block phone lines, 30 seconds.
All right, what's your name?
All right.
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Let's go to Mark in Cleveland, Line 3.
Mark, welcome to America First.
Dobrejotko, jaksi masht, pan gorka.
Jaksi masht, dobrojotko.
I know you know your check, so.
Yes, indeed.
Welcome.
Okay, first thing, I'm going to rock and roll here.
This Pelosi deal, you know, I'm only sorry that she wasn't in the House, and I'm not a schadenfreude, but, you know, the way she has spoken about our President, Donald Trump, I have been so angry, I just have hatred in my soul.
You're not wishing physical violence on a fellow American, are you, Mark?
That's not what we do.
End of subject.
Next, second subject.
About a week and a half ago, you had a lot of phone calls coming in about your weight loss and guys asking you about your chest and everything.
Now, the same week I was speaking with my brother and we were talking about this Cheyenne Bodhi.
It was an old Western.
Clint Walker.
He was on Dennis Prager 2018.
And this guy, even my dad, when I was a little kid, he said, I would never want to screw with this guy.
Six foot, foot six.
And I think you're up around there, 6 foot 4, 6 foot 5.
6 foot 4, yeah.
48 inch chest, 28 inch waist.
foot for you.
48 inch chest, 28 inch waist.
How does this compare to your measurements?
That's a little bit more impressive than me.
I'm 48 and 36, chest and waist.
But I'm gonna check this guy out, Cheyenne Bodie.
I am intrigued, and if he was on Dennis' show, I need to know.
Thank you, Mark, you've given me research and homework to do this weekend.
It's not Thursday, it's Friday!
But that's okay, because it's Antoinette.
Antoinette, welcome!
Hey, happy Friday, Dr. G. Just know that when you do come out here to California, it's absolutely gorgeous.
No humidity, no heat.
It's beautiful.
I can't wait.
It's fall here.
All the leaves have turned in the swamp.
It's leaves on the ground.
So I'm looking forward to a bit of a sunnier California this weekend.
Well listen, I wanted to call a little bit about James Bond.
Yes!
The Bond movies.
Which my favorite, favorite movie I'll tell you at the end of this little cute story.
And hopefully this will be interesting.
I was at Brooks Brothers in Manhattan a few years back, okay?
And I was looking for slippers for my husband at the time.
My poor baby, I loved him very much.
He died very young with a brain aneurysm, but that was another time in my life.
What's his name?
We'll pray for his soul.
What's your late husband's first name?
Harold.
Harold.
Carry on.
Anyway, so I was at Brooks Brothers looking for slippers for him, and I'm looking at the slippers, I look up, and who is smiling at me is James, and he looks at me, he smiles at me, he says, good afternoon, and I was just like, oh!
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Are you telling me you bumped into Sean Connery?
Yes!
Yes!
Oh my gosh.
And so I said... Was he chatting you up?
Was he chatting up our beautiful Antoinette in Brooks Brothers?
Yes, he was.
But you know what?
He was absolutely amazing.
Just as sexy as can be with that damn voice of his.
But definitely, From Russia With Love is my favorite movie.
Yes!
You need to buy Katie a velvet ribbon now.
Ooh, yes, that velvet ribbon.
Very fetching.
You don't need much else if you're a Russian KGB cipher agent.
By the way, your timing is impeccable, of course, because you're Antoinette.
So not only will we have the manhood hour today with one of the best of the best, Andrew Claverd, on what it means to be a man, the centrality of masculinity to Western civilization.
You don't want to miss a millisecond, guys.
I'm not joking.
I mean, he's the real deal.
On Monday... I believe you.
I believe you.
But hang on, hang on.
I'm not finished!
On Monday we are launching a brand new show segment.
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And guess what we are dedicating the whole first episode to?
It's gonna be James Bond, and you may find out that somebody else you know, Antoinette, shares your opinion on From Russia With Love.
God bless you, Antoinette, have a blessed weekend, and we will pray for the soul of your late, dear departed Harold.
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Outside the Craig movies, what's the worst?
The worst?
Outside the Craig movies.
God, the worst.
That side, the worst.
I know mine.
The first one.
Oh!
Oh!
Come on!
Uh, thingy.
The last one Roger made.
Is the Pauling.
View to a kill.
View to a kill?
Oh, yeah.
That's pretty bad.
Pauling.
Tanya, what's her face?
I'm sorry.
Tanya Roberts.
She is like... Has she ever got a SAG card?
That woman is just the worst.
She's not even... She doesn't even know how to act.
But I think Christopher Walken makes it somewhat watchable.
Yeah, but still, you know.
To me, it's gotta be Live and Let Die, man.
I really don't like that one.
No!
Come on.
The main girl is fantastic, but the villains are so forgettable.
And come on, come on.
He inflates like a balloon and explodes.
I gotta give you a break.
I know, I know.
I'd go with the first one.
That started it all.
You don't even know its name, Geoff.
You don't count.
You'll vote.
You get negative votes.
There's like 50 of them.
There's 27, okay?
Relax.
The first one wasn't just called James Bond.
No.
No, it was called Dr. No.
Remember when we asked him what his favorite was, and he looked up on Google, what's the shortest Bond movie?
And he said, Quantum of Solace.
I did that?
Yeah, you did!
