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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: Is Musk really leaving Twitter?

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	Thank you.
	You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders.
	I don't think I've ever heard President Biden say, we have an open border, come on over.
	But people I have heard say it are you, are former President Trump, are Ron DeSantis.
	That message reverberates.
	In Mexico and beyond.
	So they do get the message that it is an open quarter and smugglers use all those kinds of statements.
	Oh, thank you, Martha.
	Oh, what would I do without Martha Raddatz and ABC to explain?
	It's not Biden that opened the border.
	It's not Alejandro Mayorkas.
	It's not the border czarina Kamala Harris.
	It's us.
	I mean, it's Greg Abbott.
	It's President Trump.
	I mean, the guy who won the election based upon the concept of building the wall and then actually started building it.
	It's us.
	We're the reason that you let two million people into the nation illegally and gave them cell phones and asked them where they want to go.
	It's because of talk show hosts.
	It's because of Tucker Carlson.
	Because, of course, we want there to be no borders, right?
	That's what conservatives want.
	We don't want sovereignty.
	Welcome, dear friends.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First, and that is gas lighting.
	Let's talk about the border.
	Here's a little bit of TMI.
	What does Dan Bongino call them?
	The TMI moments.
	I wasn't going to share this with you because, hey, it's about me, it's about my problems, and what do you care?
	But it kind of goes to this gaslighting.
	I've been in a peculiar position since I left the White House.
	A few months after I left the White House, I had to go on an international trip.
	And since I served in the Defense Department for five and a half years as a Professor of Irregular Warfare, actually Associate Dean of the National Defense University at Fort McNair, then with a top secret SCI clearance at the White House, you know, Things are a little bit easier in life.
	For example, when I buy a gun in the state of Virginia, and the state has to do that background check and set it to the NIC system, I don't have to wait a couple of hours to get approved.
	My name, which is a pretty unusual one, not a lot of Sebastian Gorkas in the database, instantly gets recognized and the state says, yes, you may buy that handgun, Sebastian.
	But strangely, when it comes to entering America through one of our ports of entry, and the Feds get involved, something strange has been going on for the last five years.
	Let me share with you.
	Every time I come back in the country, I show my passport.
	And the officer at customs, when I land, wherever it is, JFK or last, what was it, two weeks ago it was in Newark, when I arrived back from Israel, I actually told the nice black officer, I said, dude, get ready for a secondary because I always get put in secondary.
	And he said, oh, let's check today.
	Maybe you'll be fine.
	Sure enough, Sebastian Gorka, that incredibly common name, many terrorists and foreign spies running around the world with the name Sebastian Gorka, I was put in secondary.
	Which means my wife and I have to leave the line and go into a separate secure facility and wait until another officer from the Department of Homeland Security calls me to the front And punches my details, my date of birth, my social security number through the system.
	And the funny thing is...
	Nine out of ten times, they recognize me and they say, Hi, Dr. G. Why are you here?
	And I say, I don't know why I'm here.
	It's really stupid.
	Could you, like, fix it so I don't have to waste an extra half an hour and an hour every time I come back into the nation that I chose to become a citizen of, that I served in government, taking the oath of office more than once, of which I still have a top secret SCI clearance, which is weird.
	If I were a terrorist, If I were a foreign spy, why would I still have that clearance?
	And of course, the officer laughed again and said, sorry, here you go, on your way.
	And my wife, who's a logical woman, who has far better control over her emotions than I do, said, why don't you fix this?
	Well, she was former press spokesman, press secretary for the Customs and Border Protection Agency in the Trump administration.
	So I said, okay.
	And I requested a little form, a little piece of paper from the CVP officer, which is called the official redress document.
	If you're getting abused and delayed, you can request for them to look into your case and to clean it up.
	A naive little person that I am, all six foot three of me, filled out a redress form three weeks ago after I got back from Israel.
	And today I received the response from the Department of Homeland Security, signed by Tanya Vasquez, Director, DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program.
	Let me read it to you, because it's rather funny.
	Dear Sebastian Gorka, redress control number 4019140.
	Thank you for submitting your traveler inquiry form and identity documentation to the Department of Homeland Security Traveler Redress Inquiry Program.
	DHS's mission is to lead the unified national effort to secure the country, including U.S.
	border and transportation security.
	Thank you, I didn't know that.
	I thought you just handed out cookies.
	We take requests for redress seriously and we understand the inconvenience that additional inspections may cause.
	Do you really?
	Have you ever been put in secondary every stinking time you come home to the land you chose to be a citizen of?
	DHS strives to process travellers in the most efficient and professional manner possible.
	When DHS TRIP receives a redress inquiry, we conduct a thorough review of the matter.
	We consult and share information with other agencies.
	Bravo, bravo.
	When appropriate, to relieve you from the burden of seeking redress on an agency-by-agency basis.
	We have found that only 2% of the DHS TRIP complaints actually have some connection with the terrorist watch list.
	Oh, so what?
	You have a failure rate of 98%?
	Well, that makes me feel much better.
	DHS TRIP.
	Here's the response.
	Here's the boilerplate DC swamp response.
	DHS TRIP has researched and completed our review of your case.
	DHS trip can neither confirm nor deny any information about you which may be within federal watch lists or reveal any law enforcement sensitive information.
	However, we have made any corrections to records that our inquiries determined were necessary, including, as appropriate, notations that may assist in avoiding incidents of misidentification.
	Yes, because of my incredibly common name, Sebastian Gorka.
	So, basically, they did nothing.
	Well, we'll see what happens the next time I travel abroad.
	Now, why do I... What the heck do you care about this?
	One reason, one reason alone.
	I'm an American citizen.
	I swore in a naturalization ceremony to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
	I did it two more times as a DoD civilian and then as assistant to the president.
	I'm the one who goes through secondary twice.
	Every single time I come back to America.
	But in the meantime, 2 million illegals who aren't citizens that we know of have crossed this border in the last 12 months.
	Makes you think, doesn't it?
	American citizens abused, illegals were welcomed and given a cell phone and asked where do they want to live.
	Now do you understand?
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
	We've only just begun.
	This is America First.
	Is Elon really stepping down?
	What did the January 6th Witch Hunt Committee just do 30 minutes ago?
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	Mic check.
	Yep.
	Alrighty.
	Uh, titles!
	Mic's up.
	Yep. Alrighty.
	Titles.
	Um...
	Three and a half minutes.
	Yes.
	For Lee... Yep.
	Bill Barr disappointed a nation.
	Yeah, Bill Barr disappointed us all.
	And the mono.
	The U.S.
	citizens bad?
	Semi-colon.
	Illegal aliens.
	Good.
	Is he Skype or phone?
	Oh, Skype.
	Want the mics on?
	I'm gonna use the Elon Musk cut again, cut two.
	Mic's on.
	Mic's on, and he's on the line.
	Hey, buddy!
	Hey, how are you?
	Good, good, good, good.
	Ready for Christmas?
	I am mentally prepared.
	Oh, we lost you.
	Freezing.
	Two and a half minutes.
	Dialing back.
	All right.
	Two minutes.
	Two minutes.
	Okay.
	Can we call him?
	He's not answering.
	Yeah, might have to do phone.
	Hello?
	Alright, we've got him on Skype again.
	Alright, he froze up there.
	Yeah, I don't know what happened.
	Sorry about that.
	Okay, that's better.
	Good.
	So you said you're psychologically ready?
	I'm psychologically ready, but not a present has been purchased.
	Oh my gosh!
	Somebody as bad as me!
	Thank you.
	I'll age myself for you.
	There was an episode of Family Ties in the 80s where Alex didn't go shopping until late Christmas Eve.
	The only thing open was a convenience store, so he was getting people like the TV Guide, a Coke, you know, some NyQuil.
	That's me.
	That's too funny.
	Standby.
	Yep.
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	Is he stepping down as CEO?
	Let's remember, this is the guy who had the following to say about the First Amendment.
	And a good sign as to whether there's free speech is, is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? - Thank you.
	And if that is the case, then we have free speech.
	And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like.
	That is a sign of a healthy, functioning free speech situation.
	He put up a poll.
	Do we have the image of the poll?
	Saying, I will step down as CEO.
	The results of this poll are binding.
	And the Twitterati, the blue check markers, got out in force.
	57% said, yep, you gotta go.
	Does he have to go?
	Is it going to be the worst for us?
	Let's ask a man who is intimately familiar with the world of big tech.
	And he loves the First Amendment because he's got one of the best sites out there.
	It's AmericanGreatness and Greatness.com.
	Chris Buskirk, Merry Christmas!
	Merry Christmas to you.
	Merry Christmas to you.
	Good to see you.
	So I've been trying to figure this thing out.
	I've been asking my team, my whole family this morning, why did Elon even post this poll?
	Is he doing, they love to say this about my former boss, he's doing like six-dimensional Vulcan chess.
	What's Chris Buskirk's take?
	Well, I think, first of all, the question I think people are still asking themselves is, will he abide by that poll?
	And it says it right in there.
	In the poll itself, or in the post itself, it says, I will abide by these results.
	So I take that at face value.
	I think, remember, I mean, Elon bought this company.
	He took it over.
	He's been running it.
	He's been in San Francisco running it quite a bit.
	He cut the bloat.
	It's really interesting.
	He cut the bloat, meaning the overhead, the staff of Twitter by close to 90%, which tells you a lot about how much excess weight these big tech companies are carrying on their books.
	But I think he will step down.
	I think what he's trying to do here is make space for somebody else.
	To come in and take over, give them a popular mandate to do so.
	And let's remember, he's also running SpaceX and Tesla at the same time.
	And if he goes to become, let's say, the non-executive chairman of Twitter, but has somebody that he trusts in the driver's seat, probably a net-net good.
	Any recommendations?
	You know, the likes of Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, who would you like to see in that chair?
	I tweeted yesterday, I have Blake Masters for CEO of Twitter.
	I think he'd be very good as somebody who can execute, somebody who He's highly accomplished, somebody who understands the tech world and somebody who is very much committed to free speech.
	He would be a wonderful choice.
	Alright, what is your reaction to what we've seen just moments ago, like an hour ago, we had Twitter files drop number seven.
	I was on a call with Elon at the beginning saying this isn't really a smoking gun, the idea that the DNC is colluding with Palo Alto.
	Well, they're all, you know, they're all Democrats.
	Are you satisfied with what we're seeing?
	And he says it's almost at the end.
	Wouldn't you like to see a little bit more?
	I'd like to see everything that's out there.
	I mean, whatever they've got, you know, Elon has said a couple times that whatever they've got, they will release.
	And I don't know if this is everything they've got, if they're close to the end of it or whatever, but I think just like he should abide by the results of the poll, he said he would, he should, you know, continue doing what he said he would, which is to release all of these internal documents, the emails, the files, whatever.
	I don't think any of us can be confident that there weren't mass deletions in the days prior to Elon taking over, maybe even in the week or two after him taking over, but those things can be recovered and they should do everything they can to try and make sure that they, first of all, know everything that was in an unredacted version of the Twitter files and then make all those things public as quickly as possible.
	That though, I have to say, that is the predicate To what actually needs to have happened.
	Sunlight is the best disinfectant, etc.
	But this has to be the releasing of these files and the understanding of what was going on.
	That has to be the predicate to some further action.
	Some of it probably corporate action, maybe there's civil action to be taken, and there's probably political action that needs to be taken there as well.
	We're talking to Chris Buskirk, the Chris Buskirk on Twitter.
	The webpage, you've got to bookmark it right now, is amgreatness, amgreatness.com.
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	You have a very provocative piece up on your page today saying, it's got to be DeSantis, which is weird because we've got, you know, two years in the primary process.
	Where do you stand on President Trump, the primary process, and NFTs versus videos on the First Amendment?
	Gosh, that's a lot.
	So where do I stand?
	So the primary process, it's no secret that I am an admirer of the former president and would like to see him in office once again.
	Having said all of that, we have elections in this country, and we should have a primary, and anybody who wants to run, they're allowed to run.
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	We wanted him to be elected and reelected.
	We really, really want to see the America First agenda carried forward both in 2024, but also in 2028 and 2032, etc.
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	You know, arm in arm, so that we can win elections.
	Talking about winning elections, we've only got a few seconds left.
	Is the story on Arizona finished, or is there more to come?
	The story on Arizona for the 2022 election, it's finished.
	There may be something around the Attorney General's race there, but I think even that's probably an outlier.
	That's one we lost by about 500 votes, but on the big top of ticket races, like the Governor's race, that's over.
	Figure out what we have to do in order to be better at getting Republican ballots into the ballot box.
	Yes.
	We have to out-organize the left.
	They have a machine.
	We don't have a machine.
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	Merry Christmas my friend.
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	The End Okay.
	Mic's up.
	Mic's on.
	Um, Friday is Rob Schmidt, right?
	Yeah.
	Alright, so I can't go on... Bowling?
	Bowling, right?
	Eric, you saw that.
	Oh, okay, I'll let them know.
	Oh my gosh, we didn't mention the book!
	He had a new book out.
	A new book?
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	I didn't even hear that.
	Okay, yeah, I'll text Bullings people and let them know.
	Okay.
	Oh, I'll disconnect that.
	Title for Mr. Buskirk.
	Arizona is finished.
	It's not appearing on Rob Schmidt, Eric.
	I'm hosting it.
	Oh, right.
	Okay, sorry. sorry.
	Jeff, his book is out.
	Chris's book is out next month.
	He said he'd come on for an hour.
	Okay.
	We have a PhD here.
	Yes. 90 seconds.
	90 seconds.
	90 seconds.
	40. 40.
	40.
	Thank you.
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	Magnificent.
	Well, they've done it.
	The January 6th witch hunt is forwarding criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, to Biden's Department of Justice, to charge President Trump.
	The charges they've recommended include conspiracy to defraud the United States.
	That's weird from a guy who actually didn't take any pay for four years and gave his money back to the taxpayer.
	Obstruction of an official proceedings.
	Oh, let's get that audio.
	Let's get that video, Jeff, of the Peaceful.
	March peacefully and patriotically.
	Let's remind people.
	We'll play that in case the January 6th committee missed it.
	Plus, conspiracy to make a false statement.
	Right, because Adam Schiff, he's never done that right.
	And inciting, assisting, or aiding and comforting an insurrection.
	Wow.
	They went there.
	They wet now.
	That's the latest reporting from our buddy Joel Pollock at Breitbart.
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	We started talking about the border.
	The former mayor of Atlanta, who's now a Biden official, Keisha Lance Bottoms, she's explained for us why Biden's He's too busy to go to the border like President Trump did however many times.
	Here she is explaining why it's just too much of a hassle.
	Cut 7.
	Why doesn't he go to the border?
	He was just in Arizona.
	Why wasn't it worth his time?
	Well, you have to remember, Margaret, when the president travels, it's not like you or I jumping on an airplane and getting off and going to our destination.
	Everything comes to a halt.
	So all of these things are in consideration for the president.
	Is that the best use of resources?
	All of the resources that will be diverted on the ground when the president makes a visit.
	All right, so with that logic, help me out here, Eric.
	If it's a real headache when the president travels anywhere, then he shouldn't go anywhere, right?
	He shouldn't go to Delaware, Philadelphia, right?
	Right?
	Especially in the case of Delaware.
	I mean, he can give himself a literal headache by falling off his bicycle.
	No, was that Delaware or was that Nantucket?
	It doesn't matter but he shouldn't go anywhere because it creates such a headache.
	These people really think you are that stupid.
	Thank you Eric.
	Still have to discuss the World Cup.
	Anybody in our team actually watched it?
	Hands up please on camera and watch it.
	Did anybody watch the finals on a Sunday morning?
	Okay, Alex.
	Okay, at least I got two people who show a modicum of interest in world events.
	We'll discuss that later.
	Let's go to Jason in Kentucky.
	Line two.
	Merry Christmas, Jason.
	Merry Christmas.
	How are you today?
	Good.
	I would like to know why you keep referring to January 6th as a witch hunt.
	I do, because putting people in prison for two years in solitary without an arraignment is a witch hunt.
	That's why.
	Did they not break the law?
	Doesn't matter, you're allowed swift access to justice in America.
	Don't you understand the Constitution, Jason?
	Do you think we live in Venezuela?
	So now the right is for bail reform?
	Bail reform?
	It's nothing to do with bail, you cretin.
	It's called getting an arraignment.
	Why do people who try to shoot cops in New York get let out without paying bail in 24 hours, but if you put your feet on Nancy's desk, you're in prison for 18 months?
	Answer me that, you imbecile.
	Oh!
	Cat got your tongue!
	Is that too difficult, Jason?
	You cretin.
	Goodbye.
	Mark!
	Stockton, California.
	Hey!
	Hello, Sebastian.
	Hey!
	Um, Dr. Gorka, excuse me, I... No, that's fine.
	Carry on.
	Uh, you know, I think, uh, Eldon, uh, must steppin' aside is, uh, Elon must steppin' aside is this George Washington moment.
	You remember when King George... Yes!
	Nice parallel.
	I like that.
	When they wanted to make, uh, a General Washington King, he said, no, no, no.
	And he said, uh, oh, when they said you can stay for as long as you like, he said, I'm gonna get back to my farm.
	Right, Mark?
	Yep.
	In fact, he said, I didn't beat George III to become George I. And, you know, Ellen's job is done now.
	He's straightened it up.
	He can put it in some good hands.
	Maybe Ben Shapiro or Hugh Hewitt or something like that.
	Who was the second person you said?
	Hugh Hewitt.
	Both of them, I think, have the intellectual honesty to run that business fairly.
	Yeah, but neither of them are businessmen.
	Why are you choosing two people who've never run a business?
	That's a bit weird.
	This is a multi-billion dollar business.
	Yes, but Mr. Musk doesn't sign checks.
	He has the discretion to hire people.
	And Mr. Hewitt headed up an agency with 6,000 employees.
	Which agency?
	Which agency?
	You know, I forget what he said.
	Jeff, which agency of thousands of people did Hugh Hewitt run?
	I'm not sure.
	He was a governmental agency.
	All right, we'll look into that.
	I'm not sure I agree with those recommendations.
	But thank you, Mark.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	That's you, Hewitt.
	Are you kidding me, Geoff?
	He didn't say that, obviously.
	That great business, man.
	Hugh Hewitt.
	All right, thank you.
	Oof.
	Two and a half minutes.
	Thank you.
	Did Lindsey Graham ever respond to you?
	Uh, let's have a look.
	Let's have a look.
	We have Superspreader here.
	Ah, yes.
	Let's see, what?
	Hugh Hewitt and Ben Shapiro.
	Yeah, those famous businessmen.
	Uhh, Lindsey Graham.
	No, she didn't.
	You can kill the mics, Alex.
	We have to go.
	We have to go.
	We have to go.
	We have to go.
	We have to go.
	We have to go.
	Marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
	That's weird, they just want to charge President Trump with insurrection on the day, that's what he said, march peacefully and patriotically.
	It's going to be hard to make that one stick, but they'll try.
	I didn't even mention, I wasn't watching my phone during the interview with Chris Buskirk, he mentioned he's got a new book coming out.
	America and the Art of the Possible, Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay.
	Ooh, that sounds good.
	That's right up our alley here.
	Jeff, let's get him back for a whole hour to discuss the book when it drops next month.
	I think you can probably pre-order it right now.
	America and the art of the possible restoring national vitality in an age of decay.
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	We love to have guests here who help us explain the big problems of the day and navigate the shoals, especially of the Biden economy.
	One of our most trusted is the president of Cornerstone Real Estate, and he's back with us to help us understand what to do next.
	John Harvey, welcome back to America First.
	Thank you, Dr. Gorka, and thanks for having me on.
	I hope you're enjoying your holiday.
	So far, so good.
	And I wish you and the team at your amazing organization a very, very Merry Christmas.
	So I know you're working hard on a new book.
	It's called Alternative Real Estate Investing.
	And it has to do with something very technical, which is money supply.
	And of course, that's something that was drastically affected by COVID-19.
	Will you talk to us about money supply, what it is, what it means, and how it should affect all of our listeners' thoughts on investment?
	Yes.
	You know, of course, inflation, the textbook reason you have inflation is because you bring too much money.
	You have too much money in circulation.
	And the money supply, Dr. Gorka, grew by 14% in 2020.
	To get something equivalent, you have to go all the way back to 1974 to find an equivalent increase in the money supply.
	And back then, it was only 13%.
	And the Fed balance sheet basically was just going along at about $4 trillion.
	And in 2020, it jumped up to $9 trillion.
	And for 2022-23, it's trending towards $15 trillion.
	Now, what does that mean?
	We can do the math, we can see the increases, but what does that mean for the average person who wants to have a safe future or a little bit more secure retirement, John?
	Well, you know, the basic thing is you've got to look back and see, you've got to learn from history.
	You know, back in the 1970s, what we saw was the Dow Having a continual downward trend all the way until 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected, and it didn't get back to its pre-inflationary level until 1995.
	That's like 15 year gap.
	You know, if you're young, you got all the time in the world, you can let the markets rebound.
	But if you have a shorter time horizon, what we're advocating is to look at your stock portfolio And reallocate maybe about 20 or 30 percent of your portfolio into what we call alternative investments, and that includes what we do.
	These Delaware Statutory Trusts are institutional-grade real estate.
	They're tax-advantaged, they're cash-flowing, and they're non-correlated with the market.
	And you know, Dr. Gorka, you know, a lot of the big pension funds, the sovereign funds, they're already doing this.
	They're already allocating 20 or 30 percent of their portfolio to alternatives.
	Even the Yale Investment Fund is doing 50% to alternatives.
	Now you used a very technical phrase there, tax advantaged, which I don't think truly reflects the unique, unique facets of this Delaware Statutory Trust option.
	Explain what it means, tax advantaged, when you choose this option.
	Absolutely.
	So if you sell a real estate, a piece of real estate, Let me be explicit here because this is so huge.
	what we call a 1031 exchange.
	That's a like-kind exchange based on section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code.
	And you can defer 100% of your capital gain tax and bring 100% of the sale proceeds from the old property into the new property.
	And likewise...
	So let me be explicit here because this is so huge.