That's awesome.
Sometimes, you know, Jeff is just, you know... I think he does it to provoke me.
I really do.
Same with Syphon.
We gotta make him choose, like, what would he rather watch?
Oh, I would watch this over Syphon, any.
I would think so, yeah.
James Bond over... Some of these, actually, I probably would like.
Oh, yeah.
80 seconds.
Alright, what have we got here?
We've got Car 30.
We've got... B-Roll.
And we've got Mr. Patton!
For a split second when you said B-Roll of Patton, I was thinking of, you know, the movie.
Yeah, that's what I thought you were saying.
I almost thought you were like, what, the movie or the real guy?
The real general?
Because I finally watched that movie recently, and it's so good.
Alright, we're going to have to do phone.
Oh, okay.
He hasn't used it in a while, I guarantee he needs an update, that's why he's doing it.
I have a picture of him we can use.
So then when it's b-roll, we can just play the b-roll fullscreen?
Or you with the b-roll, side-by-side, which would you prefer?
Uhhh, me.
You side-by-side with b-roll, okay.
30 seconds. 30 seconds.
30 seconds.
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It's been far too long, but we are delighted to have him back on the show.
He has one of the very best channels of gun content on YouTube today.
His name is John Patton, and the channel is The Gun Company.
John, welcome back to America First.
It's so good to be back.
It's been so freaking long.
I thought you were trying to ghost me.
You kept saying, oh, Friday.
No, sorry.
Friday is no good.
Friday.
And I thought, dude, what's he doing to me?
I guess Friday must be your range day, John.
You know, it was for a long time.
And life got a little hectic.
But I am glad to be back in the wheelhouse here.
Well, I'm not so sure you're back in the wheelhouse, because up on my feed yesterday, I got a video from the Gun Collective, and there was somebody else.
It wasn't you.
It was a guy doing a goofy voice with sunglasses, reviewing some PCC handguns.
Is your empire expanding, John?
Are you too rich and famous to stand in front of the camera now?
No, I am definitely not.
However, I am only one person, and I'm trying to expand.
I'm trying to bring people in so that we can offer more to the audience, you know, in terms of variety, in terms of opinions and personalities.
I just want to be able to offer what I set out to offer in the beginning, and that is to be a premier resource for gun content.
Well, look, to be honest, joking aside, it was a good video.
I enjoyed it.
Your new buddy reviewed it side by side.
The Scorpion CZ.
Love that PCC with the Strybog and the X-Star 9mm.
Fun video.
Amusing video.
And also substantive.
Here we have a B-roll of you.
There's a Desert Eagle!
Look!
He loves the Desert Eagle.
That's John.
And then we're going to show perhaps the thing that...
I don't know.
Made him infamous, if not famous.
The ugliest gun known to man.
Eric, will you just show that on the screen right now?
This is the Lime Green Pink Pistol Brace White Grip Yellow Upper AR Pistol.
Gotta ask you, John, why on God's green earth did you make that gun?
Because I could, and this is America.
Yes!
That's why.
Yes!
It's the right answer if you're American, because I can!
That's why I made the world's ugliest gun.
Okay, let's put the far nicer person up on the screen.
Let's have Genevieve, your better half, on the screen.
That'll... What?
It's the end of this clip.
He's playing with a Ruger Redhawk, I do believe, an excellent revolver, a Desert Eagle, and a .500 Smith.
Gotta ask you, the .500 Smith, not fun to shoot, right, John?
It depends on which one.
If you get one of the longer barrels, they're pretty enjoyable with the right loads.
If you shoot a snubby, it's gonna hurt and you'll probably only shoot one or two rounds out of it.
But yeah, it's not exactly an EDC type cartridge.
Not an everyday carry cartridge.
Okay, so for those who aren't familiar with The Gun Collective, tell them why you say it's the only channel that gives you stuff you actually want to know about and how you're expanding the channel.
So the idea is to refine and make the news about and around the firearms industry concise.
And I feel like we do a pretty good job of that.
I feel like we do.
That's really the core of it.
And the idea with expanding is to just, like I said, be able to offer more.
You know, I'm only one person, and I can only make so much content, and I would love to be able to We're just trying to.
Expand and bring in some different opinions and people doing we the guy that you saw yesterday's name's Caleb.
He's doing a lot more accessory reviews.
We've got a precision expert in his name's Joel.
And we're just trying to round out the team to make it a Alright, well my vote is for more Genevieve.
Get her in front of the camera, not you ugly guys.
What are you looking forward to?
We're not too far away from SHOT Show.
What are you excited about?
You know, SHOT Show for me is all about seeing people and reconnecting with folks that I don't get to see very often.
The products, yes, they're fun.
I'm really hoping that we see more 10mm guns.
Yes!
The best caliber!
Excuse me?
The best caliber.
We want more 10mm.
What else, John?
Yeah, 10 mil would be excellent.
It would be great.
I'd love to see another pistol in 50 Action Express.
I don't think that'll happen, but a boy can dream, right?
Of course.
Of course.
Yeah.
All right.
That's kind of it.
Good, good.
Well, I can't wait to see you there in Vegas.
I'll be there with my producer.
We'll have lots of fun.
We'll see you at the range.
Let's get a little bit serious.