	If you are investing in one of these options, you don't have to pay tax when you're doing that investment.
	It's deferred.
	Exactly.
	It's deferred both on the front end and on the back end, the capital gain.
	And during the hold period, the cash flow, we can shelter up 100% of that based on depreciation and bonus depreciation tax deduction.
	And I would say also, Dr. Gorka, if someone's doing a direct investment or reallocating from the stock market, If we have a strategy using the opportunity zones, we can also defer the capital gains tax on stocks and bonds.
	Now, if the recovery time from the 1970s was 15 years, given the incremental increase in printing of money right now, the recovery of the market could take even longer in this instance, couldn't it?
	Absolutely, it could.
	And you know, the Fed has never been this far behind inflation.
	They're currently 7% behind inflation as far as the Fed rate versus the Consumer Price Index, the CPI.
	That's why they've got to continue raising rates.
	Even they're softening a little bit from 75 to 50 basis points, but they've got to continue raising rates because they are so far behind.
	And the length of recovery is going to be even longer, just as you mentioned, even probably longer than the 1970s.
	And so, you know, we're really looking for investors to reallocate.
	And to get into these institutional quality properties that are cash flowing, just like the big pension funds are.
	It's always a day late and a dollar short.
	That's the Fed of late.
	In the meantime, prepare yourselves.
	We're waiting eagerly for the new book, Alternative Real Estate Investing, but right now you can get the current one that helps you understand everything to do with the 1031s, with the Delaware Strategy Trust that is tax-deferred.
	It's called Modern Real Estate Investing.
	You can get it anywhere books are sold.
	But if you go to dstrealestate.com and mention my name, they'll send it to you for free.
	That's dstrealestate.com.
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	Second.
	Mic's up.
	Expression 2.
	There it is.
	Right.
	Mm-hmm.
	Right.
	Did I even give a reason why?
	Or they just, like, said, yeah, he's done.
	Blasphemous public statements, but they didn't say what?
	Blasphemous?
	Yeah, that's pretty extreme.
	All right, let's do... Oh, how much time we got?
	Oh, no.
	One minute.
	All right.
	Heading into the E segment.
	40.
	Coming with cup 5.
	Coming with cup 5.
	Coming with cut five.
	No liner. No liner.
	No liner.
	He gave the money to EcoHealth.
	EcoHealth wasn't properly vetted, didn't comply with their grant requirements, wasn't reporting like they were supposed to.
	They then sent the money, EcoHealth, then sent the money to a lab in China that wasn't up to code and was doing gain-of-function research.
	And what happens?
	We get a deadly virus that comes from the very city in China where that lab is at.
	Yes.
	But Dr. Fauci says, no, no, no, no.
	It didn't come from a lab.
	It was a bat to a pangolin to a hippopotamus to Joe Rogan.
	And then millions of people get this virus.
	I mean, nobody believes that, but Fauci still insists that's what happened.
	Did Jim Jordan just blame Joe Rogan for COVID-19?
	I think he did.
	No, the serious issue there is the money that went through EcoHealth from the U.S.
	government over Fauci's signature and then to the only Level 4 bioweapons lab in Communist China.
	That's something that should be investigated after January.
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	Next, The Vatican just stripped him of his clerical duties.
	He is allegedly no longer a priest, but he's still saying Mass because he's made of tougher stuff.
	He's a good friend of the show.
	He's the National Director of Priests for Life.
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	A warrior for the most vulnerable, for the unborn, a voice for the unborn.
	Father Frank Pavone this weekend was stripped by the Vatican of his clerical role.
	What really happened?
	They accused him of blasphemy.
	It's not possible!
	We'll find out.
	We'll talk to Father Pavone in the second hour of America First, as well as the New York Times going full Nazi.
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	The End
	The End
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	We're connected.
	Oh, okay.
	He is.
	He's on Skype.
	Two and a half minutes.
	People are so stupid.
	So here's one response to my tweet.
	Oh, what garbage.
	Oh, I forget.
	You know as well.
	Are you not a former CIA SEB Gorka?
	Do you or have you seen the classified info?
	And then he ends it.
	This is where you get the real deep analysis.
	Be honest and stop the BS.
	Does the vax work?
	Because right, the killing of Kennedy is about vaccines, right?
	Oh, man.
	Why do you think all those documents are still sealed up, though?
	Not to suggest anything, but like, a million reasons for embarrassing things to do with the CIA.
	Like security failures?
	Yeah, I mean, how does a Marine, you know, end up as a defector in the Soviet Union and then come back here?
	Uh-huh.
	Right?
	I mean, there's millions of reasons for institutional embarrassment.
	Like they should have seen the red flags, basically?
	Yeah!
	That's a good point.
	And also security failures like the Secret Service that day.
	Yeah, of course.
	Father Pavone!
	Seb, how are you?
	Good, good, good.
	Are you going to give us the true story behind all the calumny that has been launched against you?
	Yes, I will.
	I'll do my best.
	All right, good.
	Stand by.
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	You're not using the video of the kids?
	No.
	Oh, okay, yep.
	Yep, alright, so we'll have the B-roll ready.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	And mics off.
	Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
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	Somebody who has fought relentlessly for children, for the most vulnerable of all, for the unborn in the womb, is the National Director of Priests for Life.
	He is a regular friend of this show and as of this weekend we saw some shocking headlines.
	Let's show the one from Breitbart.com.
	Apparently, which is so strange because it came out of left field, the Vatican has defrocked our friend Father Frank Pavone for, quote, blasphemous communications, which I find very hard, if not impossible, to believe.
	So we called him up and we're delighted to have him back on America First.
	Blessed, blessed seasonal greetings to you, Father Frank.
	The same to you, Seb, and to our audience.
	Thanks for having me.
	Now, first things first, you'll give us your side of the whole story, but as a cradle Catholic, as a mackerel snapper myself, over the years I've watched people get in trouble with the Vatican.
	Almost always it's a push and pull for months, if not years.
	There's investigations.
	Nothing is declared a fait accompli unless a long tribunal of sorts or investigation has been gone through.
	And then I wake up on Sunday and I see he's gone, he's out of here.
	I thought that's not how the Catholic Church does things.
	Am I wrong, Father Pavone?
	Well, we have been through a 20-year battle, actually, against some bishops in the church that don't like what we do.
	But the so-called process that they refer to has been a complete sham, kangaroo court, totally unfair, biased.
	It's been a one-sided narrative.
	They haven't listened.
	There's been no two-way street.
	It's been absolutely a sham.
	And people are outraged by what has just happened.
	And you notice how specific they are, right?
	Blasphemous communications.
	Like, what blasphemous communications?
	Whatever I've looked at, whatever official reporting, I cannot find the example of what you said that was blasphemous.
	Now, I know your history.
	You're on the show because you're outspoken for the unborn.
	You fight for the most vulnerable.
	You've been outspoken in your support.
	of my former boss president trump you've advised the trump campaign as well on issues to do with with faith in the unborn so i could understand you getting in trouble with the higher-ups on on a political issue but what is it that you're accused of having said that is blasphemous father frank I'd like them to tell me, Seb, and I'd like them to tell everybody.
	I think they owe an explanation to the faithful Catholics who support us, who will continue to support us, precisely because we're doing the work that they would like to see their bishops doing, but their bishops aren't doing.
	And that's why, as you know, Preachful Life has grown so well.
	But they make these accusations.
	You know, it's like a decade ago, they were making accusations that, oh, you know, we have questions about your finances.
	The other side always uses the financial thing to try to attack Goodworks.
	And I said, OK, I'll tell you whatever you want to know.
	You have any specific questions and any specific allegations?
	And it was no, no, no, no, no.
	It's always on this level of vagueness, you know.
	So they had to drop that line when, you know, we kept sending them clean audits.
	And even the Vatican said our finances were in good order.
	So now it's like, oh, these are just blasphemous communications.
	Could you please, you know, let me know?
	Maybe you should start by letting me know.
	I haven't even gotten, Seb, any official communication from the Vatican about this action.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	That's not possible.
	To be defrocked is the worst thing that can happen to a priest.
	Are you telling me you haven't received the official form or email or whatever that has informed you of your transgression?
	This phone has not rung.
	I mean, over at the Papal Nuncio's office, they do have a working telephone.
	And, you know, the letter that Archbishop Pierre sent out, he sends it out to all the bishops.
	But it's like, hello, do you have the respect to give a priest?
	And he says in that communication, oh, Father is, you know, well known in the Right to Life movement.
	Well, you know, you think you could work in there maybe a little phrase of gratitude and appreciation for, you know, doing the work of the church in this arena?
	They have treated me like a piece of garbage.
	And this is the ecclesiastical version of what we see in the political arena, them doing to the MAGA people and President Trump.
	It's the ecclesiastical version, Seb, step by step, exactly the same playbook.
	Fake investigations, fake charges, ambiguous, amorphous charges that don't mean anything, and then tyrannical steps taken to try to punish somebody because of ideological opposition.
	That's what's going on.
	It's going on even within the church.
	Now I'm curious, and we want to get to the bottom of this and keep supporting you in your incredible work.
	It's priestforlife.org, is that correct?
	That's right, that's right.
	Priestforlife.org, an incredible institution.
	Do you have any sense, clearly you are a thorn in the side of the establishment church that doesn't want to fight for the unborn.
	Do you have any sense or theory as to why they're doing this now?
	Because you've been fighting for decades.
	What's your theory?
	You know, it's true in the Church, like it is in politics, that personnel is policy.
	I've had a fight at the Vatican a little bit under John Paul II, but they came down on my side.
	Under Pope Benedict, they came down on my side.
	The people opposing me, the ringleader is Bishop Patrick Zurich of Amarillo, Texas.
	But now there's been a change of personnel.
	There's been a lot of strange things going on at the Vatican, and that's really the only thing that has changed in the mix.
	But Seb, you know, it's been a three-part thing.
	It's like, first, after Priests for Life started growing and some of the bishops felt threatened, they tried to just get me out of the work by giving me a parish assignment.
	But I said, defending the unborn is my vocation.
	Please let me do it.
	So I was able to continue doing it.
	Second thing they tried to do was discredit the organization itself with these vague financial doubts, but that didn't work either.
	So they said, well, if we can't take Father Frank out of Priests for Life, and we can't take Priests for Life away from Father Frank, we have to take the Father away from Frank.
	And this has been the only way that this is like their last resort.
	We have to blunt the impact of Priests for Life on the pro-life movement, on the Catholic pro-life movement.
	Bad news for them, it's not gonna work.
	It's just like you already said, the supporters are supporting us, not because the bishops are telling them to, Yeah, in an age where we're all fed up with the institutional church being weak, when they take action against somebody who's strong, they're putting their money on the wrong horse to say.
	All right, so we've got a couple of minutes left.
	We're talking to Fr.
	Frank Pavone, National Director for Priests for Life, priestsforlife.org.
	You're sitting there.
	It's an interesting image.
	He's got his biker's jacket on with his clerical collar.
	What are your plans?
	Are you going to Are you going to appeal it?
	Are you going to ignore it?
	What is Father Frank going to do now?
	Seb, exactly what we're doing now with the help of friends like you, we want to get the truth out about what has been going on because they said, well, there's no canonical appeal to this.
	Well, we know that because the Pope is the highest authority in the church.
	He's the one who has signed off on this.
	However, we can appeal to the people of God.
	And when the people understand what has happened, they're going to continue to work with us.
	They're going to continue to support the work.
	And that's our plan moving forward.
	Our projects are not changing.
	We're not slowing down.
	We're going to elect pro-life candidates.
	We're going to educate people about abortion.
	We're going to provide alternatives to abortion.
	We're going to provide healing after abortion.
	All the good things we do, we're just going to keep on doing it.
	My board, my staff, my team are with me a thousand percent.
	And friends like you are with me a thousand percent.
	We've got this covered.
	Now, I'm also not going to go off into some other church.
	If the Pope closes the door in my face, I'm going to be standing right there on the other side of the door, knocking respectfully and saying, let me back in.
	And if Pope Francis doesn't do that, the next Pope is going to hear about it as well.
	Yeah, he's not going to pin 99 Theses to the door of Wittenberg.
	He's going to keep doing his job.
	He's a good Catholic.
	And by the way, guys, please, you know, your Holy Father, to do this after we win against Roe v. Wade, not good timing.
	May the Holy See not strike me down as I say that.
	It's priestforlife.org, priestforlife.org.
	God bless you, Father Frank.
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	Frank, truly insane.
	Isn't it?
	It's insane.
	And you know what?
	I think it's blowing up in their faces.
	The reaction has been... Well, come on!
	What, a couple of months after Roe v. Wade?
	Are you nuts?
	Yeah.
	It is insane.
	I'm telling you.
	How has your team reacted?
	Are they standing by?
	Oh, a thousand percent.
	They're good.
	They're great.
	And they're just revving up our supporters like never before.
	Good, all right.
	So I'll keep you posted.
	Keep me posted.
	Text me anything you want to get out there.
	And blessed Christmas.
	Thank you, Father.
	Happy Christmas to you.
	Happy Christmas.
	Bye-bye.
	The truth about Father Frank Pavone and the Pope.
	Alright.
	Oh yeah, mute the mics please.
	Thank you.
	Can you come in with that and keep playing it while I talk merch?
	Alex?
	Alright, Lindsey said she's able to come on.
	Yes, I know.
	I need that video of her.
	What video?
	The cat video of her.
	It's all over the internet.
	Talking at the school board dressed as a cat.
	Alright.
	Just give me like a 20 second clip.
	Alright, so the same Cambridge Choir?
	No, the Rudolph.
	Got it.
	They just keep playing it.
	I can't believe that story.
	Pavone?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that really is... Right after, you know, Roe v. Wade.
	That can't possibly go all the way up to the Pope, right?
	That's gotta be just some bishops who... No, it came from the Pope.
	It was the bishops he got in trouble with, and they just, you know, managed to get the Vatican to seal the deal.
	Unbelievable.
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	Criminal referrals from the January 6th Witch Hunt Committee to the Department of Justice because it's so bipartisan, isn't it?
	Listen to this explanation from Jim Schuder of just how bipartisan that committee was.
	Cut 10.
	We're going to decide whether to indict or not to indict based on what they find.
	That said, this is a committee.
	It's bipartisan.
	I know many Republicans don't look at it that way, but you have two prominent Republicans serving as vice chairs, Kinzinger and Liz Cheney.
	They're going to make criminal referrals right up to insurrection.
	It's, and they did today, that's Jim Schudo.
	Two prominent Republicans make it bipartisan.
	Jeff, what is so prominent about those two Republicans?
	Can you help me out there for those who may not be familiar with who they are?
	They hate Trump and they're basically Democrats now.
	Right, and they're both, what's happening to them imminently?
	They're both leaving Congress because one lost and one wouldn't even run.
	Yeah.
	Kinzinger, crybaby, bye bye.
	And Liz Cheney, they're prominent because they hate President Trump.
	That's just how bipartisan it was!
	And by the way, Jeff, are you watching Fox?
	I've never seen Glenn Youngkin do so many interviews before.
	And he's commenting on the border crisis.
	Why is the Virginian governor commenting on the border crisis?
	Help me out.
	Well, when you lose 10 of the 15 races that you endorse to people, I guess you want to bring them on.
	Eric, why is the Virginia governor coming on to talk about... Hang on, what's the southern border of Virginia?
	Is it Mexico?
	I think it's North Carolina, actually.
	That foreign land that is North Carolina.
	Well, yeah, there's a lot of people in North Carolina who are a little bit different, especially around Vietnam.
	But what's going on there, Eric?
	Could it possibly be higher aspirations?
	Possibly.
	I just, I can't see it.
	I cannot possibly see Junkin running for president when there's a perfectly good Senate seat open in 2024 that he'd be better fit running for.
	Yeah, but you know he's running, right?
	We'll have to wait and see.
	Alongside Mike Pompeo and some of the others.
	No, no, no.
	Come on, come on, come on.
	You're the most politically aggressive guy in the team.
	You know he's running, right?
	Alongside Ron DeSantis and so many others, I suppose.
	Run against the man who has to be the nominee, which is President Trump.
	You know it, you know it, you know it.
	Alright, we've got a very fun third hour for you today with Mr. Reagan, Chris Coles.
	It's our Making Movies Great Again, and this time it's a science fiction movie that even Mr. G likes.
	Is it true that you watched Predator over the weekend, Jeff?
	The majority of it I watched.
	I still have to watch the end of it, but... Don't tell me you fell asleep watching one of the most action-packed movies of the 80s.
	I started it late.
	I started it at like 11.15.
	What, and you went to bed?
	Yes.
	I have kids, I have to get up.
	But you're always, you're usually, when I'm texting you at like 2am, you usually respond.
	I know, that's usually during the week, which doesn't make much sense.
	And then I go to bed earlier on the weekends.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	Illogical, but interesting.
	Let's go to your calls.
	The number is 833-333-GORKA.
	That's 833-334-6752.
	Sharon, in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia.
	Hello, how are you, Dr. Gorka?
	I'm good, I'm good.
	How are you, my dear?
	I'm good.
	It's just a little chilly here, but other than that, it's good.
	It's a little bit flipping chilly in the swamp.
	I had to watch the ice this morning as I was walking the dogs.
	What brings you to our show today?
	Okay, what brings me to your show today is, like I was saying earlier, I just got in the car, so I just started listening to you.
	But this whole Brittany Griner thing?
	Yeah.
	You don't think it's a good deal to give the most dangerous arms dealer in the world for a dope-head lesbian ballplayer?
	Basketball player?
	Well, it depends on whether you're Biden or not.
	But anyways, we didn't even go there.
	But I just find it disgusting that she, like when she was in the WNBA, which she is planning on playing in again, that she took a knee, didn't come out for the national anthem.
	Refused to come out for the national anthem.
	And I think she should actually apologize for that.
	She's so sorry that she did not appreciate what she actually had.
	Yeah, look, we want all Americans back on U.S.
	soil, but I really take your point, Sharon.
	If she's happy to be out of a Russian work camp, she should apologize to Americans who love this country, because otherwise she needn't be here.
	She could still be rotting in that labor camp.
	Thank you, Sharon.
	Let's go to our good buddy.
	I think he had to drop off the line last week.
	Don from Los Angeles.
	Ah, Dr. G. Great pleasure talking to you.
	How's the weather in Los Angeles?
	I bet it's not as icy as it is here in the swamp.
	Ah, you're going to hate me, but it's bright and sunny.
	Kind of warm.
	It's close at night, like the desert.
	One of the few nice things about California.
	What's your question?
	What's your comment, my dear friend?
	Well, real quickly, I was blown away when I heard them charging Mr. Trump with insurrection, among other things.
	Hang on, hang on, slow down.
	It's not a charge.
	It is a criminal referral.
	It's a congressional criminal referral that is sent to DOJ.
	DOJ is the only person, is the only entity that can actually turn that into a charge, but I just want to be technically correct.
	Carry on.
	Oh, right you are, right you are.
	But my main question is, how can you, you know, as the committee makes this referral for insurrection when it was Mr. Trump that was requesting the National Guard be there for security, and the people that are attacking him denied it.
	It seems like an awfully odd way to foment an insurrection.
	Indeed it is, and let's play the little clip of what the President actually said that day.
	I was right there in the front row of the Ellipse outside the White House.
	Play cut, little reminder.
	I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
	If it ever gets to a court, all you're going to have to do is to play that on a loop.
	But that's, of course, if logic applies and it doesn't in this swamp.
	If you've got an R after your name, you can't get a fair trial on a political issue.
	Thank you, my dear friend.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First coming to you live from the reliefactor.com studios.
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	Rock the night away.
	Jingle bell time is a swell time.
	To go gliding in the one horse sleigh.
	Giddy up, jingle.
	Okay.
	That's the other thing.
	Yes?
	Lethal Weapon must be a Christmas movie too.
	I was just thinking of that, yes.
	It is a Christmas movie.
	Someone actually pointed out a meme of that First Blood is a Christmas movie because in the police station they have Christmas decorations.
	They got Christmas trees up.
	Yes!
	I just saw that this weekend!
	There's one little lone Christmas tree in the background.
	Some ratty little Christmas tree.
	That is... That's a better Christmas movie than Die Hard, if I'm being honest.
	We have got to review that movie.
	Have you seen... Have you even... Oh no, he's on the phone.
	He's on the phone.
	What's her Twitter handle?
	It is... Barbie, was it?
	At RealLindseyG.
	And that's Lindsey with an E. No, but what does she call herself?
	She calls herself Patriot Barbie.
	Real...
	But that is her Twitter handle.
	RealLindseyG.
	Lindsey S-E-Y?
	S-E-Y, yes.
	RealLindseyG?
	Yes.
	I don't see that.
	Oh, ThePatriotBarbie!
	Yeah, that's, that's, yeah.
	Alright.
	Make sure I have it.
	And we want to test this cut here real quick.
	Give me a second.
	Set it to, whatchamacallit, letterbox.
	And I'm going to send you a photograph with her.
	Play real quick so you make sure this works.
	Hello, my name is Lindsey Graham, and I am a cat.
	Meow, meow.
	I'm not a woman dressed as a cat.
	I am a cat.
	By show of hands, I'm curious, how many of you believe and confess that I'm a cat?
	Great.
	By show of hands, I'm curious, how many of you believe that your child or a child from this school would believe that I'm actually a cat?
	No one.
	You are right.
	Why?
	Because you are not stupid, and these children are not stupid.
	Truth prevails over imagination.
	All right.
	Oh, we haven't done the New York Times crossword yet.
	We have not yet.
	I have that image though.
	All right.
	I just sent you the photograph of her and me.
	I see it.
	Oh, this is the season.
	Okay.
	We got time.
	Yeah.
	Two minutes.
	I think the thing about First Blood is it's so interesting.
	Most people have this conception, of course, of Rambo, like guns, blazing, everything, but the first movie is not really like that.
	No, there's only one person who died, Teasel's deputy, and everything else is machine guns and petrol stations, gas stations blowing up.
	So good, though.
	It is.
	And, you know, the original version they actually filmed was true to the book.
	He dies.
	He commits suicide.
	Or Troughton kills him.
	I can't remember.
	He grabs the gun that's in Troughton's hand and pulls the trigger.