I keep, you know, people are putting content up every single day on YouTube and everywhere else about the ATF's latest dastardly plan.
What is your gut telling you when it comes to braces?
Are they going to make them an NFA item?
Are we going to see lots of boat accidents?
Are they really going to go there in a mid-term year?
What's your expectation?
How out of control is that agency?
The agency is entirely out of control.
Let's get that out of the way.
The APF is 100% out of control.
The Biden administration made it worse and gave them more power and they've gotten a lot more brazen with their behavior.
However, the pistol brace issue, I believe that's going to go to a court issue.
I think we're going to have to fight them tooth and nail To get that to go away.
I really, genuinely think it's going to be a problem.
Because, you know, you talk to SB Tactical.
I mean, they've sold literally millions.
I think the number is between six and seven million.
And what they're proposing is to create six million felons overnight if we don't comply.
I think the estimate, estimation on the amount of braces in the U.S.
is around ten million.
Wow.
In total, between all the brands.
And I think That is an asinine thing for the ATF to think that they can regulate suddenly.
You know, I don't know the bump stop thing.
I don't know how many were turned in, but it certainly wasn't all of them.
And I don't know how they think they're going to get people to comply with this pistol brace issue.
And then if they're just passing laws to stack on to other issues, you know, an actual crime, and this is an add-on crime, what are we actually doing with the ATF at that point?
Is this agency providing any real value?
Well, no, no.
They're actually generating crimes where there weren't any crimes and they're not real crimes and they're not actually helping stop actual crime with criminals using unregistered or illegal weapons.
God bless you, John.
Far too short.
Let's do a longer chat at SHOT Show.
In the meantime, you've got to subscribe right now.
Seriously, every single video he drops, I watch it.
He's got new members of the team.
It's the Gun Collective on YouTube and he's John Patton.
God bless.
I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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Unfortunately, when people go to the gas pumps, when people go to buy their bread, when people go to buy their butter, when you see that 70% of people say that we're on the wrong track, when you see that his approval rating is somewhere between, you know, 40, 41, 42%, where basically Democrats' message is Roe v. Wade and fear of losing democracy, which are two pretty monstrous things to talk about, are not bucking what people feel as they go to the gas pumps.
And that's unfortunate.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that people, unlike you, who don't have to worry about the price of butter, Donny Deutsch, when did you last pump gas?
When did you deign to pick up the pump station pistol and put it into the tank of your car?
They're really elitist scum.
The Democrat Party, I know they were racist slaveholders from the South and then the KKK.
But at least for a while they said they represented the working class.
They only represent rich scum like Donnie Deutsch now.
They truly are the bi-coastal, big metropolis parties.
They don't care about you.
They just don't care.
Roe v. Wade!
More abortions!
That's who they are.
But we can save it.
10 days to go.
Are you taking 10 people to the polling stations who would otherwise stay home?
If you're not, you're part of the problem.
Let's go to North Carolina.
One more call before we go to our buddy, Andrew Clavin.
Matt, happy Friday!
Hello!
The Commander of Conservative Radio, Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
Greetings!
What's your question?
What's your comment, Matt?
My question is, I know it's preliminary, but if the home invader of Paul Pelosi did not bring the hammer, which I'm hearing, I know it's preliminary, Dr. Corker, but how did he get the glass busted?
And the next question is, which we'll find out, The definition of the word insalubrious, the swamp around Washington D.C., I looked in Webster's and it wasn't there.
Can you tell me what the definition is?
Absolutely.
Salubrious is nice, is good, is fit for polite company.
Insalubrious is the opposite.
It's swamp creature.
That's all you need to know.
But it's, you need a new dictionary!
You gotta get an old one though.
Before they started messing with the definitions of words.
When it comes to Pelosi, yeah, we've seen the aerial photography.
There's smashed glass on the patio where he gained entry.
Now, you can smash glass without a hammer.
He could have done it with a brick or a stone or anything, so that doesn't predicate that the story doesn't hold together.
But he needed to break it somehow.
We don't know.
Who owned the hammer?
Was it Pelosi?
Was it the attacker?
Will we ever know?
The FBI, the Federal Bureau of Intimidation, is going there.
Are they going to cover it up?
We shall see.
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Next up, the manhood hour.
It's Friday.
The one, the only, Andrew Clavin.
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The one, the only, Andrew the only, Andrew Clavin. Andrew Clavin.
...straining our friendship by the amount of texts I was sending him to come on my show!
He's the perfect guest.
Why?
Because when he's not writing scripts for Clint Eastwood or discovering the beauty of Western civilization and the post-Enlightenment poets, Oh, and doing novels about cops who are werewolves.
He's an expert on what it means to be a man and the role of manhood in Western civilization.
We call him the Galactic Grand Master.
He is none other than the host of a pretty good podcast.
It's called the Andrew Clavin Podcast.
No E's in Clavin.
Drew, welcome to the Manhood Hour.
Thank you.
Good to be here.
You have quite, as I was prepping for today's show, Eclectic is not the word that covers your oeuvre, your literature, from thrillers to fantasy to philosophical, theological texts.
I mean, the last one, Truth and Beauty, which is a visitation of the likes of Coleridge and Shelley in terms of what their poetry and their stories tell us about Western civilization.