	Like, yeah.
	That guy, Richard Cranor, what a dude.
	So good.
	What a dude.
	He also starred in, I think, the greatest rip-off of the thing, Leviathan, 1989.
	Oh, yeah!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I like that movie.
	Yes, it's a rip-off of my favorite movie, but it's a good movie.
	It's alright.
	It's alright.
	Is she out?
	She's D. This is C. Oh, this is C. Alright, good.
	Then I'm gonna play Tucker here.
	And what else?
	You've played most of the J6 stuff.
	Yeah.
	Raditz, Keisha... Oh!
	Um, who did you say 8 is?
	8?
	Uh, Geoff, who's in 8?
	Uh, Don Lemon.
	Don Lemon.
	Lemon.
	Alright, let's, I'm gonna play that here, then Tucker.
	Play that, and then, yeah, I had to put it through the machine to make it, uh, work, because it was very low.
	Actually, let's, oh, we don't have time to test it.
	The frame rate might not be great on that video, the Don Lemon video, FYI.
	The End
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	Don Lemon is a little bit angry and he's letting... Well, just listen to what he thinks should happen to Elon Musk.
	Cut it.
	There is a huge place for Twitter.
	I think that he should be taking it more seriously.
	I think that these polls and all these antics, it's right out of the Trump playbook, which is what I feel, and that he is manipulating the media in order to get attention.
	So can you put this into perspective?
	Should journalists pull out their Trump playbook in order to deal with what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter?
	Is it a page out of the same book?
	We should use Trump's approach to the media.
	Elon Musk is manipulating the media.
	Unlike CNN, for the last six years, with Russia, Russia, Russia.
	With President Trump's tax returns.
	With the Mueller probe.
	With the Billy Bush tapes.
	With Mar-a-Lago?
	Did he do it?
	Did he actually say that?
	With a straight face.
	Let's remind ourselves why we liked what President Trump did.
	This weekend was AMFEST in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA.
	And they had Tucker Carlson give a speech where he kind of just let it all out.
	Why we miss 45.
	Play cut.
	Donald Trump completely changed my view of everything.
	Donald Trump is why I left Washington.
	And he did it in a really simple way by asking questions that no one around him could answer.
	He showed up and said things like, why don't we have a border?
	Shut up!
	Shut up, racist!
	Or my personal favorite, he's like, what's the point of NATO?
	I wouldn't have known any of that unless, until Trump showed up and started asking these kind of like autistic simple questions like, why are we doing it that way?
	Shut up, racist!
	And it's exposed the whole thing, and I'm so grateful to have seen that.
	And I should also add, since why not, I actually love Donald Trump as a guy.
	I think he's one of the funniest people I've ever talked to in my life.
	I think he's got this unbelievable life force to him.
	But talking to Trump is one of the great joys, one of the great animal joys of life, because he exudes this kind of animal joy.
	And so the truth, Trump is like totally charming and engaging and fun and interesting.
	And the last thing I'll say about Trump that I really love is that his insights into people, which are always expressed in this, because I use words for a living, so I notice how people express things.
	Trump expresses himself in this way that's like completely original.
	Yeah, he does.
	You know, when I get to see my team on the screen here, usually they're super busy.
	You know, Eric's preparing a buffer, Guy's getting ready to play something, John's making sure the whole system doesn't crash, Jeff is answering calls.
	We played that Tucker cut of President Trump explaining why.
	Everybody was glued to that cut.
	I'm watching the mirror on the screen.
	Everybody was glued to the screen.
	I wonder why that is.
	Jeff, you've actually met the man in the Oval Office Compare what we just heard from Tucker to your experience.
	I would say that's exactly the same thing.
	To me, it's kind of... He reminds me of the way he is at a rally.
	That's kind of how he is.
	That's him.
	And what's interesting, that was actually after he was asked if he would support Trump or DeSantis.
	Really?
	That was Tucker's response?
	He did a little bit of DeSantis, but it was a lot of Trump stuff.
	He didn't say who he was going to support, but I think that might tell you who he supports.
	But explain what it is, because when we were in the Oval, it was literally the two of us with President Trump for about, you know, an hour.
	And it's, I don't want to use the cliche animal magnetism, but there's something there that's just genuine, right Jeff?
	Yes, exactly.
	Very genuine, just very normal.
	Not like a politician at all.
	It's hard to explain.
	It's not fake, right?
	Exactly.
	100% genuine.
	It's not fake.
	Alright, I had a very long discussion with a good friend over cigars at the weekend about the future of President Trump.
	I might have to share some of my thoughts.
	I might have to put it in an article and then make it into a monologue.
	Stay here, dear friends.
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	What?
	If I'm not memeing, like Die Hard's great, Realistically, I think the best Christmas movie ever has got to be Home Alone.
	Such a classic!
	When you're a kid it was okay, but as a grown-up it's kind of like... It's still fun!
	Yeah, it's corny, but you know, I mean... No, it's Christmas Vacation or The Claymation Rudolph.
	Oh yes, claymation.
	Any of the claymation stuff.
	What about the Charlie Brown Christmas?
	Charlie Brown Christmas!
	Claymation Rudolph is the best Christmas movie.
	Yes!
	I didn't even like that when I was a kid.
	You never were a kid!
	Yes I was.
	You came out of the womb as this complete Jeff Harbaugh.
	You were just like, never a kid.
	You know that, right?
	A Claymation Rudolph.
	Yes!
	I found Cornelius carrying this massive revolver.
	Oh my gosh.
	Knife?
	Axe?
	Revolver?
	So cool.
	Alright, you gotta get the Charlie Brown Christmas song on the show tomorrow, Alex, alright?
	Alright.
	I've seen Christmas Vacation.
	It's a load of garbage.
	Alright.
	We have Patriot Mobile here.
	Do we have... Do we have Bobby?
	Do we have Bobby on the show?
	Yes.
	Hey there, how we doing Lindsay?
	She just took a surreptitious photograph of me.
	She just took a photo.
	She didn't even ask my permission.
	Three million people watching and she took a photograph.
	And what is she wearing?
	Look at that bustier.
	That is rather cool.
	Alright, we're gonna have to show that to all of our viewers when we start.
	That is very impressive.
	Alright, the photograph of you and me together.
	That was Turning Point.
	Where was that?
	That was, Turning Point, that was AmFest last year.
	AmFest last year, that's right, that's right.
	All right, good.
	We're gonna have some fun, we're gonna play a clip of you, and then we're gonna come to you, all right?
	All righty.
	One minute.
	All right, we're doing, what are we doing first?
	Patriot.
	Patriot, okay, good.
	Patriot makeup, yeah.
	definitely yeah definitely i know i thought it was photoshopped I thought it was a joke, and then I saw Don Jr.
	post it.
	I know.
	America First.
	I'm so excited when things that you do on the show kind of bear fruit or have a progression beyond the show.
	I just got a text right now from Jerry Perna, the aunt of Matt Perna, who committed suicide after Biden's DOJ came after him after January 6th and elevated a six-month misdemeanor to a six-year terrorist charge.
	She's working with Congressman Louie Gohmert to draft the Matthew Perna Act and he's introducing it this week to Congress and we're going to get both Congressman Gohmert and Miss Perna on the show.
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	Talking of school board elections, here's a very unusual school board meeting.
	Play cut.
	Hello, my name is Lindsey Graham, and I am a cat.
	Meow, meow.
	I'm not a woman dressed as a cat.
	I am a cat.
	By show of hands, I'm curious, how many of you believe and confess that I'm a cat?
	Great.
	By show of hands, I'm curious, how many of you believe that your child or a child from this school would believe that I'm actually a cat?
	No one.
	You are right.
	Why?
	Because you are not stupid, and these children are not stupid.
	Truth prevails over imagination.
	If you're listening and not watching us on the Salem News Channel, she was in an amazing cat outfit with the ears.
	She looked a little bit like Eartha Kitt from the 60s Batman show.
	Why did she do that?
	And who is she?
	She's a troublemaking salon owner we've had on the show before.
	Don't get confused by the name.
	Please don't switch off when you hear the name.
	Lindsey Graham, welcome back to America First.
	Thank you so much, Sebastian, and thank you for sharing that video.
	It's people like you sharing it, made it go viral.
	And I've talked to some of the school board members at that school.
	The parents are blowing up the school.
	Emails, phone calls.
	They are livid.
	They had no idea.
	There was a 72-year-old man dressing like a woman parading around their children, so it's making a difference.
	Hang on, hang on.
	We need to talk about that, but first things first.
	For those who are watching us on the Salem News Channel, you're not dressed as a feline today, but please do stand up and display for us your incredible America First outfit.
	A sequined Stars and Stripes is what she is wearing.
	That is a rather natty outfit.
	So, Lindsay, first tell us why you did that, which school board it was, and then tell us about this 72-year-old pervert.
	All right.
	Yeah, so it's a school that is in my community.
	It's in Buckeye, Arizona.
	There's a 72-year-old man.
	His name is Paul Bixler.
	He parades around the school, the sporting events, the fundraisers, the classrooms, the hallways, talking to children.
	He wears his deceased wife's clothing.
	Permed his hair, puts on lipstick and demands that everyone identify him as a female.
	Is he a teacher?
	Is he a staff member?
	He's just on the board.
	He's not a teacher and he wasn't elected to the board and he refuses to step down.
	He thinks that he is not doing any harm to these children.
	So somebody who's not on the staff, who was on the board, is wearing his dead wife's clothing, with makeup and permed hair, walking around the school?
	Yes.
	All the time, he's around the children.
	He goes to the Halloween events.
	He talks to the children.
	He believes, in fact, that the male students that identify as female Should be allowed to participate in women's sports.
	So he's taking his belief system and he's integrating it into the school and he's advocating for his beliefs.
	All right.
	Well, you're known as the Patriot Barbie.
	You resisted COVID lockdowns.
	Everybody can follow this brave lady at RealLindseyG on Twitter.
	That's RealLindseyG on Twitter.
	So you proved a superb point.
	Dressing up as a cat and going meow does not make you a cat.
	Putting on your dead wife's clothing does not make you a woman.
	Whatever else you do to yourself.
	So tell us, as a result of pointing out the blindingly obvious, what has happened in that school district?
	Well, there is only one school board member named Brian Parks that has been fighting against Paul Bixler.
	and his belief system.
	He has advocated for Paul Bixler to step down.
	They cannot remove him.
	Paul has to step down willingly.
	Since this video has gone viral, which, by the way, this video was done about four or five weeks ago, it went viral thanks to you and a few other news outlets.
	The parents are calling and emailing the school.
	They had no idea that Paul Bixler was on the board, that he was interacting with their children on a daily basis.
	They had no idea he was parading around in his dead wife's clothing.
	They are demanding his resignation and now we have three school board members that are going to be addressing Paul Bixler and demanding that he resign because he is a distraction to the education system.
	Not many.
	Let's show the photograph of where I first met you at Turning Point a year ago at the AmFest.
	Not very few people in America are doing what you're doing, including dressing up as a cat to prove your point.
	Explain to everybody listening today, the three million listeners across the nation, why you're doing what you're doing, Lindsay.
	There's a spiritual war happening and they are targeting our children.
	We must be teaching children that there are unchanging biblical and biological truths.
	If we don't have solid truths, if we don't have the definition of woman being, you know, the solid definition, then everything, everything is up for discussion.
	There is no more real and fake.
	There is no more right and wrong.
	Our kids are our future.
	And I have three small kids.
	I raised them right.
	I raised them to believe in God and to speak up for what's right.
	If we don't take this fight to the doorstep of these school boards and these schools and protect our children from this disgusting, vile indoctrination and the idea that A man can use a woman's restroom and all these things?
	Nobody else will.
	We lose it.
	We lose the generation.
	We lose the future.
	Listen to this woman.
	Be more like her.
	We need more Lindsey Graham's aka Patriot Barbies out there.
	Follow her.
	Real Lindsey G. I'm Sebastian Gawker.
	Merry Christmas, Lindsey.
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	So there, I just wanted to say thank you.
	Thank you.
	That was superb.
	Keep doing what you do.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	Thank you, Sebastian.
	Hey, just so you know, I'm at AmFest right now, and I'm representing Freedom Square.
	Oh, fabulous.
	Say hi to the guys.
	Say hi to everybody.
	I will.
	All right.
	Thank you so much for having me on.
	God bless.
	See you.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	All righty.
	Title five.
	I'm going to mention the death of Sheriff Lamb's son, so I need that photograph.
	Yes.
	Yeah, I have that.
	What a tragedy.
	We have a PhD here.
	Okay.
	And title for Miss Graham.
	70 seconds.
	How to prove, how to demonstrate the absurdity of the trans movement.
	Yep.
	Do you want me to come in with serious music?
	Well, what would be serious?
	We have Billy Joel, The Stranger, and then The Gladiator.
	No, come in with this one.
	Come in with that Christmas music.
	Got it.
	40. 40.
	Tragic news this weekend.
	Our good friend Sheriff Mark Lamb, outspoken law enforcement officer.
	Keep the music going.
	It's good music.
	Keep it going.
	Lost his young son and his granddaughter in a fatal traffic accident.
	There's Cooper Lamb, his future fiancée Caroline Patton and their beautiful baby daughter.
	Sheriff Lamb's son and granddaughter were hit by a truck and died on the scene.
	Will you please keep Caroline Patton?
	I reached out to Sheriff Lamb.
	She's still in the intensive care unit.
	Will you keep Caroline Patton?
	In your prayers this Christmas season, pray for the souls of Cooper Lamb and their daughter.
	God will allow her straight into heaven.
	And pray for the Lamb family.
	Give them strength this Yuletide season.
	Let's go to your calls.
	Let's go to Joe in Illinois, line two.
	Yeah, so it bothers me that Pope Francis gave communion to Biden and Pelosi.
	And I realized that Ratzinger was kind of pushed out because of his German heritage.
	He was the pitbull of Pope Pope John.
	Yeah, Saint John Paul II.
	Pope Benedict was an amazing, probably one of the greatest intellects of the modern Catholic Church, and you know, the intellectual force behind many of the things that Blessed St.
	John Paul II did.
	I'm not sure he was forced out because of his Germanic heritage.
	I think he stepped down for many reasons, but one of them was because he was a traditional Catholic who believed in the ultimate truths in natural law.
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	Get to the chopper!
	Maybe the best action movie of all time.
	Yes, indeed, it's Arnold as Dutch, the cigar-smoking special forces leader who goes after an enemy that is a little bit different from what he's used to.
	It's this week's Making Movies Great Again.
	Did you like our intro?
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	Dutch, are you there?
	Yeah, I'm right here.
	I'm ready to stick around.
	We decided, before the show began, Jeff said, my producer, that you will be dressing up as the hero of each movie each week, so... Well, I tried to encapsulate at least the feeling a little bit.
	But you've got a shirt on!
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	You do have denim.
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	All right, Chris, it is Predator.
	We chose it last week.
	I have a whole host of notes.
	I sat down with my son making notes about this movie, but I've been dominating the discussion for far too long.
	So why don't you launch us off on this movie?
	All right, let me tell you something.
	When I rewatched this last night, One thing kept going through my head, which was, why don't films today have catchphrases, have one-liners?
	I mean, they had one-liners back in the 30s, like, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
	They had great lines, you know, great lines that were epic, that people would repeat at work.
	You know, in the 80s, I mean, that was the quintessential, you know, stick around, get to the choppa, all these beautiful lines that people would repeat.
	I remember at school, people would repeat these lines.
	They don't do it anymore.
	I don't, like, do you not know how to do this?
	Or, like, what's going on, man?
	Well, isn't that a function of just being crap writers, that we don't have real screenwriters anymore?
	And if you are a screenwriter, you have to be woke?
	I think it has something to do with woke, because If you have a naturalistic script in some capacity, then anything that diverts from that in an interesting way becomes cool, right?
	So, like, nobody would actually go, stick the guy to the wall and go, stick around.
	Nobody would do that.
	That's crazy, right?
	You mean you don't do that?
	You don't throw around large knives at gorillas when you're hanging around Los Angeles and say, stick around?
	You don't do that, Chris Coles?
	I'm very disappointed in you.
	I mean, every now and again, but you know what I mean.
	If you're going to write something naturalistic, once there is a divergence from that that's cool, people are like, oh, that's cool.
	How about this?
	How about this?
	If everything you've written is artificial, then nothing is interesting, because it doesn't ring true.
	But you've also got to have actors who can carry it, right?
	Who today?
	Think of the cast.
	Even the people, you know, that are mildly, you know, okay, like Chris Pratt.
	They can't deliver an Arnie line.
	I mean, come on.
	You'd laugh.
	Chris Pratt can deliver a line.
	I call Chris Pratt the last Movie star.
	Yes, but in comparison to a Clint Eastwood or an Arnie, it's not the same caliber.
	He definitely has a different kind of, they cast his father exactly right.
	Kurt Russell, he's like the continuation of Kurt Russell, but we don't have a continuation of a lot of these other stars.
	We have The Rock, The Rock is like a continuation of Arnold to some degree, but a lot of the greats like Clint Eastwood, you don't have a new Clint Eastwood, you don't have a new Harrison Ford, you don't have new actors coming up that can replace the old in an equivalent way.
	Right, so this, let's talk about the cast here, it's not just Arnie, this is an ensemble cast, and the fact that it works when you've got, you know, 48 guys there who are all triple A, you know, alpha types, you know, from the future governor Jesse Ventura to, you know, all these people, you know, Carl Weathers.
	Oh my gosh.
	It just works, doesn't it?
	This is a script.
	This is a delivery.
	It's on the edge of corn, but it works, Chris.
	Yeah, you know, it's funny.
	Watching back, I thought, this is pretty early in Arnold's career, and he doesn't, he does not deliver lines well early on.
	Like in these scenes right here, when he's yelling at his buddy there, it does, it doesn't come across too very natural, but it still works.
	You still believe that they used to know each other.
	They're still, you know, you, you, you, you kind of get the camaraderie, even though it's a little tacky.
	Because they're just such charismatic guys.
	Just the way they perform is so good.
	It really is amazing, like, how somebody performing, if they have on-screen presence, if they have what I call watchability.
	If you have watchability, you can kind of get away with anything.
	You can kind of get away with bad acting, even.
	And even the lesser roles.
	So Billy, you know, the Native American, what an incredible character.
	You know, what's got you spooked, Billy?
	And he stands there on that log, and he gets out that massive machete.
	The voice, just that guy's voice, Chris.
	No, they, I wouldn't even consider that a small role.
	That guy is one of the, that is a great role.
	And you can just, like the way everybody respects him on the team.
	You know that this guy is something special, right?
	He's obviously like the Native American tracker.
	It's kind of, they're playing on some stereotypes there.
	But it totally works, and what a great role for that actor, and how much fun would that have been?
	I'll tell you this, I didn't really like this movie when I was a kid.
	Why?
	I'll tell you why, because at its core it's a horror movie, and I don't really like horror movies.
	The same is true of Jaws, the same is true of Alien.
	These were films that, although I recognize their greatness even in the 80s and today especially, they are classics for a reason, these movies.
	They're not my favorites of the 80s and it's because they're horror movies and I'm not a horror movie guy.
	But they did, I mean, there is so much in this movie in particular, there's so much to love the bravado of these guys, the style with which they play their roles.
	One thing I didn't like, I'll tell you what, I didn't like this as a kid.
	And to this day, I still don't really like it.
	The moment where he sort of sacrifices himself, this Native American.
	As a kid, I didn't understand it.
	I get it now.
	He was trying to, he wanted to fight man to man, this monster.
	Uh, when I was a kid, I was like, why is he sacrificing himself?
	This beast is just gonna kill him.
	Like, he doesn't stand a chance against this thing.
	Like, why is he doing this?
	Well, I understand a little bit better now as an adult, but I still am like, at least try to survive, man.
	It's an interesting, you know, trans... Oh my gosh, I'm not even watching the clock.
	I don't know how much time I've got in.
	Guys, tell me how much time I've been speaking for.
	Okay.
	Um, it could have... So it moves across various different categories.
	You say it's a horror movie.
	It could have been a comedy, couldn't it?
	Because look at the original monster.
	Before we got this, you know, seven foot two individual Kevin Peter Hall, we had 5'7, Jean-Claude Van Damme running around in a red pair of tights.
	This guy, if you're not familiar with the making of, this is the original Predator monster, Jean-Claude Van Damme, looking like a mutant locust who was fired from the set because he kept bitching and moaning about, you know, fainting because it was so hot.
	This could have been a comedy, Chris!
	Yeah, no, you're 100% right.
	It is incredible that the film came out as well as it did.
	And, yeah, there are – I mean it's not a perfect movie, but, yeah, that's hilarious.
	I've seen this before actually.
	I didn't watch it before this video.
	Scary, right?
	Scary, right?
	Oh, that's too funny.
	That's too funny.
	That monster – let me tell you.
	That monster is probably the most iconic villain monster character in movie history at this point.
	You mean the Predator?
	I mean you have – yeah, you have villains like King Kong.
	Like Alien obviously is iconic.
	But the Predator – Yeah, let's say that because I want to talk about – yeah, you're so right.
	Let's talk about – How so much of this is made by the villain that isn't a guy in a red tightsuit.
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	All right, let's talk about this monster, Kevin Peter Hall, 7'2", by the way, who moves.
	I mean, he moves.
	He's not like Chewbacca, like this lanky, awkward person.
	He is athletic.
	I mean, the late Kevin Peter Hall, when he's jumping from log to log, you go, dude, that is scary.
	When he's, you know, lit up by the explosions behind him, he sells it so well.
	And it's shocking.
	I was watching the timer through the whole thing.
	You don't even see him until minute 44 or something, and even then, it's the camouflaged version.
	Talk to us about the monster.
	Yeah, and actually, the first time you really see the monster without the camouflage, you know, the invisibility cloak or whatever, is the moment where he's attaching some kind of mechanism to, like, seal up a wound.
	Yeah, he's putting on a tourniquet.
	He screams in the forest.
	He's putting on a tourniquet, right.
	Just sort of a, yeah, like a sci-fi tourniquet.
	And he screams and it just cuts to him for a quick second.