Before I get to my five big questions, do you have any theory as to why Andrew Clavin has such an eclectic portfolio?
Well, I basically have one talent, but I'm like an Indian with the buffalo.
I use every bit of it.
I'm like a really top-notch writer, and so I try to use it in any possible way I can.
All right, no false modesty here.
He is a top-notch writer.
The new book, it's just out, it is fresh, it's actually warm, it just came off the presses, is the sequel.
It's of the first Cameron winter mystery, A Strange Habit of Mine.
I have been ordered to keep it on my desk like this, right there, in full view of all three million of you.
Please, You won't regret it.
He actually knows how to write dialogue.
He knows how to do thrillers.
He even knows how to give jobs to reprobates like Michael Knowles, who was the character singing his... What was that?
The Magic Kingdom trilogy that was a podcast for Superfun.
All right, we can talk about the book and I promise we will promote it endlessly, but I have some questions we need to get through that we'll get through with all of our guests.
The first one is...
And I think I know your answer to this question.
Is manhood, is masculinity in trouble in our civilization?
Yeah, I think it is.
I think it often is.
It is now again, and whenever a civilization is in decline, as ours is, it is one of the first things to go are the gender roles.
You know, when a civilization is really clicking, when it's really doing well, people don't even think about it.
They do their jobs.
And that is one of the things about masculinity that's difficult.
It's kind of like fight club.
You know, the first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
That's also the first rule of manhood, and it has left us open.
You know, the guy who's always talking about manhood is usually the biggest putz in the room, you know.
Can I just jump in here?
Because when I realized this is a thing we have to deal with, and then I eventually came up with an extra hour on the radio show, I talked about this with my wife, who's a huge bibliophile We did English literature in college and we talked about somebody needs to write a book on what is manhood.
And she said, why don't you?
And I had this visceral reaction.
I felt like vomiting.
I said, I'm not going to talk.
I am a man.
I'm not going to talk about what it is.
Why is it that instant kind of, it's either, it's like, what is that famous Supreme Court decision?
I can't define pornography, but I know what it is when I see it.
Is that the same as manhood?
We just don't talk about it, we just are?
Well, exactly.
You know, there's that great Chris Rock routine about fathers where he says nobody ever turns to his father and says, you know, it's a lot easier to read with the light on.
Thanks for paying the electric bills, you know.
And it's something, you know, you are the world that other people live in and that is part of what you do.
And it's a wonderful thing, and it's wonderful when you find, for instance, a wife who appreciates that.
One of my favorite moments of a wonderful, wonderful marriage was when a feminist came over our house and was having dinner at our dinner table, turned to my wife in front of me, and said, you know, you cook for him, you clean for him, you raise his children, what does he do for you?
And my wife just went, she made a gesture at the entire world, exactly, exactly, the house, the kids, the whole, you know.
Yeah, and so the minute you talk about it, that sort of sacrificial servant role that manhood plays, that is described in the Gospels, disappears because you're doing it because you do it, and it is wonderful to have gratitude in the people around you, but it's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that is who you are.
I don't know if I'm pushing back or not, but we don't talk about it express verbis.
We don't explicitly talk about it.
But if you look at the canons of Western literature, if we look at Homer, the Odyssey, if we look at the stories of the ancient Greeks, They're all about manhood.
It's not a checklist, this is what a man is.
But the stories were just discussions of what it means to be a virtuous man, weren't they?
I mean, back then we had this content.
We just don't do it anymore.
We don't write it anymore.
No, and it's something that has defined the conversation in a lot of ways is what has defined the West.
I mean, when you have the Catholic Church kind of overarching the civilization, it becomes a real question because you have these guys coming along who are knights.
They are literally knights, and they're clowns.
They're thugs.
And the Church says, you know, in Christianity that's not the way a man behaves, and that's where you get the ethos of chivalry, which is an invention of the Church.
It's just a way of the Church saying, oh, this is what a man is.
And when you read the great chivalric literature, the King Arthur stories and all that, it's really all about these guys who are just, they are on a mission.
Sometimes they are doing things for a woman who doesn't appreciate them, doesn't like them, disdains them, insults them, but they show up, and they do the thing that they're going to do because that's who they are, and that's what they're dedicated to.
And that's part of the reason we don't talk about it.
It's because it's just something you are and you do.
If it is under assault, if it is under attack, where is, and of course there are many fronts of attack, but what is the most damaging?
Where is the assault on manhood and masculinity?
Where is, to use a military term, the center of gravity?
Is it The media, is it Hollywood, is it the education system, is it the fourth, fifth wave feminism?
If you had to point a finger at, this has been the most deleterious to men in the 20th, 21st century, where would you point that finger?
Well, I think feminism is really damaging because it damages women so much.
I mean, one of the things is we are complementary.
Men and women go together.
Marriage makes one flesh.
And if women have lost what it means to be a good woman, it becomes very hard for men to find the compass of what makes a good man.
And I think that what feminism has done, besides making women absolutely miserable, is it has made male values supreme.
This is kind of contradictory, but it's exactly what they do.
They say to a woman, well, you've got to be strong.
You've got to make a living.
You've got to have a career.
You've got to care about your career.
You've got to be aggressive.
And you think like, yeah, I don't really want to know that woman.
Because women actually are a thing, and they actually give something to the world that is unique and essential.
Well, what Jordan Peterson says, it's they are agreeable.
Men aren't agreeable.
No, that's true.
Women are known for their agreeableness, and when they denude themselves of that to become men, that way lays perdition.
Right, and that means that a man now has no one to serve in some ways, no one to protect, no one to elevate, and no one to actually be a sort of companion in his life, not just as a person, but as a worldview.
And an inspiration.
And an inspiration.
I mean, when you are married to someone you love for a certain period of time, at first you think, well, she's cute, and then you think, well, I don't know what this person is talking about.
And then you start to say, oh, wait, she's kind of opened up a new way of looking at the world that's not my way, but it's our way, and it actually gives me a kind of three-dimensional view of the world.
All of that has been thrown aside by a feminism that's really gone wrong.
I mean, the idea that women are human beings with human rights, I think, is something we all agree on.
Once that was achieved, which was actually pretty quickly, The people who took over feminism, just like every one of these movements, it's the left that takes over and just basically wants to erase the definition of womanhood.
So I think that is a big deal, but that has permeated everything else you mentioned.
It's permeated the movies, it's permeated the academy.
You can't go to a movie in which a woman is rescued or defended or protected, or in which a woman is nurturing.
I got a letter just the other day from a woman who signed herself just a mom of five.
but just a mom of five.
That's an interesting use of that word.
Something that most men would like.
Send me into battle, into trench warfare, but we're having to raise five kids.
Sorry, I'll pass on that one.
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But this is for you to answer, not for a SEAL team, a family member, to give us some evidence of it.
What does it mean to be a man?
We had General Boykin on, who's written books about it, who gave us this six-part answer.
It's a pastor.
It's a leader.
It's a battle buddy.
Very systematic.
As a Delta Force founder, you would expect him to do very systematic.
What is it to a man who's written amazing heroes in your novels?
What is it to be a man?
I always think the main two things are integrity and courage.
And you really can't have one without the other.
Courage without integrity is just an amoral virtue.
You know, evil people can have courage.
But with integrity, what I mean by integrity is that you are who you say you are and you'll do what you say you will do.
Your word matters.
Your word is connected to reality.
Your appearance is connected to reality.
You're not a fake.
Your life makes sense.
You are responsible to making sense.
And the reason I use those words, too, is because, of course, you know, we love these men who go out and fight battles and defend us.
In the movies, manhood is always demonstrated through action guys, warriors, and people like that.
But, you know, if you look at, say, a play like David Mamet's Glen, Gary, Glen Ross, the biggest man in that is not the guy who boasts, is not the guy who talks about manhood.
It's the guy who quietly refuses to be corrupt.
He does it almost in the background of the play, a beautiful play.
And he does it almost in the background.
It's the guy who just stands fast.
And so many people have to do this in ways that we don't celebrate.
The father who makes a living, even though it means giving up his dreams.
The husband who sticks with a tough marriage because he knows his kids need him.
These things happen every day, all the time, and they are the essence of manhood.
And they're the thing that you don't make a movie about because it's not exciting and it doesn't have things blowing up.
But it matters.
And these guys, like the Navy SEALs, are examples of that that we can hold on to and keep in front of us as ideals.
But some of those principles can be applied, all of those principles can be applied to sometimes the smallest thing that matters tremendously.
So without courage, there are no other virtues.
You know, if you have a virtue but you back down when the water rises, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter that you have that virtue in your head.
But without integrity, you can't really tell what the virtues are.
It's just being nice.
It's what people tell you they are.
If you have integrity, then things start to make sense.
And you say, oh, well, if I believe this, then I have to do this.
And if I have to do this, you know, then I have to do it no matter what happens.
So the vector functions in both directions.
If you have courage but not integrity, you can just be evil.
You can be a brave person.
But if you have integrity, isn't there kind of an atavistic connection?
The more integrity you stand by, the more courage you will have, because integrity without courage is meaningless.
Right, because the act of making sense, the act of saying, I believe this, and therefore this, requires courage, because you can bet, you can bet one day, it's guaranteed, an iron law of life, one day that's going to cost you some money, it's going to cost you some pain, it's going to cost you a sacrifice of some kind, every single life that has integrity has paid a price for it.
That's just the way the world is, and I think that that's what makes men, men, and they They tend to keep quiet.
You're talking about giving guys who've been to war a chance to sort of talk it out, which they need, and we all need.
But sometimes in the moment of crisis, you just have to keep your mouth shut and keep walking.
And I think that that's what a man does.
The status of courage after the last two and a half years of COVID.
What's your diagnosis?
Do we have courage left?
Oh, it was embarrassing and it had a cause.
The cause was materialism, the lack of faith.
You know, when you have these guys, when Donald Trump stood up, this is one of my favorite moments because I have this kind of morbid sense of humor, but when Donald Trump got COVID and he stood up on the balcony, he took his mask off.
And the news media went nuts.
And, you know, there are two words to describe women.
The word womanly, which is what you look for in a woman.
A womanly woman will kill a... You know, the minute she walks into the room, men straighten up and they stand up.
But womanish is the opposite of that.
It's kind of like macho is for men.
It's kind of this over-emotional, you know, hysterical, fearful idea.
Well, if the press was not womanish in that moment, I've never seen it.