	And it's such a... I mean, here's the thing about monster movies, right?
	You want to hide the monster for a while.
	Yes.
	Because you want to build up the suspense.
	What does it look like?
	What does it look like?
	That's what they did with Jaws, right?
	And Alien.
	And Alien.
	The problem with this technique Is that 99% of the time, the monster does not live up to what you've imagined in your mind.
	Right.
	Cause your imagination is always, always better.
	Always better.
	Always better.
	Not here.
	Here, the monster is scarier than what you imagined.
	You're like, holy mo, what is that?
	You know?
	Uh, I forget the guy who, who, Sam Winston.
	Oh no, not Sam.
	Stan Winston.
	Stan Winston designed it.
	Do you know how they came up with the design?
	I think I read somewhere, like, he was on a plane with, um... Eric, Eric, Eric, Eric educated me.
	I'm shocked.
	I thought I was the biggest movie nerd in this building.
	Eric educated me three days ago.
	Tell us the story, Eric, after the Jean-Claude Van Damme in Red Tights didn't work.
	How did we get Mr. Mandible?
	Stan Winston was sitting on a plane, flying back from the location, I believe, and doing just sketches of what the monster could look like.
	And he was sitting next to his buddy James Cameron, who, of course, they worked together on Terminator and Aliens.
	Bingo!
	And Cameron looks over and says, "Oh, what's that?" So Winston's like, "Oh, it's for a picture I'm doing." He explains the plot, explains the monster.
	And Cameron just kind of makes an offhand comment.
	He mentions, "I've always wanted to see a creature with mandibles." And that, of course, ended up in the final design.
	Bingo!
	Mandibles, Chris.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and actually, I remember as a kid, I first saw this movie, I was eight years old.
	This came out on VHS in 1988.
	I had a rich friend down the street who had a VCR.
	Was it top-loading or expensive front-loading?
	It was top-loading!
	Top-loading!
	Off-loading!
	Anyway, so I'd go down to the corner and I went to this kid's house to play with his, like, you know, fancy... Because everything in my house was from the 70s.
	But this guy had stuff actually from the 80s, right?
	So I'm down there and he's like, I have this movie, Predator.
	And I hadn't even heard of it because I was a child, you know, this was a movie for adults.
	So he's like, let's check this out.
	Puts it in.
	I am blown away by this movie.
	I didn't even really like army movies at the time.
	There was a kind of a trend for army movies after Rocky II.
	Yeah.
	Which, by the way, this is a perfect mix of Rocky II and Alien.
	That's exactly what this movie is.
	Rocky 2 meets an alien.
	Well, apparently the joke is, somebody joked about Rocky that in the next Rocky movie, he's beaten everybody on Earth.
	He has to beat an alien.
	And that's why the script writer wrote this story that was originally called... I heard that.
	Did I say Rocky?
	I meant Rambo.
	It's Rambo 2, an alien.
	And the original script was called Hunter, and then they changed it into Predator.
	The original script was inspired by Rocky somehow, but yeah, I think during the rewrite process, they somehow got Rambo, because this is definitely Rambo 2.
	It's like almost a shot-for-shot remake, but with a monster instead of Russians.
	And yeah, I mean, yeah, it's... How do you remember your buddy's house and the VHS and that he had it?
	I mean, this movie must have had a real impression on you.
	Because I wasn't old enough to watch this movie.
	So this was like very special for me.
	Like it was a very special moment as a kid to see Predator, this crazy movie.
	And I remember the monster most – I'm shocked I didn't have like nightmares about like stripped – bodies stripped of their skin hanging upside down in trees.
	That didn't bother me so much.
	What freaked me out was the monster, man, with those mandibles.
	It was like – because it looks real.
	I mean sometimes when he's jumping, he doesn't look that real.
	But his skin and everything looks fantastic.
	This is the point.
	It's a freaky thing you've never seen before.
	and it doesn't look like special effects.
	When he roars, first he opens the mandibles, and then he opens his jaw and he roars.
	And it looks like a living, breathing thing, Chris.
	I watched it last night and I said, Stan Winston, you're a bloody genius.
	These are practical effects.
	This is not computer.
	I mean, I don't know how they did it.
	It is, it is amazing.
	It's really amazing.
	And what really sells it is, is Schwarzenegger's eyes.
	You know, he's doing this and he hears it behind him and you just see, you know, he's like looking to the side.
	It's great.
	The performance is great.
	There you go.
	That roar totally sold.
	If you want to know how they did it, just four days ago, he has balls.
	I tell you, he's got balls the size of, you know, the Titanic.
	We had somebody from LA, from the film industry, who worked for Stan Winston, Alec Gillis, who worked on the AVP movies, the Alien Predator movies, he built the Alien Queen, he came on my show because he's not afraid, he is doing this stuff right now, so if you missed it, Go back to our Rumble.
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	One thing I have to note here.
	Sorry, Arnie.
	At the beginning, he gets out of the chopper.
	Before he gets out of the chopper, what does he do, Chris?
	He's smoking the cigar.
	He's lighting the cigar.
	He lights it with what?
	It turns up in the movie later after they bury Jesse Ventura.
	He's lighting it with a special forces Zippo lighter.
	Arnold!
	You never use a petroleum Zippo lighter with a cigar unless you want to destroy the cigar.
	What kind of a heathen are you?
	Matches or a butane lighter?
	What a bloody Austrian heathen.
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	Okay.
	What are the things that we should mention that kind of get missed when we're talking about this movie?
	I think one of the things that we have to doff our caps to is just the performance, especially after Jesse Ventura's character dies, of Bill Duke.
	I mean, that's like amazing performance, isn't it?
	You know what?
	That character is such a beautiful character.
	He really presents emotion in a film where you don't really need emotion.
	You could have just done it with masculine aggression for the rest of the movie and everybody would have been happy but this guy's performance gives some something of a greater substance than what you would have gotten otherwise and it's nuanced and it's I mean the man is an actor the man's a real actor and really does add something to the film and when he dies I I felt it you know what I mean like he's the guy you really don't want to die because he cares he cares
	He says, I'm sorry about, you know, your buddy.
	He was a good warrior or whatever.
	He's a good soldier.
	He turns to him and he goes, he was my friend.
	And you go like, dang, man, that's real.
	It brings a depth to the movie that most action movies just simply don't have.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, every aspect of this film is excellent.
	The music is powerful.
	The music is great.
	Oh, Sylvester's music.
	Sylvester's music.
	That jungle drum beat.
	I mean, it's almost like the Jaws music.
	That iconic kind of threat theme.
	And then it's mixed in with the rock music of the helicopters going into the LZ.
	It's just... We don't see this anymore, Chris.
	Yeah, it's strange.
	I'm watching it.
	It's kind of like when I was watching Die Hard.
	I kind of got the same feeling.
	Like, why are there so many great aspects of filmmaking?
	I mean, the guy's a real filmmaker.
	We've lost so much of that, and I think it does have to do with wokeness and trying to interject politics into the project.
	Instead of thinking, okay, how do we make this epic?
	What are the moments that we have to put into this film to get the audience to feel something?
	Instead of that, they're going, okay, can we put in a lesbian couple here?
	Yeah, the hostage would have been a lesbian woman and there would have been, you know, a female seal on the team that has to kiss her before the end of the movie.
	I'm a little bit disappointed with her.
	I didn't think she brought, except that moment where she's petrified in the middle of the jungle, what did you think of the Squeezes performance?
	I will say this, she is the one that actually clarifies that he's taking trophies.
	Yes.
	And so that little bit of information is pretty critical, I think, to the plot.
	So it's nice to get the perspective of somebody who is from the region who can say that this has been going on in this part of the world for a long time.
	Right.
	And this monster has been killing people and he's taking trophies.
	Right.
	I think that that's a critical part of the film.
	It's easy to miss, though.
	But it does add something.
	And you do want a woman to protect.
	I think they brought her in because of of Rambo 2.
	You had this love interest character, I think she's supposed to parallel that character.
	And did you, in your research, I never knew this until two days ago, do you know who does the voice for the Predator?
	No, I don't know who did the voice.
	It's the voice actor, Peter Cullen, who did Optimus Prime for all those decades.
	Oh, he just died recently, actually.
	Yeah, I know.
	R.I.P.
	Yeah.
	Wow, that's amazing.
	And actually, the noises and stuff are fantastic.
	I think the one mistake they made was the laugh at the end, because everything else of that monster did the clicks and the weird noises.
	They didn't sound human.
	And they just got this very, very human laugh at the very end of the movie, just before the nuclear explosion.
	It's him.
	Replicating Billy's laughter.
	You're right!
	I didn't even catch that until now.
	Yes.
	Because there was a point when he repeats the laughter.
	It's from the joke, right?
	It's from the... Yes, it's from the only joke that Billy actually laughs and responds to properly.
	And when he laughs that guttural laugh, the Predator records it and plays it back after he set the nuclear bomb.
	That's brilliant.
	I had never caught that until this moment.
	That is such a brilliant observation.
	Just to correct, I don't think he's passed.
	He's been in the news recently.
	Did he pass away?
	I thought so.
	I think he announced his retirement.
	Oh, was that what happened?
	Eric, can you check that?
	I think Peter Cullen is still around.
	Yeah, he's still alive.
	Oh, I don't want to say something that's wrong.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	Sorry, it was the voice actor for Batman that died.
	Batman.
	Batman passed.
	Peter McCullen announced that they're going to have to replace him.
	He won't be doing the iconic... Sorry, I didn't want to kill that guy early.
	Optimus Prime.
	Alright, what else do we have to note here when it comes to performances?
	I think Arnie is actually quite charismatic at times.
	The delivery at the beginning may be a little bit stilted and difficult, but later on, especially when he's betrayed by his best buddy, by Dylan, there's a side of Arnie you don't usually see.
	After that initial meeting at the beginning, when he first sees Carl Weathers and they're having a little chit-chat, He's great after that.
	From that point on, he becomes a good actor.
	And my buddy Kurt and I were talking about this before I saw this.
	I always talk to him about these movies before we do the show.
	And he always gives me tidbits.
	And he was saying that, according to him, Arnold really respected Carl Weathers' acting.
	And he would study him and he would ask him questions.
	And he really learned how to act on this film.
	And you can see it.
	You can see the difference between the beginning and the end of the film.
	How good Arnold is by the end.
	My favorite line.
	What's your favorite tag?
	Oh, I'm going to ask you that in seven minutes time.
	I'm going to ask you that and I'll give you mine.
	And you know what Carl Weathers was doing at 3 a.m.
	every day on that shoot in Mexico?
	Well, I know that they were all in a kind of like a team of lifting.
	Like a lifting team, right?
	But he would get up at 3 a.m.
	and lift without anybody seeing him so he could arrive on set looking absolutely jacked and saying, I just got out of bed.
	That's what Carl Weathers did every morning for months to fake out Jesse Ventura and Arnold.
	I've had girlfriends like that.
	I'm not sure, that's a bit of a TMI.
	Okay, I'm Sebastian Gawker getting too much information from my buddy Chris Coles, Alpha Critic, Mr. Reagan USA, Mr. Reagan on YouTube, coming to you from the reliefactor.com studio.