And they were all men.
They were all men going, no, you know, be afraid.
Trump said, don't be afraid, don't let it dominate your life.
A biblical sentence!
Be not afraid!
Jake Tapper said, no, be afraid!
And I just cracked up because I thought, no, you know, that is what they've sold us for these two years.
Andrew Cuomo, there's nothing worse than death.
You know, what's worse than death?
Of course you have to give up your dream and close your business and close your... because otherwise it's death and death is death.
Well, you know, some of us believe that, no, there are things more important.
Freedom is more important than life.
I mean, you're willing to die to stay free.
You're willing to die to protect your family.
You're willing to die to stand up for what you believe in, if it's important enough.
Once you believe that there's nothing worse than death, and death is everything, you're a coward by nature.
I mean, you have to be.
It's only logical.
And that's what they've been preaching, and of course they're preaching it.
If they steal power by creating crises, what good is a crisis if you're not afraid?
You know, so of course it all fits together.
They have to sell you cowardice because, you know, the sun is getting too hot and we're all going to burn up and, you know, so we don't want to invent anything or have any children or anything like that.
And you know, it is interesting that so much of it relates to children and new life.
I mean, it is the choice.
To be afraid, to be more afraid of death than anything else is to love death in a funny way, in a backward way.
Because every time you give birth, every time you have a child, every time you pay tribute to life by doing something exciting or adventurous or dangerous, you're defying death.
And to defy death is to live.
And once you say, I'm not going to defy death, you're already dead.
This is the moment, I mean, for me.
The people I drive by in D.C.
who are by themselves in a vehicle with three masks on, you know, I can write them off, I can lampoon them, I can laugh at them and say, at least I know who you voted for.
But it was every morning when I saw, and I still see it to a certain extent, when I saw the young couples in the playground next to my house with their two-year-old toddler who they'd masked, that's when I said, this is evil.
This is utterly evil.
This is child abuse.
Oh, it was.
It was.
And of course, you know, it's always the children who get the worst of it because, you know, they don't know, they're just taking the clues from adults.
But I think it's just, it was a nightmare of cowardice.
And I think that the idea that nobody could say, and the press won't let you say, especially if a Republican is in office, Especially if the Republican is Trump, the press won't let you say, this is going to be tragic and we're going to have to weep together and die together and all of these things, but we're going to push on.
And instead they said, hide in your home and then it'll go away.
And that of course turned out to be completely untrue.
And not only, and even if it had been true, it wouldn't have been worth it.
On a, just a sidebar kind of tag, tagged on the side there, one of the most, not enjoyable, but Refreshing aspects as a former Brit looking at the state funeral of the Queen was that I saw talking heads and radio hosts and pundits for the first time in decades talking about death, talking about mourning, I mean talking about really serious things that every society has to grapple with.
The only reason they're doing it is because the Queen died, but at least for a week People were talking about the big stuff.
Not running away from it, but actually talking about it and it was quite refreshing.
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What have been the most important influences on you in terms of understanding manhood?
We've had football coaches, grandfathers.
The guest you had on your show who came on my show, Jack Carr, from The Terminal Wrist, actually said it was the fictional figures he read about as a voracious reader as a child, the heroes from the Tom Clancy novels.
Who, for Drew Claven, was the person who said, Oh yeah, I want to be like him.
Oh, it's an easy question for me to answer, but it's so much like Jax that I'm a little embarrassed.
I consciously felt that I did not have manhood roles in my life that I really admired.
At which age did you realize that you were lacking that?
It was like as I came into teenage life.
And I started to look for them in books and in movies.
And the one who really struck me more than any other was Raymond Chandler, who wrote the Philip Marlowe books.
And the reason was this.
The reason was in the first paragraph.
In fact, I frequently have said that the first page of The Big Sleep, which is his first detective novel with Philip Marlowe,
is the reason I became a writer because what it does is it describes a man who is inwardly a knight who is carrying within him the chivalric code into a world of corruption and Chandler wrote a famous essay which you know back in the day I could quote by heart but it has is where we get the phrase mean streets he said down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean who is neither tarnished nor afraid and when I read that I thought That's who I want to be.
I'm not going to be a soldier, probably.
I'm not going to be a police officer.
But I can walk without corruption in a corrupt world.
I know I can do that.
Well, you did it.
Because you went to Hollywood.
I did.
And you weren't prepared to sully your values, correct?
You lived up to that Chandra-esque mission.
I thought that was one of my better moments.
It's one of those moments.
And the funny thing about it is, I never thought about it.
You just did it.
As a man has to.
You didn't do a cost-benefit analysis on a whiteboard.
I never said, oh, this is going to cost me what it did.
It cost me millions, literally millions of dollars.
I never thought about it.
Because you weren't prepared to dilute your values to please the woeful.
For guys like Harvey Weinstein, you know, he wanted me to sit like some, like, fat jerk who's chasing his secretary around the room and say, oh yeah, I'll write something I don't believe in.
You know, there's just the chance of that happening.
We talk about the multiverse.
There is no iteration of the multiverse.
So, no, and, you know, I think I'm an amenable guy, like a guy who will compromise with people when I can.
But you're giving enough cigars.
You know, but, yeah, exactly.
And whiskey.
You're amenable.
So, you've written everything.
I mean, you've written every genre.
Fiction and non-fiction.
But I have to ask, given the Chandler reference, is the noir your favorite?
Well, I think that everything I do has a touch of noir in it.
Yes, I would say so.
I once pitched a TV show to USA, which at the time, the USA network, which at the time had everything was very bright.
And I pitched the idea and they said, could you make that a little brighter?
And I said, no.
Could you do a bright noir?
Could you just make it a light noir?
I said, if it comes out of my computer, it's not going to be that bright.
All right.
Just read whatever book you find with his name on it.
If you're into fantasy, you'll find something.
If you're into noir, you'll find something.
If you're into, you know, the best, literally, I'm not kidding, guys.
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Greatest play ever written, Hamlet, by the greatest author to exist.
And yes, he's a dead white guy.
Sorry.
Um, not sorry.
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We are in a generation challenged in terms of truth, not understanding what beauty is or where it is sourced from.
What is the most important?
Give me a few of the most important things that we have to teach the next generation of men.
What do young boys, what do teenage men have to know that is non-negotiable, Andrew?
Yeah, that's a really good question.
I think one thing is the sanctity of the internal world, the sanctity of your own values, that the world is not always a good place.
In fact, the world is a corrupting place.
It puts values in front of you and tells you things are good that are simply worthless.
I mean, so much of what television and movies and News media and the academy promote is worthless.
You know, I mean, I don't just mean fame and money and things like that.
You know, it's not that you can't enjoy those things, but if you live your life for those things, they will eat you alive.
And this has always bothered me about the Republican Party, is this idea that capitalism is going to solve everything.
No, you know, you've got to start with the values.
If you have the values and you happen to get lucky and start a business and it works, you'll be fine.
Capitalism, this is Michael Novak, the late great theologian.
Capitalism without a moral compass is not capitalism.
It's fentanyl selling, you know, prostitution.
But then the other thing is...
Let me just summarize it.
The first one is not to measure yourself by the exterior world.
Yes, because that is a basic thing.
And the other thing is the value of home.
And I'm trying to find the right word.
Maybe continence is the word.
I'm not going to say chastity.
It's an old-fashioned word.
But, you know, there's a wonderful In the old days, I've had this argument with a couple of people because they started to talk about alpha males.
Alpha males are getting all the sex.
Alpha males are getting... And I think that's not an alpha male.
The guy who's controlled by his libido is not an alpha male.
He's a slave.
And he will ultimately become a slave to other people.
But when you go back and watch the old movies, watch Spartacus, where they throw a woman into his cage, and he says, I'm not an animal.
And she says, neither am I. And that's how their love affair begins.
If you watch old Clint Eastwood movies, the girls are throwing themselves at him.
It was a great example in a Quentin Tarantino movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, where this girl offers him sex, and he says, how old are you?
And so you have this guy, Jeffrey Epstein, who offered young and underage girls, the most powerful people in the world, and they lined up.
They were just flying in his plane and going to his island and doing all the things we know they were doing, even though they'll never get convicted.
Those people are slaves, and they're lowlifes, you know?
But both of them are slaves.
Yes.
The woman and the man.
Yes, the woman has been enslaved, but the man is enslaved in itself.
But the man is enslaved to his libido.
And I think that the man... What it means to have a libido, and especially to have a male libido, which, having experienced it as a young person, I know, it's like a rocket, you know, you're traveling with this very powerful thing that women have no clue, they have no... When women talk about it, they do not know what they're talking about.
And so you have to have very strong values and very clear idea of why you control yourself, of why you treat people in a certain way, why you treat women in a certain way.
Well, you do it because you are something more than your body.
You do it because your body is a representation of what you are.
It is not who you are.
But can you do any of that?
So I want to put up my favorite book, The Great Good Thing, which is Andrew's Autobiography.
I hate autobiographies.
I hate biographies.
I've only read three of them that mean anything to me.
Andrew Breitbart, Andrew Clavens, and then J.D.
Vance's.
The great good thing is your incredible journey from Judaism or from a secular Jewish home to Christianity and your conversion.
These things you're talking about that are quintessential to manhood, they can't be achieved or they can't have a wellspring of source.
Without faith and belief in the soul and an afterlife in God, can they?
No.
Well, I think that is what underpins them.
That's right.
Yes, that's the basis.
Yes, and all these people, and some of them are people I love and some of them are people I admire, who are talking now about Christian atheism.
We want the values, but not the God.
You know, it's like a Jenga tower without the bottom.
It's like, you know, it's being half pregnant.
It simply will not work.
And yet, you know, I understand that you can't believe if you don't believe.
You have to take that journey to faith.
You have to look for what it is and why the smartest people in the world have followed it.
The second smartest people in the world maybe don't, but the smartest people always do.
In every generation, the smartest people are the people of faith.
The wisest people turn out to be the people of faith.
That's really important.
Let's stay on that.
The smartest people in any generation We're not the atheists.
That's interesting.
And this is the thing they try to sell you, that if you're really sharp, if you're sophisticated, if you're really a man of your time, you don't believe.
Well, I agree.
If you're sophisticated and a man of your time, but if you're wise and if you actually have that sharp intelligence enough to dissect what people are telling you, you will come to faith.