	All right, I need to get some nerdy stuff out of the way.
	It's not Friday, which is our Second Amendment Day, but I need to celebrate for all the gun wonks out there.
	Just the super gunniness of this movie.
	The fact that you've got a Dillon Precision electric gun off a helicopter, off a warthog being carried, and Bill Duke says, I fired a full 200-round pack.
	You mean the gun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute?
	Yeah, it was a little bit more than 2,000 rounds you loosed off into the jungle.
	Then the iconic M16 M203.
	By the way, if you look closely at this footage, at the end of the barrel, especially for Billy and for Duke, for a Dutch, You'll see a little tiny barrel inside the barrel of the M16.
	Why?
	Because they're not firing blanks.
	It's actually a propane-fired machine gun.
	There's a flame coming out of it.
	It was basically made popular with this movie, and it's the easiest way to fake full-auto fire.
	I'm just wonking out here.
	And then, of course, the MP5, the double MP5 for Carl Weathers, the submachine gun made famous in Die Hard.
	And then lastly, because for those of you who are not aware, Watch maniac as well.
	I collect watches I'm wearing to celebrate my Arnie, my Seiko Arnie today from this movie.
	Let's put those images up there.
	He made this watch famous in Commando and Predator.
	This is the new reissue.
	It's the Seiko Arnie.
	You can get it right now if you want to stay connected to the 1980s.
	And here's an image of it from him wearing it in the movie.
	All right.
	I've got my wonkiness out here, Chris.
	Carry on.
	Well, hold on.
	Let me add to that because I don't know if you're aware of this.
	This is a gun fact that very few people know.
	There's six bullets per round.
	Yes!
	I learned that from Joe Biden.
	There's ten magazines in the cartridge.
	Is that how it works?
	Okay, well that's great.
	And the 9mm will blow your lungs out.
	Did you know that?
	I never even heard that one.
	That's amazing.
	This scene, can we just for a moment just salute the stuntmen of this scene?
	I mean, the guys on fire being launched off trampolines.
	I mean, this was quite, quite a show, right?
	Yeah, this is, I mean, this is pretty standard 80s, okay, let's have as many explosions as we could possibly have.
	I think the reason why it's so great in this picture is because it's, I mean, of all the movies that are like this, this is the best one.
	And so I think we forget that every movie in the 80s that was an action film had a scene like this.
	Right.
	But this and I think Rambo 2 were the best for these moments.
	Agreed.
	Possibly just because the movies are the best.
	Of these kinds of movies, I think.
	Agreed, agreed.
	So we salute the stuntmen.
	All right, best lines before we get to the last 29 minutes, which is the mano a mano.
	We'll talk about that in a moment.
	Talk to us about your favorite scene or your favorite line.
	I have to say, there's two lines.
	They come one Pretty close to each other.
	And it's, uh, you are one ugly mother.
	Oh, yes.
	Classic.
	Probably the most famous line of the movie.
	You is one ugly mother.
	Delivered quite well, because the expression on his face, I mean, he does look shocked.
	Yeah yeah and and and it's and I remembered even from a kid even at when I was eight years old I remember that line thinking that's a cool line and then later you know at the at the very end he looks at him and he goes he's about to kill him but he realized that the guy's you know this monster is gonna die like I I don't have to kill I don't have to finish him off.
	And he just looks at him and he's kind of like the, almost in a reflection as the predator was looking at him earlier and examining his face when he had pushed him up against the rock there.
	And he's looking at this monster examining him and he just goes, what the hell are you?
	You know, and then the monster repeats this and I love those two lines.
	All right.
	I'm surprised you didn't bring up the other line, which is almost as iconic.
	Well, we've got two actually.
	If it bleeds, we can kill it.
	That's a classic.
	That's a classic.
	And then the other one.
	I ain't got time to bleed!
	That's right.
	Come on, Jesse's lying.
	I ain't got time to bleed!
	And then he throws this thing up there and he goes, do you got time to duck?
	You got time to duck?
	It's so good.
	So good.
	All right, let's switch gears.
	Let's talk about the last 29 minutes, which is, you know what this movie reminds me of, Chris?
	One of my favorite black and white movies of all time.
	Are you familiar with The Deadliest Game?
	I know the story of The Most Dangerous Game.
	Sorry, sorry, The Most Dangerous Game.
	I don't think I've seen the film of it, but I've read the short story.
	Chris, you need to watch it this weekend.
	Okay, I will watch it.
	It's 70 minutes long, and it has been remade with Rutger Hauer, with Ice-T.
	I mean, this basic black-and-white film about a hunter who hunts human beings on his island, on his private island, is just a seminal, seminal black-and-white Hollywood movie.
	And this, I get, you know, Reflections of that movie here, because it's the same idea.
	It's one very, very good hunter going after human prey.
	So it's like you said, I think, in our last episode, there's nothing new under the sun.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I actually thought the same thing when I was watching this.
	I thought, this is like the most dangerous game.
	But instead of humans hunting humans, it's this.
	And I've always wanted to make a most dangerous game You gotta write that.
	or movie in the modern era where you got a bunch of like lefty generation Z millennial types that are, you know, they don't know what they're doing out in the wilderness.
	And you got one Republican that's basically protecting them.
	I just thought that would be a cool.
	You got to write that.
	You have got to write that.
	I like that.
	I like that a lot.
	All right, the last 29 minutes, it's him and the Predator.
	This is kind of the boy scout comes out in all of us, right?
	That I don't have any weapons, I've got my trusty Swiss army knife, and I'm gonna build a selection of man-made weapons, and I'm gonna take this monster down.
	The fact that he figures out, ah, if I'm covered in mud, He can't see me.
	Now, I don't think that infrared actually would be, or not infrared, but a heat vision would actually work this way, where a thin layer of mud would stop you from being able to... But it's a good device.
	It's a good device.
	But you believe it when you're in the 80s, because we didn't really know how heat vision might work.
	So I totally bought it as a kid.
	And that trick works.
	So he's invisible to the alien as the alien is invisible to him.
	And he got two moments where Arnie's sitting there.
	Like I said, it's all in the eyes.
	Arnie's there.
	The monster comes up behind him.
	He hears it and he just moves his eyes slowly over and it works so well.
	And all of this stuff is just, is just epic.
	The fact that he actually has to fist fight the monster at the end.
	Oh man when you're when you're when you first see this movie when you're young in the 80s and you don't have all the stuff you have today this was so epic that you because the whole movie you just saw this alien is unstoppable there's nothing can stop him and then Arnie goes up to him fist Like just with bare fists?
	And there's that one shot when it starts to get dark and they're still fighting where you actually see a hero get really badly beaten.
	There's that one, the alien punches him and you see Arnie's head kind of do a ricochet and this massive spurt of blood come out of his mouth.
	We're not used, I mean, you know, the 80s hero was invulnerable until you get Bruce Willis and then this.
	You think, oh my gosh, is he going to take Arnie down?
	Easy?
	You'll find out in a moment.
	We're talking movies, making movies great again with Chris Coles, Mr. Reagan, the alpha critic.
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	All right.
	If you've got final thoughts, now is the time.
	But before we get to that, Chris, other movies in the franchise?
	I have a special place in my heart.
	I was living in Europe and my brother-in-law bought a very famous science fiction movie magazine called Cinefix.
	And he said, they're making Alien vs. Predator in Prague right now.
	Why don't you go there and write about it?" And I said, oh, OK, I need another career.
	So I went to the set of Alien vs. Predator.
	I met Lance Hendrickson, Alec Gillis, Stan Winston's colleague.
	So I like AVP.
	People trash it, but Alien vs. Predator, it's fun.
	What about Predator 2?
	What about the other?
	What about the remake of Predator?
	Where do you stand?
	Do we ignore them?
	You said there's only three Raiders movies.
	What is your take on Predator?
	I will say, I vaguely remember watching Predator 2 when it was on TV once when I was a kid, but I never watched the full movie and I've never seen any of the others.
	I just didn't have an interest in seeing- I haven't even seen Prey, which I've heard is actually quite good.
	Sorry, as you were talking, I was looking into ordering that Seiko watch.
	I'm not kidding.
	I actually was looking- Good!
	It is so cool, dude!
	I'm gonna buy it!
	It's so cool!
	They've got the original.
	I might get one for my dad for Christmas, too.
	They've got the original, which is the black on black.
	You can get the gold bezel, or you can get the green version if you want to get extra military.
	So, Seiko, if you're looking for a new place to advertise, just reach out to me and Chris.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, it's not the most expensive watch ever.
	It seems affordable.
	No.
	All right.
	So, I will say one thing.
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	I was just going to say, like, The problem with the remakes and the sequels and all this kind of stuff of a lot of these projects is that as time goes by You often will lose the flavor of the original.
	Yeah, and you just can't read There's a few films that that that keep the flavor somehow like the Indiana Jones films the Back to the Future films even Superman 2 I think kept the flavor really well of the first film, but the Star Wars obviously Star Wars Return of the Jedi, but I think that Predator became very 90s in the 90s, and it became very 2000s in the 2000s.
	Yes, it became a function... And you need to be able to recapture that original feeling.
	It became a function of its environment.
	If you look at this one, for example, everything that came after in the Predator series, you broke the cardinal rule of horror stories.
	You saw the monster from the beginning.
	Everything was revealed in good light.
	Your imagination was gone.
	And then you're saying, oh yeah, this is a special effect, or that looks plasticky.
	So you broke rule number one.
	And then Predator 2, the sequel, was an interesting casting to have Danny Glover as the hero.
	It plays in a kind of quasi-future, like 10 years from now.
	And it's grim.
	I mean, it is dark.
	It is even more violent than the original Predator.
	So you need, you know, a tough stomach to watch it.
	All right, guys.
	Go and order your Seiko Watch right now.
	Watch The Most Dangerous Game.
	Watch Predator if you haven't seen it in a while.
	And then lastly, what are we going to watch next, Chris?
	You know, I was thinking about this and I think my suggestions, you're not going to like.
	So I was thinking, you know what, maybe because Christmas is coming up, I thought maybe we should see something Christmassy.
	But we're not, we're not going to be in time for Christmas, right?
	What are we going to do this next Friday?
	Are we going to do it after?
	No, because we did Die Hard.
	And of course, yeah, we did Die Hard.
	We did our Christmas movie.
	Okay, fine.
	So the movie that I want to see next, I don't think you're going to want to watch.
	Try me.
	I know you're not going to want to.
	It's called Back to the Future.
	You're desperate to watch that movie, aren't you?
	Yes, I am.
	Why?
	Is it a real favorite for you?
	It's a real favorite, and I would actually say we should watch all three, although that's a major time commitment, so maybe we should just do the first one.
	But honestly, that film is a great movie, and I'm curious to hear a counterpoint argument, because I've never met anybody who doesn't like that.
	Challenge accepted.
	The gauntlet has been thrown.
	The gauntlet has been picked up.
	We're going to do Back to the Future next, and we will also squeeze in time for the other two as well.
	That's why we're here to make movies great again, and I will help Chris to improve on that movie.
	Sebastian Gorka, you've been listening to Making Movies Great Again with our brand new intro.
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	Keep your head on a swivel.
	Watch your six.
	Hold the line.
	Never give up.
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