For me, it's the flip.
It's the opposite.
For me, if you think everything around you is happenstance and accident, you're really stupid.
If you look at a strawberry or you look at a flower or you look at your wife's eyes and you think this is a function of something that crept out of sludge, you really have to be quite stupid.
Richard Dawkins isn't smart as far as I'm concerned.
Sam Harris, I'm sorry, not that smart.
Chomsky, he may be good on linguistics, but if you think this, it's worse than believing the laptop you found on the shore just happened to assemble itself.
You really have to be quite stupid, Drew.
What you are, I believe, is you're a slave to a narrative.
You're a slave.
It is so hard to break out of the intellectual current of your time, and that's why I say the smartest people and the wisest people are the people who break out of that current, because it will sweep you away.
- Who never were part of it. - Who just don't join, yeah.
But the default position right now is it's all an accident, it all comes out of nowhere, and so it's just very hard to stop and think like, well, wait a minute, really?
And that's one of the reasons why sometimes the smartest people and the stupidest people or the simplest people, let's say, agree.
And that's why when Jesus says, you have to become like a little child again, You have to give away the pride of your intelligence, you know.
Intelligence is a beautiful thing, but the pride of intelligence is what makes people fall in love with taking things apart because they're good at it.
Very smart people are good at analyzing things, and the word analyze literally means to take apart.
But you know, you can take a car apart, but you can't drive it once you've done that.
And so driving the car is something a simple person can do and a very wise person can do.
There is great import, significance, and weight to that passage of the New Testament.
Why did God tell us to be like children?
I mean, you really have to sit and think about what that means.
And it has to do with hubris, arrogance, and love of self and human reason.
And that's why Jesus said what he said.
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Two last questions for you, Drew.
Firstly, the book.
Why should people read the book, A Strange Habit of Mine?
What's it about?
It has nothing to do with current affairs, correct?
No, absolutely.
Not a thing.
The hero here comes up against a social media billionaire.
What?
Do we have those?
No.
It's a fantasy.
And he has a tendency to cancel people, and the people he cancels tend to stay canceled forever.
Is that a thing?
Not like presidents or... No.
No, no, no.
No, nothing like that.
But it actually, you know, I cannot tell you how much I believe in the arts and how much the arts have failed and how much we have failed to be part of the arts.
I mean, we talk about the culture, and I believe the culture is motherhood, the culture is things we do every day.
But it also is the arts, and the arts cannot just be shoot-'em-up things and, you know, explosions and superheroes.
I think sometimes the arts have to delve deep into the world, and I've used the mystery genre more than any other, to really explore the world as it is.
If you don't find this book entertaining, I won't give you your money back, but I'll pretend to give you your money back.
You will really like this book, I promise. - He'll let you watch his shows on YouTube without paying, which you don't have to.
- Exactly, exactly. - But the book is a strange habit of mine.
It is fresh.
Get it right now.
Last question is back to the formal questions of the Manhood Hour.
I ask everybody, are you optimistic or pessimistic with regards to the recovery of manhood, the revivification in our civilization?
I'm concerned, but I'll tell you what makes me optimistic.
What makes me optimistic is I've started to hear women who are just... young women are miserable.
They're just miserable.
I mean, you only have to ask them, and they're just miserable in the world that feminism has created.
And you keep hearing these news stories that say, in spite of feminism, women are miserable.
Not in spite of, it's because of.
And so suddenly I'm hearing women start to say, you know, the sexual revolution has not been good for us.
Not being mothers has not been good for us.
Working all the time is not good for us.
I think that men in some ways are waiting for that call to be a father, to be a husband, to have someone to care for and protect and defend.
And I think that that is the mission of a man's life in a lot of ways.
And I think that when that call comes, when people start to say, you know what?
I love my work.
And God knows I love my work.
I know you love your work.
But that's not why I'm here.
I'm here for the things that I do for the people I love and the people around me.
And I think when that adjustment is made, there's going to be a choice that people make.
And I'm really hopeful that the people that we love are going to make the right choice.
Mechanical question, does that turn not necessitate somebody who's a woman leading the charge against feminism, or can men solve the problem feminism, women created who are feminists?
I think, you know, when feminism first started, I ignored it.
I mean, my wife always laughs at me.
She says, you lived for decades without knowing that feminism was happening.
I just didn't pay any attention to it.
But, when it started to hurt women, it actually became my responsibility.
Because it was never going to hurt me.
I didn't care.
It's the chivalric response.
Women screamed at me for opening doors and I was like, you know, I am going to live my life as I see fit.
But when I saw that women were miserable, then it became kind of my responsibility.
So men do have to speak up.
They have to speak up about abortion.
They have to speak up about all the things we're not supposed to speak up about, because the time has come when we have to build a wall.
We have to stand and fight for this civilization we built, you know?
Yeah, we did build it.
Sorry, ladies.
That was superb.
Went by far too fast.
The Manhood Hour.
He's Andrew Clavin.
The book is A Strange Habit of Mine.
It is Friday, of course, and as ever, He's an awful male.
Let's close with my former boss, the 45th, and let's hope 47th, President of the United States.
We will not bend.
We will not break.
We will not yield.
We will never give in.
We will never give up.
We will never back down.
We will never, ever surrender.
My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over.